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97. Ibid.
98. From November 1964 speech to the Los Angeles County Young Republicans, listened to at RPL, July 2016.
99. Phyllis Schlafly, A Choice, Not an Echo (Alton, IL: Pere Marquette, 1964).
100. Barry Goldwater, Republican nomination acceptance speech, 16 July 1964, accessed from the Miller Center, http://millercenter.org/ridingthetiger/republican-conventions-greatest-hits.
Chapter 3: “A Time for Choosing”: A Star Is Born
1. Reagan, speech to Los Angeles County Young Republicans.
2. Ronald Reagan, “A Time for Choosing,” https://reaganlibrary.archives.gov/archives/reference/timechoosing.html. All subsequent quotes from or discussion of this speech are derived from this source.
3. Reagan, An American Life, 246.
4. Reagan, “A Time for Choosing,” paragraph 2.
5. Ibid., paragraph 4.
6. Ibid., paragraph 6.
7. Ibid., paragraph 8.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid., paragraph 7.
10. Edwards, Early Reagan, 425, quoting Ronald Reagan, “How Do You Fight Communism?,” Fortnight, 22 January 1951.
11. Reagan, “A Time for Choosing,” paragraph 22.
12. Ibid., paragraph 23.
13. Ibid., paragraph 26.
14. Ibid.
15. Reagan, speech to Phoenix Chamber of Commerce.
16. Reagan, “A Time for Choosing,” paragraph 28.
17. Ibid., paragraph 29.
18. Ibid., paragraph 34.
19. Ibid., paragraph 38.
20. Ibid., paragraph 40.
21. Ibid.
22. See http://www.pbs.org/opb/thesixties/topics/politics/newsmakers_3.html.
23. The ad may be viewed online at www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDTBnsqxZ3k.
24. Reagan, “A Time for Choosing,” paragraphs 44–45.
25. Ibid., paragraphs 46–47.
26. George F. Will, “The Cheerful Malcontent,” Washington Post, 31 May 1998, www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/daily/may98/will31.htm.
27. Cannon, President Reagan, 7.
28. Goldwater, Conscience, 11.
29. Ibid., 30.
30. Ibid., 3.
31. Ibid., 17.
32. Ibid., 6.
33. Ibid., 78.
34. Ibid., 56.
35. “Reagan Is Laid to Rest,” CNN.com, 13 June 2004, www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/12/reagan.main/index.html.
36. Goldwater, Conscience, 42.
37. Ibid., 43.
38. Reagan, speech to California Fertilizer Association.
39. Goldwater, Conscience, 56–57.
40. Ibid., 57.
41. Ibid., 68.
42. Ibid., 60.
43. Ronald Reagan, “The Myth of the Great Society,” viewed at RPL, July 2016.
44. Skinner, Anderson, and Anderson, Reagan: A Life in Letters, 288.
45. As reprinted in Frank Rich, “Proud Loser,” New York, 3 March 2013, http://nymag.com/news/frank-rich/ronald-reagan-2013-3/. All subsequent quotes are taken from the same source.
46. See, for example, Reagan’s 1961 letter to Lorraine Wagner re: running for governor.
47. In his first autobiography, Where’s the Rest of Me?, Reagan wrote that the public response to his first political speech, one in favor of a “student strike” while he was at Eureka College, had been “heady wine.” See Morris, Dutch, 74.
Chapter 4: The Creative Society, Starring Ronald Reagan
1. Ronald Reagan, Remarks at a White House Reception for Kennedy Center Honorees, 4 December 1983, accessed at www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=40833.
