First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies (42 page)

VIII. BAD BLOOD

Interview subjects include Barbara Bush, Rosalynn Carter, James Jeffries, Bill Cliber, Shirley Sagawa, Bill Burton, Sheila Rabb Weidenfeld, Susan Porter Rose, Susie Tompkins Buell, Jerry Rafshoon, Anita Dunn, Lissa Muscatine, Mary Ann Campbell, Anita McBride, Joni Stevens, Lise Howe, Ronn Payne, Christine Limerick, Ron Reagan, David Hume Kennerly, Jamal Simmons, George Hannie, Jane Erkenbeck, and Cragg Hines. Sources include Jimmy Carter Presidential Library exit interview with Mary Finch Hoyt; Dorothy McCardle, “Will Mamie Brief Jackie on Home,”
Washington Post
, November 13, 1960; Marjorie Williams, “Barbara’s Backlash,”
Vanity Fair
, August 1992; Associated Press, “First Lady Said Nancy Reagan Called to Deny Wanting Carters Out Early,” December 16, 1980; “Reagans’ Son, Ron, Blasts Carter,”
Eugene Register-Guard
, December 15, 1980; White House Memos, 1961–64, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum; Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.,
Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy
(New York:
Hyperion, 2011); J. B. West,
Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies
(New York: Warner Books, 1973); Sarah Ellison, “How Hillary Clinton’s Loyal Confidants Could Cost Her the Election,”
Vanity Fair
, November, 2015; Lady Bird Johnson’s Post-Presidential Correspondence with Presidents, VPs, and Their Families; Bess Abell’s oral history can be found at the LBJ Library; Chris Chase’s oral history can be found at the Gerald R. Ford Foundation; Margaret Leslie Davis,
Mona Lisa in Camelot
(New York: Da Capo Press, 2008); Joan Didion, “Life at Court,”
New York Review of Books
, December 21, 1989; Patt Morrison, “Time for a Feminist as First Lady: What Americans Think of Hillary Clinton Is as Much a Verdict on the Role of Women in the ’90s as a Judgment of Her Style and Achievement,”
Los Angeles Times
, July 14, 1992; Gail Sheehy, “Hillaryland at War,”
Vanity Fair
, August 2008; Hillary Rodham Clinton,
Living History
(New York: Scribner, 2003); Judy Woodruff interview with Nancy Reagan featured in the PBS documentary
Nancy Reagan: Role of a Lifetime
, February 6, 2011; Hamilton Jordan, “The First Grifters: Clinton Saw the Pardon Power as Just Another Perk of the Office,”
Wall Street Journal
, February 20, 2001; Fox Butterfield, “At Wellesley, a Furor Over Barbara Bush,”
New York Times
, May 4, 1990; Jon Meacham,
Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
(New York: Random House, 2015); Betty Beale, “White House Plans Told: Tish Baldrige Has First Press Conference,”
Evening Star
, November 23, 1960; White House Memos, 1961–64, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum; Cragg Hines, “Queries on Infidelity Infuriate First Lady,”
Houston Chronicle
, August 13, 1992; Michael Deaver with Mickey Herskowitz,
Behind the Scenes
(New York: William Morrow, 1988); Barbara Bush,
A Memoir: Barbara Bush
(New York: Scribner, 1994); Gail Sheehy, “What Hillary Wants,”
Vanity Fair
, May 1992; Donnie Radcliffe, “Nancy Reagan’s Private Obsession; A Tenacious Struggle to Oust Donald Regan from the President’s Team,”
Washington Post
, February 27, 1987;
Newsweek
staff, “Reagan and Bush: Call It a Snub,” March 8, 1992; Gail Sheehy, “Is George Bush Too Nice to Be President?,”
Vanity Fair
, February 1987; Charles Spalding’s oral history is available at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum; Lady Bird Johnson’s oral history can be found at the LBJ Library, January 23, 1996; Glenn Thrush, “Clinton’s ’08 Slaps Still Sting Obama,”
Politico
, August 1, 2013; Carroll Kilpatrick and Maxine Cheshire, “The New Tenant Drops By: The Fast-Moving Kennedys Take to Palm Beach Sun,”
Washington Post
, December 10, 1960; Elizabeth Mehren and Betty Cuniberti, “Fighting Back: Over the Course of Her Husband’s Political Career, Nancy Reagan Has Developed Her Own Mission: To Protect Ronald Reagan, No Matter What,”
Los Angeles
Times Magazine
, March 22, 1987; Kati Marton,
Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History
(New York: Anchor Books, 2001); Bob Colacello, “Nancy Reagan’s Solo Role,”
Vanity Fair
, July 2009; Douglas Brinkley,
The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter’s Journey Beyond the White House
(New York: Viking, 1998); Rosalynn Carter,
First Lady from Plains
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984); Elisabeth Bumiller, “Public Lives: Two First Ladies, So Alike and So Different,”
New York Times
, May 12, 1999; Sarah Weddington,
A Question of Choice
(New York: G. P. Putnam Sons, 1992); Patti Davis,
The Way I See It
(New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1992); Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Interview, Miller Center, University of Virginia, President Lyndon Johnson, Presidential Oral History Project, January 11, 1974; Josh Gerstein, “Emails Show Hillary’s Political Sleuthing,”
Politico
, September 1, 2015; Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy,
The Presidents Club: Inside the World’s Most Exclusive Fraternity
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012); Jeff Zeleny, “Meet the Woman Who Almost Made Hillary Clinton Cry in 2008,” CNN, April 20, 2015; Maurine Beasley,
First Ladies and the Press: The Unfinished Partnership of the Media Age
(Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2005); “From Inquiring Camera Girl to Next First Lady? Ike’s Election Kept Artist Jackie Busy,”
Washington Post and Times-Herald
, September 28, 1960; Dorothy McCardle, “Jackie Learned Pat’s No. 1 Pick was Mamie,”
Washington Post and Times-Herald
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New York Times
, July 31, 2000; Reid Cherlin, “The Worst Wing: How the East Wing Shrank Michelle Obama,”
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, March 24, 2014; Anne E. Kornblut, “Michelle Obama’s Career Timeout for Now, Weight Shifts in Work-Family Tug of War,”
Washington Post
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Ladies’ Home Journal
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New York Times
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60 Minutes
Revisits a Very Candid Interview with the Former First Lady,” January 5, 2007.

