Scorsese, Martin, 69
Screen Actors Guild (SAG), 69, 86–87, 260
Seattle, Wash., 12
Secret Service, 9, 66, 67–68, 70, 80, 187, 274
Selma, Ala., 348
Senate, U.S., 14
in midterm election, 237
Republican control of, 28, 30
Republican losses in, 304
Senate Budget Committee, 24, 65
Senate Finance Committtee, 215, 344
Senate Republican Conference, 210, 212
“senility factor,” 302
seniors, advocacy for, 213
Sergeant Murphy (film), 80
Sharansky, Natan, 314
Sheraton Washington hotel, 15
Shorenstein, Walter, 211
Shultz, George, 310, 314–15
Sidey, Hugh, 23
Smith, Al, 98–99, 101
Smith, Hendrick, 126
“snow button,” 95–96, 102, 103–4
Snyder, Mitch, 203–5, 212
Sobhuza II, king of Swaziland, 225–26
social legislation, 64, 65, 125–28
Social Security:
bipartisan cooperative compromise on, 242, 243–57, 345, 366
debate over, 192–203
O’Neill’s strategy on, 168–69, 187, 240, 256, 319
Reagan’s attack on, 4, 8, 64, 90–91, 127, 130–31, 146, 169, 182, 213, 237–38
Social Security commission, 169
Somoza family, 263
Sorensen, Ted, 19–20, 24, 149
Soviet Union, 33, 363
grain embargo against, 46
and Iran, 358
and Nicaragua, 263, 346, 349, 353, 355
Reagan respected by, 168
Reagan’s hard line on, 49, 260–61, 309, 312–13
Reagan’s strategy to overcome, 312–17
see also Cold War
Speaker of the House, role of, xvi
Speaker’s Cabinet, 306–7
Speakes, Larry, 198, 282
Special Orders, Gingrich’s use of, 294–95
spending cuts:
additional, 168
one-for-all proposal for, 144–46
Reagan plan for, 27, 33, 36, 43, 48, 49, 64, 121–28, 163, 188–89, 203, 208
Sperling, Godfrey, 126
spin, process of, 176–77
Stahl, Lesley, 201
“Star Wars” strategic defensive technologies, 311, 324
State Department, U.S., 9
State of the Union, 3, 296
State of the Union addresses, 180, 188–89, 251–54, 281, 293, 335, 340
Statue of Liberty, 6–7, 32
Steelworkers union, 214–15
Stenholm, Charlie, 306
Stockman, David, 144, 168, 174–77, 200, 215, 250, 255–56
stock market, 219
Strategic Arms Reduction Talks, 319–20
strategic defense, 310–12, 324, 326–27
strategic retreat, 182
Stripling, Robert, 87
student loans, 117, 172
Sudetenland, 260
Suez Canal, 170
suicide bombing, 270
“supply side” economics, 175, 218
Supreme Court, U.S., 146–47
Swaziland, 16, 18–19, 225–27, 246
Sweeney, Peter, 123
Syria, 263, 265, 266–67
Tampico, Ill., 78
tax cuts:
O’Neill’s battle against, 136–44, 159–63
Reagan plan for, 27, 33, 36, 43, 49, 63, 64, 69, 121–25, 163, 172, 174, 183, 188–89, 195, 198, 203, 208, 210, 212, 215–16
Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act (TEFRA; 1982), 206, 215–23, 231
Taxi Driver (film), 69
tax increase, Mondale’s call for, 301
tax “reform,” tax increase as, 214–23, 231, 244
tax reform bill (1986), 338, 342–45
Taylor, Leroy, 22
Teacher in Space Program, 335
Tehran, Iran, U.S. Embassy in, 8, 270
television:
Gingrich’s use of, 293–94
O’Neill’s discomfort with, 54–55, 136, 137–38
O’Neill’s use of, 136, 137–43, 164, 185–86, 210–11, 256–57, 295
Reagan’s career in, 89–90
Reagan’s use of, 43–44, 122–25, 160, 184, 335, 357
see also specific shows
terrorism, 170, 273, 283, 358, 360
Thatcher, Margaret, 309–10, 328, 333–34, 335
Thurmond, Strom, 73
Time, 23, 134, 354
“Time for Choosing, A,” 90
Today, 214, 291, 299
Tolchin, Martin, 285, 299, 339
Tracy, Spencer, 3, 45, 80–81
Transportation Department, U.S., 231
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, 99
“trickle down” economics, 175, 201, 220
Trotsky, Leon, 261
Troubles, the, 330, 335
Truman, Harry, 37, 86
“Tuesday to Thursday club,” 106–7
Tunney, Gene, 72
Twain, Mark, 363
Ullman, Al, 28
unemployment, 102, 171–72, 183, 208, 213–16, 228, 230, 233, 240, 252, 253, 254–56, 292, 317
United Auto Workers (UAW), 214–15
United Fruit Company, 262
United Press International, 208
United States Information Agency, 246
universal national health insurance, 8
Vandenberg, Arthur, 261
veto override, 228–29
Vietnam War, 18, 109, 156, 262, 267, 354
“voodoo economics,” 177
“Wake Up, Mr. President” rally, 213–15
Walker, Robert, 156, 295, 307
Wallis, Hal, 81
Wall Street Journal, 209, 239, 282–83, 301, 350
Warner, Jack, 76, 81, 87
Warner Bros. studios, 68, 80–81, 83, 91, 330
strike at, 86–87, 98
War Powers Act (1973), 265–66, 268, 271–72
Washington, D.C.:
current political divisiveness and dysfunction in, xvi–xvii, 370–71
insiders and outsiders in, 17–18, 159
political atmosphere of, xiii–xiv
society in, 28, 34
Washington, George, xiii, 371
Washington Hilton, 60, 69, 71, 340
Washington Monument, 211
Washington Post, 34, 44, 46, 150, 178, 198, 222–23, 232, 235, 237, 244, 280, 296–97
Wasserman, Lew, 89
“Watergate babies,” 156–57, 303–6
Watergate scandal, 7, 23, 57, 108, 112, 156
“water’s edge” bipartisanship, 261–62, 275
Waxman, Henry, 209
Wayne, John, 5
Weinberger, Caspar “Cap,” 265, 269, 280
Weisman, Steven, 11, 235–36
Weiss, Ari, 60, 116, 152, 153, 185, 200, 211, 229
West Germany, 314, 316
Where’s the Rest of Me? (Reagan), 81
White, Kevin, 58
Will, George F., 163, 243
Wilson, Charlie, 163
Wirthlin, Richard, 42
Wood, Natalie, 89
Wordsworth, William, 225
“World’s Record Apple Pie” event, 211–12
World War II, 4, 36, 82–83, 85, 103, 182, 208, 255, 270, 299, 309, 313, 348
Wright, Jim, 180, 203, 220, 228–29, 255, 285–86
Wyman, Jane, 80, 83–84
Yatron, Gus, 126
Yearling, The (film), 83
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