Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked (51 page)

CHAPTER NINETEEN
: Mikhail GORBACHEV

“long twilight struggle”
: John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961.

“that, through misunderstanding”
: Reagan,
My Father at 100,
p. 207.

“What’s so good about a peace”
:
Weekly Standard,
June 25, 2012.

“Address to the Nation on National Security”
: Reagan Address to the Nation on Defense and National Security, March 23, 1983.

“I’ve become more and more”
: Ibid.

Back in the spring of 1983
:
Time,
May 16, 1983.

“an answer to arms control”
: Ibid.

“evil empire”
: Reagan Address to the National Association of Evangelicals, March 8, 1983.

“He says he is very curious”
: RR, January 5, 1982.

“I was right not to go”
: Ibid., November 16, 1982.

“Geo. Shultz sneaked”
: Ibid., February 15, 1983.

“There is possibility”
: Ibid., May 13, 1983.

“Expressed a desire”
: Ibid., August 7, 1983.

“George S. & I met and discussed”
: Ibid., February 22, 1984.

“gut feeling”
: Ibid., February 22, March 1, and June 14, 1984.

“He confirmed my”
: Ibid., March 5, 1984.

“evidence of not being well”
: Ibid., June 26, 1984.

“I was not and never have been”
:
New York Times,
April 24, 2006.

“restricted area”
:
Newsweek,
April 8, 1985.

The House voted to authorize
:
Los Angeles Times,
March 28, 1985.

“But right down to the wire”
: RR, March 28, 1985.

“In thirty-two years”
: TPO, March 27, 1985.

“If the president”
: Ibid., March 26, 1985.

“Just wanted a last”
: RR, April 3, 1985.

“a particularly credible messenger”
: Farrell,
Tip O’Neill,
p. 662.

“I’m going to tell him”
: Associated Press, April 8, 1985.

“We have a mutual friend”
: Ibid., November 12, 1985.

“I’m part of the opposition”
:
Newsweek,
April 22, 1985.

“We’re trying to understand what the position”
: Ibid.

“There’s a big difference”
: Ibid.

“I remember when I went in”
: Congressional Record, November 13, 1985.

“New York lawyer”
:
Los Angeles Times,
April 11, 1985.

“master of words”
:
Newsweek,
April 22, 1985.

“had a flair”
: Associated Press, November 12, 1985.

“I think it augurs”
: Ibid., April 8, 1985.

“The president will be able”
: Ibid., November 12, 1985.

“It was hard to be impressed”
:
MOH,
pp. 294–95.

“I’ll never forget the ride into Moscow”
: Ibid.

“We need to clear the decks”
: TPO, November 12, 1985.

“When President Reagan meets”
: Ibid., November 13, 1985.

“I don’t want to send the president”
:
Newsweek,
November 25, 1985.

“where I hope to get Gorbachev”
: RR, November 17, 1985.

“He had to know we”
: Reagan,
An American Life,
p. 14.

“gold rubles”
: Farrell,
Tip O’Neill,
p. 663.

“It’s not convincing”
: Cannon,
President Reagan,
p. 674.

“That evening it was our turn”
: Reagan,
An American Life,
p. 639.

“In an unusual procedure”
: TPO, November 21, 1985.

“I expect a full report”
: Ibid.

“You can’t imagine”
: Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress Following the Soviet–United States Summit Meeting in Geneva, November 21, 1985.

“good listener”
: Ibid.

“I haven’t gotten”
: RR, November 21, 1985.

“The gallery were full”
: Ibid.

“heartbreaking”
: Farrell,
Tip O’Neill,
p. 664.

“This”
: Morris,
Dutch,
p. 599.

CHAPTER TWENTY
: HURRAH!

raised Protestant by his Scots-English
: Cannon,
Governor Reagan,
p. 14; Eliot,
Reagan,
p. 14; Reagan,
An American Life,
p. 22.

“I knew I was Irish”
:
MOH,
p. 7.

no irish need apply
: Ibid., p. 9.

O’Neill had loyally supported
: Farrell,
Tip O’Neill,
p. 510.

Dubbed the “Four Horsemen”
: Edward M. Kennedy Institute.

“part of our blood”
: Associated Press, June 2, 1984.

“I’m proud that”
: Reagan speech in Dublin, June 4, 1984.

“All sides should have”
: Ibid.

“When he was in America”
: Reagan, Address Before a Joint Session of the Irish National Parliament, June 4, 1984.

The following month
: Farrell,
Tip O’Neill,
p. 623.

personal letter from Tip
: The White House, Memorandum of Conversation, December 28, 1984.

The president followed through
: Farrell,
Tip O’Neill,
pp. 623–624.

On November 15
: Ibid., p. 624.

“His feeling changed”
: Author conversation with Tom O’Neill.

The State of the Union address was postponed
: Reagan,
An American Life,
p. 403.

“We’ve grown used to wonders”
: Reagan televised address, January 28, 1986.

“I know it is hard to understand”
: Ibid.

“As I listened to him”
:
MOH,
p. 363.