2. As quoted in Goldwater, Conscience, 3.
3. Reagan, speech to Los Angeles County Young Republicans.
4. Reagan, “Myth of the Great Society.”
5. Cannon, Governor Reagan, 134; Edwards, Reagan: A Political Biography, 87.
6. Cannon, Governor Reagan, 134.
7. Ibid., 135.
8. Edwards, Reagan: A Political Biography, 89; Cannon, Governor Reagan, 138–39.
9. Edwards, Reagan: A Political Biography, 101.
10. Ibid., 105.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Reagan, An American Life, 32. Edmund Morris, Reagan’s official biographer, notes that the theme of redemption through social assistance that leads to work is a central theme of That Printer of Udell’s. The novel’s hero, Dick Falkner, proposes his town’s rich residents create a “dormitory-cum-lumberyard that will offer free shelter in exchange for full-time work” to the area’s homeless. So redeemed, these men reenter society able to provide for themselves. Morris notes that this “prefiguring of Governor Reagan’s welfare reform” is “surely more coincidental than prophetic.” But it is a philosophy he deeply believed in throughout the rest of his life. See Morris, Dutch, 41–42.
14. Cannon, Governor Reagan, 137, 142, 145.
15. Edwards, Reagan: A Political Biography, 129.
16. Ibid., 116.
17. Ibid., 117.
18. Cannon, Governor Reagan, 122; Boyarsky, Rise of Ronald Reagan, 38, 148.
19. Cannon, Governor Reagan, 31.
20. Edwards, Reagan: A Political Biography, 117.
21. Reagan, speech to Los Angeles County Young Republicans.
22. Edwards, Reagan: A Political Biography, 123.
23. Ibid.
24. Judis, William F. Buckley, Jr., 138–39.
25. Cannon, Governor Reagan, 31.
26. Ibid., 144.
27. Edwards, Reagan: A Political Biography, 165.
28. Ibid., 126.
29. Shirley Bebitch Jeffe, “A History Lesson on Part-Time Lawmaking,” Los Angeles Times, 8 August 2004, http://articles.latimes.com/2004/aug/08/opinion/op-jeffe8.
30. Edwards, Reagan: A Political Biography, 153.
31. Ibid., 136.
32. Ibid., 137.
33. Ibid., 93–5.
34. Cannon, Governor Reagan, 157; Edwards, Reagan: A Political Biography, 154.
35. Edwards, Reagan: A Political Biography, 154.
36. Ibid.
37. Ronald Reagan, “The Creative Society,” 19 April 1966, accessed at www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/742041/posts?page=1. All subsequent quotes or discussions of this speech are from this source.
38. Yager, Ronald Reagan’s Journey, 80.
39. James Madison, no. 51, in The Federalist, ed. Michael Lloyd Chadwick (Washington, DC: Global Affairs, 1987), 281.
40. Reagan, speech to Conservative League of Minneapolis.
41. Skinner, Anderson, and Anderson, Ronald Reagan: A Life in Letters, 344.
42. Ibid., 347, 624–25.
43. “Inside Ronald Reagan,” Reason, July 1975, http://reason.com/archives/1975/07/01/inside-ronald-reagan. All subsequent quotes from this interview are taken from this source.
44. Reagan, commencement address at Eureka College.
45. Reagan, speech to Los Angeles County Young Republicans.
46. Reagan, first gubernatorial inaugural address, accessed at http://governors.library.ca.gov/addresses/33-Reagan01.html.
47. Ronald Reagan, second gubernatorial inaugural address, 4 January 1971, accessed at http://governors.library.ca.gov/addresses/33-Reagan02.html.
48. Reagan, speech to Conservative League of Minneapolis.
49. William F. Buckley Jr., “Hunger and the Feds,” 20 August 1983, in William F. Buckley Jr., Right Reason (Garden City, NY: Doubleday), 154–55.
50. Ibid., 155.
51. Ibid.
52. See Panama Canal Debate, 13 January 1978, broadcast on Buckley’s PBS show The Firing Line; video is available online at www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYPY8El0Uew.
