Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

^{With Christina, our second child, I perfected the art of letting the baby sleep on my chest. Schwarzenegger Archive}

^{On the way to vacation in Sun Valley in early 1993, I’m showing Christina a magazine story about how Maria balances family and career. Schwarzenegger Archive}

^{Most days I would bring Christina with me to the gym. Schwarzenegger Archive}

^{Patrick, our older son, was born in September 1993. Schwarzenegger Archive}

^{By this time, I had the nurturing thing down. Above, Katherine snuggles while Patrick snoozes on my chest. Schwarzenegger Archive}

^{I was also adept at his diapers and bottles. Schwarzenegger Archive}

^{I celebrated my forty-eighth birthday in Sun Valley with the guys: my old friend Adi Erber, a ski pro, my nephew Patrick Knapp, my brother-in-law Bobby Shriver, financial advisor Paul Wachter, and Godfather producer Al Ruddy. Schwarzenegger Archive}

^{Katherine read Arthur’s Chicken Pox to me while I was recuperating from the heart-valve replacement surgeries, 1997. Schwarzenegger Archive}

^{We Schwarzeneggers clown around at a hotel in Hawaii, 2000. Our youngest, Christopher, is three. Schwarzenegger Archive}

^{After fishing at a pond near our house in Sun Valley. Schwarzenegger Archive}

^{Katherine and I horse around in the Santa Monica Mountains. Schwarzenegger Archive}

^{I supervise Christopher and Patrick at a cricket stadium during a trip to South Africa for the Special Olympics, 2001. Schwarzenegger Archive}

^{Tranquilized lioness, park ranger, and us on safari in Tanzania. I was at least as excited as the kids because big cats have always fascinated me. Schwarzenegger Archive}

^{We’re a skiing family, here in Sun Valley—snow and skis and pine forests and mountains have always been part of my life. Christopher isn’t in the photo because he was only four and was busy that day skiing on the bunny slope. Schwarzenegger Archive}

^{This is me kissing me on Halloween, 2001, except that the right-hand Arnold is Maria wearing a Terminator mask. Schwarzenegger Archive}

^{As you can tell from the photo above, Halloween is a big deal in the Schwarzenegger house. Schwarzenegger Archive}

^{Patrick and Christopher with me behind the governor’s desk in Sacramento. California State Archives / Steven Hellon}

^{Trips like this one to Maui during spring break 2007 were a happy change from all the time our family spent apart because of the governorship. Schwarzenegger Archive}

^{Katherine draping her long hair over my head for laughs. Schwarzenegger Archive}

^{I still love driving my M47 tank from the Austrian army, which now resides at a studio lot outside Los Angeles and appears occasionally in World War II movies. On board with me are Patrick, Christopher (in the tanker’s helmet), and my assistant Greg Dunn. Schwarzenegger Archive}

^{In winter 2011, my nephew Patrick and I went to the grave of Meinhard, my brother and his father, in Kitzbuhel, Austria, during an unusually heavy snow. Schwarzenegger Archive}

^{Suiting up with Christopher. Cindy Gold}

^{Suiting up with Patrick. Schwarzenegger Archive}

^{Katherine and Christina. Schwarzenegger Archive}

^{June 2012 was graduation month for Patrick, who finished high school, and Katherine, who completed her bachelor’s degree at the University of Southern California. I’d grown the goatee for my role in The Tomb, a prison movie with Sylvester Stallone. Cindy Gold}

^{For my fiftieth birthday, July 30, 1997, Maria surprised me with this poster. It’s a still life of tchotchkes and hobbies showing what I was all about: hiking, Hummers, fine pipes and watches, drawing in pen and ink, stogies and schnapps, being a dad, chess and pool, tennis and golf, movie scripts, motorcycles and leather, the history of weightlifting, and the future of bodybuilding. My list of interests has only grown since then. Schwarzenegger Archive}

CHAPTER 23 A Political Proposition

PEOPLE LOVED TO JOKE about the possibility of me entering politics. At a governor’s council dinner in Sacramento in 1994, Governor Pete Wilson greeted me from the podium, saying, “I’d like to see you run for governor, Arnold. Someone who has played Kindergarten Cop already has the requisite experience to deal with the legislature.” That got a laugh. But it was not far-fetched that someone from