Reagan: The Life

by H. W. Brands

  Harlem, rioting in

  Harrison, William Henry, 25.1, 42.1

  Hart, Gary, 48.1, 69.1

  Hartley, Fred

  Hassan, King of Morocco

  Hasty Heart, The, 13.1, 68.1

  Havel, Václav

  Hayakawa, S. I.

  Hayden, Sterling

  Hays, Will

  Hazlitt, Henry

  Health and Human Services Department, 100.1, 100.2

  Hearst, William Randolph

  Hearst newspapers

  Hehir, J. Bryan

  Hellcats of the Navy

  Helms, Jesse, 27.1, 27.2

  Helsinki Accords

  Henderson, Nicholas, 39.1, 39.2

  Henry, Patrick, prl.1, 84.1

  Hepburn, Katharine

  Herrera Campins, Luis

  Herres, Robert

  Hesburgh, Theodore

  Heston, Charlton, 110.1, 112.1

  Hezbollah, 85.1, 95.1

  hostages seized by, 75.1, 76.1, 85.1, 85.2, 85.3, 86.1, 94.1, 113.1

  plane hijacked by, 75.1, 85.1, 85.2, 113.1

  Hickey, Edward

  “High Flight,”

  Hinckley, John, Jr., 42.1, 112.1

  hippies, 21.1, 23.1

  Hitler, Adolf, 4.1, 4.2, 8.1, 12.1, 24.1, 37.1, 51.1, 73.1

  Hodges, Joy, 3.1, 3.2

  Höfði House, 89.1, 93.1

  Holden, Ardis

  Holden, William, 5.1, 7.1, 13.1

  Hollings, Ernest

  Hollywood

  Hollywood Hotel

  Hollywood Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions (HICCASP), 6.1, 6.2, 7.1

  Hollywood Ten, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 14.1

  Holocaust

  see also Bitburg cemetery

  homosexuality, 100.1, 100.2

  Honduras, 54.1, 54.2, 67.1, 68.1

  Hoover, Herbert, 2.1, 3.1, 14.1, 102.1, 114.1

  Hoover, J. Edgar, 4.1, 11.1

  Hope, Bob

  Hopper, Hedda, 15.1, 15.2

  House of Representatives, U.S.

  budget bill of

  Budget Committee of

  Casey’s alleged negotiations with Iranians probed by, 32.1, 32.2

  Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) of, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 14.1, 14.2, 34.1

  funding of contras opposed by

  Intelligence Committee of

  RR’s first budget in, 44.1, 45.1

  Ways and Means Committee of

  Howell, Robert

  Hudson, Rock

  Hugel, Max

  human rights, 29.1, 29.2, 71.1, 71.2, 77.1, 78.1, 79.1

  Hungary

  Hussein, King of Jordan, 58.1, 59.1, 86.1

  Hutcheson, William, 7.1, 8.1

  Hutton, John, 41.1, 76.1, 76.2, 103.1, 103.2, 113.1

  Hu Yaobang

  Iacocca, Lee

  ICBMs, 79.1, 92.1

  immigrants, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1

  Immigration and Naturalization Service

  income tax, 18.1, 22.1, 45.1

  inflation, 31.1, 35.1, 36.1, 38.1, 43.1, 43.2, 47.1, 47.2, 47.3, 48.1, 66.1, 102.1, 102.2

  INF Treaty, 104.1, 105.1, 105.2, 106.1, 106.2, 107.1, 107.2

  Inman, Bobby Ray, 49.1, 50.1, 57.1

  in Falklands crisis

  Institute for Strategic Studies (ISS)

  interest rates, 36.1, 43.1

  intermediate nuclear forces (INF), 104.1, 105.1, 105.2, 106.1, 106.2, 107.1, 107.2

  intermediate-range missiles

  International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), 7.1, 7.2, 7.3

  International Association of Air Controllers

  internationalists

  International Union of Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers

  Invincible

  Iran, 24.1, 30.1, 59.1

  arming of moderates in, 85.1, 85.2, 86.1, 94.1

  Iraq invasion of, 32.1, 77.1, 85.1, 85.2, 94.1, 109.1

  oil deposits of

  revolution in, 29.1, 30.1, 34.1

  Iran-contra scandal, 32.1, 32.2, 97.1, 109.1, 109.2, 111.1, 112.1, 114.1

  missing money from

  news conferences on, 95.1, 96.1, 96.2, 96.3

  public opinion on

  RR’s policies hampered by

  RR’s televised address on

  Situation Room meeting on

  special (Tower) commission’s investigation of

  Tower report on, 98.1, 98.2, 99.1

  Walsh’s report on

  see also Hezbollah, hostages seized by

  Iran hostage crisis, 29.1, 60.1

  possibility of “October surprise” in

  rescue attempt of, 31.1, 35.1, 37.1, 75.1

  Iraq:

