The Triumph of Nancy Reagan by Karen Tumulty (short books for teens txt) 📕

United Press International, “Nancy Gets Warning About Dangers of ‘Living Rich,’ ” San Francisco Examiner, March 20, 1981, A-19.

“It better be fixed now before it becomes even worse”: WHORM subject files: PP005-01: 025433, Reagan Presidential Library.

“They wanted to set up office space… important to her too”: Fred Fielding, interview by author, Washington, DC, February 7, 2019.

“She was not in favor of them staying there… get in the way of a smoothly functioning White House”: Baker, author interview, January 4, 2017.

“Looking back… do things differently if we had it to do over again”: Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 18.

“My family comes first… and homey as possible”: “A Chat with Nancy Reagan,” Newsweek, March 9, 1981, 27.

“a mistake that only added… who kept acquiring more and more expensive items”: Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 2.

“Nancy Reagan got so involved… Monsieur Marc”: “Nancy Moves Around Town in Style,” New York Daily News, October 22, 1981, 11.

The coverage also contrasted… federal support for the one she visited: Ken Auletta, “The Reagan Voluntarism in Search of Volunteers,” New York Daily News, October 25, 1981, 46.

All of this would pass… until it did: Deaver, Behind the Scenes, 118.

“These calls became the source of some amusement… always to protect the president”: Sheila Tate, Lady in Red: An Intimate Portrait of Nancy Reagan (New York: Crown Forum, 2018), 219.

“If the renovations made people angry… china drove them crazy”: Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 21.

an especially close and important relationship: Ronnie and Britain’s “Iron Lady” had been transatlantic political “soul mates”—that was Ronnie’s description—from their first one-on-one meeting in London in 1975, shortly after Thatcher became the first woman to head the Conservative Party. He wrote later: “Of course, it never occurred to me that before many years would pass, Margaret and I would be sitting across from each other as the heads of our respective governments.” Ronald Reagan, An American Life, loc. 2878 of 12608, Kindle.

Nancy introduced what were then considered novel and exciting foods: C. K. Hickey, “All the Presidents’ Meals,” Foreign Policy online, last modified February 16, 2019, https://foreignpolicy.com/all-the-presidents-meals-state-dinners-white-house-infographic.

“She always fixed me up with a hot Hollywood star… Ginger Rogers!”: Shultz, author interview, October 20, 2016.

“enough to paper his entire office”: Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 205.

“There were roller-coaster times with Nancy Reagan… protecting her”: Allen, interview, May 28, 2002, Miller Center.

“If Ronnie had thrown Stockman out… he expected their loyalty”: Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 51.

negative sentiment toward her running double what it had against her predecessors: Donnie Radcliffe and Barry Sussman, “Nancy’s Image Change,” Washington Post online, October 24, 1981, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1981/10/24/nancys-image-change/62fe7149-c4c1-49d1-8a28-8a7ef2456f55.

“You know, some days… it must be my fault”: Chris Wallace, First Lady, 56.

“In many ways… just seemed to rub them the wrong way”: Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, ix.

CHAPTER TWELVE

“Don’t listen to the stories”… “take good care of her”: Del Quentin Wilber, Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan (New York: Henry Holt, 2011), 103.

traffic that came over the radio… “Rawhide is okay”: Mark Ambinder, “Full Secret Service Transcript: The Moment Reagan Was Shot,” Atlantic online, last modified March 11, 2011, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/03/full-secret-service-transcript-the-moment-reagan-was-shot/72343.

He sprinted… up three flights of stairs to the top floor of the residence: Wilber research notes provided to the author.

command center alerted agents… at the Twenty-Second Street entrance: Ambinder, “Moment Reagan Was Shot.”

“But they told me”… “He has to know I’m here!”: Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 1–2.

“Doctors believe bleeding to death… Touch and go”: Larry Speakes with Robert Pack, Speaking Out: The Reagan Presidency from Inside the White House (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1988), 6.

His blood pressure plummeted… not get a systolic reading: Jerry Parr with Carolyn Parr, In the Secret Service: The True Story of the Man Who Saved President Reagan’s Life (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House, 2013), 215–30.

“open and bleeding… it was monstrous”: Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 4.

“God, you tremble… such a clear shot at the president”: “Attempted Assassination of Ronald Reagan,” YouTube, 9:38, Tulsaphotog, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeHYFgU13TM.

Soviet submarines: Ambinder, “Moment Reagan Was Shot.”

Allen could see… wobbling and his arms shaking: ibid.

worry etched on her own: John Pekkanen, “The Saving of the President,” Washingtonian, August 1, 1981, available at https://www.washingtonian.com/1981/08/01/from-the-archives-the-saving-of-the-president.

fly in from Houston with his own specialists: ibid.

he never saw the note again: Charlotte Wiessner, daughter of Dr. Daniel Ruge, telephone interview by author, August 8, 2017.

“Dan was a marvelous surgeon… She didn’t like him at all”: Richard Davis, author interview, March 5, 2017.

“My father wasn’t crazy about her”: Wiessner, author interview, August 8, 2017.

“What kind of family is this?… Even a bullet can’t bring us together”: Patti Davis, The Way I See It, 270–71.

The family would not all be together again until Thanksgiving: Michael Reagan with Hyams, Outside Looking In, 195–96; confirmed by Dennis Revell, interview by author, Sacramento, CA, July 25, 2019.

“Ronnie’s been shot. Can you come?”: Barbara Sinatra with Wendy Holden, Lady Blue Eyes: My Life with Frank (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011), 267.]

“asked for a television set in his room so he could view this program tonight”: “The Opening of the Academy Awards in 1981,” YouTube, 8:04, Oscars, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq4jfI-ItAU&list=PLJ8RjvesnvDO2x9ClhRsdL2DbgFYHMM3Z.

“I didn’t know I was supposed to be holding the nation together… Neither did I feel that the president was dying”: Nofziger, Nofziger, 292–98.

“The president was not in serious danger of dying”: Elmer W. Lammi, United Press International online, “Dr. Dennis O’Leary, Chief Spokesman for George Washington University…” August 18, 1981, https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/08/18/Dr-Dennis-OLeary-chief-spokesman-for-George-Washington-University/7996366955200.

“While it is common… as sharp as any yet recorded”: Barry Sussman, “Shooting Gives Reagan Boost in Popularity,” Washington Post online, April 2, 1981, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1981/04/02/shooting-gives-reagan-boost-in-popularity/9515e340-f295-42e7-89c4-c96ed0ab7a44/?utm_term=.8912c3ea6df4.

“The weather was beautiful… how much we missed our life in California”: Ronald Reagan, An American Life, loc. 3904 of 12608, Kindle.

“This woman whose presence… almost lost between my arms”: Patti Davis, The Way I See It, 274.

“The thing that really got to her… Sadat really hit her hard”: Jim Kuhn, interview by author, Washington, DC, February 28, 2019.

“Dear Mrs. R.… Lucky me”: Nancy Reagan, I Love You, Ronnie, 156–60.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

eight-star hotel: Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, 200–201.

in bed by ten: ibid.,