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

Times online, February 27, 1987, https://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/27/world/white-house-crisis-tower-report-inquiry-finds-reagan-chief-advisers-responsible.html.

“Look, Don, you got off easy”: “The Final Days of Donald Regan,” Newsweek, March 9, 1987, 23.

fired like a shoe clerk… “I had no idea”: Regan, For the Record, 369–70.

“It was worked out beforehand… He just had to sign on”: Jane Mayer, “Nancy Reagan’s Behind-the-Scenes Maneuvering Stands Out in Circumstances of Regan’s Ouster,” Wall Street Journal, March 2, 1987, 46.

“He was calm, easygoing, congenial… a chance to restore some morale to the office”: Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 283–84.

“President Reagan spoke to the American people… confessed error”: R. W. Apple Jr., “Reagan’s Concession on Iran Affair Evokes Memories of Kennedy’s Bay of Pigs Speech,” New York Times online, March 5, 1987, https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/05/us/reagan-white-house-spirit-contrition-reagan-s-concession-iran-affair-evokes.html.

An overnight CBS News poll… looked even better: Cannon, President Reagan, 657.

“When Nancy was brought in… a special place in the history of first ladies”: Abshire, Saving the Reagan Presidency, 165–66.

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

“If anyone had said six years ago… seen her hungry, period”: Ellen Goodman, “If the First Spouse Had a Career of His/Her Own,” Boston Globe, March 10, 1987, 15.

“At a time he most needs to appear strong… henpecking order”: William Safire, “The First Lady Stages a Coup,” New York Times online, March 2, 1987, https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/02/opinion/essay-the-first-lady-stages-a-coup.html.

“putting his own house in order, since nobody elected Nancy”: James Reston, “Reagan’s Last Chance,” New York Times online, March 4, 1987, https://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/04/opinion/washington-reagan-s-last-chance.html.

A Wall Street Journal/NBC poll: Jane Mayer, “First Lady Anti-Drug Efforts Aim to Reverse Image Damage,” Wall Street Journal, March 20, 1987, n.p.

“The gentlemen who could exercise the greatest influence… a pretty lucky man”: Judy Mann, “Below the Belt,” Washington Post, March 6, 1987, C3.

“I talked to him… that he wanted to devote time to”: Frederick J. Ryan Jr., interview, May 25, 2004, Presidential Oral Histories, Ronald Reagan Presidency, Miller Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-oral-histories/michael-deaver-oral-history-deputy-chief-staff,https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-oral-histories/frederick-j-ryan-jr-oral-history.

“Well, Mike… who take care of those things”: Lyn Nofziger, interview by Lou Cannon, April 19, 2002. Transcript on file in Cannon’s papers at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

“Somewhere along the line in Washington… hard to keep your perspective”: Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 202.

“Was the First Lady so involved… was a drunk?: William Safire, “When High Officials Begin Acting Strangely,” New York Times online, October 7, 1987, https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/07/opinion/essay-when-high-officials-begin-acting-strangely.html.

“She was the little girl… candy-store window”: Deaver, Behind the Scenes, 119.

“free spirits and intellectuals”: ibid., 120.

“It would be fair to say… of whatever political coloring”: ibid., 118.

“our friendship hasn’t been the same since”: Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 202.

“I kept casting around in my own mind… bitterness just wouldn’t let me”: Deaver, Different Drummer, 204.

“prima donna”… “stab you in the back”: Speakes with Pack, Speaking Out, 96–98.

signed the deal in July 1986: Edwin McDowell, “Random House to Publish Nancy Reagan’s Memoirs,” New York Times online, July 8, 1986, https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/08/arts/random-house-to-publish-nancy-reagan-s-memoirs.html.

“It was a very hard book to write… Reagans considered themselves poor”: Novak, author interview, July 10, 2017.

Their tax returns for 1987: Julie Johnson, “Revisions in US Tax Code Saved Reagans About $6,000 in 1987,” New York Times online, April 9, 1988, https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/09/us/revisions-in-us-tax-code-saved-reagans-about-6000-in-1987.html.

