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“Mr. Roosevelt”: Ibid.
“What are those things”: Ibid.
“Let me assert”: Franklin D. Roosevelt, inauguration speech, March 4, 1933.
“My friends, I want”: Roosevelt, fireside chat, March 12, 1933.
“the quarterback”: Lash, Chapter 44, pp. 512-535.
128 “of minor grading”: DET, November 26, 1933.
“supplies of shovels”: Ibid.
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131 “Where does that”: Newsweek, summer 1980.
“as to the manner born”: PI, Jack Shelley.
“exciting and exuberant”: Ibid.
“WHO had only recently”: Ibid.
132 “[Dutch] was not”: Ibid.
“a cubby hole”: Ibid.
“Dr. B.J. Palmer”: PI, Herb Plambeck.
133 “It was one or’: PI.
“Dutch and Mr. Gross”: PI, Plambeck.
“if everyone else”: PI, Paul McGinn.
134 “Where are you from?” PI.
“unquestionably Des Moines’s”: PI, Shelley.
“He was a nice”: PI, Chuck Schosselman.
“I’ll never forget”: Ibid.
“Dutch would clear”: PI.
135 “a smart little two-seater”: PI.
“a dashing young blade”: PI, Shelley.
“Peter [MacArthur] was”: PI.
“He was great”: DMR, February 5, 1982.
“I was so stage-struck”: Reagan, p. 71.
136 “insistent hyperthyroid”: Leighton, p. 51.
“Her voice… was”: Ibid.
“… suddenly I heard”: Reagan, p. 71.
137 “It’s a called strike”: Ibid., p. 78.
“Hartnett returns the ball”: Ibid.
“a turntable with”: DMR, February 5, 1982.
“I knew… how”: Reagan, p. 77.
“The wire has”: Ibid., p. 78.
“red headed kid”: Ibid., p. 79.
138 “Leave her alone”: PI, Melba Lohmann.
“Are you all”: Ibid.
“on a mild, warm”: Ibid.
“Dutch called me”: UCLA Oral History Archives.
139 “a large living”: DMR, February 5, 1982.
“The house was”: Ibid.
“Club Belvedere was”: Ibid.
“with many girls”: Ibid.
140 “all [Dutch] ever wanted”: Ibid.
“had a yen to be”: Reagan, p. 79.
“no particular desire”: Ibid.
“had already fought”: Ibid., p. 80.
“doing correspondence courses”: Ibid.
“vivid descriptions of crowds”: Time, July 28, 1980.
141 “a huge pool”: PI, Richard Ulrich.
“he would have”: PI, Ulrich.
“he later waved”: PI, Ulrich.
“There was one young”: DMR, February 5, 1982.
“He [had] bought a Nash”: Ibid.
142 “I’d agreed with that”: PI, Lois Ulrich.
“the fastest tongue”: DMR, February 5, 1982.
143 “They used to sit”: PI, Ulrich.
“He was handsome”: PI, Lois Ulrich.
“Two weeks—”: PI, Kinney.
“I took Dutch”: Ibid.
145 “I managed to squeeze”: Reagan, p. 81.
“soaked to the skin”: Ibid.
“If my horse balked”: Ibid., p. 82.
“Dutch could stretch”: PI, Ulrich.
“flirt with the truth”: Ibid.
“I always thought”: Harper’s magazine, March 1936.
146 “When the wind died”: Ibid.
“Roads and farm buildings”: Ibid.
“from this new Sahara”: Ibid.
“They roll westward”: Ibid.
“Happy Hollow”: Life, November 23, 1936.
“as rickety as”: Ibid.
“as many as 10,000”: Ibid.
“Franklin Roosevelt’s Wild West”: Ibid.
147 “of grocers’ boxes”: Ibid.
“kept right on”: Ibid.
“their second-hand”: Ibid.
“Great Trek to the Pacific”: Ibid.
148 “Mr. Roosevelt is the”: Gies, p. 138.
“For the first time”: Lash, p. 442.
“We have conquered fear”: Ibid.
“He arrived at the”: Ibid.
149 “no half-and-half”: Ibid.
“this generation or’: Ibid.
“the greatest political”: Ibid.
(fn) “a rendezvous”: Ibid.
“men I had been”: Gies, p. 137.
150 “He sat across”: PI, Joy Hodges Schiess.
151 “come see us”: Ibid.
