Paul Kengor: The Crusader

Republican Convention, 1976, 51–53 Republican Party, switch to, by RR, 28 Reston, James, 183

Reykjavik summit, 260–62

Reynolds, Burrel J., 6–7

Reynolds, Dean, 91

Roach, John R. (archbishop), 108

Robinson, Peter, 264

Robinson, Roger W., 116, 121–22, 148, 157, 160, 162, 166, 190, 250, 251–52

Rockefeller, Nelson, 51

Rodman, Peter W., 67–68, 233, 259 Rogers, Ginger, 11, 68

Rokicki, Rev. S. C., 212–13

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 14, 42

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 9, 28, 154, 307 Roosevelt, James, 13

Rostowski, Adam, 110

Rowen, Henry, 118, 160

Russert, Tim, 308

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 49, 50, 90

Sorin, Valentin, 264

Sorrell, Herb, 10

Soviet Union

breakup of, 294–97

construction of pipeline in, 122–23

drop in oil prices and, 251–56

plans to invade Poland and, 93–97

Poland and, 91–93

Polish crisis

RR places sanctions on, 107–9

RR’s economic war against, 118–22 Spasowski, Romuald, 100, 101–3

speeches of Ronald Reagan. See also Reagan, Ronald Wilson “Dutch”

anticommunist, 27–28

Berlin Wall, 263–64

City Upon a Hill in 1977, 59–61

“evil empire,” 173–75

Farewell Address, 285–86

first “State of the Union,” 62–64

liberation speech at Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, in 1987, 271–72

1976 Republican Convention, 51–52

at Notre Dame, May 17, 1981, 77–78

at Royal Institute of International Affairs, 278–79

“Time for Choosing,” 28

Westminster Address, 140–45, 171–72 Spencer, Stuart, 66, 175

Spheres of influence, RR’s rejection of, 44

Stalin, Joseph, 42

Stanislaw, Joseph, 287

Stanwyck, Barbara, 11

Star Wars. See Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

Stewart, Jimmy, 22, 68

Stinger antiaircraft missiles, 257–60, 274–75 Stone, George, 108

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), 175–84

arms race and, 242–46

deception program for, 210–11

as factor, in fall of Communism, 300–302

Stratton, William G., 14 Stripling, Robert, 16

Rachwald, Arthur R., 92

Radio Free Europe, 288–89

Radio Marti, 172

Raider, James, 5, 9

Rains, Claude, 68

Raphel, Arnold, 276

Rather, Dan, 270

Ravin, Yakob, 314

Reagan, John Edward “Jack” (father), 6 Reagan, (John) Neil (brother), 6

Reagan, Maureen (daughter), 53

Reagan, Michael (son), 53

Reagan, Nancy Davis (second wife), 73, 138, 175, 190

assassination attempt on RR and, 75–77 Gorbachev’s letter to, on death of RR, 307

marriage to RR, 21–22

Reagan, Nelle Clyde Wilson (mother), 6, 8, 73

theology of, 53

Reagan, Ronald Wilson “Dutch.” See also speeches of Ronald Reagan

Afghanistan and, 230–32

anticommunist speeches of, 27–28 anticommunist views of, 25–27

arms race and, 237–42

invasion of Grenada and, 191–98

John Paul II and, 87–89, 133–40, 279, 287

Latin America and, 268–71

management style of, 322n15

morale and, 367n8

morality-driven foreign policy of, 45–47, 50–51

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

détente, 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

Weiss, Gus, 123, 124–25, 154–55 Wheeler, Jack, 259

WHO radio station (Des Moines, Iowa), 11

Williamsburg summit (1983), 184–86 Wilson, Charlie, 274

Winthrop, John, 59

Wood, Natalie, 22 Wyman, Jane, 21

Yakovlev, Alexander, 297

Yalta Conference, 42–43, 87, 106 Yeltsin, Boris, 298, 299

Yergin, Daniel, 287

Yuzhin, Boris, 220

Zaitsev, Mikhail, 232

Zaslavsky, Ilya, 222

Zawitkowski, Chris, 286–87

Zhukov, Yuri, 43, 129

Zorin, Valentin, 50, 101, 183, 198, 212

PAUL KENGOR, PhD, is the author of the New York Times Extended List bestseller God and Ronald Reagan and God and George W. Bush . A professor of political science and director of the Center for Vision and Values at Grove City College, he lives with his wife and four children in Grove City, Pennsylvania.