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2. “What if you ruled”: Memorandum of conversation, May 29, 1988, Reagan Library.
3. “Freedom is the right”: Reagan remarks, May 31, 1988.
4. “It was almost electric”: Matlock interview.
5. “Mr. Reagan and I”: Gorbachev, Memoirs, 457.
6. “I think there is quite a difference”: New York Times, June 2, 1988.
7. “Quite possibly, we’re beginning”: Reagan remarks, June 3, 1988.
8. “What can I say”: Diary entry for June 1, 1988.
CHAPTER 109
1. “You made us proud”: Bush remarks greeting Reagan, June 3, 1988, American Presidency Project.
2. “That made my day”: Diary entry for Feb. 16, 1988.
3. “It was our dream”: Reagan convention speech, Aug. 15, 1988.
4. “Reagan for King”: Los Angeles Times, Aug. 16, 1988.
5. “I knew that the Soviet government”: Weinberger, Fighting for Peace, 389–90.
6. “It’s a terrible tragedy”: Diary entry for July 2, 1988.
7. “I want a kinder, gentler nation”: Bush acceptance speech, Aug. 18, 1988, American Presidency Project.
8. “Vice President Bush has made”: Reagan statement, Aug. 16, 1988.
9. “Quayle did very well”: Diary entry for Oct. 5, 1988.
10. “A great evening”: Diary entry for Nov. 8, 1988.
CHAPTER 110
1. “Mr. President, you’ve been more”: Thatcher toast at state dinner, Nov. 16, 1988.
2. “Thank you, Chuck”: Reagan remarks at groundbreaking of Reagan Library, Nov. 21, 1988.
3. “What a team”: Reagan remarks at dinner hosted by Senate Republicans, Nov. 29, 1988.
4. “Franklin Roosevelt”: Reagan remarks at Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Jan. 10, 1989.
CHAPTER 111
1. “You’ve got to put this”: Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 1989.
2. “not too proud of Hollywood”: Los Angeles Times, Nov. 8, 1989.
3. $5 million … $30,000 … $2 million: Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 1989.
4. “Rev. Falwell has sent”: Diary entry for Nov. 29, 1988.
5. “It was a hell of a presentation”: Diary entry for Dec. 21, 1988.
6. “I’m afraid he’s right”: Diary entry for Jan. 19, 1989.
7. “I made up my mind”: Los Angeles Times, April 1, 1989.
8. “What’s the difference”: Los Angeles Times, April 20, 1989.
9. “We will be fully vindicated”: New York Times, May 5, 1989.
10. he pleaded ignorance: Chicago Tribune and New York Times, Feb. 23, 1990; video of deposition, C-SPAN video library.
11. “I guess my barber”: New York Times, Sept. 10, 1989.
12. “I was in shock”: Nancy Reagan, I Love You, Ronnie (2000), 180.
13. “Mr. Reagan is treated”: New York Times, Nov. 7, 1990.
14. “I’m Convinced That Gorbachev”: New York Times, June 12, 1990.
15. “Darned hard”: New York Times, Sept. 13, 1990.
16. “real father of perestroika”: New York Times, Sept. 16, 1990.
17. “I’m sure you must have sensed”: New York Times, Sept. 18, 1990.
CHAPTER 112
1. “Twenty-five years ago”: Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, Feb. 7, 1991.
2. “He believed that America”: New York Times and Los Angeles Times, Nov. 5, 1991.
3. “Four lives were changed”: New York Times, March 29, 1991.
4. “I felt somebody had stabbed me”: New York Times, March 30, 1991.
5. “Read My Lips: I Lied”: Mark J. Rozell, The Press and the Bush Presidency (1996), 73.
6. “Crime of the Century”: Cato Institute Policy Analysis No. 182, Oct. 12, 1992.
7. “If Reagan told me once”: Baker interview with author.
8. The START pact mandated: Hoffman, Dead Hand, 367–68. Hoffman’s book is the best account of the struggle to restrain the arms race during the years of Reagan, Gorbachev, and Bush.
9. “The changes of the 1990s”: Reagan address at the 1992 Republican National Convention, youtube.com; New York Times, Aug. 18, 1992.
10. 43 percent: New York Times/CBS News poll, New York Times, Aug. 16, 1992.
11. 33 percent: Los Angeles Times poll, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 4, 1991.
12. “This is not retirement”: New York Times, Aug. 17, 1992.
CHAPTER 113
1. “You were reelected in 1984”: Reagan deposition, July 24, 1992, Washington Post, June 20, 1999.
