by Bret Baier
Andropov, Yuri, 128–30, 133, 141–44
Angelo, Bonnie, 22
Angolan Civil War, 150, 220
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty), 241
Anti-nuclear movement, 128, 130–31, 139–40
Anti-Semitism in Soviet Union, 5–6, 213
Arbat (Moscow), 6–9, 260
Argentinia, Falklands War, 125
Arlington National Cemetery, 91–92
Armenian earthquake of 1988, 281
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 127
Arms race, 10, 40, 83, 119, 126, 139–40, 155, 175–76
Reagan’s winning “without firing a shot,” 318–22
Army Reserves, 30–31
Arnow, Maxwell, 26
Assumption Cathedral (Moscow), 5
Astrology, 233
Atheism, 6
Atlantic, The, 101
Atlantic Charter, 278
Attack on Pearl Harbor, 30–31
At the Highest Levels (Beschloss), 300–301
August Coup (1991), 311–15
Axel Springer House (Berlin), 73
Baker, Howard, 77, 105, 211–12
Brandenburg Gate speech (1987), 204–5
chief of staff, 193–94, 196–97, 277
Moscow Summit (1988), 277
Washington Summit (1987), 220, 221–22
Baker, James, 320
assassination attempt of Reagan and, 109
chief of staff, 95–97, 98, 101
fall of the Berlin Wall, 299–300
Malta Summit (1989), 302, 304, 306, 309
SDI and Reagan, 175
Secretary of State, 292, 294, 299–300, 304, 306, 309
Treasury Secretary, 151
Baker, Joy, 193, 277
Bakshian, Aram, 131, 132, 133, 135–36
Ballistic missiles, 119, 120, 142, 186, 187, 188, 241
Baltimore Orioles, 115–16
Baltimore Sun, 144–45
“Bear in the Woods” (TV ad), 141, 147
Bechtel Group, 112
Bedtime for Bonzo (movie), 27–28
Belarus, 315
Belknap, USS, 302, 305–6
Bennett, William, xiii, xiv
Bentsen, Lloyd, 275–76
Berlin Wall
fall of the, 297–301
Reagan’s Brandenburg Gate speech (1987), 201–8
Reagan’s visit of 1978, 72–74, 204–5
Beschloss, Michael, 300–301
Bessie, Alvah, 34
Bessmertnykh, Alexander, 244
Biberman, Herbert, 34
Billington, James, 234–35
Birth of a Nation, The (movie), 21
Black, Charles, 77–78, 79–80, 104
Blair House, 87–88
Bloomingdale, Alfred, 51
Bloomingdale, Betsy, 51
Bolshoi Ballet (Moscow), 270–71
Boone, Pat, 66
Bork, Robert, xiii
Borozinski, Len “Boro,” 5
Boynton, Sandra, 293
Brady, James, 108, 197–98
Brandenburg Gate speech (1987), 201–8, 322
Brauer, Carl, 94–95
Breen, Jon, 79
Brezhnev, Leonid, 154–56
Carter and, 119
death of, 128–29
Nixon and, 62, 118, 128, 180
Reagan and, 67, 130, 148
British Parliament speech (1982), 115, 116–18, 120–28, 131–32
Brokaw, Tom, 218–19
Brother Rat (movie), 28
Brown, Edmund “Pat,” 60
California gubernatorial election of 1962, 45, 50, 53
California gubernatorial election of 1966, 45, 48–51
Brown, Jerry, 60
Brubeck, Dave, 264
Brzezinski, Zbieniew, 99
Buchanan, Pat, 176
Bulganin, Nikolai, 158
Bulgaria, 297
Burger, Warren, 92, 149
Busch, Andrew E., 74, 82
Bush, Barbara, 217, 290–91, 295, 306–7
Bush, George H. W.
