Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign that Changed America (146 page)

45.
Dickenson and O'Leary, “On His Final Campaign Swing, Carter Learned It Was All Over.”

46.
Jody Powell, in discussion with the author, April 10, 2006.

47.
Dickenson and O'Leary, “On His Final Campaign Swing, Carter Learned It Was All Over.”

48.
Jody Powell, in discussion with the author, April 10, 2006.

49.
Dickenson and O'Leary, “On His Final Campaign Swing, Carter Learned It Was All Over.”

50.
Jody Powell, in discussion with the author, April 10, 2006.

51.
A. O. Sulzberger Jr., “Bush, in Victory Talk, Says Reagan Will Lead U. S. ‘Back to Greatness,’”
New York Times
, November 5, 1980, A21.

52.
“Mondale Votes in Minnesota in ‘Tight’ Election,” Associated Press, November 4, 1980.

53.
Walter Mondale, in discussion with the author, February 28, 2007.

54.
Jimmy Carter, in discussion with the author, July 11, 2006.

55.
James R. Dickenson and Jeremiah O'Leary, “Carter Defends His Leadership,”
Washington Star
, November 5, 1980, A3.

56.
Church et al., “Nation: Reagan Coast-to-Coast.”

57.
Dickenson and O'Leary, “On His Final Campaign Swing, Carter Learned It Was All Over.”

58.
Sam Donaldson,
World News Tonight
, ABC News Transcripts, November 3, 1980.

59.
Patrick Caddell, in discussion with the author.

60.
Jerry Adler, Gerald C. Lubenow, and Martin Kasindorf, “Reagan: Easy Rider,”
Newsweek
, November 17, 1980, 30; Stall and Eaton, “Reagan Goes from Ballot to Barber to Bigger Things.”

61.
Ken Khachigian, in discussion with the author, May 2007.

62.
James M. Perry and Albert R. Hunt, “Reagan Buries Carter in Roaring Landslide Throughout Country,”
Wall Street Journal
, November 5, 1980, 1.

63.
Bernard Weinraub, “The Election on TV: Networks Gearing Up,”
New York Times
, November 4, 1980, B5.

64.
Ibid.

65.
Harry F. Waters and George Hackett, “Peacock's Night to Crow,”
Newsweek
, November 17, 1980, 82.

66.
Dom Bonafede, “The Press Does Some Soul Searching in Reviewing Its Campaign Coverage,”
National Journal
, November 29, 1980, 2032.

67.
Janice Castro and Elizabeth Rudulph, “Press: Like a Suburban Swimming Pool,”
Time
, November 17, 1980.

68.
D'Vera Cohn, “Election Fizzles as Cliff-Hanger,” United Press International, November 5, 1980.

69.
Barbara Walters,
World News Tonight
, ABC News, November 4, 1980.

70.
Frank Reynolds and Ted Koppel,
World News Tonight
, ABC News, November 4, 1980.

71.
Perry and Hunt, “Reagan Buries Carter in Roaring Landslide Throughout Country.”

72.
Terence Smith, “Carter, Saying Defeat ‘Hurt,’ Pledges Fullest Cooperation,”
New York Times
, November 5, 1980, A19.

73.
John Chancellor,
Decision '80
, NBC, November 4, 1980.

74.
Nancy Reagan,
I Love You, Ronnie: The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan
(New York: Random House, 2000), 135.

75.
Ibid.

76.
Perry and Hunt, “Reagan Buries Carter in Roaring Landslide Throughout Country.”

77.
Dickenson and O'Leary, “On His Final Campaign Swing, Carter Learned It Was All Over.”

78.
Walter Cronkite,
Election Night
, CBS News, November 4, 1980.

79.
Donnie Radcliffe, “The Democrats,”
Washington Post
, November 5, 1980, E3.

80.
“Plains Truth,”
Time
, April 30, 1984.

81.
“Transcript of the President's Concession Statement,”
New York Times
, November 5, 1980, A19.

82.
Walter Cronkite,
Election Night
, CBS News, November 4, 1980.

83.
“Transcript of the President's Concession Statement.”

84.
Dick West, United Press International, November 5, 1980.

85.
Tip O'Neill with William Novak,
Man of the House: The Life and Political Memoirs of Speaker Tip O'Neill
(New York: Random House, 1987), 328–29.

