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by H. W. Brands


  2. “What if you ruled”: Memorandum of conversation, May 29, 1988, Reagan Library.

  3. “Freedom is the right”: Reagan remarks, May 31, 1988.

  4. “It was almost electric”: Matlock interview.

  5. “Mr. Reagan and I”: Gorbachev, Memoirs, 457.

  6. “I think there is quite a difference”: New York Times, June 2, 1988.

  7. “Quite possibly, we’re beginning”: Reagan remarks, June 3, 1988.

  8. “What can I say”: Diary entry for June 1, 1988.

  CHAPTER 109

  1. “You made us proud”: Bush remarks greeting Reagan, June 3, 1988, American Presidency Project.

  2. “That made my day”: Diary entry for Feb. 16, 1988.

  3. “It was our dream”: Reagan convention speech, Aug. 15, 1988.

  4. “Reagan for King”: Los Angeles Times, Aug. 16, 1988.

  5. “I knew that the Soviet government”: Weinberger, Fighting for Peace, 389–90.

  6. “It’s a terrible tragedy”: Diary entry for July 2, 1988.

  7. “I want a kinder, gentler nation”: Bush acceptance speech, Aug. 18, 1988, American Presidency Project.

  8. “Vice President Bush has made”: Reagan statement, Aug. 16, 1988.

  9. “Quayle did very well”: Diary entry for Oct. 5, 1988.

  10. “A great evening”: Diary entry for Nov. 8, 1988.

  CHAPTER 110

  1. “Mr. President, you’ve been more”: Thatcher toast at state dinner, Nov. 16, 1988.

  2. “Thank you, Chuck”: Reagan remarks at groundbreaking of Reagan Library, Nov. 21, 1988.

  3. “What a team”: Reagan remarks at dinner hosted by Senate Republicans, Nov. 29, 1988.

  4. “Franklin Roosevelt”: Reagan remarks at Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Jan. 10, 1989.

  CHAPTER 111

  1. “You’ve got to put this”: Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 1989.

  2. “not too proud of Hollywood”: Los Angeles Times, Nov. 8, 1989.

  3. $5 million … $30,000 … $2 million: Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 1989.

  4. “Rev. Falwell has sent”: Diary entry for Nov. 29, 1988.

  5. “It was a hell of a presentation”: Diary entry for Dec. 21, 1988.

  6. “I’m afraid he’s right”: Diary entry for Jan. 19, 1989.

  7. “I made up my mind”: Los Angeles Times, April 1, 1989.

  8. “What’s the difference”: Los Angeles Times, April 20, 1989.

  9. “We will be fully vindicated”: New York Times, May 5, 1989.

  10. he pleaded ignorance: Chicago Tribune and New York Times, Feb. 23, 1990; video of deposition, C-SPAN video library.

  11. “I guess my barber”: New York Times, Sept. 10, 1989.

  12. “I was in shock”: Nancy Reagan, I Love You, Ronnie (2000), 180.

  13. “Mr. Reagan is treated”: New York Times, Nov. 7, 1990.

  14. “I’m Convinced That Gorbachev”: New York Times, June 12, 1990.

  15. “Darned hard”: New York Times, Sept. 13, 1990.

  16. “real father of perestroika”: New York Times, Sept. 16, 1990.

  17. “I’m sure you must have sensed”: New York Times, Sept. 18, 1990.

  CHAPTER 112

  1. “Twenty-five years ago”: Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, Feb. 7, 1991.

  2. “He believed that America”: New York Times and Los Angeles Times, Nov. 5, 1991.

  3. “Four lives were changed”: New York Times, March 29, 1991.

  4. “I felt somebody had stabbed me”: New York Times, March 30, 1991.

  5. “Read My Lips: I Lied”: Mark J. Rozell, The Press and the Bush Presidency (1996), 73.

  6. “Crime of the Century”: Cato Institute Policy Analysis No. 182, Oct. 12, 1992.

  7. “If Reagan told me once”: Baker interview with author.

  8. The START pact mandated: Hoffman, Dead Hand, 367–68. Hoffman’s book is the best account of the struggle to restrain the arms race during the years of Reagan, Gorbachev, and Bush.

  9. “The changes of the 1990s”: Reagan address at the 1992 Republican National Convention, youtube.com; New York Times, Aug. 18, 1992.

  10. 43 percent: New York Times/CBS News poll, New York Times, Aug. 16, 1992.

  11. 33 percent: Los Angeles Times poll, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 4, 1991.

  12. “This is not retirement”: New York Times, Aug. 17, 1992.

  CHAPTER 113

  1. “You were reelected in 1984”: Reagan deposition, July 24, 1992, Washington Post, June 20, 1999.

  2. “Today we are here”: New York Times and Washington Post, May 14, 1993.