administration cabinet of, 294–95
Andropov’s funeral and, 144
assassination attempt of Reagan and, 109–10
Chernenko’s funeral and, 152
fall of the Berlin Wall, 298–301
Gorbachev and, 275–76, 279, 280, 295–97, 301–2, 305–10, 314, 315
Governors Island meeting (1986), 277–78, 279–80
Inauguration of, 290–92
Inauguration of Reagan and, 88, 92
Malta Summit (1989), 302, 305–10
Moscow Summit (1988), 274–75
presidency of, 293–317
president-elect, 275–80
presidential election of 1976, 64
presidential election of 1980, 77, 78–79, 80–81
presidential election of 1988, 275
vice-presidency of, 95, 109–10, 144, 151–52, 157
Bush, George W., xiv, 311
Caddell, Patrick, 82–83
Cagney, Jimmy, 26
California gubernatorial elections
1962, 45, 50, 53
1966, 45–51
Camp David, 116, 147–48, 285, 310, 315
Cannon, Lou, 19
Cannon House Office Building, 33
Carlucci, Frank, 164, 195–96, 206, 267–68
Carlucci, Frank C., 211–12
Carson, Johnny, 88
Carter, Amy, 83
Carter, Jimmy
Cold War and, 74, 82, 118–19
Inauguration of, 71
Inauguration of Reagan and, 88–89, 92–93
Iran hostage crisis, 75–76, 83–84, 93, 119
Malaise Speech (1979), 74
presidency of, 74–75, 81–82, 99
presidential election of 1976, 70–71
presidential election of 1980, 74–75, 77, 81–86, 100, 119
Reagan compared with, 103
Carter, Rosalynn, 81–82, 84–86, 88–89
Casey, William, 99–100
CBS, 61, 299
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 100, 294
Central Park rally (New York City), 128, 130
Challenger disaster, 176–77
Chappaquiddick Island, 74–75
Checkpoint Charlie (Berlin), 73
Cheney, Dick, 294, 318
Chernenko, Konstantin, 144, 147, 151–52, 157, 320
Chernobyl disaster, 179, 271
Chernyaev, Anatoly, 182, 183, 300, 309, 313
Chicago Cubs, 26
Christie, Agatha, 185
Christopher, George, 48
Churchill, Winston, 116, 278
“City upon a hill,” 59, 76, 289
Clark, William, 51, 121, 129
Cliburn, Harvey Lavan “Van,” 217
Clinton, Bill, 323
Clinton, Hillary, 68
CNN, 195, 219, 298
Cold War, 31, 40, 118–19
Carter and, 74, 82, 118–19
dissolution of the Soviet Union, 315–16, 318–19
fall of the Berlin Wall, 297–301
Gorbachev-Reagan summits. See Geneva Summit; Moscow Summit; Reykjavík Summit; Washington Summit
Reagan’s theory of, 71–72, 255–56
Reagan’s winning “without firing a shot,” 318–22
Cole, Lester, 34
Colon cancer, 162
Columbus, Christopher, 191–92
Commentary (magazine), 99
Communism, 31–38, 207–8, 235–36
Communist Party USA, 34
Conference of Studio Unions (CSU), 31–32
Congress and Reagan, 105–7
Congressional elections of 1986, 194
Connally, John, 77
Conservative Party (UK), 124–25
Construction Trades Council, 108
Cooper, Gary, 33
Council of Economic Advisors, 112
County Tipperary, 18
Couric, Katie, 41–42
Cr
ane, Charles, 243
Cronkite, Walter, 57, 61, 80
Cuban Missile Crisis, 145, 179
Czechoslovakia, 297
Dallek, Matthew, 49–50
Dangerfield, Rodney, 235
Daniloff, Nicholas, 180–82
Danilov Monastery (Moscow), 242–43
Dart, Justin, 51, 124–25
Davis, Patti, 41–42, 88
Day After, The (movie), 139–40
Death Valley Days (TV series), 42, 45, 46
Deaver, Michael, 51, 61
assassination attempt of Reagan and, 108–9
charity of Reagan, 103–4
deputy chief of staff, 95–97, 101
Inauguration of Reagan and, 88
presidential election of 1976, 63, 64, 67, 68
presidential election of 1980, 72, 77–78, 80, 83
Decoration Day, 15
Delahanty, Thomas, 108
De la Renta, Oscar, 1, 111
Demarest, David, 292
Democratic National Conventions
1968, 54
2008, 68
Democratic Party, 21, 44–45
Democratization, 249, 274
Destiny and Power (Meacham), 110, 276
Détente, 62, 64, 120, 180, 268
DiMaggio, Joe, 216–17, 218
