The FBI described: Cannon, President Reagan, p. 386.
“He spoke of an agreement”: MOH, p. 363.
“Phoned Tip & Howard”: RR, October 24, 1983.
Author interview with Ken Duberstein.
“I am bitterly disappointed”: TPO, October 25, 1983.
“The resolution would be”: TPO, October 26, 1983.
“The people of America”: Ibid.
“I will have plenty”: Ibid.
“The question I asked”: Ibid., October 28, 1983.
“He broke international”: Ibid.
“Nobody wants to cut”: Ibid.
“Today I feel even more”: MOH, pp. 366–67.
The Speaker was: New York Times, November 1, 1983.
“Dropped in for a minute”: RR, January 25, 1984.
“We took up the business”: Ibid., January 26, 1984.
“I gave a little lecture”: Ibid., January 27, 1984.
“Campaign time is coming”: Ibid.
“One night, at a social”: MOH, p. 364.
“Aiding and abetting”: New York Times, February 3, 1984.
“He may be ready to”: Wall Street Journal, February 16, 1984.
“The deaths lie on him”: New York Times, April 6, 1984.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: VICTORY AND SURVIVAL
“I don’t need you”: Farrell, p. 507.
In February 1984: New York Times, February 29, 1984.
“See what happens”: TPO, March 1, 1984.
“My wife said to me”: Ibid.
Nevertheless he called: MOH, p. 372.
His son Michael: Dutch, p. 318.
In March 1984: New Republic, March 26, 1984.
“We threw up a partition”: Matthews, Hardball, p. 170.
“I think it will go”: TPO, March 14, 1984.
“We have the Boston Marathon”: Ibid., February 29, 1984.
“Well, he still calls me”: Ibid., January 30, 1984.
“On St. Patrick’s Day”: Ibid., February 22, 1984.
“I must not be too bright”: Letter to President Reagan from Jerry Granat, April 9, 1984.
“You challenged their”: Time, May 28, 1984.
“I was expressing”: Ibid.
As Billy Pitts would: Farrell, Tip O’Neill, p. 635.
Not content to stop there: Washington Post, May 6, 1984.
“Whether or not Mr. O’Neill”: Washington Post, June 21, 1985.
“Sure I have a candidate”: Time, June 4, 1984.
“Sure she’s pushy”: Matthews, Hardball, p. 72.
“She has a lot of political”: Associated Press, May 4, 1984.
“I was sitting in the broadcast”: MOH, p. 359.
Worse was the: Wall Street Journal, October 9, 1984.
“If the point of this”: Ibid.
“I never realized how easy”: Cannon, President Reagan, p. 480.
“Well, the debate took place”: RR, October 6–7, 1984.
“Another disastrous performance”: Reagan, An American Life, p. 328.
“I want you to know”: Reagan-Mondale debate, October 21, 1984.
when away from the Capitol: MOH, p. 359.
“Well 49 states”: RR, November 7, 1984.
the usual crew: Farrell, p. 652.
The public inaugural was moved back a day because January 20 happened to fall on a Sunday in 1985.
“In my fifty years in public”: Morris, Dutch, p. 512.
CHAPTER NINETEEN: Mikhail GORBACHEV
“long twilight struggle”: John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961.
“that, through misunderstanding”: Reagan, My Father at 100, p. 207.
“What’s so good about a peace”: Weekly Standard, June 25, 2012.
“Address to the Nation on National Security”: Reagan Address to the Nation on Defense and National Security, March 23, 1983.
“I’ve become more and more”: Ibid.
Back in the spring of 1983: Time, May 16, 1983.
“an answer to arms control”: Ibid.
“evil empire”: Reagan Address to the National Association of Evangelicals, March 8, 1983.
“He says he is very curious”: RR, January 5, 1982.
“I was right not to go”: Ibid., November 16, 1982.
“Geo. Shultz sneaked”: Ibid., February 15, 1983.
“There is possibility”: Ibid., May 13, 1983.
“Expressed a desire”: Ibid., August 7, 1983.
“George S. & I met and discussed”: Ibid., February 22, 1984.
“gut feeling”: Ibid., February 22, March 1, and June 14, 1984.
“He confirmed my”: Ibid., March 5, 1984.
“evidence of not being well”: Ibid., June 26, 1984.
“I was not and never have been”: New York Times, April 24, 2006.