  3. “I may not be a Rhodes Scholar”: New York Times, May 16, 1993.

  4. “It was concluded”: Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters, Aug. 4, 1993, published Jan. 18, 1994.

  5. “encyclopedia of old information”: New York Times, Jan. 19, 1994.

  6. “But I do have to admit”: Washington Post and New York Times, March 18, 1994.

  7. “He lied to my husband”: Washington Post, Oct. 29, 1994.

  8. “One small leak”: Deaver, Nancy, 181.

  9. “I don’t remember your name”: Gramm interview.

  10. “My Fellow Americans”: Reagan letter, Nov. 5, 1994, Reagan Library.

  CHAPTER 114

  1. “He looked great”: Deaver, Nancy, 174.

  2. “Ronnie’s optimism”: Nancy Reagan remarks to Republican national convention, Aug. 12, 1996, reaganfoundation.org.

  3. “Ronald Reagan believed”: CNN.com, June 11, 2004.

  4. “He is home now”: MSNBC.com, June 12, 2004.

  5. “In his last years”: CNN.com, June 11, 2004.

  6. “I know that for America”: Reagan letter, Nov. 5, 1994.

  INDEX

  ABC News, 14.1, 40.1, 56.1, 95.1

  ABM Treaty, 23.1, 78.1, 80.1, 89.1, 89.2, 90.1, 91.1, 91.2, 91.3, 92.1, 92.2, 92.3, 104.1, 105.1

  abortion, 19.1, 31.1, 61.1, 114.1

  Abshire, David

  Abyssinia

  Achille Lauro

  Actors’ Equity

  Adams, John, 101.1, 114.1

  Adelman, Ken, 78.1, 104.1

  Adenauer, Konrad

  affirmative action, 23.1, 69.1

  Afghanistan, 77.1, 79.1, 83.1

  Soviet invasion of, 30.1, 31.1, 34.1, 40.1, 40.2, 49.1, 51.1, 51.2, 60.1, 64.1, 67.1, 106.1

  AFL-CIO, 41.1, 46.1, 51.1

  Africa, 16.1, 31.1

  African Americans, 1.1, 5.1, 21.1, 71.1, 71.2

  civil rights demanded by, 17.1, 17.2

  labor laws on

  African National Congress

  agriculture, 1.1, 24.1, 40.1, 51.1

  AIDS

  Aid to Dependent Children Program

  Alabama

  Allen, Richard, 32.1, 50.1, 53.1, 57.1

  at PDB

  RR’s shooting and, 42.1, 42.2

  scandal of

  All Nations Hospital

  American Bar Association

  American Communist Party

  American exceptionalism, 1.1, 112.1

  American Federation of Labor (AFL), 7.1, 7.2, 15.1, 41.1

  American Federation of Radio Artists

  American Federation of Television and Radio Artists

  American Foundation for AIDS Research

  American Life, An (Reagan)

  American Veterans Committee (AVC)

  Ames, Walter

  Amin, Hafizullah

  Amin, Idi

  Anderson, John, 30.1, 30.2, 31.1, 32.1, 57.1

  Anderson, Martin, 34.1, 34.2, 44.1, 47.1

  involved in RR’s trip abroad

  Andrew, Prince, Duke of York

  Andrews, Stanley

  Andropov, Yuri, 64.1, 66.1, 66.2, 71.1, 71.2, 77.1, 78.1, 114.1

  Angola, 49.1, 67.1, 77.1, 79.1, 83.1

  Annan, Kofi

  Annenberg, Walter

  antisatellite technology (ASAT)

  apartheid

  Aqu
ino, Benigno, 83.1, 83.2

  Aquino, Corazon, 83.1, 83.2

  Arabs

  in 1973 war

  Arafat, Yasser, 32.1, 59.1

  ARDE

  Argentina

  in Falklands conflict, 56.1, 57.1

  Arizona

  Arlington National Cemetery

  arms control, 63.1, 74.1, 82.1, 108.1

  at Geneva summit, 77.1, 77.2, 78.1, 78.2, 79.1, 79.2, 79.3, 80.1, 112.1

  at Reykjavík summit, 88.1, 88.2, 89.1, 90.1, 91.1, 92.1, 93.1, 93.2, 104.1, 104.2, 104.3, 104.4, 112.1

  see also Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START)

  Arms Export Control Act

  Arnold, Edward

  Arnold, Henry H. “Hap,”

  Arnow, Max, 3.1, 3.2

  Ascension Island

  Asner, Ed

  Aspin, Les

  Assad, Hafez al-, 75.1, 113.1

  Astaire, Fred

  Atlantic Monthly

  atomic weapons, 6.1, 14.1, 66.1

  Auden, W. H.

