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INDEX
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Aaron, Ben, 504, 506, 509, 512
abortion, 386, 405, 407, 419, 423, 430, 459, 465, 519, 659, 704
abortion bill, in California, 349–51, 519
Abrams, Elliot, 661, 700
Achille Lauro hijacking, 612–15
Adler, Phil, 119, 120
Afghanistan, 441–42, 711, 715, 718
AFL-CIO, 215, 305, 417, 495–96
Agnew, Spiro, 366, 378–79, 382
Ahearn, Rick, 497, 498
AIDS, 577, 644, 647, 702, 732, 745–46
Air Corps, U.S. Army, 196, 197–98
air-traffic controllers strike, 520–21, 525–26
Alexander, Grover Cleveland, 47, 268, 279
Ali, Muhammad, 362
Aliyev, Heydar, 590
Allen, Richard (Dick), 428, 432, 448, 456, 457, 463–64, 469, 475, 479, 481, 482, 483, 485, 502, 503–4, 506, 507, 508, 510, 516, 523–24, 526–27, 528–29, 536, 750
Allyson, June, 169, 218, 227, 235
Altschuler, Sid, 117, 118
Alzheimer’s disease, 293, 750–51, 752–54
American Association of Radio Artists (AFRA), 270–71
American Federation of Labor, 208–9
Anderson, John, 436, 450, 453, 454, 463, 464, 465, 467
Anderson, Martin, 428, 429, 433, 436, 463, 464, 466, 481, 503, 541, 746, 750
Anderson, Terry, 602
Andrews, Dana, 222, 237, 287, 303
Andropov, Yuri, 545, 570, 589, 590
Annenberg, Walter, 303, 389, 687, 728, 746
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, 429–30, 545, 662, 664
anti-Semitism, 185–86
antitrust laws, 239, 285, 286, 303
apartheid, 611–12
Aquino, Benigno, Jr., 647
Aquino, Corazon, 648, 649
Arbitov, Georgy, 626
arms-for-hostages deal, 606–10, 615–16, 629–30, 637–41, 655–57, 695, 700. See also Iran-Contra affair
discovery of, 668
administration’s response to, 669–75
arms race, 523, 538, 545, 623, 625, 628
Arnold, Edward, 218, 278
Arnold, Henry “Hap,” 197
Arnow, Max, 142, 143, 144, 152
Ashbrook, John, 418
Assad, Hafez al-, 551, 552, 558, 601–2
assassination attempt, 497–514
Atwater, Lee, 436, 571, 572
Austin, Hudson, 560
Autry, Gene, 132, 139, 140, 309, 747
Avella, Steven, 340
AWACS (airborne warning and control system), 491, 515, 516–17
Ayres, Lew, 230–31, 245
Bacall, Lauren, 208, 214, 232, 266
Baer, Max, 132
Bagley, Bill, 374
Baker, Howard, 436, 440, 444, 450, 453, 454–55, 506, 558, 565, 695–96, 697–98, 704, 706, 707, 710, 713, 724
Baker, Jim, 416, 450, 451, 462, 467, 469–70, 476, 483, 485, 491, 492, 493, 496, 502, 504, 505, 513, 527, 528, 532, 548, 553, 554, 555, 561, 568, 586, 587, 588, 620, 632, 717
Baldwin, O. G., 21, 23
Barletta, John, 740, 755
baseball, 23–24, 46–47, 119, 127–28, 133, 136, 137, 246–47
Battaglia, Philip, 340–41, 342, 343, 345, 346, 347�
��48, 352–56, 425
Begin, Menachem, 530, 531, 533–34
Beilenson, Anthony, 330, 344, 347, 349, 351
Beilenson, Laurence, 272–73
Beirut hostage crisis, 602, 605, 606, 607, 608–10, 631
Bell, Jeffrey, 379, 385, 393, 403, 435, 446
Bell, Joanne, 511, 513
Bell, Ted, 484
Bennett, Iowa, 23, 24
Benny, Jack, 2, 9, 184, 278, 291
Bentsen, Lloyd, 409
Berlin Wall, 303, 428–29, 703, 721, 744
Berri, Nabih, 601
bipartisanship, erosion of, 651
Bishop, Maurice, 560
Bitburg incident, 594, 596–600
Black, Charlie, 394, 402, 411, 412, 413, 415, 417, 418, 420, 433, 434, 435, 442, 443, 445, 448, 449, 452
Bloomingdale, Alfred, 303, 317
Bloomingdale, Betsy, 310, 491
Blue, Jane. See Wilson, Jane (great-grandmother)
Bogart, Humphrey, 159, 160, 175, 194, 206, 208, 212, 214, 218, 221, 223, 226, 232, 236
Bohemian Grove, 358–60
Boland, Edward, 550
Boland Amendment, 550, 578, 579, 700