“influential people”: Ibid.
“Well, Miss Hodges”: Ibid.
“talked [him] into”: Reagan, p. 82.
152 “gave sympathetic ear”: Ibid., p. 84.
“pick out a scene”: Ibid.
153 “How could I tell”: Ibid.
“and seeing”: Ibid.
154 “some hazing… some”: Ibid., p. 83.
“I did”: PI, Schiess.
“without the glasses”: Reagan, p. 85.
“the likeable”: PI, Schiess.
“big overgrown kid”: Ibid.
155 “Two tests are better”: Reagan, p. 86.
“I might not get”: Ibid., p. 87.
“I couldn’t believe”: Schiess
156 “making a bundle”: Holiday script.
“Mr. Warner [can] see”: Reagan, p. 87.
“No, I will be”: Ibid.
“WARNER’S OFFER CONTRACT”: Ibid., p. 88.
“HAVE JUST DONE”: Ibid.
“then I yelled”: Ibid.
“MAY BE SCOOP”: PI, Schiess.
157 “The day Dutch got”: PI, Shelley.
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161 “the burning desert”: Reagan, p. 90.
163 “The motion picture”: Fortune, December 1937.
“a violent hatred”: Ibid.
“totalitarian godhead”: Robert Rossen, 1963 interview.
“Are you a member”: Warner Archives.
164 “Verbal messages cause”: Behlmer, p. xi.
“equally short”: Lindfors, p. 155.
165 “a shoestring independent”: Behlmer, p. 62.
“The studio that had”: UCLA Oral History Archives.
166 “What you, the actor”: Ibid.
167 “Apparently I was”: The Westmorelands of Hollywood, p. 117.
168 “fast-talking, high-pitched”: Reagan, p. 93.
169 “about chalk marks”: Ibid., p. 92.
“plain old everyday”: Ibid., p. 94.
“Please be careful”: Warner Archives.
170 “To my regret”: PI, Schiess.
“knocked off every clay”: Regan, p. 94.
“one of the best”: Sunday Mirror, June 20, 1937.
171 “[Movies are] a specialized”: Westport News, October 31, 1980.
172 “silly boy”: Fortune, December 1937.
“Ronnie might… [sit]”: Westport News, October 31, 1980.
173 “We discussed politics”: PI, Schiess.
“She’s a young”: Undated article, circa 1938.
174 “… the most exciting”: NYDN, February 1, 1938.
175 “… remember the guy”: Reagan, p. 91.
“Miss Parsons plays”: NYT, January 13, 1938.
“Some place in the”: Reagan, p. 95.
176 “Wayne Morris won”: Ibid., p. 96.
“I was up at”: Westport News, October 31, 1980.
177 “It was casually”: Ibid.
“fuzzyvisioned”: Ibid.
“the second largest”: California, WPA Works Project, p. 199.
“… the highest point”: Ibid.
178 “a no-nonsense guy”: Life, June 26, 1964.
“Well, a way has”: PI.
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179 “the finest, the most”: Mayo, p. 258.
“movie cathedral�
��: Ibid.
“This temple of art”: Ibid.
180 “the first royal carriage”: Ibid., p. 261.
“Do I have to”: Reagan, p. 103.
“the sweater girl”: Hollywood Studio Magazine, March 1981.
181 “monstrous brushes of light”: Mayo, p. 260.
“The elite of the movies”: Ibid., p. 262.
“so that motion”: Kanfer, p. 129.
182 “One of the church”: Bread of Life, May 1981.
“Christian ways”: Ibid.
“Look at your son”: undated article, Cynthia Miller.
183 “How is the factory”: Bread of Life, May 1981.
“the slow careful”: Reagan, p. 104.
“with some other actors”: PI, Larry Williams.
184 “I soon learned”: Reagan, p. 91.
185 “dependable guy, never”: PI.
“I became the Errol”: Reagan, p. 96.
186 “We realized we had”: PI.
“charm and vitality”: Hollywood Spectator, February 18, 1939.
“impresses and handles”: Variety, March 8, 1939.
“played his role of: NYT, July 4, 1940.
“Scene after scene”: Reagan, p. 101.
“Ronald Reagan, as the”: NYT, August 27, 1938.
“a still worshipping”: Reagan, p. 102.
“one of the accolades”: Ibid.
187 “from the Bryan Foy”: NYT, October 26, 1938.