2. “Today we are here”: New York Times and Washington Post, May 14, 1993.
3. “I may not be a Rhodes Scholar”: New York Times, May 16, 1993.
4. “It was concluded”: Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters, Aug. 4, 1993, published Jan. 18, 1994.
5. “encyclopedia of old information”: New York Times, Jan. 19, 1994.
6. “But I do have to admit”: Washington Post and New York Times, March 18, 1994.
7. “He lied to my husband”: Washington Post, Oct. 29, 1994.
8. “One small leak”: Deaver, Nancy, 181.
9. “I don’t remember your name”: Gramm interview.
10. “My Fellow Americans”: Reagan letter, Nov. 5, 1994, Reagan Library.
CHAPTER 114
1. “He looked great”: Deaver, Nancy, 174.
2. “Ronnie’s optimism”: Nancy Reagan remarks to Republican national convention, Aug. 12, 1996, reaganfoundation.org.
3. “Ronald Reagan believed”: CNN.com, June 11, 2004.
4. “He is home now”: MSNBC.com, June 12, 2004.
5. “In his last years”: CNN.com, June 11, 2004.
6. “I know that for America”: Reagan letter, Nov. 5, 1994.
INDEX
ABC News, 14.1, 40.1, 56.1, 95.1
ABM Treaty, 23.1, 78.1, 80.1, 89.1, 89.2, 90.1, 91.1, 91.2, 91.3, 92.1, 92.2, 92.3, 104.1, 105.1
abortion, 19.1, 31.1, 61.1, 114.1
Abshire, David
Abyssinia
Achille Lauro
Actors’ Equity
Adams, John, 101.1, 114.1
Adelman, Ken, 78.1, 104.1
Adenauer, Konrad
affirmative action, 23.1, 69.1
Afghanistan, 77.1, 79.1, 83.1
Soviet invasion of, 30.1, 31.1, 34.1, 40.1, 40.2, 49.1, 51.1, 51.2, 60.1, 64.1, 67.1, 106.1
AFL-CIO, 41.1, 46.1, 51.1
Africa, 16.1, 31.1
African Americans, 1.1, 5.1, 21.1, 71.1, 71.2
civil rights demanded by, 17.1, 17.2
labor laws on
African National Congress
agriculture, 1.1, 24.1, 40.1, 51.1
AIDS
Aid to Dependent Children Program
Alabama
Allen, Richard, 32.1, 50.1, 53.1, 57.1
at PDB
RR’s shooting and, 42.1, 42.2
scandal of
All Nations Hospital
American Bar Association
American Communist Party
American exceptionalism, 1.1, 112.1
American Federation of Labor (AFL), 7.1, 7.2, 15.1, 41.1
American Federation of Radio Artists
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
American Foundation for AIDS Research
American Life, An (Reagan)
American Veterans Committee (AVC)
Ames, Walter
Amin, Hafizullah
Amin, Idi
Anderson, John, 30.1, 30.2, 31.1, 32.1, 57.1
Anderson, Martin, 34.1, 34.2, 44.1, 47.1
involved in RR’s trip abroad
Andrew, Prince, Duke of York
Andrews, Stanley
Andropov, Yuri, 64.1, 66.1, 66.2, 71.1, 71.2, 77.1, 78.1, 114.1
Angola, 49.1, 67.1, 77.1, 79.1, 83.1
Annan, Kofi
Annenberg, Walter
antisatellite technology (ASAT)
apartheid
Aqu
ino, Benigno, 83.1, 83.2
Aquino, Corazon, 83.1, 83.2
Arabs
in 1973 war
Arafat, Yasser, 32.1, 59.1
ARDE
Argentina
in Falklands conflict, 56.1, 57.1
Arizona
Arlington National Cemetery
arms control, 63.1, 74.1, 82.1, 108.1
at Geneva summit, 77.1, 77.2, 78.1, 78.2, 79.1, 79.2, 79.3, 80.1, 112.1
at Reykjavík summit, 88.1, 88.2, 89.1, 90.1, 91.1, 92.1, 93.1, 93.2, 104.1, 104.2, 104.3, 104.4, 112.1
see also Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START)
Arms Export Control Act
Arnold, Edward
Arnold, Henry H. “Hap,”
Arnow, Max, 3.1, 3.2
Ascension Island
Asner, Ed
Aspin, Les
Assad, Hafez al-, 75.1, 113.1
Astaire, Fred
Atlantic Monthly
atomic weapons, 6.1, 14.1, 66.1
Auden, W. H.
