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though the fallout
:
New York Times,
December 2, 1986.
Geneva in 1985
: Reeves,
President Reagan,
p. 280.
Reykjavik in 1986
: Ibid., p. 340.
Washington in 1987
: Ibid., p. 435.
Moscow in 1988
: Ibid., p. 448.
Within a year of Reagan’s leaving office
: Cannon,
President Reagan,
p. xii.
for almost three decades
: “Brutal Divide: LIFE at the Birth of the Berlin Wall,”
http://life.time.com/history/berlin-wall-photos-early-days-of-the-cold-war/#1
.
“Not with a bang but a whimper”
: Shapiro,
The Yale Book of Quotations,
p. 237.
in 1987
: Reagan speech, West Berlin, June 12, 1987.
“We welcome change”
: Ibid.
“for we believe”
: Ibid.
in late 1986
:
The Harris Survey
(ISSN: 0273-1037), November 24, 1986.
“I was almost”
:
MOH,
p. 374.
Tip for thirty-four
: Ibid., p. 3.
man’s father, still in
:
New York Times,
December 8, 1993.
“Reagan took Congress”
:
MOH,
p. 341.
St. John’s High School
: Ibid., p. 20.
“Chris, it goes away”
: Author conversation with Tip O’Neill.
He died in January 1994
: Farrell,
Tip O’Neill,
pp. 689–90.
Reagan began his fade
: Cannon,
President Reagan,
p. xiv.
handwritten letter
: Ibid.
Alzheimer’s disease
: Ibid., p. xv.
“I only wish there was some way”
: Morris,
Dutch,
p. 666.
George Washington and Pierre L’Enfant
: Washington Diary, June 28, 1791.
Academy Awards,
83
Adams, Henry,
17
“Address to the Nation on National Security,”
310
–11,
313
Afghanistan,
46
AFL-CIO,
69
Africa,
16
–20,
25
,
225
–27,
246
,
251
,
368
“after six o’clock,”
37
,
143
,
178
,
188
,
234
,
294
Agnew, Spiro,
111
–12
Ailes, Roger,
302
Air Force One,
1
,
10
,
11
,
13
–14,
61
,
238
,
332
Air Traffic Controllers,
see
Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization
Ajemian, Robert,
134
Albert, Carl,
110
–12
Albosta, Donald,
126
Allen, Richard,
49
Al Shiraa,
359
Alzheimer’s disease,
370
amnesty, for immigrants,
344
–45
Andropov, Yuri,
314
–15
Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985),
334
Ann (Sister Eunice; O’Neill’s aunt),
355
–56
Appropriations Committee,
108
appropriations vote,
229
–30
Archer Daniels Midland,
168
,
320
Argentina,
208
arms-for-hostages deal,
359
–60
Army, U.S.,
281
Army Air Corps,
82
Army Enlisted Reserve,
82
assassination attempt, on Reagan,
66
,
67
–71,
117
,
121
,
314
,
340
political advantage of,
115
–18,
122
,
140
,
161
secrecy around wounding and recovery in,
71
–74,
114
,
115
assassinations handbook,
352
Atkinson, Eugene,
121
Australia, junket to,
118
–21
Autry, Gene,
5
Ayres, Lew,
84
Baker, Howard,
169
,
180
,
250
,
273
,
301
Baker, James Addison, III “Jim,”
32
–36,
44
,
48
–49,
64
,
72
,
122
,
126
,
131
,
176
–77,
193
,
194
,
200
,
203
,
215
–16,
245
,
247
,
248
,
250
,
256
,
266
,
280
,
301
,
344
,
351
Baker, Susan,
44
“balance of terror,”
309
–10
Ballyporeen, Ireland,
299
,
332
,
333