“The cast does not”: Ibid.
“friendly name”: Ibid.
“who is always”: Ibid.
“who can get into”: Ibid.
“who plugs along”: Ibid.
188 “Ronnie was always”: Photoplay, circa 1944.
“I don’t want to get”: PI.
190 “I grew up with”: Photoplay, circa 1944.
“that was exciting”: Movie Fan, January 1943.
“with a pencil”: PI.
191 “All we had was”: Photoplay, circa 1944.
“She was a fly-away”: St. Joseph Press, January 28, 1947.
“I always thought”: PI.
192 “My first impulse”: Photoplay, undated.
193 “When he took me”: Ibid.
194 “[Eddie] Albert gives”: Variety, October 13, 1938.
“Ronald Reagan has a”: Ibid.
“All we can say”: NYT, March 2, 1939.
“in the hope of”: Fortune, December 1937.
195 “He was a top”: Reagan, p. 119.
(fn) “Tracy was born”: Warner Archives.
196 “I was playing”: Reagan, p. 118.
“He saw my part”: Ibid.
“oomph girl”: NYT, June 23, 1939.
“Staffed by a competent”: Ibid.
“Margaret Lindsay and”: Variety, July 5, 1939.
“Miss Sheridan is”: NYT, September 4, 1939.
197 “a good scout”: undated article, Cynthia Miller.
“loads of fun”: Ibid.
“Hope you’re feeling”: Ibid.
(fn) “Free parking”: Warner Archives.
198 “Jane was… making”: Parsons, p. 161.
“Hot diggity!”: Paul Spiegle, SFC, November 16, 1939.
“Oh, Louella, won’t”: Variety, November 22, 1939.
“not short enough”: Ibid.
199 “breathless tidbits”: SFC, November 16, 1939.
“and told them how”: Ibid.
“Ronald Reagan”: Variety, November 22, 1939.
“looked exceptionally”: SFC, November 16, 1939.
“Joy Hodges”: Variety, November 22, 1939.
“Dutch kept everyone”: PI, Schiess.
200 “too-enthusiastic admirers”: Ibid.
“Dutch was always”: Ibid.
“especially with Washington’s”: Ibid.
(fn) “a fairly liberal”: PI, Reverend Benjamin Moore.
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203 “You’re anti-Semitic!”: Confessions of a Hollywood Columnist, Graham, p. 263.
“You’re damn right”: Ibid.
“and we [didn’t]”: Warner Archives.
“Too bad I forgot”: Ibid.
“So what?”: Ibid.
204 “Here, take this”: Ibid.
205 “Janie was always intent”: PI.
206 “After the easy way”: Motion Picture, November 1939.
“put in a word”: O’Brien, p. 240.
“I’ve been a great”: Ibid.
(fn) “It is a simple matter”: Warner Archives.
207 “I was still”: Reagan, p. 107.
“sweated out a series”: O’Brien, p. 240.
“in ten different”: Ibid.
“I really didn’t”: Reagan, p. 108.
“a great entrance”: Ibid.
208 “We walked over”: O’Brien, p. 241.
“Hell, I’m a great”: Ibid., p. 242.
“I was forty”: Ibid., p. 248-9.
209 “a small man with”: Reader, November 2, 1984.
(fn) “blanket waiver”: Ibid.
(fn) “as both agent”: Ibid.
210 “shaking down Kosher”: Hollywood Local, 1983.
“keep labor peace”: Ibid.
“There was an attempt”: Ibid.
211 “brainstorm”: Ibid.
“slipped out of serving”: Ibid.
“The Killer”: Reader, November 2, 1984.
(fn) “the Octopus”: Ibid.
(fn) “gobbled up”: Ibid.
212 “the black-suited Mafia”: Ibid.
“tall, lanky”: Ibid.
“Lew was the student”: Ibid.
“cold, brusque”: Ibid.
“ruthless, hard-nosed”: Ibid.
213 “accepted MCA’s”: Ibid.
“a thrilling experience”: Reagan, p. 109.
“I’ve always suspected”: Warner Archives.
214 “lustily tossing harmless”: NYT, November 9, 1940.
“I MUST REFUSE”: Warner Archives.
215 “to something I hope”: Reagan, p. 111.
“all the heroes”: Warner Archives.
“I figured that under”: Reagan, p. 112.
“inability to observe”: Massey, p. 259.
