by Henry Olsen
Nixon’s Modern Republicanism opposed, 46
Reagan’s “A Time for Choosing” speech and, xiv, 22, 43, 55, 174
Reagan’s endorsement of, xiv, 53, 82, 86, 137, 168
Reagan’s post-election analysis of, 55, 68, 73
Reagan’s rocket to political stardom and, 43, 53–54
social welfare programs opposed by, 73, 127, 137, 169
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 186, 213–14, 219–23, 304n95
Gore, Al, 233, 234
government, 74, 143
conservative opposition to expansionism, 69
conservative principles and, ix, 26, 40, 69
conservatives’ antigovernment positions, 118, 130, 218, 234, 249
Democrats and “big government,” xiii, xiv, 45, 156, 165, 262
Eisenhower and expansion of, 21, 23, 27
as entitlement-welfare state, x
FDR’s views on, 7–8, 9, 13, 15, 44
Hamilton versus Jefferson on nature of, 6–7
Hoover’s views on, 6–7
Jefferson and, 15
Johnson’s Great Society and, xiv, 73–74
Kennedy and expansion of, 45
Kennedy’s “a not undemocratic socialism,” 50–51
Lincoln on, 44, 45
National Review mission statement on, 26
New Deal and expansion of, 5–6, 7, 15, 143, 167
as “night watchman state,” x
power of (state power), x, xiii, 22, 26, 37, 38, 40, 43, 73, 204
progressives and, 16, 21
Reagan on “government is the problem,” 13, 20, 37, 41, 53, 130, 167–68, 188
Reagan on purpose of, xiii, xv, xvi, 22, 39, 44, 127, 259
Reagan on the distinction between government activity and planning, 146–47, 211, 293n29
Reagan on what constitutes legitimate government action, 40, 135, 141, 145–46, 165, 188, 261, 263–64
Reagan opposition to expansion of, xv, xvi, 35, 38, 45, 73–74, 76
Reagan’s partisan shift and views of, 28
Reagan’s philosophy of, x–xi, xvi, 2, 15, 44, 54, 68, 73, 74, 82, 85, 95, 106, 107, 118, 120, 127, 190, 217, 218, 263–64, 284n13, 291n11
Reagan’s theme of people taking back control of, 53–54
Reagan’s view of placing an economic floor under people’s standard of living without erecting a ceiling penalizing initiative and effort, 40, 41, 55, 62, 67, 74, 214, 261
size of, pre-New Deal, 5–6
as solution to social problems, 47, 87, 134, 211
as threat to freedom, 35
Truman and expansion of, 18, 50
See also bureaucracy; socialism
government corruption, 73, 81
government regulatory powers, xii, xv, 9, 35, 49
interference in private enterprise, 35
Reagan and environmental issues, 100, 119–20, 121
Reagan’s conservative principles and, 133
government spending/deficits, 5–6, 38, 56
cost and “waste, fraud, and abuse,” 102
FDR on cutting waste, 15
FDR’s spending and borrowing, 9
inflation and, 65, 134
national debt, 266
percentage of GDP, 5
Portman entitlement cut proposal, 261
Reagan attacking waste in, xix, xx, 21, 41, 76, 100, 102, 104–5, 109, 118, 141–42, 144, 170
Reagan funding of catastrophic health insurance, 187, 260
Reagan on inflation and, 134
Reagan on reducing size and cost of social service programs, 56, 69, 83, 91, 122, 123, 141–42, 266
Reagan on spending limits, 49
Reagan on the debt ceiling, 260
Reagan’s conservative principles and, 132, 147
Granholm, Jennifer, 310n73
Great Britain
Reagan filming in Labor-governed London, 28, 29–30
Reagan’s British Parliament speech (June, 1982), 203–4, 214, 221
Great Depression, 150
FDR’s New Deal and, 6, 11
GDP during, 5
government “relief” and, 6
Hoover’s opposition to federal action and, 6–7
poor Republican leadership and, 5, 6
presidential election of 1932 and, 3
Reagan’s family and, 11
social safety net lacking and, 5, 6
stock market crash of 1929, 5