Auschwitz
automobile industry
AWACS
AZT
Baker, Howard, 30.1, 30.2, 34.1, 60.1, 65.1, 98.1, 98.2, 99.1, 101.1
RR’s budget and, 44.1, 45.1, 45.2
and sale of arms to Saudi Arabia
Baker, James, 27.1, 27.2, 28.1, 30.1, 31.1, 31.2, 33.1, 41.1, 47.1, 57.1, 57.2, 71.1, 102.1, 109.1, 112.1
appointed chief of staff
CBI doubts of, 53.1, 53.2, 54.1
funding for contras opposed by
Haig considered pretentious by
Haig’s resignation engineered by
leak explained by, 72.1, 72.2
and Lebanon crisis
made Treasury secretary, 72.1, 73.1, 74.1
new taxes urged by, 52.1, 52.2, 52.3
Nofziger’s distrust of, 33.1, 33.2
Regan’s tension with
responsibilities of
in RR’s campaign of 1980
and RR’s poor debate against Mondale, 69.1, 69.2
RR’s shooting and, 41.1, 42.1
on Social Security, 44.1, 44.2
Stockman praised by
on Stockman’s magazine article
Treasury II plan of
Baker, Susan
balanced budget, 25.1, 36.1, 37.1, 43.1, 47.1, 47.2, 52.1, 69.1, 74.1, 112.1
balanced budget amendment
Baltimore, Md.
Baltimore Sun, 69.1, 72.1
bank runs
banks, bankers, 2.1, 47.1, 102.1, 102.2
Barbados
Barnes, Ben
Barrow, Clyde
Barton, Bruce
Barton, Durstine & Osborn
Bay of Pigs invasion, 16.1, 25.1
Beach, Paul
Beahrs, Ollie
Bedtime for Bonzo
Begin, Menachem:
Lebanon invasion ordered by, 55.1, 58.1, 58.2, 59.1
RR’s disputes with, 55.1, 55.2, 58.1, 58.2, 59.1
Beijing
Beilenson, Anthony
Beirut, 58.1, 59.1
U.S. marines under fire in, 59.1, 60.1, 60.2
Belize
Belloc, Hilaire
Bennett, Bill
Bentsen, Lloyd
Bergen-Belsen, 73.1, 73.2, 73.3, 74.1
Bergholz, Richard
Berlin
nightclub bombing in
Berlin Wall, 16.1, 68.1, 104.1, 111.1, 111.2, 112.1
and RR’s “tear down this wall” demand, 104.1, 105.1, 111.1
Berri, Nabih
Bessie, Alvah
Beyond the Line of Duty
Biden, Joseph
Bierbauer, Charles
big government
RR’s opposition to, 15.1, 16.1, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1, 25.1, 25.2, 30.1, 34.1, 36.1, 36.2, 38.1
Birmingham, Ala.
Birth of a Nation, The, 1.1, 2.1
Bishop, Maurice, 60.1, 60.2
Bitburg cemetery, 33.1, 73.1, 73.2, 74.1, 75.1, 76.1
Black Monday, 102.1, 102.2
Black Panther Party
Black Power
Black Student Union
Blair, Tony
Block, John, 51.1, 51.2
boat people
Boland, Edward, 67.1, 86.1
Bolsheviks
Bonanza
Boren, David
Bork, Robert
Boston, Mass., police strike in
Botha, P. W.
Boulware, Lemuel, 15.1, 15.2
Bouterse, Desi, 60.1, 60.2
Bracken, Eddie
Brady, James
shooting of, 41.1, 42.1, 43.1, 112.1
Brady, Sarah
Brady bill
Brazil, 56.1, 60.1, 60.2, 68.1
Breen, Jon
Brezhnev, Leonid, 23.1, 34.1, 71.1, 77.1, 78.1, 114.1
death of
Polish situation and, 51.1, 51.2, 51.3
RR seen as responsible for Middle East troubles by
Brinkley, David
Brinkley, Douglas
brinkmanship
Brokaw, Tom
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Brother Rat
Brown, H. Rap
Brown, Jerry
Brown, Pat, 17.1, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 19.1, 20.1, 24.1
Browning, Mrs.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 17.1, 101.1
Bryan, William Jennings
Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 64.1, 77.1
Buckley, William F., Jr., 18.1, 111.1
Burger, Warren, 35.1, 101.1
Bush, Barbara
Bush, George H. W., 32.1, 38.1, 41.1, 81.1, 105.1, 107.1, 112.1, 113.1, 114.1, 114.2
at Andropov’s funeral
and arming of Iranian moderates
at Brezhnev’s funeral
Chernenko met by
deficits and
in election of 1980, 30.1, 31.1, 32.1
in election of 1988, 109.1, 109.2, 110.1
in election of 1992, 32.1, 113.1
eyed as RR’s vice president
and Grenada invasion
Gulf War and
made chairman of crisis council
at meeting with Gorbachev
at PDB
power temporarily transferred to
and Regan’s resignation
at Republican convention of 1980
on RR’s Bitburg trip
RR’s shooting and, 42.1, 42.2
RR visited in hospital by, 76.1, 76.2
solidarity with Poland desired by, 51.1, 51.2
Bush, George W.