Bond, Ward, 227, 247
Bonus Army, 116
Bork, Robert, 518, 705, 706, 707
Bosworth, Stephen, 649
Botha, Pieter Willem, 611
Bracken, Eddie, 246–47, 736
Brackett, Charles, 203
Brady, Jim, 462, 476, 496, 497, 498, 500, 505, 506, 510, 744, 745
Brady, Sarah, 745
Brady Bill, 744, 745
Breen, John, 449, 450
Breen, Joseph, 185–86, 187
Brewer, Roy, 209, 211, 214, 216
Brezhnev, Leonid, 523, 524, 545, 589, 619
Broder, David, 356, 526, 538, 723
Brown, Jerry, 388, 437–38
Brown, Mildred, 131–32
Brown, Pat, 316, 318, 329, 330–32, 333, 334, 335, 340, 342, 343, 360, 756
Brown v. Board of Education, 11, 706
Bryan, Jane, 166, 169
Bryan, William Jennings, 76, 539
Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 463–64
Buchanan, Patrick, 379, 406, 601, 611, 628, 645, 647, 651, 654, 666, 671, 690, 710
Buckley, James, 392
Buckley, William, 582, 602, 606, 609
Buckley, William F., Jr., 303, 478
budget deficit, 487, 489, 527, 535, 574, 709
Bulen, L. Keith, 415
Burger, Warren, 478, 659
Burghardt, Franklin, 112, 113
Bush, Barbara, 441, 445, 727
Bush, George H. W., 386, 555, 735, 749, 752
as CIA chief, 400, 717
on day of assassination attempt, 503, 504, 508
inauguration of, 727
1980 campaign of, 436–37, 441–42, 446–47, 448, 449, 450, 451, 453, 454
1988 campaign of, 718, 722
1992 reelection campaign of, 745, 747–48
RR’s Inaugural Day note to, 726–27
as vice president, 480–81, 492, 518, 556, 560, 561, 567, 594, 601, 604, 607, 620, 638, 669, 672, 681, 683, 696–97, 714, 717
on voodoo economics, 455, 459, 489
as VP nominee, 455, 459
Bush, George W., 757
Byrd, Robert, 565, 670
Cagney, James, 152, 153, 159, 160, 161, 176, 182, 191, 194, 223, 255
Calero, Adolfo, 681
California. See also Reagan, Ronald, as California governor
financial crisis of, 342–44
gubernatorial race of 1966 in, 316–35
tax reform in, 375–76
California Welfare Reform Act, 371
Cannon, Lou, 322, 351, 367, 489, 493, 582, 589, 709
Carlucci, Frank, 684, 696
Carter, Jimmy, 494, 512, 516, 547, 581, 619, 752, 756, 760
administration of, 429, 430, 460, 522, 526, 618
and Iran hostage crisis, 440, 460, 475–76, 479, 480
in 1976 election, 409, 419, 422, 453
in 1980 election, 436, 457, 460–61, 462, 463, 464–65, 466–67, 468
Carter, Rosalynn, 572–73
Casey, William (Bill), 503, 554, 561, 563, 564, 567, 620, 657, 669, 673, 676, 688, 692
appointed CIA director, 483
and arms-for-hostages deal, 607, 608, 616, 637, 642, 656, 661, 675, 692
background of, 446–47
on Contra aid, 548, 578, 579, 585
death of, 700
illnesses of, 638, 685–86, 690
on Lebanon crisis, 567
as RR’s campaign manager, 447, 448, 452, 454, 456, 457, 462, 464
Castro, Fidel, 422, 493, 530, 560
Central America, 493, 547–50, 578, 650, 651
Challenger disaster, 643, 645–46, 647
Champion, Hale, 342
Charles, Eugenia, 561
Chautauquas, 34, 46, 76, 539
Cheney, Dick, 651, 700
Chernenko, Konstantin, 589–90, 594, 600
Chirac, Jacques, 741
Christopher, George, 318, 319, 325, 326–27, 329, 330, 333
Christopher, Warren, 475
CIA, and Iran-Contra, 548, 549, 550, 578, 616, 630, 631, 637, 642, 660, 661, 675, 685, 692, 700, 715
Citizens for Reagan committee, 395–96
Citizens for the Republic, 424, 425
Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965, 321
Civil Rights bill, 326–27
Clark, Bill, 348, 353, 354, 355, 356–57, 372, 426, 446, 530, 532, 536–37, 539, 541, 542, 548, 551, 552, 553, 554, 555, 556, 631, 632
Clarridge, Duane “Dewey,” 616, 630, 681
