Reagan: The Life (119 page)

11.
   “This whole irresponsible press bilge”: Diary entry for Nov. 12, 1986.

12.
   “I know you’ve been reading”: Reagan address, Nov. 13, 1986.

13.
   “The president’s speech”: Shultz,
Turmoil and Triumph
, 816, 819.

14.
   
Los Angeles Times
poll:
Los Angeles Times
, Nov. 18, 1986.

15.
   “Will there be any more”: Shultz,
Turmoil and Triumph
, 822–23.

1.
   “Eighteen months ago”: Reagan news conference, Nov. 19, 1986.

1.
   “They were out for blood”: Diary entry for Nov. 19, 1986.

2.
   “disastrous”: Shultz,
Turmoil and Triumph
, 827.

3.
   “If some malicious Merlin”:
Wall Street Journal
, Nov. 13, 1986.

4.
   “a great many factual errors”: Shultz,
Turmoil and Triumph
, 831.

5.
   “There may be some misunderstanding”: Reagan statement, Nov. 19, 1986.

6.
   had been told this by John Poindexter: Regan,
For the Record
, 36.

7.
   “The content of our discussion”: Shultz,
Turmoil and Triumph
, 832.

8.
   “A touchy meeting”: Diary entry for Nov. 20, 1986.

9.
   “We had an NSC briefing”: Diary entry for Nov. 21, 1986.

10.
   “Big thing of the day”: Diary entry for Nov. 24, 1986.

11.
   “The president, in person”: Regan,
For the Record
, 42–43.

12.
   “I’m sorry it’s come to this”: Ibid., 45–47.

13.
   “And this report led me”: Reagan remarks, Nov. 25, 1986.

14.
   “In the course”:
New York Times
, Nov. 26, 1986.

1.
   “Ronnie can be too trusting”: Michael K. Deaver,
Nancy: A Portrait of My Years with Nancy Reagan
(2004), 99.

2.
   “I think it’s the eternal optimist”: Ibid.

3.
   “I’ll never forget”:
Nancy Reagan,
My Turn
, 317–22.

4.
   “As revelation followed revelation”: Regan,
For the Record
, 47–48.

5.
   “Without stretching things”: Ibid., 61.

6.
   “Longtime Reagan Advisers”:
Los Angeles Times
, Dec. 13, 1986.

7.
   “There is a bitter bile”:
Time
, Dec. 8, 1986.

8.
   “So far, only two”: Regan,
For the Record
, 59.

9.
   “Stu Spencer dropped by”: Diary entry for Dec. 17, 1986.

10.
   “Have to begin thinking”: Diary entry for Dec. 22, 1986.

11.
   “With Casey in the hospital”: Nancy Reagan,
My Turn
, 323.

12.
   “It seemed unwise”: Regan,
For the Record
, 73–74.

13.
   “Ronnie and I”: Nancy Reagan,
My Turn
, 323.

14.
   “Just before Christmas”: Regan,
For the Record
, 74.

15.
   “An informed source”:
Washington Post
, Dec. 6, 1986.

16.
   “There was some tension”: Nancy Reagan,
My Turn
, 324.

1.
   “I was furious”: Nancy Reagan,
My Turn
, 326.

2.
   “I talked with Ronnie”: Ibid., 327.

3.
   “Are you going to fire Regan”: Reagan exchange with reporters, Feb. 18, 1987.

4.
   “That’s a pretty broad hint”: Nancy Reagan,
My Turn
, 328.

5.
   “Don, why don’t you”: Regan,
For the Record
, 107.

6.
   “Were you surprised?”: Lou Cannon,
President Reagan
(1991), 709–10.

7.
   “In trying to recall”:
Tower Commission Report
, 29.

8.
   “The president’s management style”: Ibid., 79.

9.
   “More than almost any”: Ibid., 81.

10.
   “It’s not a bad idea”: Diary entry for Feb. 26, 1987.

11.
   “I’m too mad”: Regan,
For the Record
, 416.

12.
   “He was understandably angry”: Diary entry for Feb. 27, 1987.

13.
   “In my time”: Regan,
For the Record
, 417.

14.
   “That night”: Nancy Reagan,
My Turn
, 333.

1.
   “For the past 3 months”: Reagan address, March 4, 1987.

2.
   85 percent:
Washington Post
, March 11, 1987.

3.
   “The speech was exceptionally”: Diary entry for March 4, 1987.

1.
   “Nancy and I are saddened”: Reagan statement, Oct. 2, 1985.

2.
   “He had been to a White House dinner”: Nancy Reagan,
My Turn
, 281.

3.
   “Called Rock Hudson”: Diary entry for July 24, 1985.

4.
   Patti Davis … later said:
New York Times
, April 3, 2013.

5.
   “They have declared war”: Randy Shilts,
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
(2007 ed.), 311.

6.
   “AIDS is God’s judgment”: John C. Purdy,
God with a Human Face
(1993), 38.

7.
   “I think they do”:
Los Angeles Times
, March 6, 1980.

8.
   “Mr. President”: Reagan news conference, Sept. 17, 1985.

9.
   “high priority”: Reagan message transmitting fiscal year 1987 budget, Feb. 5, 1986.

10.
   “One of our highest public health priorities”: Reagan remarks, Feb. 5, 1986.

11.
   “AIDS is clearly”: Reagan statement, May 4, 1987.

12.
   “Fundraisers always remind me”:
Reagan remarks, May 31, 1987.

13.
   “I am outraged and depressed”:
Los Angeles Times
, June 3, 1987.

14.
   “Well received”: Diary entry for May 31, 1987.