unemployment in, 5
voter shift to FDR-led Democrats, xii, 4, 5
Great Society, xiv
AFDC and, 95
California’s Medi-Cal and, 102, 106–7
Reagan on “the Republican approach” versus, 76
Reagan’s attack on and “The Myth of the Great Society” (1965), 73–74
Reagan’s Creative Society contrasted with, 83–92
Reagan’s undoing of, xvii, 134, 211
as Reagan’s “welfare state,” 211–12
Greece, 16
Greider, William, 192
“The Education of David Stockman,” 192–93
Grenada, 205, 209
Haig, Alexander “Al,” 201
Hamilton, Alexander, 8
Harley-Davidson company, 265
Harrison, William Henry, 152
Hart, Gary, 209
Hayakawa, S. I., 288n40
Hayek, Friedrich, The Road to Serfdom, 91
Hayward, Stephen, The Age of Reagan, 20
health care, xiii, 5, 46, 48–49, 111
California’s Medi-Cal, 95, 102, 106–7, 122, 123
Clinton’s national health care bill, 231
Kerr-Mills Act, xiii, xvi, 49, 87, 111, 145, 155, 168, 178
McCain’s plan, 237, 241–42
Obamacare, 239, 250, 260, 264
Reagan and, xiii, xvi, 48–49, 87, 102, 104, 106–7, 111, 113, 145, 155, 163–64, 168–69, 178, 187, 211, 216, 264
Reagan on state control of, versus federal, 145–46
Reagan’s catastrophic health insurance, 169, 187, 216, 260
Ryan’s Roadmap agenda and, 241
socialized medicine, 11, 49, 111, 113, 168, 169
See also Medicaid; Medicare
Heitkamp, Heidi, 310n73
Helms, Jesse, 116, 148, 200, 202, 222
Here’s the Rest of Him (Steffgen), 110
Herlong-Baker tax bill, 47–48, 195
Hinckley, John, 191
Hispanic voters, 247–48
Mexican Americans for Reagan, 93
Public Religion Research Institute’s 2013 Hispanic Values Survey, 248
Romney and, 248
Hodges, Jo, 14
Hollywood
Communism in, xii, 2, 17, 21, 28, 30–32, 33
Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) in, 31–32
government antitrust lawsuit against the movie industry, 21–22, 33–34, 35
Reagan filming in Labor-governed London, 28, 29–30
Reagan’s career in, 1, 14, 19, 27, 33–34, 128, 291–92n11
See also Screen Actors Guild (SAG)
homosexuality, 165, 166–67
Reagan opposition to Proposition 6, 166–67, 296n77
Hoover, Herbert, xii, 4, 6, 8
importance of the uncommon individual, 196
opposition to government social or economic intervention, 6–7, 69, 86, 134, 137
opposition to larger government power, 38
on taxes as a threat to free enterprise, 38
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 32–33
Reagan testifies at, 32–33
housing, 110
California’s Rumford Act (open housing law), 77, 78–79, 80, 107–8, 110, 112, 201–2
federal subsidizing of, xiii
FHA, xiii, 9
GI Bill and, xiii
public, Reagan’s criticism, 48, 74, 144
public, Reagan’s support, 89, 104, 211
Humphrey, Hubert H., 117, 161, 209, 231
Reagan support for, 17
on �
�society planning,” 51
Hungary, 223
immigration
Obama and, 251
Reagan and, xix, 187, 265, 298n1
Republican opposition to, 247, 248
Trump and, xix, 244, 251
Independent Citizens Committee of Arts, Sciences, and Professions (HICCASP), 30, 31
Independents, 244
inflation, 266
“big business” blamed for, 17, 33
in California, 109, 126
COLAs and, 163
deficit spending and, 65, 134
federal gas tax raise and, 266
Ford’s WIN slogan, 149, 293n33
high, late 1970s, 163
Reagan as Democrat and, 17
Reagan assaults on, 56, 163, 170, 185
Reagan blames Ford for, 149, 150
Reagan blames government policy for, 190
Reagan’s economic reforms and, 200, 206, 213
“Republican inflation,” 17, 33
tax code bracket creep and, 49, 132, 163
infrastructure
Eisenhower’s Interstate Highway System and, 23
Reagan and, xiii, 265
