Moscow summit and, 277–78
1976 presidential bid of, 47–49
convention preparations, 49–51
Republican Convention, 51–53
1980 presidential campaign of
arms race, 64–65
Republican Convention, 65–66
restoring morale objective in, 61–64 slogan for, 62
vision for, 59–61
1984 presidential campaign of, 200–202 Ted Kennedy factor and, 205–10 reelection of, 212–13, 217
Soviet Union and, 202–4
unintended statements during, 211–12 opposition to construction of pipeline in Soviet Union by, 122–23, 146–55 opposition to Helsinki Accords by, 48 Poland and, 290–91
Polish crisis and, 267–68
Moscow’s anti-Reagan campaign, 109–10
possible use of U.S. force to invade Poland and, 93–94
request to light a candle to show support for Poland, 99–103
response to martial law in Poland by, 97–99
RR’s letter to Brezhnev, 104–5
sanctions on Poland and Soviet Union by, 107–9
recollections of childhood friends of, 306, 324n6
rejection of Cold War policies by, 41–45 containment, 42–43
detente, 43–44
moral equivalency, 44–45
Sadat, Anwar, 113, 231
SAG. See Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Santa Fe Trail (1940), 11
Saudi Arabia, 251–55
Schecter, Jerrold, 92
Schecter, Leona, 92
Schindler, Rabbi Alexander, 108
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., 149
Schmidt, Helmut, 109, 205
Schram, Martin, 258
Schwartz, Fred, 19
Schweizer, Peter, 74–75, 210–11, 221–22, 232–33, 234–35, 252
Scott, James M., 233
Screen Actors Guild (SAG), 10–15
black actors and, 20
RR’s second term as president of, 25–27
SDI. See Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) Senior Interdepartmental Group
International Economic Policy (SIG- IEP), 156–58, 162
Serov, Vladimir, 165
Shakhnovich, Aleksandr, 309
Shaw, Artie, 13
Shcherbitsky, M. Vladimir, 88
Sheridan, Ann, 68
Shevardnadze, Eduard, 241, 261, 274, 295 Shultz, George, 156, 176, 178, 185, 301 SDI and, 246
Sidey, Hugh, 201
SIG-IEP. See Senior Interdepartmental Group-International Economic Policy (SIG-IEP)
Sikorski, Radek, 102–3, 293
Simpson, Christopher, 157
Sinatra, Frank, 76
Six Day War, 37
Smith, Richard H., 247–48
Solidarity, 287–88. See also Poland
crackdown on, 91–93
declaration of martial law and, 84–87 Reagan’s aid to, 288–91
rise of, 90
RR’s opinion of, 291–92
Taiwan, 46
Talbott, Strobe, 301
Tarasenko, Sergei, 274
tax cuts, 80–81
Taylor, Robert, 16, 28
Teller, Edward, 176, 301
Thatcher, Margaret, 44, 122, 152, 185, 193, 205–6, 221, 246, 307
Thomas, Helen, 182–83
Thomas, J. Parnell, 16, 17
Thorn, Gaston, 185
Tikhonov, Nikolai, 217
Trofimenko, Genrikh, 46, 301
Trudeau, Pierre, 110, 185
Truman, Harry S., 67, 159
Trumbo, Dalton, 15
Tunney, John V., 206–9
Tyminski, Stanislaw, 287 Uhler, Lew, 29 ul-Haq, Zia, 276
Vasilyev, Gennady, 286
Velikhov, Yevgeny, 183
Vetrov, Vladimir I., 124, 156
Vietnam War, Kennedy-Reagan debate on, 33–35
Voice of America, 172
Volcker, Paul, 80
Volovets, S., 143
Weigel, George, 139
Weinberger, Caspar, 42–43, 121, 192,
Walesa, Lech, 84, 90, 91, 97, 149, 187, 279, 287, 289, 290–91, 308
Wallace, Chris, 183
Wallace, MIke, 201
Walsh, Lawrence, 270
Walters, Vernon, 136, 137
Waring, Fred, 23
Warner, Jack, 19
Watson, Russell, 275
Wayne, John, 11, 67, 68
Weaver, J. V. O., 57
194–95, 210, 242, 256, 259, 309 on arms race, 238
possible use of U.S. force to invade
Poland and, 94–95
Weiner, Tom, 210