86.
Ibid., 329.

87.
Smith, “President Concedes.”

88.
Bill Peterson, “Anderson Is Upbeat and Philosophical,”
Washington Post
, November 5, 1980, A17.

89.
Adler et al., “Reagan: Easy Rider.”

90.
United Press International, “Reagan's Former Wife Is Happy Over Victory,”
New York Times
, November 6, 1980, A26.

91.
Lisa Myers, “Reagan Finds His Victory ‘Humbling,’”
Washington Star
, November 5, 1980, A3.

92.
Doug Bandow, in discussion with the author, October 10, 2006.

93.
Barry Serafin,
World News Tonight
, ABC News, November 4, 1980.

94.
Frank Reynolds,
World News Tonight
, ABC News, November 4, 1980.

95.
Stuart Spencer, in discussion with the author, September 28, 2006.

96.
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, in discussion with the author, December 18, 2007.

97.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.,
Journals: 1952–2000
(New York: Penguin Press, 2007), 506.

98.
David Keene, in discussion with the author, October 10, 2006.

99.
Jimmy Carter, in discussion with the author, July 11, 2006.

100.
Muriel Coleman, in discussion with the author, May 2, 2007.

101.
Elisabeth Bumiller, “The Harrimans' Party for the Party That Was,”
Washington Post
, November 5, 1980, E1.

102.
“Facts That Help Put Election in Focus,”
U. S. News & World Report
, November 17, 1980, 38; Mashek, “Massive Shift to Right Story of '80 Elections.”

103.
Warren Weaver Jr., “Anderson Says He Feels No Bitterness and That He Might Consider 1984 Run,”
New York Times
, November 6, 1980, A27.

104.
“Carter's Collapse: The Anatomy of Reagan's Victory,”
National Journal
, November 8, 1980, 1878.

105.
Allan J. Mayer, Thomas M. DeFrank, Eleanor Clift, and Henry W. Hubbard, “Carter: A Long Day's Night,”
Newsweek
, November 17, 1980, 29.

106.
“A Friendlier Congress for Ronald Reagan,”
U. S. News & World Report
, November 17, 1980, 31.

107.
Edward Walsh, “Bill Brock: Architect of Republican Revival,”
Washington Post
, November 20, 1980, A21; “Election '80—New Faces in the House,”
Washington Post
, November 23, 1980, A15.

108.
Associated Press, “White Upsets Clinton in Arkansas,” November 5, 1980.

109.
Ken Khachigian, in discussion with the author, May 2007.

110.
“Transcript of Reagan's Remarks,”
New York Times
, November 5, 1980, A22.

111.
Church et al., “Nation: Reagan Coast-to-Coast.”

112.
“Transcript of Reagan's Remarks.”

E
PILOGUE
: D
ESTINY

1.
William Safire,
Safire's Political Dictionary
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 154.

2.
A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan, 1961–1982
(Chicago: Regnery Gateway, 1983), 189.

3.
Helene Von Damm,
At Reagan's Side: Twenty Years in the Political Mainstream
(New York: Doubleday, 1988), 119.

4.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, “A Special Message,”
National Review
, June 28, 2004, 26.

5.
Michael T. Kaufman, “Solzhenitsyn, Literary Giant Who Defied Soviets, Dies at 89,”
New York Times
, August 4, 2008, A1.

6.
“Detente Comes Down to Earth,”
Economist
, July 26, 1976, 55.

7.
Michael Waldman, ed.,
My Fellow Americans: The Most Important Speeches of America's Presidents, from George Washington to George W. Bush
(Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2003), 253.

8.
Jay Nordlinger, “Being Sharansky—On Russia, Israel, ‘Reaganite Readings’ …,”
National Review
, July 4, 2005.

9.
Nicole Hoplin, “Cold War–Era European Leaders Reflect on Reagan and the Impact of Freedom,”
Libertas
, 30, no. 1.

10.
A Time for Choosing
, 186.

11.
Karl Vick, “U. S., Soviet Diplomatic License Plates Retain Cold War Symbolism,”
St. Petersburg Times
, December 19, 1987, 8A.

12.
Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin,
The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB
(New York: Basic Books, 2000), 242.

13.
Newt Gingrich, in discussion with the author, May 21, 2006.

14.
George Will, in discussion with the author.

15.
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., “Mr. Can-Do Versus Mr. Can't,”
Washington Post
, September 15, 1980, A21.