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), 186, 187, 221–22
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), 31
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGW), 33
Iran, 162
Obama’s deal with, 251
Iran-Contra scandal, 213
Iraq War, 162, 235, 237
Jackson, Andrew, 23
Jackson, Henry “Scoop,” 162, 209, 231
Japan
anti-Japanese prejudice, 12
Reagan’s trade policy and sanctions, 196–97, 212, 213, 253, 265
World War II and, 28, 258
Jarvis, Howard, 125, 291n7
Jefferson, Thomas, 8, 15
Washington DC memorial, 10
Jewish voters, 18, 182, 298n113
Jim Crow laws, 24
John Birch Society
candidate Rousselot backed by Reagan, 47
Nixon denounces, 46
Reagan and, 76, 82, 103, 156
John Paul II, Pope, 198
Johnson, Gary, 177
Johnson, Hiram, 96
Johnson, Lyndon Baines, xiv, 238, 274n12
Civil Rights Act of 1964, 77
Daisy ad against Goldwater, 59, 92
Great Society of, 73–74, 83, 112
Vietnam War and, 114, 116
Voting Rights Act of 1965, 73
See also Great Society
judicial appointments
Reagan in California and, 81
Warren, by Eisenhower, 95–96
Judis, John, 246
Kemp, Jack, 200, 201, 300n39, 301n49
Kennedy, Edward “Ted,” 178
Kennedy, John F., 45, 209
conservatives refusal to back Nixon and election of, 46
economic management and, 50, 281n93
integration and, 112
“missile gap” and, 161
Kennedy, Robert F.
assassination of, 116
Reagan TV appearance with, 114–15
Kerr-Mills Act, xiii, xvi, 49, 87, 111, 145, 155, 168, 178
Kerry, John, 234
Khomeini, Ayatollah, 162
Khrushchev, Nikita, 45
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 116
riots following assassination of, 116
King’s Row (film), 34, 273n11
Kirkpatrick, Jeane, 32
Klausner, Manny, 134–41, 291–92n11, 291n7, 291n9
Klobuchar, Amy, 310n73
Knowland, William, 43
Knute Rockne, All-American (film), 19, 34
Koch, David, xvii, 131, 177
Korean War, 198
Kuchel, Thomas, 46, 119, 288–89n52
labor unions
in California, 96
Communism in, 31–32
pre-Depression, 5
Reagan and SAG, 11
Reagan as lifetime member, AFL-CIO, 65
Reagan’s radio address for the ILGW, 33
Reagan’s views on, xiii, 41–44, 96, 164
right-to-work laws, 42–43, 83, 164, 294–95n57
Taft-Hartley Act, 42
Wagner Act, 9, 42
Laffer, Arthur, 214, 260
Landon, Alf, 9
Lawrence, David, 143
Laxalt, Paul, 119
Lee County, IL, 4, 29, 274n12, 276n40
Lenin, Vladimir I., 140, 141, 223
liberalism, liberals, 50–51
civil rights and, 77
government as the solution to social problems, 47, 87, 134, 211
McGovern and, 162
Obama and, ix
poor world leadership and, 47
Reagan as a “hemophiliac liberal,” xi, 1, 2
Reagan as a threat to, 38
Reagan quip on, xviii, 120
Reagan’s attacks on, 72, 75, 83, 86, 176, 210, 211
social-economic planning and, 49, 85
socialism and, 56, 86, 210, 211
Soviets and, 47
libertarianism, Libertarian Party
birth of the Libertarian Party, 70
core principles, 85, 86, 135–41, 204
dissatisfaction with George W. Bush, 234
fusionism and, 69
on government spending, 147
minimalist government views of, 218
National Review and, 26
platform of, 1980, 176–77
presidential election of 1980 (Clark-Koch ticket), xvii, 131, 176–77
property and, 136
Reagan and, xv, xviii, 74, 130, 131, 134–41, 291–92n11
Reagan’s criticism of, 154
Reason magazine formed, 70
rejection of, 224
on social welfare programs, 86, 176–77, 210
Stockman’s book and, 217
supply-side economics and, 187, 217, 303n79
taxes and, 138, 291n9
Libya, Gulf of Sidra and, 198
Lincoln, Abraham, 12, 23, 44, 45, 129, 182
Livermore, Ike, 120, 121
Loeb, “Nackey,” 222