“restricted area”: Newsweek, April 8, 1985.
The House voted to authorize: Los Angeles Times, March 28, 1985.
“But right down to the wire”: RR, March 28, 1985.
“In thirty-two years”: TPO, March 27, 1985.
“If the president”: Ibid., March 26, 1985.
“Just wanted a last”: RR, April 3, 1985.
“a particularly credible messenger”: Farrell, Tip O’Neill, p. 662.
“I’m going to tell him”: Associated Press, April 8, 1985.
“We have a mutual friend”: Ibid., November 12, 1985.
“I’m part of the opposition”: Newsweek, April 22, 1985.
“We’re trying to understand what the position”: Ibid.
“There’s a big difference”: Ibid.
“I remember when I went in”: Congressional Record, November 13, 1985.
“New York lawyer”: Los Angeles Times, April 11, 1985.
“master of words”: Newsweek, April 22, 1985.
“had a flair”: Associated Press, November 12, 1985.
“I think it augurs”: Ibid., April 8, 1985.
“The president will be able”: Ibid., November 12, 1985.
“It was hard to be impressed”: MOH, pp. 294–95.
“I’ll never forget the ride into Moscow”: Ibid.
“We need to clear the decks”: TPO, November 12, 1985.
“When President Reagan meets”: Ibid., November 13, 1985.
“I don’t want to send the president”: Newsweek, November 25, 1985.
“where I hope to get Gorbachev”: RR, November 17, 1985.
“He had to know we”: Reagan, An American Life, p. 14.
“gold rubles”: Farrell, Tip O’Neill, p. 663.
“It’s not convincing”: Cannon, President Reagan, p. 674.
“That evening it was our turn”: Reagan, An American Life, p. 639.
“In an unusual procedure”: TPO, November 21, 1985.
“I expect a full report”: Ibid.
“You can’t imagine”: Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress Following the Soviet–United States Summit Meeting in Geneva, November 21, 1985.
“good listener”: Ibid.
“I haven’t gotten”: RR, November 21, 1985.
“The gallery were full”: Ibid.
“heartbreaking”: Farrell, Tip O’Neill, p. 664.
“This”: Morris, Dutch, p. 599.
CHAPTER TWENTY: HURRAH!
raised Protestant by his Scots-English: Cannon, Governor Reagan, p. 14; Eliot, Reagan, p. 14; Reagan, An American Life, p. 22.
“I knew I was Irish”: MOH, p. 7.
no irish need apply: Ibid., p. 9.
O’Neill had loyally supported: Farrell, Tip O’Neill, p. 510.
Dubbed the “Four Horsemen”: Edward M. Kennedy Institute.
“part of our blood”: Associated Press, June 2, 1984.
“I’m proud that”: Reagan speech in Dublin, June 4, 1984.
“All sides should have”: Ibid.
“When he was in America”: Reagan, Address Before a Joint Session of the Irish National Parliament, June 4, 1984.
The following month: Farrell,
Tip O’Neill, p. 623.
personal letter from Tip: The White House, Memorandum of Conversation, December 28, 1984.
The president followed through: Farrell, Tip O’Neill, pp. 623–624.
On November 15: Ibid., p. 624.
“His feeling changed”: Author conversation with Tom O’Neill.
The State of the Union address was postponed: Reagan, An American Life, p. 403.
“We’ve grown used to wonders”: Reagan televised address, January 28, 1986.
“I know it is hard to understand”: Ibid.
“As I listened to him”: MOH, p. 363.
He then called: Author conversation with Peggy Noonan.
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: COMMON GROUND
“There is no limit”: Cannon, President Reagan, p. 154.
Tip O’Neill made no: MOH, pp. 371–72.
“Still, after half a”: Ibid., p. 372.
in 1935: Farrell, Tip O’Neill, p. 64.
His retirement season climaxed: Ibid., p. 674.
on the evening of March: Associated Press, March 17, 1986.
Washington Hilton: Washington Post, March 18, 1986.
honor him: Associated Press, March 17, 1986.
proceeds of which would: Ibid., March 18, 1986.
the 2,200 gathered: Ibid.
president Gerald Ford: Washington Post, March 18, 1986.
Irish prime minister: Ibid.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy: Ibid.
Bob Hope: Ibid.
“centerpiece”: Thomas P. O’Neill III, New York Times, October 5, 2012.
