Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked (53 page)

“Chez Raymond,”
155

Chicago, Ill.,
9

Christians, in Lebanon,
263
,
265
,
271

Christian Science Monitor,
126

Churchill, Winston,
133
,
182
,
347
,
364

“citizen-politician,”
87
,
92
,
231

City of Corpus Christi,
USS,
204
,
205
,
212

civil liberties,
102

civil service reform,
24

Cleveland Convention Center,
8

Clinton, Bill,
89

cloakrooms,
154
–55

CNN,
214

Code of the Secret Service
(film),
68

Coelho, Tony,
56
–59,
184
–85

Colbert, Claudette,
269

Cold War:

end of,
364

last partisan debate on,
348

O’Neill on,
261

Reagan on,
28
,
49
,
260
–61,
276
,
309
,
311
,
346

Reagan’s strategy to end,
309
–27,
363

Collins, Michael,
348

Colson, Charles,
108

Committee for Creative Non-Violence,
212

common good:

obstructionism vs.,
xvi
,
216

as priority,
xvii
,
216
,
221
,
250
–51,
267
,
362
,
366
–67

communism:

downfall of,
364
–65

and Hollywood,
87
–89

Reagan’s hard line stand against,
90
,
92
,
259
–61,
263
,
350
–51

threat of,
102
,
346
,
354
–55

Conference of Studio Unions (CSU),
86
–87

Congress, U.S.:

fiscal powers of,
xvi
,
28
,
144

Reagan’s address on Soviet talks to,
325

Reagan’s first Joint Session address to,
53
–54

Reagan’s political plan presented to,
47
–48

televised,
294
–95

war powers of,
265
–66

winter break of,
245
–46

World War II declared by,
82

Congressional News Service,
62
–63

Congressional Record,
21
–22,
296

Conn, Billy,
103

conservatives:

in Congress,
64

fiscal,
215

Reagan as,
4
,
12
,
33
,
252
,
368

southern Democrat,
39
,
64
,
124
,
126
,
129
,
155
–56,
161
,
305
–6

Constitution, U.S.:

framing of government in,
xvi

proposed budget amendment to,
213
,
232
–33

Conte, Silvio,
108
,
293

Contras (Nicaraguan Democratic Resistance Forces), U.S. aid to,
263
,
349
–57,
346
,
360
–61

Counselor
(Sorensen),
149

Coyne, James K., III,
63

C-SPAN,
294
–95

Cuba,
263
,
268
–69,
278

Cummings, Robert,
85

Curley, James Michael,
45

Curtiz, Michael,
82

Dark Victory
(film),
80

Darman, Richard,
250
,
256

Davis, Bette,
80

Davis, Loyal,
86
,
221

Davis, Nancy,
see
Reagan, Nancy

Davis, Sammy, Jr.,
89

Dean, James,
89

Death Valley Days
(TV show),
34

Deaver, Michael,
32
–33,
204
–5,
280
,
351

Defense Department, U.S.,
351

Delahanty, Thomas,
70

Delaney, Steve,
214

Dellums, Ron,
277
,
326

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC),
55
–56,
62
–63,
184

Democratic Conservative Forum,
64
,
220

Democratic National Committee,
55

Democratic National Convention (1968),
109
–10

Democrats, Democratic Party:

attempt to limit 1980 losses by,
14

ethnic and geographical segments of,
20
–21

in House cliques,
155
–58

House control by,
32
,
35
–36,
39
,
47
,
52
,
55

on nuclear weapons,
312
–13,
317
,
326

O’Neill’s roots in,
95

partisan propaganda of,
62
–63

Reagan as,
86
,
144

Reagan supported by,
4
–6,
46
,
63
,
156
,
300

Republican threat to,
28
,
53
,
63

Southern conservative,
39
,
64
,
124
,
126
,
129
,
155
–56,
161
,
305
–6

victorious midterm election campaign of,
227
–41,
244

see also specific political figures

Dempsey, Jack,
72

De Niro, Robert,
69

Desperate Journey
(film),
82
,
85

Diehl, Leo,
59
–60,
116
,
139
,
143
,
153
–54,
239
,
305
,
347

DiMaggio, Joe,
9

Dingell, John,
306
–7

Dobrynin, Anatoly,
413

Dole, Bob,
207
,
215
–18,
247
,
325

Donaldson, Sam,
138
–39,
253
,
282

Dornan, Bob,
163

Douglas, Helen Gahagan,
86

Downey, Tom,
160

Duberstein, Ken,
121
,
122
,
227
,
245
,
248
,
250
,
256
,
274

Early, Joe,
348

East Germany,
318
–19,
364

economy, Reagan’s plan for,
27
–28,
42
–44,
47
–48,
162
,
163
,
168
,
188
–90,
206
,
338
,
343
–45