1.
   “Judge Bork, widely regarded”: Reagan remarks, July 1, 1987.

2.
   “Robert Bork’s America”:
New York Times
, July 5, 1987.

3.
   “Unless he can demonstrate”:
New York Times
, July 2, 1987.

4.
   “Some talk about Bork”: Diary entry for July 2, 1987.

5.
   “We’ll get Bork confirmed”: Diary entry for July 6, 1987.

6.
   “The president had high confidence”: Baker interview, Miller Center.

7.
   “Beginning with
Brown v. Board
”:
Washington Post
, Sept. 20, 1987.

8.
   “It would really be preposterous”:
Washington Post
, Sept. 17 and 19, 1987.

9.
   “Over my dead body”: Diary entry for Oct. 5, 1987.

10.
   “Mr. President, fifty-one senators”: Reagan exchange with reporters, Oct. 8, 1987.

11.
   “Judge Bork and I agree”:
Washington Post
, Oct. 14, 1987.

12.
   “I assured them”: Diary entry for Oct. 15, 1987.

13.
   “We want Bork!”:
Washington Post
, Oct. 14, 1987.

14.
   “By selecting Judge Ginsburg”: Reagan remarks, Oct. 29, 1987.

15.
   “It was a brief thing”: Diary entry for Nov. 5, 1987.

16.
   “I told him”: Diary entry for Nov. 7, 1987.

17.
   “FBI check on Judge Kennedy”: Diary entry for Nov. 11, 1987.

18.
   “They didn’t lay a glove”: Diary entry for Dec. 16, 1987.

1.
   “The financial market”: Diary entry for June 6, 1983.

2.
   “I think we’ll reappoint”: Diary entry for June 7, 1983.

3.
   “Lew Lehrman came by”: Diary entry for Feb. 23, 1984.

4.
   “The Fed has pulled the string”: Diary entry for Oct. 31, 1984.

5.
   “We’re going to see”: Diary entry for March 16, 1987.

6.
   “We’ve had a miraculous”: Reagan news conference, June 11, 1987.

7.
   “I couldn’t help”: Alan Greenspan,
The Age of Turbulence
(2007), 102–6.

8.
   “Are we headed”: Reagan exchange with reporters, Oct. 19, 1987.

9.
   “We met with Reagan”: Greenspan,
Age of Turbulence
, 109.

10.
   “Are you willing”: Reagan remarks and question-and-answer session, Oct. 20, 1987.

1.
   “It was in many ways”:
American Life
, 693–94.

2.
   “Dick and I buried ourselves”: Diary entry for Oct. 17, 1987.

3.
   “I looked up”:
American Life
, 694–95.

4.
   “I came home”: Diary entry for Oct. 26, 1987.

5.
   “Upon arrival”: Diary entry for Oct. 27, 1987.

6.
   “Friends from all over the country”: Diary entry for Oct. 31, 1987.

1.
   “Margaret Thatcher came down”: Matlock interview.

2.
   “There was a real point”: Thatcher,
Downing Street Years
, 586–87.

3.
   “As usual”: Diary entry for June 9, 1987.

4.
   “But Reagan was tough”:
Baker interview, Miller Center.

5.
   “General Secretary Gorbachev”: Reagan address in Berlin, June 12, 1987.

6.
   “In the best tradition”: Gorbachev,
Memoirs
, 439.

7.
   “Whatever the arguments”: Ibid., 443–44.

8.
   “I realized”: Ibid., 440.

9.
   “Now we must finish”: Minutes of National Security Planning Group meeting, Sept. 8, 1987, Reagan Library.

1.
   “He was upbeat”: Shultz,
Turmoil and Triumph
, 1008–9.

2.
   “A good rousing meeting”: Diary entry for Dec. 8, 1987.

3.
   “Mr. President, you are not a prosecutor”: Gorbachev,
Memoirs
, 447.

4.
   “I enjoyed the debate”:
American Life
, 698.

5.
   “This ceremony”: Reagan remarks at INF Treaty signing, Dec. 8, 1987.

6.
   “It is not armaments”: Memorandum of conversation, president’s meeting with Gorbachev, 2:30–3:15 p.m., Dec. 8, 1987, Reagan Library.

7.
   “It would develop a response”: Memorandum of conversation, 10:55 a.m.–12:35 p.m., Dec. 9, 1987, Reagan Library.

1.
   “Raisa and I”: Nancy Reagan,
My Turn
, 346–48.

2.
   “When I saw you on television”: Ibid., 350.

3.
   “During those days”: Gorbachev,
Memoirs
, 448–49.

4.
   “Hello, I’m glad”:
Washington Post
, Dec. 11, 1987.

5.
   “Today, hundreds of millions”: Gorbachev,
Memoirs
, 449.

6.
   “I think the whole thing”: Diary entry for Dec. 10, 1987.

1.
   “First talk was about”: Diary entry for March 17, 1988.

2.
   “The media are behaving”: Diary entry for May 3, 1988.

3.
   “A short meeting”: Diary entry for May 4, 1988.

4.
   “Mr. President, will you continue”: Reagan remarks, May 9, 1988.

5.
   Joan Quigley:
Los Angeles Times
, May 11, 1988.

6.
   “She certainly has”:
Los Angeles Times
, May 10, 1988.

7.
   “Are you denying”: Reagan remarks and question-and-answer session, May 17, 1988.

8.
   “They’re all Aquarians”:
Los Angeles Times
, May 10, 1988.

1.
   “Your former chief of staff”: Reagan interview, May 19, 1988.

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.

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.

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.