There he stood in the ballroom: Associated Press, March 17, 1986.
“But to be honest, I’ve”: Reagan speech, March 17, 1986.
“I have traveled”: Washington Post, March 18, 1986.
“Mr. President”: United Press International, March 18, 1986.
“You’re a beautiful individual”: Associated Press, March 17, 1986.
to Venezuela, Brazil, and: Ibid.
from early 1985 on: Author conversation with Hedrick Smith.
to make his mark: Farrell, Tip O’Neill, p. 659.
The measure he advanced: Ibid.
with Reagan’s blessing: Ibid.
reducing the number: Baker, Work Hard, p. 232.
15 and 28 percent: Ibid.
it raised the rate: New York Times, June 8, 1989.
“the whole system”: Cannon, President Reagan, p. 499.
For several nervous days: Baker, Work Hard, pp. 226–28.
A vote late in 1985: Farrell, Tip O’Neill, p. 660.
“voted to humiliate”: Baker, Work Hard, p. 229.
The Speaker agreed: Farrell, Tip O’Neill, p. 660.
The night that: Ibid.
agreed-upon deadline: Baker, Work Hard, p. 229.
“Four frustrating hours”: Ibid., p. 231.
“Three times he called”: Farrell, Tip O’Neill, p. 660.
“an excellent speech”: Baker, Work Hard, p. 231.
by seventy Republicans: Farrell, Tip O’Neill, p. 660.
to be his major second-term: Baker, Work Hard, p. 217.
“as beloved a leader”: MOH, p. 330.
“the worst”: Ibid., p. 360.
“out of touch”: Ibid., p. 331.
“tremendous powers of”: Ibid., p. 341.
“agreeable man”: Ibid., p. 360.
“pretty good friendship”: Ibid., p. 333.
“After the vote”: Ibid., p. 374.
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: LAST BATTLE
Back in the 1980s: Chris Matthews, The New Republic, March 2, 1987.
son of Irish: New York Times, November 6, 2011.
“a touchstone of his career”: Ibid., November 6, 2001.
“We bought it”: Cannon, President Reagan, p. 296.
Two months later: Ibid., p. 330.
“There is a totalitarian government”: New York Times, July 1, 1984.
“If Congress says you can’t”: Cannon, President Reagan, p. 332.
“It is possible”: Tayacan, Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare, translated and published by the Congressional Research Service, October 15, 1984.
According to a White House: New York Times, October 19, 1984.
“It is nothing short of outrageous”: Ibid.
“The president of the United States”: Reeves, President Reagan, p. 253.
“I saw that picture and I’m told”: MOH, p. 368.
“Tip has engineered a partisan campaign”: RR, April 24, 1985.
President Daniel Ortega now made a startling gesture: Reeves, President Reagan, p. 255.
“When that happened it was only a matter”: MOH, p. 368.
“He is not going to be happy”: New York Times, June 13, 1985.
“We send money and material now”: Ronald Reagan speech, March 5, 1986.
“If we don’t want to see”: Ibid.
Time described how: Time, March 17, 1986.
“You can appreciate how hard I’m working”: Farrell, Tip O’Neill, p. 671.
“dark day for freedom”: Newsweek, March 31, 1986.
Chief of Staff Don Regan was the one: MOH, pp. 368–69.
“to participate in open dialogue”: Associated Press, June 23, 1986.
“There’s no question about it”: United Press International, June 24, 1986.
“Tip refused to let me speak”: RR, June 23, 1986.
noontime broadcast: National Journal, June 28, 1986.
“NSC Briefing”: RR, December 5, 1985.
“I had a feeling”: Donald Regan, For the Record (New York: Harcourt, 1988), pp. 41–43.
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: LEGACY
“Let us endeavor”: Shapiro, The Yale Book of Quotations, p. 777.
though the fallout: New York Times, December 2, 1986.
Geneva in 1985: Reeves, President Reagan, p. 280.
Reykjavik in 1986: Ibid., p. 340.
Washington in 1987: Ibid., p. 435.
Moscow in 1988: Ibid., p. 448.
Within a year of Reagan’s leaving office: Cannon, President Reagan, p. xii.
for almost three decades: “Brutal Divide: LIFE at the Birth of the Berlin Wall,” http://life.time.com/history/berlin-wall-photos-early-days-of-the-cold-war/#1.
