Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked (57 page)

Selma, Ala.,
348

Senate, U.S.,
14

in midterm election,
237

Republican control of,
28
,
30

Republican losses in,
304

Senate Budget Committee,
24
,
65

Senate Finance Committtee,
215
,
344

Senate Republican Conference,
210
,
212

“senility factor,”
302

seniors, advocacy for,
213

Sergeant Murphy
(film),
80

Sharansky, Natan,
314

Sheraton Washington hotel,
15

Shorenstein, Walter,
211

Shultz, George,
310
,
314
–15

Sidey, Hugh,
23

Smith, Al,
98
–99,
101

Smith, Hendrick,
126

“snow button,”
95
–96,
102
,
103
–4

Snyder, Mitch,
203
–5,
212

Sobhuza II, king of Swaziland,
225
–26

social legislation,
64
,
65
,
125
–28

Social Security:

bipartisan cooperative compromise on,
242
,
243
–57,
345
,
366

debate over,
192
–203

O’Neill’s strategy on,
168
–69,
187
,
240
,
256
,
319

Reagan’s attack on,
4
,
8
,
64
,
90
–91,
127
,
130
–31,
146
,
169
,
182
,
213
,
237
–38

Social Security commission,
169

Somoza family,
263

Sorensen, Ted,
19
–20,
24
,
149

Soviet Union,
33
,
363

grain embargo against,
46

and Iran,
358

and Nicaragua,
263
,
346
,
349
,
353
,
355

Reagan respected by,
168

Reagan’s hard line on,
49
,
260
–61,
309
,
312
–13

Reagan’s strategy to overcome,
312
–17

see also
Cold War

Speaker of the House, role of,
xvi

Speaker’s Cabinet,
306
–7

Speakes, Larry,
198
,
282

Special Orders, Gingrich’s use of,
294
–95

spending cuts:

additional,
168

one-for-all proposal for,
144
–46

Reagan plan for,
27
,
33
,
36
,
43
,
48
,
49
,
64
,
121
–28,
163
,
188
–89,
203
,
208

Sperling, Godfrey,
126

spin, process of,
176
–77

Stahl, Lesley,
201

“Star Wars” strategic defensive technologies,
311
,
324

State Department, U.S.,
9

State of the Union,
3
,
296

State of the Union addresses,
180
,
188
–89,
251
–54,
281
,
293
,
335
,
340

Statue of Liberty,
6
–7,
32

Steelworkers union,
214
–15

Stenholm, Charlie,
306

Stockman, David,
144
,
168
,
174
–77,
200
,
215
,
250
,
255
–56

stock market,
219

Strategic Arms Reduction Talks,
319
–20

strategic defense,
310
–12,
324
,
326
–27

strategic retreat,
182

Stripling, Robert,
87

student loans,
117
,
172

Sudetenland,
260

Suez Canal,
170

suicide bombing,
270

“supply side” economics,
175
,
218

Supreme Court, U.S.,
146
–47

Swaziland,
16
,
18
–19,
225
–27,
246

Sweeney, Peter,
123

Syria,
263
,
265
,
266
–67

Tampico, Ill.,
78

tax cuts:

O’Neill’s battle against,
136
–44,
159
–63

Reagan plan for,
27
,
33
,
36
,
43
,
49
,
63
,
64
,
69
,
121
–25,
163
,
172
,
174
,
183
,
188
–89,
195
,
198
,
203
,
208
,
210
,
212
,
215
–16

Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act (TEFRA; 1982),
206
,
215
–23,
231

Taxi Driver
(film),
69

tax increase, Mondale’s call for,
301

tax “reform,” tax increase as,
214
–23,
231
,
244

tax reform bill (1986),
338
,
342
–45

Taylor, Leroy,
22

Teacher in Space Program,
335

Tehran, Iran, U.S. Embassy in,
8
,
270

television:

Gingrich’s use of,
293
–94

O’Neill’s discomfort with,
54
–55,
136
,
137
–38

O’Neill’s use of,
136
,
137
–43,
164
,
185
–86,
210
–11,
256
–57,
295

Reagan’s career in,
89
–90

Reagan’s use of,
43
–44,
122
–25,
160
,
184
,
335
,
357

see also specific shows

terrorism,
170
,
273
,
283
,
358
,
360

Thatcher, Margaret,
309
–10,
328
,
333
–34,
335

Thurmond, Strom,
73

Time,
23
,
134
,
354

“Time for Choosing, A,”
90

Today,
214
,
291
,
299

Tolchin, Martin,
285
,
299
,
339

Tracy, Spencer,
3
,
45
,
80
–81

Transportation Department, U.S.,
231

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire,
99

“trickle down” economics,
175
,
201
,
220

Trotsky, Leon,
261

Troubles, the,
330
,
335

Truman, Harry,
37
,
86

“Tuesday to Thursday club,”
106
–7

Tunney, Gene,
72

Twain, Mark,
363

Ullman, Al,
28

unemployment,
102
,
171
–72,
183
,
208
,
213
–16,
228
,
230
,
233
,
240
,
252
,
253
,
254
–56,
292
,
317

United Auto Workers (UAW),
214
–15

United Fruit Company,
262

United Press International,
208

United States Information Agency,
246

universal national health insurance,
8

Vandenberg, Arthur,
261

veto override,
228
–29

Vietnam War,
18
,
109
,
156
,
262
,
267
,
354

“voodoo economics,”
177

“Wake Up, Mr. President” rally,
213
–15

Walker, Robert,
156
,
295
,
307

Wallis, Hal,
81

Wall Street Journal,
209
,
239
,
282
–83,
301
,
350

Warner, Jack,
76
,
81
,
87

Warner Bros. studios,
68
,
80
–81,
83
,
91
,
330

strike at,
86
–87,
98

War Powers Act (1973),
265
–66,
268
,
271
–72

Washington, D.C.:

current political divisiveness and dysfunction in,
xvi
–xvii,
370
–71

insiders and outsiders in,
17
–18,
159

political atmosphere of,
xiii
–xiv

society in,
28
,
34

Washington, George,
xiii
,
371

Washington Hilton,
60
,
69
,
71
,
340

Washington Monument,
211

Washington Post,
34
,
44
,
46
,
150
,
178
,
198
,
222
–23,
232
,
235
,
237
,
244
,
280
,
296
–97

Wasserman, Lew,
89

“Watergate babies,”
156
–57,
303
–6

Watergate scandal,
7
,
23
,
57
,
108
,
112
,
156

“water’s edge” bipartisanship,
261
–62,
275

Waxman, Henry,
209

Wayne, John,
5

Weinberger, Caspar “Cap,”
265
,
269
,
280

Weisman, Steven,
11
,
235
–36

Weiss, Ari,
60
,
116
,
152
,
153
,
185
,
200
,
211
,
229

West Germany,
314
,
316

Where’s the Rest of Me?
(Reagan),
81

White, Kevin,
58

Will, George F.,
163
,
243

Wilson, Charlie,
163

Wirthlin, Richard,
42

Wood, Natalie,
89

Wordsworth, William,
225

“World’s Record Apple Pie” event,
211
–12

World War II,
4
,
36
,
82
–83,
85
,
103
,
182
,
208
,
255
,
270
,
299
,
309
,
313
,
348

Wright, Jim,
180
,
203
,
220
,
228
–29,
255
,
285
–86

Wyman, Jane,
80
,
83
–84

Yatron, Gus,
126

Yearling, The
(film),
83

Chris Matthews:
xviii
,
16
,
50
,
284

Courtesy Ronald Reagan Library:
26
,
66
,
132
,
308

Associated Press:
40
,
114
,
206
,
224
,
258
(bottom),
328
,
346
,
362

Getty Images:
76
,
148
,
164
,
180
,
338

Box 4, Folder 1, Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr. Congressional Papers (CA2009-01), John J. Burns Library, Boston College:
94

White House Photo:
242

Stuart Franklin/Magnum Photos:
258

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