Disciples of Christ, 18, 24
Dissolution of the Soviet Union, 297, 315–22
coup of August (1991), 311–15
fall of the Berlin Wall, 297–301
Dixon, Illinois, xv, 15, 19–20
Dixonian, The, 22–23
Dixon Public Library, 20
Dmytryk, Edward, 34
Dobrynin, Anatoly, 129
Dr. Zhivago (Pasternak), 259, 342
Dolan, Anthony, 264
Brandenburg Gate speech (1987), 202–5
British Parliament speech (1982), 121–22
Moscow State University speech (1988), 255–56
NAE speech (1983), 131–33
Dole, Bob, 67, 151
Domino theory, 232
Donaldson, Sam, xiii, 29, 126, 251–52, 299
Dowd, Maureen, 291
Draper, Robert, 16
Duberstein, Kenneth, 107, 322
Brandenburg Gate speech (1987), 206
chief of staff, 277, 289, 290
deputy chief of staff, 196–97
end of Reagan’s presidency, 289, 290
Governors Island meeting (1986), 279–80
Moscow Summit (1988), 8–9, 261, 262, 272
Washington Summit (1987), 218
Dugan, Robert P., Jr., 131
Dukakis, Michael, 275–76
East Berlin, 73
Eastern Europe, 297
East Germany, 297–301
East Side, West Side (movie), 38
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
California gubernatorial election of 1966 and Reagan, 47–48
Geneva Summit (1955), 158
Khrushchev and, 139, 142, 158, 180, 207, 270
military-industrial complex, 155, 288
presidential election of 1964 and Goldwater, 43–44
presidential election of 1968 and Reagan, 57–58
Presidential Library, x
Reagan compared with, xv–xvi, 17, 43–44, 96–97
Three Days in January (Baier and Whitney), ix–x, xiv–xv
Eldorado Country Club, 57
Elections. See also Presidential elections
congressional, of 1986, 194
Elizabeth II of England, 133
Eureka College, 23–25
“Evil Empire,” 1, 132–34, 135–36, 157, 246, 252, 255, 274
Falcon Crest (TV series), 28
Falklands War, 125
Farewell Address to the Nation (1989), 287–89
Fascism, 31
Favorite-son system, 55–56
Federal Trade Commission, 97
Feltsman, Vladimir, 244
First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the Presidents (Angelo), 22
Fitzwater, Marlin, xv, 28, 197–98
fall of the Berlin Wall, 298–99
Malta Summit (1990), 302, 306
Moscow State University speech (1988), 254, 262–63
Moscow Summit (1988), 6–7, 8, 9, 233, 237–38, 250–51, 268, 269
press secretary for Bush, 292, 293, 294, 296, 298–99
Regan and, 197–98
Washington Summit (1987), 209, 212, 219–20
Fluminense Federal University, 3
Ford, Gerald
Helsinki Accords (1975), 62, 70–71, 238
presidential election of 1976, 62–71
presidential election of 1980, 80–81
Foreign Broadcast Information Service, 262
For the Record (Regan), 233–34
“Four Freedoms” speech, 237–38
Fourteen Points speech, 278
Fox News, xiv
“Freedom fighters,” 150–51, 155–56
“Freedom is never more,” 349n
Friedberg, Maurice, 236
Friedersdorf, Max, 105–6, 107, 111, 151, 194
Gaddafi, Muammar, 177–78
Gates, Robert, 294, 301, 315
General Electric Company, 39–40, 42
General Electric Theater (TV series), 39–40
Geneva Summit (1955), 158
Geneva Summit (1985), 160–70, 181, 233, 278
background, 160–61
impact of, 170–71, 172–73, 272–73
the meetings, 164–70
Reagan’s arrival, 161–64
Georgetown University, 99
George Washington University Hospital, 108–9
Gerasimov, Gennadi, 212, 245, 262–63
Gergen, David, 103, 132–33, 134
German reunification, 305–6, 307–10
Germany. See also Berlin Wall; Nazi Germany
Malta Summit discussion (1990), 305–6, 307–10
Gilder, Josh, 253–54, 256
Gipp, George, 27
Glasnost, 154, 200, 210, 249
Goldwater, Barry, 42–43, 44–45
Goodpaster, Andrew, 278–79
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 152–58
Brezhnev and, 154–56
Bush and, 275–76, 279, 280, 295–97, 301–2, 305–10, 314, 315
Chernobyl disaster, 179