Budget Summit in,
194
–203,
205

debate and vote on,
64
–65,
119
,
121
–31,
133
,
144
–46,
159
–63,
209

growing skepticism about,
171
–73,
183
,
194
–203,
208
,
215
–16,
218
–19

O’Neill’s attack strategy against,
117
,
126
–29,
142
,
151
,
159
–60,
167
,
177
,
207
–14

O’Neill’s cooperation in,
216
–23,
338

protests and demonstrations against,
211
–15

Reagan’s accountability for,
129
–30,
172
–73,
182
,
191
,
209
,
216
,
220
,
223
,
228

Stockman’s disclosures about,
175
–77

TEFRA in,
215
–23

televised presentation to Congress of,
122
–25

upsurge in,
292

see also
budget;
specific elements

Eden, Anthony,
133

“Education of David Stockman, The” (Greider),
174

Education of Henry Adams, The
(Adams),
17

Edwards, Don,
252

Einstein, Albert,
259

Eire Pub,
254

Eisenhower, Dwight D.,
105
,
261

elections, U.S.:

of 1904,
15

of 1928,
98
–99

of 1960,
10
,
107
–8

of 1964,
90

of 1968,
19
,
21

of 1974,
57
,
156

of 1976,
3
,
32
,
35
,
57
,
156
,
349

of 1982,
31
,
56
,
63
,
64
,
124
,
146
,
160
,
162
,
169
,
182
–83,
190
,
209
,
216
,
224
,
227
–41,
244

elections, U.S., of 1980,
1
–15,
32
,
63
,
69
,
296

Carter campaign in,
1
–12

debate in,
8

Election Day of,
1
–2,
8
,
10
,
27
,
36
,
67
,
151

Reagan campaign in,
2
–12

elections, U.S., of 1984,
245
,
257
,
279
,
282
,
284
,
285
–307,
334
,
352

debates in,
301
–2

Democratic campaign in,
290
–92,
299
–304

Eliot, T.S.,
364

El Salvador,
263
,
349
,
351

Eunice, Sister,
355
–56

Eureka College,
79
,
84

“evil empire,”
313
,
322

Face the Nation,
153
,
210
–11

Falkland Islands,
208

Farrell, John Aloysius,
320

Federal Aviation Administration,
165

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),
20
,
70
–71,
270

Federal Reserve,
167

Fenwick, Millicent,
229

Ferraro, Geraldine,
300
,
303

Fields, W. C.,
296

“$50,000 Question,”
160

First Motion Picture Unit,
82
–83

Fitzgerald, F. Scott,
97

FitzGerald, Garret,
333
–34,
340

Fitzgerald, “Red,”
96

Flynn, Errol,
82

Foley, Tom,
112
,
219
,
228
,
277
–78

Ford, Gerald,
3
,
4
,
7
,
32
,
112
,
135
,
245
,
343
,
349

Ford’s Theatre,
74
–75

Foreign Affairs Committee,
283

Fort Roach,
83

Foster, Jodie,
69

“Four Horsemen,”
331

France,
260
,
299
,
315

Franks, Martin,
55
–58

Friedersdorf, Max,
36
,
44
–45,
52
–53,
73
,
122

Gable, Clark,
86

Gallup poll,
10

Gemayel, Bashir, assassination of,
264

General Electric Theater
(TV show),
34
,
89
–90,
260
,
287

Geneva, Switzerland, Reagan-Gorbachev summit in,
323
–26,
363

George Washington University Hospital,
66
,
71
,
74

Gephardt, Dick,
306

Gergen, David,
32
,
42

Germany, Nazi,
260

Germany, West,
314
,
316

Gibbons, Sam,
111
,
267

GI Bill,
288

Gibson, Charles,
284

Gingrich, Newt,
294
–96

Gipp, George “the Gipper,”
4
,
81
,
136

Goldwater, Barry,
90
,
134
–35

Good Morning America
(TV show),
299

Gorbachev, Mikhail,
308
,
316
–27,
334

and Ortega,
353

Reagan’s letter to,
320
–22

Reagan’s summit meetings with,
317
,
323
–27,
363
–64

Graham, Katharine,
34

Gray, William,
303

Great Britain,
260
,
371

in Falklands,
208

in Grenada,
268

and Northern Ireland,
328
,
331
,
333
–35

“Great Communicator,”
184
,
192

Great Depression,
79

Great Gatsby, The
(Fitzgerald),
97

Great Society,
64