Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked (52 page)

though the fallout
:
New York Times,
December 2, 1986.

Geneva in 1985
: Reeves,
President Reagan,
p. 280.

Reykjavik in 1986
: Ibid., p. 340.

Washington in 1987
: Ibid., p. 435.

Moscow in 1988
: Ibid., p. 448.

Within a year of Reagan’s leaving office
: Cannon,
President Reagan,
p. xii.

for almost three decades
: “Brutal Divide: LIFE at the Birth of the Berlin Wall,”
http://life.time.com/history/berlin-wall-photos-early-days-of-the-cold-war/#1
.

“Not with a bang but a whimper”
: Shapiro,
The Yale Book of Quotations,
p. 237.

in 1987
: Reagan speech, West Berlin, June 12, 1987.

“We welcome change”
: Ibid.

“for we believe”
: Ibid.

in late 1986
:
The Harris Survey
(ISSN: 0273-1037), November 24, 1986.

“I was almost”
:
MOH,
p. 374.

Tip for thirty-four
: Ibid., p. 3.

man’s father, still in
:
New York Times,
December 8, 1993.

“Reagan took Congress”
:
MOH,
p. 341.

St. John’s High School
: Ibid., p. 20.

“Chris, it goes away”
: Author conversation with Tip O’Neill.

He died in January 1994
: Farrell,
Tip O’Neill,
pp. 689–90.

Reagan began his fade
: Cannon,
President Reagan,
p. xiv.

handwritten letter
: Ibid.

Alzheimer’s disease
: Ibid., p. xv.

“I only wish there was some way”
: Morris,
Dutch,
p. 666.

George Washington and Pierre L’Enfant
: Washington Diary, June 28, 1791.

ABC,
246
,
253
,
282
,
359

Academy Awards,
83

Adams, Henry,
17

“Address to the Nation on National Security,”
310
–11,
313

Afghanistan,
46

AFL-CIO,
69

Africa,
16
–20,
25
,
225
–27,
246
,
251
,
368

African-Americans,
12
,
306

“after six o’clock,”
37
,
143
,
178
,
188
,
234
,
294

Agnew, Spiro,
111
–12

Ailes, Roger,
302

Air Force One,
1
,
10
,
11
,
13
–14,
61
,
238
,
332

Air Traffic Controllers,
see
Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization

Ajemian, Robert,
134

Albert, Carl,
110
–12

Albosta, Donald,
126

Allen, Richard,
49

Al Shiraa,
359

Alzheimer’s disease,
370

amnesty, for immigrants,
344
–45

Andreas, Dwayne,
168
,
320

Andropov, Yuri,
314
–15

Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985),
334

Ann (Sister Eunice; O’Neill’s aunt),
355
–56

antiwar movement,
19
,
57
,
109

Appropriations Committee,
108

appropriations vote,
229
–30

Archer Daniels Midland,
168
,
320

Argentina,
208

arms-for-hostages deal,
359
–60

Army, U.S.,
281

Army Air Corps,
82

Army Enlisted Reserve,
82

assassination attempt, on Reagan,
66
,
67
–71,
117
,
121
,
314
,
340

political advantage of,
115
–18,
122
,
140
,
161

secrecy around wounding and recovery in,
71
–74,
114
,
115

assassinations handbook,
352

Associated Press,
214
,
236
,
300

Atkinson, Eugene,
121

Atlantic,
174
–75,
177

Australia, junket to,
118
–21

Autry, Gene,
5

Ayres, Lew,
84

Baker, Howard,
169
,
180
,
250
,
273
,
301

Baker, James Addison, III “Jim,”
32
–36,
44
,
48
–49,
64
,
72
,
122
,
126
,
131
,
176
–77,
193
,
194
,
200
,
203
,
215
–16,
245
,
247
,
248
,
250
,
256
,
266
,
280
,
301
,
344
,
351

Baker, Susan,
44

“balance of terror,”
309
–10

Ball, Robert,
247
,
250

Ballyporeen, Ireland,
299
,
332
,
333

Bancroft, Brass (character),
68
,
80

Barnicle, Mike,
22

Barone, Joan,
211

Barry’s Corner,
96
–97,
99
,
178

Beckel, Bob,
290
–91

Bedtime for Bonzo
(film),
85

Begin, Menachem,
170

Beirut, Lebanon, U.S. Embassy in,
265

Benny, Jack,
89

Bentsen-Quayle debate,
369

Berkman, Eric,
237

Berlin Wall,
364

Berrigan, Philip and Daniel,
203
–4

“Beverly Hills Budget,”
190

Bevill, Tom,
120
–21,
126

Beyond the Line of Duty
(film),
83

Bible (Matthew),
309

Bickle, Travis (char.),
69

“Big Dig,”
108

bipartisanship:

in foreign policy,
261
–62,
264
–68,
270
–75,
277
–79,
308
,
317
–19,
320
–26

of “Gym Caucus,”
157
–58

on immigration,
344
–45

on jobs bill,
255
–56

legacy of,
365
–79

O’Neill’s cooperation in,
xv
–xvi,
30
,
35
,
39
,
43
–44,
53
,
203
–4,
206
,
216
–23,
241
,
242
,
243
–57,
264
,
266
–68,
270
–75,
277
–79,
317
,
320
–21,
338
,
344
–45,
362
,
365
–70

on Reagan’s economic plan,
123
–24,
129
,
160
–61,
169
,
217
–23,
338
,
343
–45

social,
178
–79

on Social Security,
242
,
243
–57,
319

Bishop, Maurice,
268
,
269
,
274

“Black Book, The,”
42

Boggs, Hale,
59
,
110
–11

Boggs, Lindy,
111

Boland, Edward Patrick,
106
,
108
,
113
,
263
,
295
,
347
–48

Boland, Mary Egan,
348

Boland Amendment, first (1982),
263
,
349
–51

Boland Amendment, second (1984),
351

Bolling, Richard,
169
,
194
,
220

“Bolling Proposal,”
202
–3

Bonanza
(TV show),
90

Boston College,
29
,
99
,
108
,
113
,
340
,
346
,
356

Boston Globe,
30
,
118
,
129
,
163
,
280

Boston Navy Yard,
108
–9

Brademas, John,
28

Brady, James,
70

Brezhnev, Leonid,
314

Bridge on the River Kwai, The
(film),
195

Broder, David,
199

Brother Rat
(film),
80
,
83

Broussard, “Frogsy,”
96

Brown, Edmund G. “Pat,”
2
–3,
91

Buckley, William,
358

budget:

deficit,
188
–90,
192
–93,
206
,
208
–9,
213
,
215
–17,
287

Democrats’ plan for,
117
,
124
,
160
,
208
–9

economy vs.,
196
,
217
,
228
–30

Reagan’s need for bipartisanship in,
194
,
207
–23

Reagan’s plan for balancing of,
43
,
168
,
172
,
183
,
213
,
232
–33

Budget Summit,
194
–203,
205
,
207

Burton, Phil,
209

Bush, George H. W.,
3
,
4
,
32
,
124
,
128
,
136
,
159
,
177
,
300
,
315
,
322
,
340
,
364

Caddell, Patrick,
7
,
10
–11,
13
–14,
187

Cagney, James,
80

Calabash,
278

Califano, Joe,
108

California:

Reagan’s journey to,
78
–79

Reagan’s political career in,
2
,
8
,
33
,
37
,
77
,
91
,
188

Cambridge, Mass.,
95
,
102
–3

Camp David,
170
,
334

Cannon, Lou,
44
,
280

Capitol Hill News Service,
22
,
62

Capitol Hilton hotel,
291

Capra, Frank,
3

Carey, Hugh,
110
,
331

Carter, Jimmy,
xviii
,
24
,
35
,
38
,
46
,
55
,
58
,
61
,
69
,
121
,
150
,
151
,
159
,
166
,
167
,
170
,
201
,
289
,
349

attack on Reagan by,
11
–12

best campaign speech of,
12
–14

concession speech of,
15

downbeat image of,
7
,
8

government reorganization plan of,
24

“malaise speech” of,
7
,
47

1976 presidential victory of,
7

1980 presidential defeat of,
xviii
,
1
–15

on Northern Ireland,
331

Reagan compared to,
28
,
34

as scapegoat,
5
–6,
9

sentiment against,
3
,
4
–5,
9
,
14
,
42
,
43
,
47
,
52
,
135
,
357
,
359

as sincere and earnest,
7
,
8

Carter, Rosalynn,
2

Carter administration,
2
,
35
,
71

author in,
5
,
6
,
10
,
14
,
15
,
24
–25

O’Neill disliked by,
36

Casablanca
(film),
82

Casey, William J.,
4
,
352

Catholics,
20
,
21
,
98
,
105

in Northern Ireland,
329
–35

CBS,
10
,
12
,
201
,
209
,
214
,
238

CBS Evening News,
238

Central America,
262
,
319
,
349

Central American Peace Proposal,
352

Central Committee of the Communist Party,
314

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),
348
,
350
,
351
–52,
358

Challenger
explosion,
335
–37

Cheers
(TV show),
164
,
256
–57

Cheney, Dick,
277
–78

Chernenko, Konstantin,
315
–16,
322