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of it”: Michael K. Deaver with Mickey Herskowitz, Behind the Scenes (New York: William Morrow, 1987), 110–11.

Loyal argued for loosening restrictions on the procedure: Lou Cannon, Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power (New York: Public Affairs, 2003), 211.

“Surgeons properly qualified by training… legalized mayhem”: Associated Press, “Labels Many U.S. Surgeons Incompetent,” Chicago Daily Tribune, November 25, 1960, pt. 2, 2.

“That’s the right answer!… love to hear students say they don’t know who he is”: Cory Franklin, “The Other Man in Nancy Reagan’s Life,” Chicago Tribune, March 8, 2016, 21.

live-in maid and cook: 1940 census records.

no compensation… Department of Surgery: Loyal Davis, Surgeon’s Odyssey, 250.

“She knew them all… ‘Hi, Miz Davis!’ ”: Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis personal papers, Reagan Presidential Library, box 84.

“Edie was gregarious… Peter Pan collars”: Mike Wallace with Gary Paul Gates, Between You and Me: A Memoir (New York: Hyperion, 2005), 52–53.

“extraordinarily beautiful… You’d go crazy about the child”: Lambert, Nazimova, 370.

Nancy’s scrapbook includes… various times in Chicago: Nancy Reagan’s personal scrapbook from the late 1940s through the early 1950s, a photocopy of which was provided to the author by Annelise Anderson.

“There were, maybe, five or six beds… go on about his business”: Richard Davis, author interview, August 10, 2017.

(Ronald Reagan, to his everlasting regret… Voice of the Turtle): Ronald Reagan with Richard G. Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? The Ronald Reagan Story (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1965), 192.

“and all of my care was exceptional”: Loyal Davis, Surgeon’s Odyssey, 31.

“One summer we wrote… Uncle Walter and I were the stars”: Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 67.

“sobering advice, but I wasn’t put off”: ibid., 66.

Loyal and Edie… 1944 Democratic convention in Chicago: Eleanor Page, “Many in Boxes Share Thrill of 1st Convention,” Chicago Daily Tribune, July 20, 1944, 13.

a headline on the second page… “is or was a policewoman”: “Mystery Veils Identity of a Policewoman,” Chicago Tribune, June 4, 1943, 2.

Edie, whose newspaper photo caught her without her false teeth in… ‘I’m Dick Tracy!’ ” Colacello, Ronnie & Nancy, 142.

“some of these young kids… protect those boys”: Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 64.

write, direct, and produce his weekly radio speeches: Colacello, Ronnie & Nancy, 85.

“vitamums”… “Alderman Halsey”: Loyal Davis, Surgeon’s Odyssey, 294.

“Loyal was astonished… “administration of government”: ibid.

“What Edith understood… more important than what you believe”: Colacello, Ronnie & Nancy, 133.

CHAPTER THREE

“Politics! And wife and mother”: Smith College archives.

“I always had it in my mind that I wanted to go to Smith”: Nancy Reagan, interviewed by Judy Woodruff, transcript of unaired interview footage, Nancy Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime, produced by Susan L. Mills, aired February 2011 on PBS (MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, 2010), DVD.

“You had no women role models… exaggerated values for women”: Jacqueline Van Voris, College: A Smith Mosaic (West Springfield, MA: M. J. O’Malley, 1975), 119.

“that life is not always easy… sudden twists of fate”: Nancy Reagan, Nancy, 54.

“I had a terrible time… for these subjects”: ibid., 52.

a catty journalist… “piano legs”: Judy Bachrach, “Portraits: Nancy Reagan’s Chocolate-Covered Campaign Not Sweet,” Boston Globe, October 29, 1980, n.p.

“We were all terribly excited… sort of lost its excitement”: Associated Press, “Nancy’s Classmates Remember Her as ‘Strictly Average,’ ” Morning Union (Springfield, MA), December 26, 1980, 14.

“She was very pretty… go away quite often at weekends”: ibid.

State police concluded… “his own expectations”: “Princeton Senior Killed by Train,” Central New Jersey Home News (Brunswick, NJ), December 16, 1941, 8.

“Make with the maximum… get away from New York”: Smith College Library, Collection 80.02.1943, box 2140, class of 1943, individuals A-L.

“Dit-dit-dit… win this wah”: Jane West Magill to Nancy Reagan, October 24, 1984, WHORM subject files: PP005-01: 277053, Reagan Presidential Library.

what she remembered as a “big crush”… “world was brighter again”: Nancy Reagan with Libby, Nancy, 65.

nor, apparently, could Edie… military personnel: Kelley, Nancy Reagan, 60.

“The young couple met… aircraft carrier Sable”: “Tell Betrothal of Lt. J. P. White to Chicagoan,” Abilene (TX) Reporter News, July 24, 1944, 13.

“I think I met… perhaps even a president”: Lambert, Nazimova, 383.

“It was a heady, exhilarating time… we remain friends”: Nancy Reagan with Libby, Nancy, 54.

White “was extremely… about everybody”: Richard Davis, author interview, August 10, 2017.

“All I can tell you… one of those wartime things”: Lloyd Shearer, “Nancy Reagan: ‘My Life Began with Ronnie,’ ” Parade, February 22, 1976, 8–10.

“Nancy’s affinity… her full attention”: Colacello, Ronnie & Nancy, 185.

so oddly cold on a hot day: Nancy Reagan with Libby, Nancy, 32.

“This wouldn’t be the last… drive that Mother had”: Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 70–71.

“played eight months… disdain of most critics”: Mary X. Sullivan, “Two on the Aisle.” Clipping appears in Nancy Reagan’s scrapbook. Note in her handwriting dates it September 1, 1946.

She forced… “just not working”: Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 71.

“All the girls were so crazy… it always changed”: transcript from unaired interview footage, Nancy Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime.

Only later… “amateurish virgin by the name of Nancy Davis”: Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 72.

“a Miss Nancy Davis… decent one of the two Haggett daughters”: Clipping in Nancy Reagan’s Hollywood scrapbook. No precise date or name of publication is given. Her handwriting indicates “Saratoga - August - 1947.” Scrapbook provided to author.

in 1981… White House: Liz Smith, “Pam and Andy Love ‘Pirates,’ ” Moline (IL) Sunday Dispatch, August 23, 1981, B-2.

her name popped up occasionally in the newspaper columns: Colacello, Ronnie & Nancy, 187, 191.

“He had a quality… really with you”: Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 73.

“I wasn’t setting show business on fire”: Nancy Reagan with Libby, Nancy, 89.

“A vacationing Iowan… More, maybe”: Marguerite Ratty, “Breakfast Club Goes Television at Dinner Hour,” Chicago Tribune, October 6, 1946, pt. 3, 8.

“There is no pay… old hag”: Inez Wallace, “M-G-M Mum on Television, Signs Video Star Anyhow,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, February 12, 1950. Clipping from Nancy Reagan scrapbook, with name of publication and date in her handwriting.

“This was one opportunity… anything to do with”: Nancy Reagan with Libby, Nancy, 91.

the studio took a pass on a young bit actress named Marilyn Monroe: Morris, author interview, August 7, 2017. Morris