He then called
: Author conversation with Peggy Noonan.

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
: COMMON GROUND

“There is no limit”
: Cannon,
President Reagan,
p. 154.

Tip O’Neill made no
:
MOH,
pp. 371–72.

“Still, after half a”
: Ibid., p. 372.

in 1935
: Farrell,
Tip O’Neill,
p. 64.

His retirement season climaxed
: Ibid., p. 674.

on the evening of March
: Associated Press, March 17, 1986.

Washington Hilton
:
Washington Post,
March 18, 1986.

honor him
: Associated Press, March 17, 1986.

proceeds of which would
: Ibid., March 18, 1986.

the 2,200 gathered
: Ibid.

president Gerald Ford
:
Washington Post,
March 18, 1986.

Irish prime minister
: Ibid.

Senator Edward M. Kennedy
: Ibid.

Bob Hope
: Ibid.

“centerpiece”
: Thomas P. O’Neill III,
New York Times,
October 5, 2012.

There he stood in the ballroom
: Associated Press, March 17, 1986.

“But to be honest, I’ve”
: Reagan speech, March 17, 1986.

“I have traveled”
:
Washington Post,
March 18, 1986.

“Mr. President”
:
United Press International,
March 18, 1986.

“You’re a beautiful individual”
: Associated Press, March 17, 1986.

to Venezuela, Brazil, and
: Ibid.

from early 1985 on
: Author conversation with Hedrick Smith.

to make his mark
: Farrell,
Tip O’Neill,
p. 659.

The measure he advanced
: Ibid.

with Reagan’s blessing
: Ibid.

reducing the number
: Baker,
Work Hard,
p. 232.

15 and 28 percent
: Ibid.

it raised the rate
:
New York Times,
June 8, 1989.

“the whole system”
: Cannon,
President Reagan,
p. 499.

For several nervous days
: Baker,
Work Hard,
pp. 226–28.

A vote late in 1985
: Farrell,
Tip O’Neill,
p. 660.

“voted to humiliate”
: Baker,
Work Hard,
p. 229.

The Speaker agreed
: Farrell,
Tip O’Neill,
p. 660.

The night that
: Ibid.

agreed-upon deadline
: Baker,
Work Hard,
p. 229.

“Four frustrating hours”
: Ibid., p. 231.

“Three times he called”
: Farrell,
Tip O’Neill,
p. 660.

“an excellent speech”
: Baker,
Work Hard,
p. 231.

by seventy Republicans
: Farrell,
Tip O’Neill,
p. 660.

to be his major second-term
: Baker,
Work Hard,
p. 217.

“as beloved a leader”
:
MOH,
p. 330.

“the worst”
: Ibid., p. 360.

“out of touch”
: Ibid., p. 331.

“tremendous powers of”
: Ibid., p. 341.

“agreeable man”
: Ibid., p. 360.

“pretty good friendship”
: Ibid., p. 333.

“After the vote”
: Ibid., p. 374.

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
: LAST BATTLE

Back in the 1980s
: Chris Matthews,
The New Republic,
March 2, 1987.

son of Irish
:
New York Times,
November 6, 2011.

“a touchstone of his career”
: Ibid., November 6, 2001.

“We bought it”
: Cannon,
President Reagan,
p. 296.

Two months later
: Ibid., p. 330.

“There is a totalitarian government”
:
New York Times,
July 1, 1984.

“If Congress says you can’t”
: Cannon,
President Reagan,
p. 332.

“It is possible”
: Tayacan,
Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare,
translated and published by the Congressional Research Service, October 15, 1984.

According to a White House
:
New York Times,
October 19, 1984.

“It is nothing short of outrageous”
: Ibid.

“The president of the United States”
: Reeves,
President Reagan,
p. 253.

“I saw that picture and I’m told”
:
MOH,
p. 368.

“Tip has engineered a partisan campaign”
: RR, April 24, 1985.

President Daniel Ortega now made a startling gesture
: Reeves,
President Reagan,
p. 255.

“When that happened it was only a matter”
:
MOH,
p. 368.

“He is not going to be happy”
:
New York Times,
June 13, 1985.

“We send money and material now”
: Ronald Reagan speech, March 5, 1986.

“If we don’t want to see”
: Ibid.

Time
described how
:
Time,
March 17, 1986.

“You can appreciate how hard I’m working”
: Farrell,
Tip O’Neill,
p. 671.

“dark day for freedom”
:
Newsweek,
March 31, 1986.

Chief of Staff Don Regan was the one
:
MOH,
pp. 368–69.

“to participate in open dialogue”
: Associated Press, June 23, 1986.

“There’s no question about it”
:
United Press International,
June 24, 1986.

“Tip refused to let me speak”
: RR, June 23, 1986.

noontime broadcast
:
National Journal,
June 28, 1986.

“NSC Briefing”
: RR, December 5, 1985.

“I had a feeling”
: Donald Regan,
For the Record
(New York: Harcourt, 1988), pp. 41–43.

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
: LEGACY

“Let us endeavor”
: Shapiro,
The Yale Book of Quotations,
p. 777.