The Triumph of Nancy Reagan Karen Tumulty (motivational novels .TXT) 📖

that was the reason she didn’t care for him at all”: Richard Davis, author interview, August 10, 2017.

former White House aide who says Hutton told him about the matter… no choice but to put her back on the drug: Confidential source.

“I always felt that it was a subconscious cry for help… a road map of denial”: Patti Davis, The Way I See It, 298.

decriminalizing small amounts: Emily Dufton, “Why the 1970s Effort to Decriminalize Marijuana Failed,” Smithsonian online, last modified April 25, 2019, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-1970s-effort-decriminalize-marijuana-failed-180972038.

“I used to say… ‘their influence and their budgets’ ”: Carlton Turner, telephone interview by author, August 11, 2018.

“finally being noticed… claiming the headlines”: Donnie Radcliffe, “Polishing the Image,” Washington Post online, February 19, 1982, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1982/02/19/polishing-the-image/7ccb27d0-39ba-4bf9-99b2-7560e3f18198.

“The drug bureaucracy… stuck to her guns”: Shultz, author interview, October 20, 2016.

“I said that… pass the information along”: Smith College files: Box: Class of 1943, Individuals A-L Collection Number 80.02. 1943, box 2140.

By the end of Nancy’s tenure as first lady… average age was nine years old: Estimates cited by the Reagan Library.

“I never thought… treatment centers are the answer”: Liz Smith, “Nancy Reagan’s Turn on Phoenix House Flap,” Los Angeles Times, January 31, 1990, 9.

In 1979 more than 54 percent of high school… number had fallen by nearly half: Richard A. Miech et al., Monitoring the Future: National Survey Results on Drug Use, 1975–2015, vol. 1, Secondary School Students (Ann Arbor, MI: Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, 2016), tables 5.1 to 5.4, http://www.monitoringthefuture.org//pubs/monographs/mtf-vol1_2015.pdf.

Where only about a third… doubled by the early 1990s: ibid.

“It was a great message… ‘what you should be telling your kids’ ”: Joseph A. Califano, telephone interview by author, August 14, 2019.

“She twinkles when he arrives”: Elisabeth Bumiller and Donnie Radcliffe, “Nancy Reagan,” Washington Post online, January 23, 1983, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1983/01/23/nancy-reagan/fe6e737f-7fde-4330-a6e8-30465ee89700.

“Nancy Reagan was never a close… therapist more than her friend”: Barbara Sinatra with Holden, Lady Blue Eyes, 269.

“were speaking every night… pouring his heart out”: Tina Sinatra with Jeff Coplon, My Father’s Daughter: A Memoir (New York: Berkley Books, 2000), 226–27.

(Tina Sinatra insisted that the former first lady be invited): ibid., 364.

“Lately, Nancy Reagan has been calling the White House, not California, ‘home’ ”: Bumiller and Radcliffe, “Nancy Reagan.”

“As he approached the end of his life… more gentle and philosophical”: Patti Davis, The Way I See It, 289–93.

unable to let go: Deaver, Behind the Scenes, 120.

“I’m sure he is”: Patti Davis, The Way I See It, 292.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

“I found this odd… punctual and efficient in everything else he did”: Regan, For the Record, 73.

“Leave it be”: ibid.

“If Aquarians have a fault… slow to get married!”: Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 41, 87–88.

“Fish were swimming around in his pool… for my Leo party”: Joyce Wadler and Angela Blessing, “The President’s Astrologers,” People online, May 23, 1988, https://people.com/archive/cover-story-the-presidents-astrologers-vol-29-no-20.

“Don’t ever do that!… because one cancels out the other”: Kuhn, author interview, Washington, DC, October 7, 2018.

“lucky cuff links”… purple stone: Weinberg, Movie Nights with the Reagans, 24.

invaded by space aliens: Cannon, President Reagan, 40–41.

haunted by a ghost: Maureen Reagan, First Father, First Daughter, 324–25.

“Carroll told Nancy… why it wasn’t a good time”: Wadler and Blessing, “President’s Astrologers.”

Many were tourists… streets of the nation’s capital: Parr with Parr, In the Secret Service,” 235.

It was impossible to work a crowd… behind a sheet of bulletproof glass, the handlers complained: William Henkel, telephone interview by author, October 17, 2017.

Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the National Mall: Kuhn, author interview, February 28, 2019.

“If we weren’t comfortable with it… it wouldn’t happen”: Joe Petro, interview by author, New York, February 23, 2017.

the two of them had been talking once a year or so ever since: Joan Quigley, “What Does Joan Say?” My Seven Years as White House Astrologer to Nancy and Ronald Reagan (New York: Birch Lane Press, 1990), 43.

take off on the day of a debate: ibid., 60–61.

“Oh, my God.… shoot at him again.”: Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 37–39.

Nancy was soon confiding… health of her parents: ibid., 36–45.

“Was astrology one of the reasons?… I’m not sorry I did it”: ibid., 38–39.

“If it makes you feel better… odd if it ever came out”: ibid., 42–43.

“Mike is a born chamberlain… servant to the great”: Regan, For the Record, 74.

“When I look back… innocent enough quirk”: Deaver, Nancy, 138–39.

Deaver would dither over making a decision… by medical advice on how to avoid jet lag: Henkel, author interview, October 17, 2017.

“I assumed it had to do with checking their social engagements and public commitments… dates and desirability of a visit”: Roosevelt, Keeper, 205.

“He was beating the shit out of me,” Henkel said: Henkel, author interview, October 17, 2017.

He began keeping a color-coded… commence negotiations with foreign powers”: Regan, For the Record, 4.

“The president’s schedule… movements of the planets,” he wrote later: ibid., 82.

“At the end of the day… deep admiration for her”: Henkel, author interview, October 17, 2017.

“What it boils down to… except, possibly me”: Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 44.

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

“There is a secret thought that the offspring of famous people… deep inside us, we think they’re right”: Patti Davis, The Long Goodbye (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), 226.

“During Ronnie’s presidency… sometimes fell short of those values”: Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 124.

“a talented dancer who has worked very hard and who has done extremely well for a late starter”: Anna Kisselgoff, “Joffrey Ballet’s Gala: Diana Ross and Ron Reagan,” New York Times, March 16, 1981, B6.

“He thinks we’re interfering with his privacy.… reasons of the Nation’s welfare”: Brinkley, Reagan Diaries, 85. This comes from the following entries into Ronald Reagan’s diary:

May 15, 1982: he wants to Sign off Secret Svc. for a month. S.S. Knows he’s a real target—lives in a N.Y.C. Area where the Puerto Rican terrorist group is active in fact he’s on a hit list. He thinks we’re interfering with his privacy. I can’t make him see that I can’t be put in a position of one day facing a ransom demand. I’d have to refuse for reasons for the Nation’s welfare.

May 23, 1982: At home all day. Ron