  Iran invaded by, 32.1, 77.1, 85.1, 85.2, 94.1, 109.1

  Kuwait invaded by

  Ireland

  isolationism, 1.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2

  Israel, 24.1, 32.1, 34.1, 86.1

  and arming of moderate Iranians

  Lebanon invaded by, 55.1, 56.1, 57.1, 58.1, 59.1, 59.2, 59.3

  in 1973 war

  Shia prisoners of

  and U.S. sale of arms to Saudi Arabia

  Issues and Answers

  Italy, 4.1, 8.1

  Communist Party in, 12.1, 12.2

  Jackson, Andrew, 2.1, 41.1, 101.1

  Jackson, Jesse

  Jackson State

  Jacobsen, David, 94.1, 94.2, 94.3

  Jamaica

  Japan, 4.1, 24.1, 68.1

  Pearl Harbor attacked by, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1, 37.1, 55.1, 114.1

  U.S. embargo of, 5.1, 5.2

  U.S. stewardship of

  U.S. trade with

  Jaruzelski, Wojciech, 51.1, 51.2, 51.3, 51.4

  Jazz Singer, The

  Jefferson, Thomas, 1.1, 2.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 61.1

  Jenco, Martin

  Jersey City, N.J.

  Jews, 1.1, 4.1, 5.1, 16.1, 31.1, 55.1, 55.2, 58.1, 71.1, 73.1, 73.2, 73.3, 78.1, 86.1

  Jim Crow, 12.1, 17.1

  Job Corps

  John Birch Society, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4

  Johnny Belinda

  John Paul II, Pope, 51.1, 51.2, 68.1

  shooting of

  Johnson, Lyndon, 28.1, 97.1

  army sent to Detroit by

  in campaign of 1964, prl.1, prl.2, 16.1, 69.1

  civil rights bill pushed by, 17.1, 20.1

  desire for power by

  Great Society of, 20.1, 23.1

  Vietnam War and, 17.1, 20.1

  War on Poverty of

  withdrawal from 1968 race by, 20.1, 27.1

  Johnston, Eric

  Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee

  Joint Chiefs of Staff, 60.1, 104.1, 111.1

  alternatives to MAD pursued by

  KAL 007 shoot-down and

  Jordan

  Journey’s End

  Justice Department, U.S., 16.1, 100.1

  and air traffic controllers’ strike, 46.1, 46.2

  “Just Say No” campaign

  Kahn, Gordon

  KAL 007, 64.1, 66.1, 109.1

  Kampuchea

  Kemp, Geoffrey

  Kemp, Jack, 36.1, 36.2, 48.1, 52.1, 88.1

  Kennedy, Anthony

  Kennedy, Edward M., 30.1, 101.1

  Kennedy, John F., prl.1, 16.1, 20.1, 42.1, 53.1, 74.1

  and civil rights bill

  Cuban invasion approved by

  in Cuban missile crisis, 16.1, 63.1, 69.1

  inaugural address of

  RR’s opposition to

  speaking style of

  Kennedy, Joseph P.

  Kennedy, Robert F.

  assassination of

  Kent State University

  Kerr, Clark

  Keynes, John Maynard

  Keynsian economics

  KGB, 64.1, 77.1, 87.1, 88.1

  Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah, 29.1, 85.1, 95.1

  Khrushchev, Nikita, 16.1, 16.2

  Kimche, David

  King, Martin Luther, Jr., 17
.1, 17.2

  assassination of

  violence opposed by, 20.1, 20.2

  Kings Row, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 9.1

  Kirkland, Lane, 51.1, 65.1

  Kirkpatrick, Jeane, 29.1, 51.1, 82.1, 84.1

  aid to Afghanistan proposed by

  Kirkpatrick, Jeane (cont.)

  in Falklands crisis, 56.1, 57.1

  funding for contras sought by

  and Lebanon crisis, 58.1, 58.2

  Kissinger, Henry, 23.1, 24.1, 27.1, 33.1, 77.1, 85.1, 114.1

  Klinghoffer, Leon

  Knox, Alexander

  Koch, Howard

  Koehler, Jack

  Kohl, Helmut, 73.1, 73.2, 73.3, 73.4, 73.5, 74.1

  Korean War, 14.1, 16.1, 33.1

  Krasnoyarsk radar station, 91.1, 92.1

  Krauthammer, Charles, 83.1, 88.1

  Krylov, Ivan

  Kuhn, Jim

  Kukliński, Ryszard, 51.1, 51.2, 51.3

  Ku Klux Klan, 1.1, 1.2, 31.1

  Kulikov, Viktor, 51.1, 51.2

  Kuwait, 85.1, 109.1

  Iraq invasion of

  Labor Department, U.S.

  labor movement, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2

  congressional investigation of

  in Hollywood, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 11.1

  Ladd, Alan

  Laffer, Art

  Laffer curve

  Landon, Alf

  Laos

  Lardner, Ring, Jr.