Bancroft, Brass (character),
68
,
80
Barnicle, Mike,
22
Barone, Joan,
211
Beckel, Bob,
290
–91
Bedtime for Bonzo
(film),
85
Begin, Menachem,
170
Beirut, Lebanon, U.S. Embassy in,
265
Benny, Jack,
89
Bentsen-Quayle debate,
369
Berkman, Eric,
237
Berlin Wall,
364
Berrigan, Philip and Daniel,
203
–4
“Beverly Hills Budget,”
190
Beyond the Line of Duty
(film),
83
Bible (Matthew),
309
Bickle, Travis (char.),
69
“Big Dig,”
108
bipartisanship:
in foreign policy,
261
–62,
264
–68,
270
–75,
277
–79,
308
,
317
–19,
320
–26
of “Gym Caucus,”
157
–58
on immigration,
344
–45
on jobs bill,
255
–56
legacy of,
365
–79
O’Neill’s cooperation in,
xv
–xvi,
30
,
35
,
39
,
43
–44,
53
,
203
–4,
206
,
216
–23,
241
,
242
,
243
–57,
264
,
266
–68,
270
–75,
277
–79,
317
,
320
–21,
338
,
344
–45,
362
,
365
–70
on Reagan’s economic plan,
123
–24,
129
,
160
–61,
169
,
217
–23,
338
,
343
–45
social,
178
–79
on Social Security,
242
,
243
–57,
319
“Black Book, The,”
42
Boggs, Lindy,
111
Boland, Edward Patrick,
106
,
108
,
113
,
263
,
295
,
347
–48
Boland, Mary Egan,
348
Boland Amendment, first (1982),
263
,
349
–51
Boland Amendment, second (1984),
351
“Bolling Proposal,”
202
–3
Bonanza
(TV show),
90
Boston College,
29
,
99
,
108
,
113
,
340
,
346
,
356
Boston Globe,
30
,
118
,
129
,
163
,
280
Boston Navy Yard,
108
–9
Brademas, John,
28
Brady, James,
70
Brezhnev, Leonid,
314
Bridge on the River Kwai, The
(film),
195
Broder, David,
199
Broussard, “Frogsy,”
96
Buckley, William,
358
budget:
deficit,
188
–90,
192
–93,
206
,
208
–9,
213
,
215
–17,
287
Democrats’ plan for,
117
,
124
,
160
,
208
–9
Reagan’s need for bipartisanship in,
194
,
207
–23
Reagan’s plan for balancing of,
43
,
168
,
172
,
183
,
213
,
232
–33
Burton, Phil,
209
Bush, George H. W.,
3
,
4
,
32
,
124
,
128
,
136
,
159
,
177
,
300
,
315
,
322
,
340
,
364
Caddell, Patrick,
7
,
10
–11,
13
–14,
187
Cagney, James,
80
Calabash,
278
Califano, Joe,
108
California:
Reagan’s journey to,
78
–79
Reagan’s political career in,
2
,
8
,
33
,
37
,
77
,
91
,
188
Capitol Hill News Service,
22
,
62
Capitol Hilton hotel,
291
Capra, Frank,
3
Carter, Jimmy,
xviii
,
24
,
35
,
38
,
46
,
55
,
58
,
61
,
69
,
121
,
150
,
151
,
159
,
166
,
167
,
170
,
201
,
289
,
349
attack on Reagan by,
11
–12
best campaign speech of,
12
–14
concession speech of,
15
government reorganization plan of,
24
1976 presidential victory of,
7
1980 presidential defeat of,
xviii
,
1
–15
on Northern Ireland,
331
sentiment against,
3
,
4
–5,
9
,
14
,
42
,
43
,
47
,
52
,
135
,
357
,
359
Carter, Rosalynn,
2
O’Neill disliked by,
36
Casablanca
(film),
82
in Northern Ireland,
329
–35
CBS Evening News,
238
Central American Peace Proposal,
352
Central Committee of the Communist Party,
314
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),
348
,
350
,
351
–52,
358
Challenger
explosion,
335
–37
Cheney, Dick,
277
–78