53. Reagan, “The Creative Society.”
54. F. A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1944).
55. Cannon, Governor Reagan, 151.
56. Boyarsky, Rise of Ronald Reagan, 284; Cannon, Governor Reagan, 152 (Reagan got 38–40 percent of the Latino vote).
57. Boyarsky,
Rise of Ronald Reagan, 152.
58. California Secretary of State, Statement of the Vote and Supplement to the Statement of Vote, 1962 General Election, 45, 48–49, accessed at https://archive.org/details/castatem196264cali; California Secretary of State, Statement of the Vote and Supplement to the Statement of Vote, 1966 General Election, 68, 71–73, accessed at https://archive.org/details/californiastate196668cali.
59. 1962 Statement of the Vote, 3; 1966 Statement of the Vote, 6.
60. Cannon, Governor Reagan, 158.
61. Ibid.
62. Ibid., 159.
63. Ibid., 158.
64. Ronald Reagan, “1966: Year of Decision,” listened to at RPL, July 2016.
Chapter 5: California Political Theater: Ronald Reagan Presents
1. Morris, Dutch, 345.
2. Cannon, Governor Reagan, 182. See also Boyarsky, Rise of Ronald Reagan, 173.
3. Reagan, first gubernatorial inaugural address.
4. Reagan, An American Life, 158.
5. See the discussion in chapter 2.
6. Cannon, Governor Reagan, 189.
7. Ibid., 194.
8. Ibid., 199.
9. Reagan, An American Life, 169.
10. Cannon, Governor Reagan, 200.
11. Ibid., 282.
12. Ibid., 283.
13. “Estimated Average Costs for California Residents, 2016–17,” under “Admissions,” http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/paying-for-uc/tuition-and-cost/, accessed 1 October 2016.
14. Edwards, Reagan: A Political Biography, 189.
15. Ibid., 190.
16. Cannon, Governor Reagan, 287.
17. Ibid., 186.
18. Ibid.
19. Skinner, Anderson, and Anderson, Ronald Reagan: A Life in Letters, 764.
20. Cannon, Governor Reagan, 255.
21. Ibid., 203.
22. Ibid., 263.
23. Ibid., 204.
24. Ronald Reagan, speech to California Republican Assembly, 1 April 1967, accessed at https://reaganlibrary.archives.gov/archives/speeches/govspeech/04011967a.htm. All subsequent quotes of this speech come from this source.
25. Reagan, An American Life, 171, 189.
26. CBS News, “What About Ronald Reagan?,” 12 December 1967, viewed at RPL, July 2016.
27. Kent Steffgen, Here’s the Rest of Him (Reno, NV: Forsight Books, 1968), 19; available online at https://archive.org/details/SteffgenKentHeresTheRestOfHim1968.
28. Ibid., 19–20.
29. Ibid., 53, 54, 57.
30. Ibid., 58.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid., 139.
33. Ibid., 138.
34. Ibid., 137–40.
35. Ibid., 156.
36. Skinner, Anderson, and Anderson, Ronald Reagan: A Life in Letters, 613–14.
37. See Cannon, Governor Reagan, 206–14; Morris, Dutch, 351–52.
38. Reagan, speech to California Republican Assembly.
39. Steffgen, Here’s the Rest of Him, 153.
40. One such man, S. I. Hayakawa, would be elected himself to the United States Senate in 1976.
41. Fred Barnes, “Unearthing the Eisenhower-Reagan Connection,” The Weekly Standard, 10 October 2016, www.weeklystandard.com/unearthing-the-eisenhower-reagan-connection/article/2004653.
42. CBS News, “Town Meeting of the World,” viewed at RPL, July 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1g8HaE4ArI.
43. Hayward, Age of Reagan: Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 170.
44. CBS News, “Town Meeting of the World.”
45. “Helms Raps Reagan’s Support of Duarte,” Daytona Beach Morning Journal, 26 February 1982, accessed at https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1873&dat=19820226&id=_VAfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8dEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2896,5835603&hl=en.
