Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign that Changed America (154 page)

Baker, James A., III,
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; 1978 midterm elections and,
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; 1980 presidential election and,
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; 1980 Republican presidential nomination and,
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; media and,
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; Reagan running mate choice and,
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; Reagan transition team and,
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; RNC chairmanship and,
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; Rove and,
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; South Carolina and,
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; Texas and,
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Baker, Joy,
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balanced budgets,
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Baldridge, Malcolm,
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Baltimore Sun,
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Bandow, Doug,
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Banister, Diana,
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Barbour, Haley,
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Barnes, Fred,
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Barnhart, Ray,
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Barone, Michael,
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Baroody, William J.,
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Barrett, Bob,
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Barrett, Laurence,
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Bates, David,
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Bauman, Bob,
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Bayh, Birch,
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Beard, Robin,
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Beckel, Bob,
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Bell, Jeff,
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Bellamy, Carol,
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Bergland, Bob,
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Bernstein, Leonard,
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Bethune, Ed,
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Bible,
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Biebel, Fred,
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“Big Momentum” (“Big Mo”),
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Billings, Robert,
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Black, Charlie,
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Blackwell, Morton,
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Blanton, Ray,
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Block, Herbert,
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Bloomingdale, Alfred,
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Blue, Bob,
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Bobo, the mechanical monkey,
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Bond, Richard,
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Bond, Valerie,
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Boone, Pat,
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Boston Globe,
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Bourne, Peter,
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Bouvier, Jacqueline.
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Kennedy, Jacqueline

Bozell, L. Brent, III,
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Bradlee, Ben,
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Brady, Jim,
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Brandon, Henry and Muffie,
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Breen, Jon,
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Brezhnev, Leonid,
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Briggs, John,
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Briggs Amendment (Proposition 6),
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Brinkley, David,
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Brock, William,
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; Panama Canal treaties and,
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Broder, David,
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Brokaw, Tom,
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Brooke, Edward,
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Brown, Harold,
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Brown, Jerry,
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Brown, John Y.,
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Brown, Pat,
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Brown, Phyllis George,
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Bruinooge, Thomas,
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Bruno, Hal,
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Bryan, William Jennings,
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Brzezinski, Zbigniew,
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Buchanan, Bay,
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Buchanan, Pat,
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Buckley, Jim,
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Buckley, Pat,
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Buckley, William F., Jr.,
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Buckley v. Valeo,
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Bulen, Keith,
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Bunnell, Cynthia,
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Burch, Dean,
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bureaucracy,
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Burke, Edmund,
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Burke, Richard,
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Burns, James MacGregor,
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Bush, Barbara,
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Bush, Dorothy,
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Bush, George H.W.,
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; 1976 Republican presidential nomination and,
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; 1980 Republican convention and,
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; abortion and,
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; Alabama and,
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; Arkansas and,
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; campaign finance and,
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; Connally and,
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; conservatism and,
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; Dole and,
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; Election Day 1980 and,
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; fitness of,
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; Florida and,
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; Ford and,
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; Georgia and,
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; Illinois and,
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; Iowa and,
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; RNC and,
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; speaking abilities of,
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; staffing and,
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; tax cuts and,
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Bush, George W.,
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Bush, Jeb,
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Bush, Marvin,
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Bush, Neil,
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Bush, Prescott,
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