216 “He was lining up”: Ibid.
“The scene had been”: Ibid., p. 260.
(fn) “he broke a leg”: Reagan, p. 113.
217 “Vaulting ambition, which”: Massey, p. 262.
218 “Here was an Irishman”: Reagan, p. 113.
219 “I hope my performance”: Notre Dame Archives.
“Don’t worry about Jack”: Ibid.
“It must have been”: Reagan, p. 114.
220 “You will have to eat”: Notre Dame Archives.
“I guess we really”: Ibid.
“Grand Ball”: Ibid.
“a fine letter”: O’Brien, p. 249.
“I picked at my food”: Reagan, p. 115.
221 “I think that afternoon”: UCLA Oral History Archives.
“10 minutes allowed”: Notre Dame Archives.
“baggage packed and in”: Ibid.
222 “Picture is more than”: Variety, October 19, 1940.
“If some of it”: NYT, October 19, 1940.
“It’s true, I got”: Reagan, 1947 interview.
“… we will not forget…”: Leighton, p. 444.
223 “kept him talking”: Ibid.
“If I could write”: Ibid., p. 445.
224 “Jack, please sit down”: Modem Screen, circa 1944.
“news tickers”: Caro, p. 653.
“The President was”: Ibid.
“‘Mike, I don’t want’”: Ibid., p. 654.
“Roosevelt was smiling”: Ibid.
“I’m sure he knows”: Reagan, p. 115.
“black curse”: Ibid., p. 113.
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225 “feminine-frivolous”: St. Joseph News-Press, January 28, 1947.
“I don’t know”: Photoplay, undated.
226 “a viable budget”: Ibid.
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“Janie always seemed”: PI.
“I’d say Janie was”: PI.
“Neither Ronnie nor I”: Silver Screen, August 1941.
227 “One day Scotch”: Modem Screen, October 1944.
“There was a snobbism”: McClelland, p. 224.
“When employed”: Powdermaker, p. 279.
“I think Jane started”: Morella: p. 42.
228 “Each night as he”: Collier, p. 62.
“Even the Republicans”: Ibid., p. 63.
“No one was quite”: Westport News, October 31, 1980.
“The least costly”: Collier, p. 63.
“repository of fact”: Westport News, October 31, 1980.
229 “They had made many”: Allyson, p. 95.
“He’ll outgrow it”: Ibid., p. 96.
“a certain sad”: Ibid.
230 “He had a wonderful”: McClelland, p. 166.
“I wanted a boy…”: DET, Undated article.
231 “comfortable Reagan”: LAT, September 24, 1944.
“We don’t want”: Ibid.
“Jack, I don’t think”: UCLA Oral History Archives.
“a bright look came”: Ibid.
“spoke up”: Ibid.
“It was primarily”: Ibid.
“Reagan was an”: Ibid.
232 “boyish of face”: Time, April 21, 1961.
233 “I had been warned”: Reagan, p. 116.
“Ronald Reagan makes”: NYT, April 4, 1941.
“to the meat”: Reagan, p. 116.
“sort of the Tiffany”: Ibid., p. 115.
“some shaky A picutres”: Ibid., p. 117.
234 “[The screenplay] seems”: NYT, June 7, 1941.
235 “the hand movements”: Reagan, p. 17.
“Max Rabinovitz”: Warner Archives.
“a classly little B”: Variety, September 3, 1941.
“a frantic newspaper”: Ibid.
“Ronald Reagan”: Ibid.
“a blazing whodunit”: Ibid.
236 “Dear Bry.nie”: Warner Archives.
237 “Dear Hal”: Warner Archives.
238 “… Before this picture”: Ibid.
240 “young, handsome actor… he”: Ibid.
241 “changing costumes and”: Wallis, p. 101.
“I owe Sam Wood”: Reagan, p. 119.
(fn) “The woman is”: Warner Archives.
242 “Ronnie, have you ever”: McClelland, p. 229.
“Bob Cummings plays”: NYT, February 3, 1942.
“Are you a Catholic?”: Morella, p. 50.
243 “because he was afraid”: Warner Archives.
“normally… amputated”: Ibid.
“on the matter of’: Ibid.
“from unconsciousness to”: Reagan, p. 8. ‘“Lights’… I heard”: Ibid., p. 9.
244 (fn) “Wood was greatly”: Warner Archives.