IX. KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON

Interview subjects include Barbara Bush, Rosalynn Carter, Ann Romney, Reggie Love, Bill Burton, Lissa Muscatine, Tony Fratto, Daryl Wells, Michael
“Rahni” Flowers, George Hannie, Worthington White, Susan and Steve Ford, Nash Castro, Bess Abell, Don Hughes, Wilson Jerman, Jim Ketchum, Cletus Clark, Jane Erkenbeck, Ron Reagan, Lucy Winchester, Chris Edwards, Joni Stevens, Linsey Little, Connie Stuart, Nancy Chirdon Forster, and Everett Raymond Kinstler. Published material includes Nancy Reagan with William Novak,
My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan
(New York: Random House, 1989); Constance Stuart’s and Gwendolyn King’s oral histories are available at the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum; Donnie Radcliffe, “Life as the First Lady’s Confidante and ‘Protector,’”
Washington Post
, April 14, 1977; Dana Perino,
And the Good News Is: Lessons and Advice from the Bright Side
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60 Minutes
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Pat Nixon: The Untold Story
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007); Kathleen Osborne, interview, Miller Center, University of Virginia, President Ronald Reagan, Presidential Oral History Project, April 26, 2003; Richard Allen, interview, Miller Center, University of Virginia, President Ronald Reagan, Presidential Oral History Project, May 28, 2002; Michael Deaver, interview, Miller Center, University of Virginia, President Ronald Reagan, Presidential Oral History Project, September 12, 2002; Betty Ford Letters to Former First Ladies, Gerald and Betty Ford Special Materials, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum; Lady Bird Johnson diary, June 5, 1968; Associated Press, “President Not Planning to Quit, Mrs. Nixon Says,”
Los Angeles Times
, May 11, 1974; Patti Davis,
The Way I See It
(New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1992); Anne Lincoln’s and Gerald Behn’s oral histories can be found at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum; Juliet Eilperin, “The New Dynamics of Protecting a President: Most Threats Against Obama Issued Online,”
Washington Post
, October 8, 2014; Judy Woodruff interview with Nancy Reagan featured in the PBS documentary
Nancy Reagan: Role of a Lifetime
, February 6, 2011; Helen Smith, “Ordeal! Pat Nixon’s Final Days in the White House,”
Good Housekeeping
, July 1976; Lady Bird Johnson diary entry, August 2, 1968; CBS News, “The Reagans’ Long Goodbye: Mike Wallace Interviews Nancy Reagan for
60 Minutes II
,” September 24, 2002; Trude Feldman, “The Quiet Courage of Pat Nixon,”
McCall’s
, May 1975; Elizabeth Mehren and Betty Cuniberti, “Fighting Back: Over the Course of Her Husband’s Political Career, Nancy Reagan Has Developed Her Own Mission: To Protect Ronald Reagan, No Matter What,”
Los Angeles Times Magazine
, March 22, 1987; Kati Marton,
Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History
(New York: Anchor Books, 2001); Lady Bird Johnson,
A White House Diary
(New York:
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970); United Press International, “Collapses, Dies, Honoring Betty Ford,”
Chicago Tribune
, June 23, 1976; Joan Didion, “Life at Court,”
New York Review of Books
, December 21, 1989; Donald T. Regan,
For the Record
(New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988); Bob Colacello, “Nancy Reagan’s Solo Role,”
Vanity Fair
, July 2009; Betty Cuniberti, “Nancy Reagan’s Schedule Ambitious: President, First Lady Off on Separate Paths,”
Los Angeles Times
, May 1, 1986; Bernard Weinraub, “Nancy Reagan’s Power Is Considered at Peak,”
New York Times
, March 3, 1987; Jane Perlez, “Hillary Clinton Visits Romania Children,”
New York Times
, July 2, 1996.