$3 million in unreported gifts… between 1983 and 1988: Janice Castro, “Nancy with the Golden Threads,” Time, January 27, 1992, n.p.

“She nixed the Bush campaign’s plan… Ohio primary”: Owen Ullmann, “Nancy with the Pouty Face,” Detroit Free Press, October 10, 1988.

“We later learned that Nancy took it out, as ‘this was Ron’s night’ ”: Page, The Matriarch, 140–41.

“The vice president needs me”… “if that’s what you want, then that’s what we’ll do”: Baker, author interview, January 4, 2017.

“I’ll be damned… two damn stories”: United Press International, “Bush Denies Nancy Reagan Isn’t Supportive,” Los Angeles Times, October 11, 1988, 1.

“The whole day was like a dream… this part, too was over”: Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 315.

“Good riddance… We don’t want to see you again”: Kuhn, author interview, October 7, 2018.

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

“Politics is a roller coaster… right at the top!”: Ronald Reagan, A Life in Letters, 811.

“Former Presidents haven’t always… so blatantly into pure commercialism”: Editorial: “Striking It Rich in Japan,” New York Times online, October 26, 1989, https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/26/opinion/striking-it-rich-in-japan.html.

“Did he really say what I think he said?” Liz Smith, Austin (TX) American-Statesman, January 20, 1990, E2.

“Although Mrs. Reagan has consented… devoting her energies to making money”: Leslie Bennetts, “Mitch’s Mission,” Vanity Fair, October 1989, 80–92.

“if I’d written a book like Lady Bird… sit there and not say anything”: Betty Cuniberti, “Her Turn: Books: Nancy Reagan Loads Her Memoirs with Jabs at Former White House Staffers, but Is Equally Tough on Her Own Failings as a Wife, Mother, and Public Figure,” Los Angeles Times online, October 22, 1989, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-22-vw-1115-story.html.

“What is appalling… takes your breath away”: Sally Quinn, “Nancy Reagan Looks Back in Anger,” Washington Post online, November 5, 1989, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1989/11/05/nancy-reagan-looks-back-in-anger/8af707dd-6d03-4bc7-ab33-3ac24c21c3b8.

“the battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan… barren terrain”: Noonan, What I Saw at the Revolution, 268.

“like a beautiful clock… nothing inside”: ibid., 280.

“disliked the contras… unattractive and dirty”: ibid., 163.

“Everything somehow was changed… I saw what it had cost her; had always cost her. And I wanted to say: ‘Thank you’ ”: Noonan, When Character Was King, 151.

“Our foreign guests… not up to White House standards”: Roosevelt, Keeper, 206.

“the most unpopular First Couple in history”: Sally Ogle Davis, “The Teflon Wears Off,” Los Angeles, January 1990, 76–84.

“average or below-average”: George Skelton, “The Times Poll: Americans Rate Reagan as an Average President: Legacy: His Job Performance Is Still Viewed Positively. However, the Overall Impression of Him Has Slipped,” Los Angeles Times, November 4, 1991, 1.

“one of the most encyclopedically vicious books in the history of encyclopedic viciousness”: Joe Queenan, “No Stone Unthrown,” New York Times, May 5, 1991, sec. 7, 3.

600,000 was shipped… 925,000 copies in print: Richard Zoglin, “The First Lady and the Slasher,” Time online, April 22, 1991, http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,972782,00.html.

different dust jacket: “Barbara Bush: The Steel Behind the Smile,” Newsweek online, June 21, 1992, https://www.newsweek.com/barbara-bush-steel-behind-smile-199382.

file box among Nancy’s personal papers at the Reagan Library: Personal Papers, Kitty Kelley Book—Letters of Support, box 84, Reagan Presidential Library.

“truly, nobody deserves this”: Editorial, “Scratching at the Teflon,” New York Times, April 10,