16.
Peter B. Sperry, “The Real Reagan Economic Record: Responsible and Successful Fiscal Policy,” Heritage Foundation, March 1, 2001,
http://www.heritage.org/research/taxes/bg1414.cfm
.

17.
Peter Goldman, “The Republican Landslide,”
Newsweek
, November 17, 1980, 27

18.
Richard Wirthlin, “Reagan for President Campaign Plan,” June 29, 1980, Richard Wirthlin Archives Collection.

19.
Stanley Greenberg,
Middle Class Dreams: The Politics and Power of the New American Majority
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996).

20.
George J. Church, Christopher Ogden, and Laurence I. Barrett, “Nation: Reagan Coast-to-Coast,”
Time
, November 17, 1980.

21.
Peter J. Wallison, “Reagan Co-opted,”
American Spectator
, July–August 2007; James MacGregor Burns, “Risks of the Middle,”
Washington Post
, October 24, 1999, B7.

22.
Edward Kennedy, “Reagan Brought ‘A Special Grace,’”
Boston Irish Reporter
, July 31, 2004.

23.
Adam Miller, “Wyman Hails Her Great Ex,”
New York Post
, June 12, 2004, 13.

24.
Theodore H. White, “The Small-Town Boys Who Seek to Govern,”
Washington Star
, September 29, 1980, A1.

25.
Lou Cannon,
President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime
(New York: Norton, 2000), 113.

26.
Lou Cannon, “Role of a Lifetime,”
Newsweek
, October 4, 1999, 31.

27.
Gerald C. Lubenow, Martin Kasindorf, Frank Maier, and James Doyle, “Ronald Reagan Up Close,”
Newsweek
, July 21, 1980, 25.

28.
Ralph Z. Hallow, “A Not-So-Mellow Skeptic Sees a GOP with No Focus,”
Washington Times
, November 23, 2005, A1.

29.
Phil Alexander, in discussion with the author.

30.
Steven V. Roberts, “Reagan's Final Rating Is Best of Any President Since '40s,”
New York Times
, January 18, 1989, A1.

31.
John McConnell, in discussion with the author, March 30, 2006.

32.
Grover Norquist, in discussion with the author, March 21, 2006.

33.
Newt Gingrich, in discussion with the author, May 21, 2006.

34.
William F. Buckley Jr., in discussion with the author.

35.
Ron Robinson, in discussion with the author; “Commencement Address,” University of Notre Dame, May 17, 1981; Ronald Reagan, “Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session with the Students and Faculty,” Moscow State University, May 31, 1988.

36.
Karen Spencer, in discussion with the author, December 20, 2006.

37.
Newt Gingrich, “What Would Lincoln Say to Us Today?”
Newsmax
, February 2009, 62.

38.
Ed Blakely, in discussion with the author, April 17, 2007.

39.
Richard Cheney, in discussion with the author, March 19, 2007.

40.
Philip Kennicott, “Reagan's Legacy, Where ‘Angels’ Dares to Tread,”
Washington Post
, December 21, 2003, N2.

41.
Steve Neal, “Scripts Have Changed, but Reagan Remains a Star,”
Chicago Tribune
, March 7, 1980, 1.

42.
Melinda Beck, Mary Lord, Gloria Borger, Martin Kasindorf, and Jerry Buckley, “A Star-Studded Inaugural,”
Newsweek
, January 26, 1981, 32.

43.
Tip O'Neill with William Novak,
Man of the House: The Life and Political Memoirs of Speaker Tip O'Neill
(New York: Random House, 1987), 360.

44.
David S. Broder, “When Partisan Venom Didn't Rule,”
Washington Post
, January 29, 2006, B7.

45.
Ronald Reagan,
An American Life: The Autobiography
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990), 215; Nancy Reagan with William Novak,
My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan
(New York: Random House, 1989), 212–213.

46.
Arlie Schardt, Lucy Howard, George Hackett, Eric Gelman, and Renee Michael, “TV's Rush to Judgment,”
Newsweek
, July 28, 1980, 72.

47.
Veronique de Rugy and Tad DeHaven, “On Spending, Reagan Is No Bush,”
Cato Institute Tax and Budget Bulletin
, August 2003, no. 15; Chris Edwards, “Number of Federal Subsidy Programs Tops 1800,”
Cato Institute Tax and Budget Bulletin
, April 2009, no. 56.