  Las Vegas, Nev.

  Latin America

  Laughton, Charles

  Lavery, Emmet

  Lawrence, David

  Lawson, John Howard, 6.1, 9.1, 10.1

  Laxalt, Paul, 25.1, 83.1, 83.2, 84.1, 98.1, 112.1, 113.1, 113.2

  and RR’s poor debate against Mondale

  League of Nations

  Lebanon, 67.1, 75.1, 85.1, 94.1

  Hezbollah hostages seized in, 75.1, 76.1, 85.1, 85.2, 85.3, 86.1, 94.1, 113.1

  Israeli invasion of, 55.1, 56.1, 57.1, 58.1, 59.1, 59.2, 59.3

  refugee camp massacres in, 58.1, 82.1

  Lee, Robert E.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Legion of Decency

  Legislative Strategy Group, 44.1, 48.1

  Lehrman, Lew

  Lenin, V. I., 8.1, 61.1, 90.1

  Leo, Greg

  Lewis, David

  Lewis, Drew, 46.1, 46.2

  Lewis, John L.

  liberals, education cuts and

  Libya, 82.1, 87.1

  Libyan People’s Bureau

  Lincoln, Abraham, prl.1, 1.1, 9.1, 31.1, 32.1

  Cooper Union address of

  line-item veto

  Linkletter, Art

  Livia

  Li Xiannian, 68.1, 76.1

  Loeb, William

  Logan Act

  long-range theater nuclear forces (LRTNF)

  Lopez, Manuel

  Los Angeles Dodgers

  Los Angeles Times, 17.1, 17.2, 18.1, 19.1, 94.1, 97.1

  Love Is on the Air

  Luckett, Edith

  Lumumba, Patrice

  Lupino, Ida

  Lute Song, 13.1

  MacArthur, Douglas, 2.1, 14.1, 33.1, 66.1

  MacArthur, Peter, 2.1, 2.2

  McAuliffe, Christa

  McCarthy, Joseph R.

  McCarthy, Tim, 41.1, 43.1, 112.1

  McDonald, Larry

  McFarlane, Robert “Bud,” 53.1, 53.2, 78.1, 98.1, 113.1, 113.2, 113.3

  arming of Iranian moderates desired by, 85.1, 85.2, 85.3, 85.4, 94.1, 94.2, 96.1

  funding for contras sought by, 67.1, 67.2

  and Grenada invasion

  indictment of

  on launch-on-warning policy

  and Lebanon crisis, 59.1, 59.2

  paper on contra funding by

  and RR’s preparation for Geneva summit

  RR visited in hospital by

  on SDI

  McGovern, George

  McKinley, William

  McKinzie, Ralph

  McMillan, Jerry

  Maltz, Albert

  Malvinas (Falklands), 56.1, 57.1

  Manchester Union Leader

  Manchuria

  Manifest Destiny

  Man Nobody Knows, The (Barton)

  Mao Zedong

  Kissinger’s meeting with

  Marcos, Ferdinand, 68.1, 83.1

  Marcos, Imelda, 83.1, 83.2

  marines, U.S., Beirut bombing of, 59.1, 60.1, 60.2

  Marshall, George C., 6.1, 12.1, 14.1

  McCarthy’s opposition to

  Marshall, John

  Marshall Plan, 12.1, 13.1, 51.1, 66.1

  Martin, Mary

  Marx, Karl, 8.1, 90.1

  Matlock, Jack, 77.1, 77.2, 78.1, 88.1, 89.1, 93.1, 104.1, 105.1, 108.1

  Mayer, Louis B., 3.1, 4.1, 11.1

  HUAC testimony of, 9.1, 10.1

  on Waldorf Declaration

  Mayo Clinic, 103.1, 111.1, 112.1

  Mazzoli, Romano

  Medicaid, 38.1, 45.1, 100.1

  Medicare, 18.1, 20.1, 28.1, 31.1, 38.1, 38.2, 69.1

  Meese, Edwin, 32.1, 32.2, 47.1, 57.1, 57.2, 113.1

  CBI doubts of, 53.1, 53.2

  chief of staff position desired by

  defense contracts scandal of

  at foreign policy meetings

  on funding for contras, 67.1, 86.1

  at Iran-contra press conference

  on Iran-contra smoking gun

  and Lebanon crisis

  made counselor to president

  on missing money from Iran-contra

  new taxes urged by, 52.1, 52.2

  at PDB

  on Polish crisis

  and problems with budget

  responsibilities of

  RR kept from cabinet heads by

  and RR’s education on supply-side economics

  RR’s shooting and, 41.1, 42.1

  Stockman’s magazine article and

  Meiklejohn, Bill, 3.1, 3.2

  Mengele, Josef

  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, 9.1, 11.1, 13.1

  Metzenbaum, Howard

  Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund

  Mexican American Political Association

  Mexico

  Michel, Bob

  Middle East, 34.1, 55.1, 74.1

  military, U.S., desegregation of

  military budget

  “military-industrial complex,”