  Auschwitz

  automobile industry

  AWACS

  AZT

  Baker, Howard, 30.1, 30.2, 34.1, 60.1, 65.1, 98.1, 98.2, 99.1, 101.1

  RR’s budget and, 44.1, 45.1, 45.2

  and sale of arms to Saudi Arabia

  Baker, James, 27.1, 27.2, 28.1, 30.1, 31.1, 31.2, 33.1, 41.1, 47.1, 57.1, 57.2, 71.1, 102.1, 109.1, 112.1

  appointed chief of staff

  CBI doubts of, 53.1, 53.2, 54.1

  funding for contras opposed by

  Haig considered pretentious by

  Haig’s resignation engineered by

  leak explained by, 72.1, 72.2

  and Lebanon crisis

  made Treasury secretary, 72.1, 73.1, 74.1

  new taxes urged by, 52.1, 52.2, 52.3

  Nofziger’s distrust of, 33.1, 33.2

  Regan’s tension with

  responsibilities of

  in RR’s campaign of 1980

  and RR’s poor debate against Mondale, 69.1, 69.2

  RR’s shooting and, 41.1, 42.1

  on Social Security, 44.1, 44.2

  Stockman praised by

  on Stockman’s magazine article

  Treasury II plan of

  Baker, Susan

  balanced budget, 25.1, 36.1, 37.1, 43.1, 47.1, 47.2, 52.1, 69.1, 74.1, 112.1

  balanced budget amendment

  Baltimore, Md.

  Baltimore Sun, 69.1, 72.1

  bank runs

  banks, bankers, 2.1, 47.1, 102.1, 102.2

  Barbados

  Barnes, Ben

  Barrow, Clyde

  Barton, Bruce

  Barton, Durstine & Osborn

  Bay of Pigs invasion, 16.1, 25.1

  Beach, Paul

  Beahrs, Ollie

  Bedtime for Bonzo

  Begin, Menachem:

  Lebanon invasion ordered by, 55.1, 58.1, 58.2, 59.1

  RR’s disputes with, 55.1, 55.2, 58.1, 58.2, 59.1

  Beijing

  Beilenson, Anthony

  Beirut, 58.1, 59.1

  U.S. marines under fire in, 59.1, 60.1, 60.2

  Belize

  Belloc, Hilaire

  Bennett, Bill

  Bentsen, Lloyd

  Bergen-Belsen, 73.1, 73.2, 73.3, 74.1

  Bergholz, Richard

  Berlin

  nightclub bombing in

  Berlin Wall, 16.1, 68.1, 104.1, 111.1, 111.2, 112.1

  and RR’s “tear down this wall” demand, 104.1, 105.1, 111.1

  Berri, Nabih

  Bessie, Alvah

  Beyond the Line of Duty

  Biden, Joseph

  Bierbauer, Charles

  big government

  RR’s opposition to, 15.1, 16.1, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1, 25.1, 25.2, 30.1, 34.1, 36.1, 36.2, 38.1

  Birmingham, Ala.

  Birth of a Nation, The, 1.1, 2.1

  Bishop, Maurice, 60.1, 60.2

  Bitburg cemetery, 33.1, 73.1, 73.2, 74.1, 75.1, 76.1

  Black Monday, 102.1, 102.2

  Black Panther Party

  Black Power

  Black Student Union

  Blair, Tony

  Block, John, 51.1, 51.2

  boat people

  Boland, Edward, 67.1, 86.1

  Bolsheviks

  Bonanza

  Boren, David

  Bork, Robert

  Boston, Mass., police strike in

  Botha, P. W.

  Boulware, Lemuel, 15.1, 15.2

  Bouterse, Desi, 60.1, 60.2

  Bracken, Eddie

  Brady, James

  shooting of, 41.1, 42.1, 43.1, 112.1

  Brady, Sarah

  Brady bill

  Brazil, 56.1, 60.1, 60.2, 68.1

  Breen, Jon

  Brezhnev, Leonid, 23.1, 34.1, 71.1, 77.1, 78.1, 114.1

  death of

  Polish situation and, 51.1, 51.2, 51.3

  RR seen as responsible for Middle East troubles by

  Brinkley, David

  Brinkley, Douglas

  brinkmanship

  Brokaw, Tom

  Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

  Brother Rat

  Brown, H. Rap

  Brown, Jerry

  Brown, Pat, 17.1, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 19.1, 20.1, 24.1

  Browning, Mrs.

  Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 17.1, 101.1

  Bryan, William Jennings

  Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 64.1, 77.1

  Buckley, William F., Jr., 18.1, 111.1

  Burger, Warren, 35.1, 101.1

  Bush, Barbara

  Bush, George H. W., 32.1, 38.1, 41.1, 81.1, 105.1, 107.1, 112.1, 113.1, 114.1, 114.2

  at Andropov’s funeral

  and arming of Iranian moderates

  at Brezhnev’s funeral

  Chernenko met by

  deficits and

  in election of 1980, 30.1, 31.1, 32.1

  in election of 1988, 109.1, 109.2, 110.1

  in election of 1992, 32.1, 113.1

  eyed as RR’s vice president

  and Grenada invasion

  Gulf War and

  made chairman of crisis council

  at meeting with Gorbachev

  at PDB

  power temporarily transferred to

  and Regan’s resignation

  at Republican convention of 1980

  on RR’s Bitburg trip

  RR’s shooting and, 42.1, 42.2

  RR visited in hospital by, 76.1, 76.2

  solidarity with Poland desired by, 51.1, 51.2

  Bush, George W.

  Bush, Prescott

  Byrd, Robert, 60.1, 94.1

  Cagney, James

  California, 27.1, 84.1

  abortion legalized in, 2.1, 19.1

  ballooning welfare rolls in

  deficits prohibited in

  occupation of state capitol in

  California, University of

  at Berkeley, 17.1, 18.1, 21.1, 21.2, 22.1

  at Santa Barbara

  California board of regents

  California Medical Association

  Cambodia, 5.1, 22.1, 24.1, 67.1

  Campbell, Carroll, 44.1, 59.1

  Camp David, 41.1, 61.1, 82.1, 98.1

  Camp David agreement

  Canada, 53.1, 68.1, 68.2

  Cannon, Lou, 19.1, 69.1

  Caribbean, U.S. policy on, 50.1, 53.1, 56.1, 74.1

  Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI), 53.1, 53.2, 54.1, 67.1

  Carlucci, Frank, 98.1, 99.1, 104.1, 104.2

  Carmichael, Stokely, 19.1, 20.1

  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

  Carpentier, Georges

  Carrington, Lord

  Carson, Jeannie

  Carter, Jimmy, 28.1, 39.1, 40.1, 51.1, 64.1, 112.1, 114.1, 114.2, 114.3

  Argentinian government shunned by

  Camp David agreement and

  in debate of 1980

  and economic downturn
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  in election of 1976, 27.1, 28.1, 28.2

  in election of 1980, 31.1, 32.1, 33.1, 69.1

  grain embargo imposed by, 30.1, 40.1

  Iranian policy of

  Kirkpatrick’s attack on

  malaise speech of, 30.1, 43.1

  as micromanager, 59.1, 74.1

  Nicaraguan policy of, 29.1, 29.2, 59.1

  Polish policy of

  and possibility of “October surprise,”

  religious views of

  rescue of hostages attempted by, 31.1, 35.1, 37.1, 75.1

  RR’s attacks on policies of, 30.1, 30.2

  at RR’s inauguration

  RR’s Republican convention speech on

  Soviet invasion of Afghanistan denounced by, 30.1, 51.1

  Turner made head of CIA by

  Carter Doctrine, 105.1, 109.1

  Casaroli, Cardinal

  Casey, Sophie

  Casey, William, 31.1, 36.1, 54.1, 56.1, 114.1

  alleged negotiation with Iranians by, 32.1, 32.2, 32.3, 32.4, 32.5, 32.6

  and arming of Iranian moderates, 85.1, 96.1

  cancer of

  CIA changes made by

  and Daniloff’s arrest

  desire for quick action on El Salvador

  firing considered for

  on funding for contras, 67.1, 67.2

  Geneva summit as concern of, 77.1, 77.2

  on launch on warning

  on Libyan terrorism

  made head of CIA

  Nicaraguan mining opposed by

  “October surprise” fear of

  at PDB

  presidential speech on Cuban threat sought by, 53.1, 53.2, 53.3, 54.1

  on progress of contras

  resignation of

  RR’s shooting and

  solidarity with Poland urged by

  on Soviet intervention in Polish crisis

  Castaneda, Carlos

  Castro, Fidel, prl.1, 16.1, 50.1, 53.1, 54.1, 60.1

  Catholic Church, Catholics, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 4.1, 4.2, 17.1, 19.1, 54.1

  Cato Institute

  CBS Evening News, 24.1, 40.1

  CBS News, 14.1, 31.1, 95.1

  Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

  Central America, 27.1, 39.1, 55.1, 62.1, 68.1, 74.1

  RR’s television address on

  see also El Salvador; Nicaragua

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 24.1, 31.1, 34.1, 49.1, 59.1, 77.1, 87.1, 87.2

  Church Committee’s investigation of, 24.1, 34.1

  contra war directed by, 67.1, 67.2, 86.1

  El Salvador briefing of

  funding for

  on Gorbachev

  KAL 007 shoot-down investigated by

  Polish intelligence of, 51.1, 51.2

 

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