“Losing Freedom by Installments” (Reagan speech, early 1960s), 47, 89, 211–12
Lucey, Patrick, 181
Madison, James, 86
Making of the President, 1960, The (White), 50–51
Mandate for Change (Eisenhower), 23
Marshall Plan, 16
Marx, Karl, 203, 222
May, Theresa, 224
McCain, John, 237, 254
defeat by Obama, 238
health insurance plan, 237, 241, 242
McComb, Marshall, 99
McConnell, Mitch, 250
McGovern, George, 32, 116, 161, 162
Medicaid, 5, 73, 144
Libertarian Party platform to repeal, 176
Obama’s expansion of, 250, 264
Republican Party’s Path to Prosperity plan, 242
Ryan’s Roadmap agenda and, 241
Medicare, xvi, 5, 49, 73, 163
disability and, 266
Libertarian Party platform to repeal, 176
means testing for, 267
Portman cut proposal, 261
Reagan’s catastrophic health insurance, 187, 216, 260
Reagan’s criticism of, 39–40, 87, 155, 178
Reagan’s recording for the AMA and, 168
Reagan support for, 191
Republican Party’s Path to Prosperity plan, 242
Ryan’s Roadmap agenda and, 241
Trump and, 252
Meese, Ed, 122
Meet the Press (TV show), Reagan interview, 95–96
Meyer, Frank, 69
minimum wage, 13, 176
Mondale, Walter, 166, 206, 208–9, 212
Moretti, Bob, 123
Morris, Edmund, 122, 284n13, 292–93n23
Mount Vernon, VA, 14
Mozambique, 198
Murphy, George, 14, 99, 121, 223
Muttart, Patrick, 252
Nader, Ralph, 233, 234, 235
NAFTA accord, 196
National Defense Education Act, 23, 27
National Review, 26, 43, 69
mission statement, 26
Reagan’s Goldwater landslide loss analysis, 68, 73, 125
“Reagan’s Suicide Pact,” 222
refusal to endorse Eisenhower, 26–27, 69
refusal to endorse Nixon, 46
See also Buckley, William F., Jr.
NATO, 177, 198, 205
Nelson, Gaylord, 143
neoconservatives, 162
New Deal Democrats, 20, 147, 161, 244
New Deal (public New Deal), xi, xii, xiv, xv, 20, 54
American individualism and, 9
competing ideas about (Truman’s versus Wallace’s), 15–16, 17, 18, 39, 134, 143, 211–12, 258
conservative constitutionalists and, 85
core principles, xviii, xx, 6, 23, 86, 143
cost of, 7
disaffected anti-New Dealers and Buckley, 25–26
economic planning and, 6
Eisenhower and, 21, 23, 25, 26, 27
government expansion and, 5–6, 7, 15, 143, 167
primary innovation of, 143
Reagan’s conservatism and, x, xi, xiii, xvi, xvii, 1, 3, 10–11, 14, 17, 18, 20–21, 22, 29, 37, 40, 48, 54, 55, 56, 72, 75, 82, 83, 96, 100, 112, 130–31, 133, 156, 162, 167–68, 170, 177, 191, 211, 258
Reagan’s desire to “mend it, not end it,” 84, 96, 259
Reagan’s motives for supporting, 115, 258
Republicans and, xiii, xix, 249
working-class support for, xvii, 249
Works Progress Administration (WPA), 29
See also Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
New Democrats, 231
New Hampshire
elections and, 116, 142, 147, 172, 234, 235, 238, 239, 245
Reagan on state control of social programs, 145
Republican primary debate (1980), 172–73, 297n105
New Left, 32
“New Republican Party, The” speech (1977), 130, 131, 132–34, 152–58, 166, 228
Declaration of Principles, 156–57
New York Times, Geithner on Obama, 239
Nicaragua, 197–98
“night watchman state,” x
1984 (Orwell), 26
Nixon, Richard, ix, 240
California governor race (1961–62), 46–47, 93–94, 117
conservative opposition to, 45–46
conservatives for, 117
Ford and, 293n31
Khrushchev debate, 45
minimum guaranteed income and, 289n67
“missile gap” and, 161
as Modern Republican, 45
presidential election, 1960, 45, 78, 273n7
presidential election of 1968, 117–18
presidential election of 1972, landslide win, 240
Reagan and, 23, 45, 273n7