  Minutemen missile

  misery index, 30.1, 31.1

  Miskito Indians, 54.1, 67.1

  missiles, 62.1, 63.1, 63.2, 66.1

  see also specific weapons

  Mission to Moscow, 9.1, 9.2

  Mitchell, Andrew

  Mitterrand, François, 68.1, 68.2, 73.1, 73.2

  Mix, Tom, 2.1, 5.1

  Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, 29.1, 30.1

  Mondale, Walter:

  in election of 1984, 69.1, 69.2, 83.1

  on RR’s radio show

  monetary policy

  see also Federal Reserve

  Monroe Doctrine

  Montgomery, Ala.

  Montgomery, Robert

  Moral Majority

  Moran, Kevin

  Moretti, Bob

  Morgan, J. P., 8.1, 9.1

  Moscow summit (1988)

  Moscow Youth Festival

  Motion Picture Association of America, 10.1, 10.2

  Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America

  Motley, Tony

  movies

  communism and, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1

  labor trouble in, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 11.1

  RR’s criticism of

  in struggle against fascism

  movie studios, 4.1, 10.1

  and Supreme Court case on control of theaters

  see also specific studios

  Moyers, Bill

  Mubarak, Hosni

  mujahedeen

  Murphy, Audie

  Murphy, George

  Murtha, Jack


  Music Corporation of America

  Muskie, Edmund

  Mussolini, Benito, 4.1, 8.1

  mutual assured destruction (MAD), 63.1, 64.1

  MX missile, 62.1, 63.1, 63.2, 66.1, 70.1, 70.2, 80.1

  Goldwater’s opposition to

  Nakasone, Yasuhiro

  Nanking, China

  NASA, 38.1, 43.1, 81.1

  Nashua Telegraph

  National Association of Evangelicals, 61.1, 62.1, 63.1

  National Association of Manufacturers

  National Cancer Institute

  National Cathedral

  National Commission on Social Security Reform

  National Democratic Front

  National Education Association

  National Football League

  National Gay Rights Advocates

  National Industrial Recovery Act

  National Newspaper Association

  National Press Club, 25.1, 82.1

  National Recovery Administration

  National Review

  National Security Act (1977), 95.1, 113.1

  National Security Council (NSC), 50.1, 51.1, 51.2, 57.1, 57.2, 58.1, 58.2, 77.1, 82.1, 85.1, 86.1, 88.1, 88.2, 94.1, 95.1, 96.1, 98.1, 99.1, 113.1

  National Security Decision Directive:

  on KAL 007

  on MX, 62.1, 63.1

  National Security Planning Group, 50.1, 70.1, 70.2, 80.1, 104.1

  contra funding sought by, 67.1, 86.1

  Nazi Party, Nazis, 4.1, 73.1

  NBC, 14.1, 30.1, 95.1

  NBC News

  Neal, Patricia, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3

  negative income tax

  neoconservatives, 29.1, 36.1, 37.1

  New Deal, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1, 25.1, 28.1, 110.1, 114.1, 114.2

  Eisenhower’s accommodation of

  RR’s denunciation of

  New Federalism

  New Hampshire, 27.1, 30.1, 31.1

  New People’s Army

  Newsweek

  Newton, Huey

  New York Post

  New York Times, prl.1, 19.1, 20.1, 57.1, 57.2, 69.1, 72.1, 76.1, 78.1, 93.1, 111.1, 112.1

  Nicaragua, 29.1, 29.2, 29.3, 33.1, 53.1, 54.1, 54.2, 59.1, 67.1, 77.1, 83.1

  and Argentina’s funding of contras, 56.1, 57.1

  Cuban supplies sent to, 53.1, 54.1, 54.2

  fear of U.S. invasion in

  military capabilities of

  mines placed in harbor of, 67.1, 86.1

  see also contras

  Night unto Night

  Nimitz, U.S.S.

  Nineteenth Amendment

  Nitze, Paul

  Nixon, Richard, 27.1, 32.1, 33.1, 41.1, 57.1, 68.1, 74.1, 83.1, 94.1, 95.1, 100.1, 101.1, 112.1

  Cambodia invasion ordered by

  in campaign of 1960, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 20.1

  conservative distrust of

  in election of 1968, 18.1, 19.1, 20.1, 20.2, 25.1

  in election of 1972, 18.1, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3

  environmentalism of

  grain sale to Soviets by

  and Jewish emigration from Soviet Union

  liberalism of

  and opening of China

  pardoning of, 23.1, 28.1, 111.1