Reagan: The Life (120 page)

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.

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.

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.

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.