20. “U.S. Opposes Soviet on the Displaced,” New York Times, November 4, 1947, A5. 21. “Marshall Says DP Exit Would Ease U.S.–Russian Friction in Europe,” New York Times, July 17, 1947, A6.
22. “Rosenwald Urges U.S. to Take DP’s,” New York Times, May 13, 1947, A8.
23. “Bill on Displaced Faces Stiff Fight,” New York Times, May 18, 1947, A29.
24. “Clark Urges U.S. to Take Refugees,” New York Times, July 19, 1947, A5.
25. “Law Change Urged to Admit Refugees,” New York Times, April 2, 1947, A11.
26. “Reagan Backs Bill for DP’s,” New York Times, May 8, 1947, A5.
27. John Howard Lawson, Film in the Battle of Ideas (Masses & Mainstream, 1953). See Marvin Olasky, “Reagan: A wonderful life,” World magazine, February 7, 2004, 52. 28. This is not the place to debate the subsequent blacklist and the Hollywood Ten. That is a separate discussion.
29. “Star Witnesses,” Newsweek, November 3, 1947, 23–25.
30. Reagan, “Testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee,” October 25, 1947.
31. Quoted by Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, 166.
32. “Film Stars’ Lawyer Hits Kangaroo Court,” Daily Worker, October 24, 1947, 3. (Note: the date may have been misprinted.)
33. Anne Edwards, Early Reagan, 350.
34. Schweizer, Reagan’s War, 25–27, 33.
35. Gladwin Hill, “Reagan Weighing a New Role in Gubernatorial Race on Coast,” The New York Times, January 23, 1965.
36. Meroney, “Rehearsals for a Lead Role.”
37. Quoted in Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, 141.
38. Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, 144.
39. This line and anecdote has been widely quoted. Hayden’s HUAC testimony, April 10, 1951; McCoogan, “How the Commies Were Licked,” New York Times, April 11, 1951, 14; and Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, 212. Among more recently available sources, see Meroney, “Rehearsals for a Lead Role.”
40. Earl B. Dunckel oral-history testimony, April 27, 1982, RRL, OHT, Vol. 14, Box 4, 16–17.
41. Quoted in “More Jobs in Films for Negroes Urged,” New York Times, November 10, 1952, A32.
21. “Reagan Warns U.S. Is In War,” Bartlesville Examiner Enterprise, March 1, 1962. 22. Reagan, “A Foot in the Door,” address to the Illinois Manufacturers’ Costs Association, May 9, 1961. Text on file at RRL.
23. Reagan, “A Time for Choosing,” October 27, 1964.
24. He said he told “Republican leaders” (his Kitchen Cabinet presumably) that if they would let him fulfill his speaking invitations in California, “I’d come back and tell them who should be running for Gov and I’d campaign for him. After a few months I discovered the candidate.” Reagan letter to Lorraine and Elwood Wagner, March 9, 1992, Young Americans Foundation (YAF) collection.
25. The documentary was a presentation of a group called The National Education Program, the president of which was George S. Benson of the American Heritage Center in Searcy, Arkansas. I watched part two of the video at the Reagan Library. The library is not in possession of part one.
26. I’ve been told that this documentary is also about the Communist threat. While that is very likely the case, I have not been able to confirm that because I cannot locate a videotape copy.
27. Interview with Lew Uhler, July 1, 2005.
16. Ibid.
17. Reagan, “Speech to Republican State Central Committee Luncheon,” Hilton Plaza, Miami, Florida, May 21, 1968. Speech filed at Reagan Library, “RWR—Speeches and Articles (1968),” vertical files.
18. “Speech to Republican State Central Committee Finance Dinner,” SheratonCleveland Hotel, Cleveland, May 22, 1968. Speech filed at Reagan Library, “RWR—Speeches and Articles (1968),” vertical files.
19. As Clark’s biographer, I have had access to these materials.
20. Of all the work that has been done on this, the best source is a superb PBS documentary which interviewed all of the participants—Israeli, Egyptian, Soviet—at the highest levels. These individuals all spoke openly of the Soviet effort. “The 50 Years War: Israel and the Arabs,” episode II, “The Six Day War,” PBS, 1999.