EPILOGUE: LADIES, FIRST

Interviews include Barbara Bush, Lorraine Ornelas, Susan Ford, Bess Abell, Nancy Chirdon Forster, Shirley James, and Bill Plante. Published material includes Margaret Truman,
First Ladies: An Intimate Group Portrait of White House Wives
(New York: Random House, 1995); Leo Janos, “The Last Days of the President: LBJ in Retirement,”
Atlantic
, July 1973; Michael Beschloss, “In His Final Days, LBJ Agonized Over His Legacy,” PBS, December 4, 2012; Hillary Clinton,
An Invitation to the White House: At Home with History
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000); Kati Marton,
Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History
(New York: Anchor Books, 2001); Barbara Bush,
A Memoir: Barbara Bush
(New York: Scribner, 1994); “Clintons Return White House Furniture,” ABC News; Robert McFadden, “Death of a First Lady: The Companion, Quietly at Her Side, Public at the End,”
New York Times
, May 24, 1994; Gail Sheehy, “Is George Bush Too Nice to Be President?,”
Vanity Fair
, February 1987; Bob Colacello, “Nancy Reagan’s Solo Role,”
Vanity Fair
, July 2009; Helen Smith, “Ordeal! Pat Nixon’s Final Days in the White House,”
Good Housekeeping
, July 1976.

PHOTO INSERT SOURCES AND CREDITS

Insert one: Getty Images/The LIFE Picture Collection/Hank Walker; Associated Press; Getty Images/The LIFE Picture Collection/George Silk; Cecil Stoughton/White House, courtesy John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston; Robert Knudsen/White House, courtesy John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston; Cecil Stoughton/White House, courtesy John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston; Yoichi Okamoto/White House, courtesy Lyndon B. Johnson Library; courtesy Lyndon B. Johnson Library; Robert L. Knudsen/White House, courtesy Richard Nixon Presidential Library; Byron Schumaker, White House,
courtesy Richard Nixon Presidential Library; Oliver Atkins/White House, courtesy Richard Nixon Presidential Library; from the private collection of Joni Stevens; Oliver Atkins/White House, courtesy Richard Nixon Presidential Library; David Hume Kennerly/White House, courtesy Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library; Getty Images/Hulton Archive; Karl Schumacher/White House, courtesy Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum; courtesy George Bush Presidential Library and Museum; courtesy Lyndon B. Johnson Library; from the private collection of Shirley James.

Insert two: Official White House photograph, courtesy Ronn Payne; courtesy Ronald Reagan Presidential Library; Getty Images/New York Daily News Archive; Associated Press/Marcy Nighswander; Getty Images/AFP/David Ake; courtesy Clinton Presidential Library; Getty Images/Hulton Archive/David Hume Kennerly; Associated Press/Susan Walsh; Ralph Barrera, courtesy Austin American-Statesman; Joyce N. Boghosian, courtesy of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum/NARA; Getty Images/Alex Wong; David Hume Kennerly/White House, courtesy Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library; Associated Press/Charles Dharapak; Official White House photograph by Lawrence Jackson; Official White House photograph by Annie Leibovitz; Official White House photograph by Pete Souza; Associated Press/David J. Phillip.

   
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