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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
abortion,
19.1
,
31.1
,
61.1
,
114.1
Adams, John,
101.1
,
114.1
Adelman, Ken,
78.1
,
104.1
affirmative action,
23.1
,
69.1
Afghanistan,
77.1
,
79.1
,
83.1
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
agriculture,
1.1
,
24.1
,
40.1
,
51.1
Allen, Richard,
32.1
,
50.1
,
53.1
,
57.1
RR’s shooting and,
42.1
,
42.2
American exceptionalism,
1.1
,
112.1
American Federation of Labor (AFL),
7.1
,
7.2
,
15.1
,
41.1
Anderson, John,
30.1
,
30.2
,
31.1
,
32.1
,
57.1
Anderson, Martin,
34.1
,
34.2
,
44.1
,
47.1
Andropov, Yuri,
64.1
,
66.1
,
66.2
,
71.1
,
71.2
,
77.1
,
78.1
,
114.1
Aquino, Benigno,
83.1
,
83.2
Aquino, Corazon,
83.1
,
83.2
Arafat, Yasser,
32.1
,
59.1
in Falklands conflict,
56.1
,
57.1
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
Arnow, Max,
3.1
,
3.2
Assad, Hafez al-,
75.1
,
113.1
atomic weapons,
6.1
,
14.1
,
66.1
RR’s budget and,
44.1
,
45.1
,
45.2
CBI doubts of,
53.1
,
53.2
,
54.1
leak explained by,
72.1
,
72.2
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
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
Baltimore Sun,
69.1
,
72.1
banks, bankers,
2.1
,
47.1
,
102.1
,
102.2
Bay of Pigs invasion,
16.1
,
25.1
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
Beirut,
58.1
,
59.1
U.S. marines under fire in,
59.1
,
60.1
,
60.2
Bergen-Belsen,
73.1
,
73.2
,
73.3
,
74.1

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