46. William A. Link, Righteous Warrior: Jesse Helms and the Rise of Modern Conservatism (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2008), 245–51.
47. Russell Crandall, The Salvador Option, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016), 195; Roy Boland, Culture and Customs of El Salvador, (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001), 62.
48. “A Chance to Lead,” Time, 16 August 1968, available on CNN.com, www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/analysis/back.time/9608/19/index.shtml.
49. Tom Wicker, “Nixon Is Nominated on the First Ballot,” New York Times, 9 August 1968, https://partners.nytimes.com/library/politics/camp/680809convention-gop-ra.html.
50. Ibid.
51. Cannon, Governor Reagan, 324.
52. Reagan had opposed Kuchel’s renomination when he was last on the ballot in 1962, while Lou Cannon says Rafferty’s campaign was “run by ultraconservatives who had denounced Reagan for betraying the conservative cause when he raised taxes” (Cannon, Governor Reagan, 325). Rafferty beat Kuchel by 50–47 percent. See “Kuchel Loses to Rafferty in California,” Chicago Tribune, 6 June 1968, http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1968/06/06/page/68/article/kuchel-loses-to-rafferty-in-california.
53. The dams in question were the Feather River and Dos Rios dams. See Cannon, Governor Reagan.
54. George Skelton, “The Man in the White Hat Who Saved the Sierra,” Los Angeles Times, 28 July 1997, http://articles.latimes.com/1997/jul/28/news/mn-17071.
55. See Cannon, Governor Reagan, 310–14.
56. Ibid., 364.
57. Ibid., 336.
58. California Secretary of State, Statement of the Vote and Supplement to the Statement of Vote 1970 General Election, 10, 71, 74, accessed at https://archive.org/details/statementofvote197072cali.
59. See Cannon, Governor Reagan, 349.
60. Morris, Dutch, 368.
61. Ibid., 350.
62. Reagan, An American Life, 185.
63. Skinner, Anderson, and Anderson, Ronald Reagan: A Life in Letters, 200–1.
64. Cannon, Governor Reagan, 350.
65. Ibid., 351.
66. Reagan, second gubernatorial inaugural address.
67. At the same time, Reagan quietly opposed President Nixon’s proposal to establish a minimum guaranteed income for every American. The Family Assistance Plan would have guaranteed every family of four $1,600 a year, plus $800 in food stamps, in exchange for work requirements. See Peter Passell and Leonard Ross, “Daniel Moynihan and President-Elect Nixon: How Charity Didn’t Begin at Home,” New York Times, 13 January 1973, www.nytimes.com/books/98/10/04/specials/moynihan-income.html.
68. Cannon, Governor Reagan, 359.
69. Skinner, A Life in Letters, 209.
70. Reagan, An American Life, 189.
71. Cannon, Governor Reagan, 360.
72. Serrano v. Priest, 5 Cal. 3d 584 (1971).
73. Cannon, Governor Reagan, 363.
74. Ibid., 315.
75. Ibid., 371–75.
76. Ronald Reagan, “Reflections on the Failure of Proposition 1,” National Review, 7 December 1973, www.nationalreview.com/article/210999/reflections-failure-proposition-1-governor-ronald-reagan.
77. “Reagan’s Proposition 1 Ads,” YouTube video, posted by “danieljbmitchell,” 16 July 1007, www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyYoaTmN5pU.
78. Reagan, “Reflections on the Failure of Proposition 1.”
79. Ibid.
80. Ronald Reagan, National Review, December 1964, as reprinted in Frank Rich, “Proud Loser,” New York, 11 March 2013.
81. See Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, “Proposition 13: A Look Back,” hjta.org/propositions/proposition-13/proposition-13-look-back.
82. Skinner, Anderson, and Anderson, Ronald Reagan: A Life in Letters, 353.
83. Richard Nixon, presidential resignation speech, 8 August 1974, accessed at www.pbs.org/newshour/spc/character/links/nixon_speech.html.