Claussen, Glen, 129
Cleaver, Ben, 75, 82–83, 107, 108, 111, 377
Cleaver, Margaret (Mugs), 75–76, 81–83, 87, 92, 93, 99, 101, 102, 106–11, 118–19, 125, 131, 132, 134, 167
Clinton, Bill, 748–49
Coburn, Charles, 189, 227
Colby, William, 400
Committee for the First Amendment, 232
Committee of 56, 186
Communism. See also Reagan, Ronald, on communism
in Central America, 650–51
fall of, 748
and House Un-American Activities Committee and, 227, 228, 229, 232–34
movie industry and, 7, 11, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 215, 216, 218, 219–20, 271, 288, 303
postwar suspicions about, 211
Soviet reshaping of, 715, 718
Thatcher opposed to, 429
Truman Doctrine addressing, 549
Conference of Studio Unions. See CSU
Connally, John, 382, 399, 418, 436, 440, 448, 453
Conrad, Charles, 322–23
conservatism, shift toward, 423–24
conservative movement, 311–12, 391–92, 521
conservative opposition to INF treaty, 711–12
Contras, 585–86, 592. See also Iran-Contra affair
covert aid to, 550, 579–80, 595–96, 616, 661
diversion of funds to, 630, 641–42, 656, 677, 678, 680, 682, 685, 697
U.S. aid to, 548, 578, 595, 601, 650, 715, 716
Cooper, Gary, 106, 227, 229, 232, 241, 761
Coors, Joseph, 484, 616
Cordiner, Ralph, 299–300, 301
Crane, Philip, 431, 436, 450, 453
Cranston, Alan, 382, 576, 648
Crawford, Joan, 152, 178, 182, 186, 278
Craxi, Bettino, 614
Cronkite, Walter, 385, 390, 457
Crowther, Bosley, 203, 268
Crump, Owen, 198
CSU, 209, 210, 211, 214, 215, 216, 218, 219, 271
> Cuba, 493, 530, 548, 549, 560, 561, 566, 578, 583, 717
Cukor, George, 260
Culvahouse, Arthur Boggess (A.B.), 697, 698, 700, 706, 707, 725
Cummings, Robert, 12, 177, 188, 189, 201, 217, 222, 266, 291, 426, 758
Curtiz, Michael, 179, 200, 214
Cusick, Jennie, 20, 21
Dales, Jack, 182, 272, 274, 296
Dandridge, Dorothy, 5
Daniels, Mitch, 683
Danielson, George, 349
Daniloff, Nicholas, 657, 658
Darman, Richard (Dick), 553, 555, 575
Dart, Justin, 169, 311, 367, 379, 384, 417, 429, 470
Davenport, Iowa, 119, 120
Davis, Bette, 152, 160, 161, 175, 178, 179, 180, 266, 306, 754
Davis, Edith. See Luckett, Edith
Davis, Kathy Randall, 352
Davis, Loyal, 253–55, 256, 258, 263, 266, 267, 301, 319, 350, 478
Davis, Marvin, 732
Davis, Nancy. See Reagan, Nancy Davis
Davis, Patti. See Reagan, Patti (daughter)
Dawson, Thomas, 611
Death Valley Days (TV series), 309–10, 317, 322
Deaver, Carolyn, 582–83
Deaver, Michael, 383, 384, 388, 389, 390, 393, 413, 415, 423, 424, 428, 433, 456, 524, 536, 548, 553, 592, 683
alcoholism of, 462, 469, 582, 593
background of, 425–26
Bitburg incident and, 594, 597, 598, 599
Cabinet role of, 485
considered for chief of staff, 553, 554, 556
criticism of Nancy by, 491
on day of assassination attempt, 496, 497, 499, 501, 505, 513
and departure from White House, 586, 594–95
fired from 1980 campaign, 434–35, 436, 446, 447
Haig and, 492, 493
homosexuality and, 357
indictment of, 701
as Nancy’s confidant, 425, 426–27, 491, 528–29, 532, 554, 583, 587–88, 635–36
1980 campaign and, 434
perjury conviction of, 723–24
Reagans’ reliance on, 425–27
on RR’s foreign policy, 536, 537
Debayle, Anastasio Somoza, 547
defense spending, 488, 535, 595, 634
de Havilland, Olivia, 142, 143, 158, 168, 175, 179, 180, 181, 182, 202, 206, 212–13, 215, 224, 262, 302–3
Delahanty, Thomas, 497
Democratic Party
and California gubernatorial race of 1966, 329, 330, 332–33, 334, 335
and majority’s relationship with RR, 517–18