Bush, Prescott
Byrd, Robert, 60.1, 94.1
Cagney, James
California, 27.1, 84.1
abortion legalized in, 2.1, 19.1
ballooning welfare rolls in
deficits prohibited in
occupation of state capitol in
California, University of
at Berkeley, 17.1, 18.1, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1
at Santa Barbara
California board of regents
California Medical Association
Cambodia, 5.1, 22.1, 24.1, 67.1
Campbell, Carroll, 44.1, 59.1
Camp David, 41.1, 61.1, 82.1, 98.1
Camp David agreement
Canada, 53.1, 68.1, 68.2
Cannon, Lou, 19.1, 69.1
Caribbean, U.S. policy on, 50.1, 53.1, 56.1, 74.1
Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI), 53.1, 53.2, 54.1, 67.1
Carlucci, Frank, 98.1, 99.1, 104.1, 104.2
Carmichael, Stokely, 19.1, 20.1
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Carpentier, Georges
Carrington, Lord
Carson, Jeannie
Carter, Jimmy, 28.1, 39.1, 40.1, 51.1, 64.1, 112.1, 114.1, 114.2, 114.3
Argentinian government shunned by
Camp David agreement and
in debate of 1980
and economic downturn
>
in election of 1976, 27.1, 28.1, 28.2
in election of 1980, 31.1, 32.1, 33.1, 69.1
grain embargo imposed by, 30.1, 40.1
Iranian policy of
Kirkpatrick’s attack on
malaise speech of, 30.1, 43.1
as micromanager, 59.1, 74.1
Nicaraguan policy of, 29.1, 29.2, 59.1
Polish policy of
and possibility of “October surprise,”
religious views of
rescue of hostages attempted by, 31.1, 35.1, 37.1, 75.1
RR’s attacks on policies of, 30.1, 30.2
at RR’s inauguration
RR’s Republican convention speech on
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan denounced by, 30.1, 51.1
Turner made head of CIA by
Carter Doctrine, 105.1, 109.1
Casaroli, Cardinal
Casey, Sophie
Casey, William, 31.1, 36.1, 54.1, 56.1, 114.1
alleged negotiation with Iranians by, 32.1, 32.2, 32.3, 32.4, 32.5, 32.6
and arming of Iranian moderates, 85.1, 96.1
cancer of
CIA changes made by
and Daniloff’s arrest
desire for quick action on El Salvador
firing considered for
on funding for contras, 67.1, 67.2
Geneva summit as concern of, 77.1, 77.2
on launch on warning
on Libyan terrorism
made head of CIA
Nicaraguan mining opposed by
“October surprise” fear of
at PDB
presidential speech on Cuban threat sought by, 53.1, 53.2, 53.3, 54.1
on progress of contras
resignation of
RR’s shooting and
solidarity with Poland urged by
on Soviet intervention in Polish crisis
Castaneda, Carlos
Castro, Fidel, prl.1, 16.1, 50.1, 53.1, 54.1, 60.1
Catholic Church, Catholics, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 4.1, 4.2, 17.1, 19.1, 54.1
Cato Institute
CBS Evening News, 24.1, 40.1
CBS News, 14.1, 31.1, 95.1
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Central America, 27.1, 39.1, 55.1, 62.1, 68.1, 74.1
RR’s television address on
see also El Salvador; Nicaragua
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 24.1, 31.1, 34.1, 49.1, 59.1, 77.1, 87.1, 87.2
Church Committee’s investigation of, 24.1, 34.1
contra war directed by, 67.1, 67.2, 86.1
El Salvador briefing of
funding for
on Gorbachev
KAL 007 shoot-down investigated by
Polish intelligence of, 51.1, 51.2