“Not with a bang but a whimper”: Shapiro, The Yale Book of Quotations, p. 237.
in 1987: Reagan speech, West Berlin, June 12, 1987.
“We welcome change”: Ibid.
“for we believe”: Ibid.
in late 1986: The Harris Survey (ISSN: 0273-1037), November 24, 1986.
“I was almost”: MOH, p. 374.
Tip for thirty-four: Ibid., p. 3.
man’s father, still in: New York Times, December 8, 1993.
“Reagan took Congress”: MOH, p. 341.
St. John’s High School: Ibid., p. 20.
“Chris, it goes away”: Author conversation with Tip O’Neill.
He died in January 1994: Farrell, Tip O’Neill, pp. 689–90.
Reagan began his fade: Cannon, President Reagan, p. xiv.
handwritten letter: Ibid.
Alzheimer’s disease: Ibid., p. xv.
“I only wish there was some way”: Morris, Dutch, p. 666.
George Washington and Pierre L’Enfant: Washington Diary, June 28, 1791.
INDEX
ABC, 246, 253, 282, 359
Academy Awards, 83
Adams, Henry, 17
“Address to the Nation on National Security,” 310–11, 313
Afghanistan, 46
AFL-CIO, 69
Africa, 16–20, 25, 225–27, 246, 251, 368
African-Americans, 12, 306
“after six o’clock,” 37, 143, 178, 188, 234, 294
Agnew, Spiro, 111–12
Ailes, Roger, 302
Air Force One, 1, 10, 11, 13–14, 61, 238, 332
Air Traffic Controllers, see Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization
Ajemian, Robert, 134
Albert, Carl, 1
10–12
Albosta, Donald, 126
Allen, Richard, 49
Al Shiraa, 359
Alzheimer’s disease, 370
amnesty, for immigrants, 344–45
Andreas, Dwayne, 168, 320
Andropov, Yuri, 314–15
Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985), 334
Ann (Sister Eunice; O’Neill’s aunt), 355–56
antiwar movement, 19, 57, 109
Appropriations Committee, 108
appropriations vote, 229–30
Archer Daniels Midland, 168, 320
Argentina, 208
arms-for-hostages deal, 359–60
Army, U.S., 281
Army Air Corps, 82
Army Enlisted Reserve, 82
assassination attempt, on Reagan, 66, 67–71, 117, 121, 314, 340
political advantage of, 115–18, 122, 140, 161
secrecy around wounding and recovery in, 71–74, 114, 115
assassinations handbook, 352
Associated Press, 214, 236, 300
Atkinson, Eugene, 121
Atlantic, 174–75, 177
Australia, junket to, 118–21
Autry, Gene, 5
Ayres, Lew, 84
Baker, Howard, 169, 180, 250, 273, 301
Baker, James Addison, III “Jim,” 32–36, 44, 48–49, 64, 72, 122, 126, 131, 176–77, 193, 194, 200, 203, 215–16, 245, 247, 248, 250, 256, 266, 280, 301, 344, 351
Baker, Susan, 44
“balance of terror,” 309–10
Ball, Robert, 247, 250
Ballyporeen, Ireland, 299, 332, 333
Bancroft, Brass (character), 68, 80
Barnicle, Mike, 22
Barone, Joan, 211
Barry’s Corner, 96–97, 99, 178
Beckel, Bob, 290–91
Bedtime for Bonzo (film), 85
Begin, Menachem, 170
Beirut, Lebanon, U.S. Embassy in, 265
Benny, Jack, 89
Bentsen-Quayle debate, 369
Berkman, Eric, 237
Berlin Wall, 364
Berrigan, Philip and Daniel, 203–4
“Beverly Hills Budget,” 190
Bevill, Tom, 120–21, 126
Beyond the Line of Duty (film), 83
Bible (Matthew), 309
Bickle, Travis (char.), 69
“Big Dig,” 108
bipartisanship:
in foreign policy, 261–62, 264–68, 270–75, 277–79, 308, 317–19, 320–26
of “Gym Caucus,” 157–58
on immigration, 344–45
on jobs bill, 255–56
legacy of, 365–79
O’Neill’s cooperation in, xv–xvi, 30, 35, 39, 43–44, 53, 203–4, 206, 216–23, 241, 242, 243–57, 264, 266–68, 270–75, 277–79, 317, 320–21, 338, 344–45, 362, 365–70
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