coup d’état attempt (1991), 311–15
early life of, 152–53
fall of the Berlin Wall, 300–301
final collapse of presidency, 314–17
German reunification and, 305–6, 307–10
Gromyko and, 156–57
Malta Summit (1989), 302, 305–10
Nuclear Initiative of January 1986, 174–76, 179
Reagan and. See Gorbachev-Reagan relationship
role of wife Raisa, 153
Soviet dissolution and, 315–22
Soviet economy and, 153–55. See also Glasnost; Perestroika
Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, 231–32
Thatcher and, 147–48, 152, 175, 319–20
Union of Sovereign States, 311
United Nations speech (1990), 278–79
Vatican visit with Pope John Paul II, 302–5
Yeltsin and, 210–11, 310–11, 313–15
Gorbachev, Raisa
coup d’état attempt (1991), 311–14
Geneva Summit (1985), 161–62, 165, 167–68, 169
German reunification and, 301
Malta Summit (1989), 306–7
Moscow Summit (1988), 4–5, 264–65, 271–72
relationship with Nancy, 4–5, 161–62, 165, 167–68, 169, 212–13, 216–18, 221–22, 264–65, 271–72, 280–81, 310
role in marriage, 153
Washington Summit (1987), 209, 212–13, 216–18, 221–22
Gorbachev-Reagan relationship
comparison of men, 152–53
death of Reagan, 324–25
Geneva Summit (1985). See Geneva Summit
Gorbachev’s Nuclear Initiative of
January 1986, 174–76, 179
Gorbachev’s support for Libya, 178
Governors Island meeting (1986), 276–81
letters, 172–74, 181, 200–201, 247–48
Moscow Summit (1988). See Moscow Summit
Moscow visit (1990), 310
negotiating styles, 184–85
New Year’s messages (1986), 173–74
prisoner swap of Daniloff and Zakharov, 180–82
Reagan’s initial desire for meeting, 157–58
Reagan’s winning of Cold War “without firing a shot,” 318–25
Reykjavík Summit (1986), 182, 185–92, 199–200
role of wives, 153
Washington Summit (1987), 2, 9–10, 209–23, 211, 273
Gorbachev’s Gamble (Grachev), 154–55, 156
Governors Island meeting (New York City, 1989), 276–81
Grachev, Andrei, 3, 154–55, 156, 179, 181
Grande, Peggy, 319
Grand Kremlin Palace (Moscow), 4
Great Depression, 21, 23–25
Great Terror, 152
Griscom, Thomas, 198, 203–4
Gromyko, Andrei, 146–47, 156–57, 264
Gromyko, Lidiya, 264
Haig, Alexander, 97–99, 103, 109–10, 111–12
Hal Roach Studios, 30–31
Hannaford, Peter, 59–60, 71, 72–73, 321
Harrison, William Henry, 149
Hart, Gary, 144
Hayward, Steven, 59
Helsinki, 3, 238
Helsinki Accords (1975), 62, 70–71, 238
Heritage Foundation, 59, 127–28
Hezbollah, 159
Hilton Hotel (Washington, D.C.), 108
Hiss, Alger, 37
Hitler, Adolf, 31, 308
Höfdi House (Reykjavík), 185–90
Hollywood
communism and HUAC, 31–38
Reagan’s acting career, 16, 26–29, 38, 39–40
Hollywood Ten, 34–35, 37
Honecker, Erich, 297
Hooley, James, 6–7
Hoover, Herbert, 58, 105
Hope, Bob, 88
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 33–34, 35–38
How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life (Robinson), 202–3
Human rights
Brandenburg Gate speech (1987), 201–8
British Parliament speech (1982), 126
Geneva Summit discussion (1985), 161, 168, 174
Moscow Summit discussion (1988), 5, 228–29, 230–31, 237–38, 239–40
Washington Summit discussion (1987), 213–14
Humphrey, Hubert, 144
Hungary, 297
Illegal immigration, 104–5, 240
Inaugural Address (1981), 89–92
Inaugural Address (1985), 149
Intercessionary prayer, 134
Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), 186, 187, 188, 241
Intermediate-range ballistic missiles, 119, 120, 142
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty), 191, 200, 209–15, 229, 234, 240, 266
International Tchaikovsky Competition, 217
Iowa caucuses of 1980, 78
Iran-Contra, 159–60, 194, 195, 198–99
Iran hostage crisis, 75–76, 83–84, 93, 119