21. The only transcript that I have been able to locate is held in Bill Clark’s personal files.
7. Reagan, “Remarks on Soviet–U.S. Relations at the Town Hall of California Meeting,” Los Angeles, August 26, 1987.
8. A.V. Mikhaylov, “Rejoinder: No-Good Subverters,” Pravda, February 8, 1985, 5, published as “Reagan Attempt to ‘Belittle’ Yalta Accords Hit,” in FBIS-SOV-11-FEB-85, February 11, 1985, A1.
9. Richard V. Allen, “The Man Who Changed the Game Plan,” National Interest, Summer 1996, 61.
10. Interview with Caspar Weinberger, October 10, 2002.
11. Weinberger speaking at the conference, “Reagan’s War and the War on Terrorism,” hosted by the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC, November 13, 2002. 12. Weinberger speaking at a November 12, 1999 Ethics and Public Policy Center symposium titled, “Rebuilding American Power,” held at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC. His remarks were published in the Ethics and Public Policy Center newsletter, Winter 2000, no. 69, 1.
13. Caspar W. Weinberger, “A Most Remarkable President,” published in a July 2004 Ronald Reagan commemorative issue of Libertas, a publication by the Young America’s Foundation.
14. Weinberger speaking during interview for documentary, In the Face of Eviclass="underline" Reagan’s War in Word and Deed (American Vantage Films and Capital Films I, LLC, 2005).
15. Yuri Zhukov, “Resurrection of a Dinosaur,” Pravda, April 11, 1975, 4, published as “Zhukov Assails Reagan’s London Speech,” in FBIS, April 17, 1975, B7. Zhukov was quoting Reagan’s own words from a speech in London that spring of 1975, the text of which is lost, with only two handwritten pages known to exist. Reagan gave the speech on April 7, 1975 to the Pilgrim Society in London. A full text of the speech does not exist. Two handwritten pages of the speech are in the possession of Kurt Ritter of Texas A&M University, who generously shared the two pages with me. They were given to Ritter by Reagan presidential speechwriter C. Landon Parvin. Ritter knows of no complete text of the speech, and neither does the Reagan Library or Hoover Institution (which has many Reagan speech texts). On April 8, 1975, the speech was reported by the London Times (“Warning that Europe is Main Soviet Prize”) and Daily Mirror (“A Red Alert by Reagan”).
16. Thatcher in Edwin Feulner, Jr., ed., Leadership for America: The Principles of Conservatism (Dallas, TX: Spence, 2000), 11.
17. Reagan said this in a series of interviews he did in the spring and summer of 1975 with author Charles Hobbs, publishing for a campaign book released in 1976. Charles D. Hobbs, Ronald Reagan’s Call to Action (Nashville, TN and New York: Thomas Nelson, 1976), 50–51.
18. Interview with Ed Meese, December 5, 2001.
19. Of course, some would later dispute the morality of certain policies of President Reagan, which was understandable, but what they really disputed were means, not ends. Reagan thought that aiding the government of El Salvador, for example, would ultimately help much more than hurt. Domestically, he felt poverty was better addressed by the private sector than the public sector.
20. Allen in Schweizer, ed., The Fall of the Berlin Wall, 50.
21. Monica Crowley, Nixon Off the Record (New York: Random House, 1996), 26, 92–93.
22. Reagan letter to Lorraine and Elwood Wagner, August 3, 1971, YAF collection.
23. Letter quoted in Helene Von Damm, Sincerely, Ronald Reagan (Ottawa, IL: Green Hill Publishers, 1976), 75.
24. Ibid., 108. Reagan wrote to a friend saying that he supported a “bettering of relations with mainland China.” However, he felt that “the dumping of a long time friend and ally, the Republic of China on Taiwan,” was unforgivable. Reagan letter to Lorraine and Elwood Wagner, June 12, 1979, YAF collection.