Moscow summit and, 277–78
perestroika and, 223–26
reaction of, to RR’s arms race, 242–46
resignation of, 299–300
Reykjavik summit and, 260–62 on RR, 302–4
RR’s challenge to tear down Berlin Wall and, 263–67
RR’s role in selection of, 219–23
Soviet breakup and, 294–97
withdrawal from Afghanistan by, 273–75
Gorbachev, Raisa, 218
Graham, Rev. Billy, 76
Graybill, Ed, 3, 5
Graybill, Ruth, 6
Greenfield, Jeff, 61
Greenspan, Alan, 80
Grenada, invasion of, 191–96
Soviet Union’s reaction to, 196–98 Grinevsky, Oleg, 222, 243
Grishin, Viktor, 217
Gromyko, Andrei, 151, 212, 217, 222 Gurov, A., 204
Haig, Alexander M., Jr., 74, 99, 129, 147, 150
Halberstam, David, 33–34
Halloran, Richard, 130
Hannaford, Peter, 40
Harper, Ed, 245
Harrison, Earl, 14
Hatfield, Mark, 207
Havel, Vaclav, 103
Hayden, Sterling, 13, 19
Helsinki Accords, 48, 105
Heston, Charlton, 22
Hewitt, Don, 33
Hill, James, 177
Hinckley, John, 75, 76, 77
Hoffman, David E., 308
Holden, William, 11, 13
Hollywood, Communists in, 25–26
Hollywood Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions (HICCASP), 12–13
Honecker, Erich, 314
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 15–18
Humphrey, Gordon, 273–74
Ikle, Fred, 74, 175, 176, 259
intermediate-range nuclear forces (INFs), deployment of, 205–10
Iran-Contra Affair, 269–71
Iran hostage crisis, 56–57
Kaiser, Robert, 198
Kaludzinski, Wladyslaw, 187–88
Karmal, Babrak, 229
Karzai, Hamid, 308
Kennan, George F., 42
Kennedy, Edward “Ted”
Jackson, Jesse, 194
Janssen, David, 22
Jaruzelski, Wojciech, 85, 93, 97, 137 John Paul II (pope), 77, 97–98, 113, 187
invasion of Poland and, 93
Polish crisis and, 114–15
RR and, 87–89, 133–40, 279, 287 Johnson, Lyndon B., 28, 36, 159
Jolson, Al, 12
on death of RR, 308
overtures to Soviets and, 205–10 on SDI, 181, 183, 184
text of KGB letter on, 317–20
Kennedy, John F., 38, 159, 307
Kennedy, Robert F., 314
debate on Vietnam War with RR, 33–35
RR on assassination of, 36–39
Kerry, John, 194
Keyworth, George, 175–76, 180
Khrushchev, Nikita, 25–26, 36, 44
Kirkland, Lane, 108, 289
Kissinger, Henry, 48, 54, 61
Knute Rockne, All-American (1940), 11
Kobysh, Vitaly, 107, 183
Kohl, Helmut, 185, 205–6
Kolesnichenko, Tomas, 280
Kondracke, Morton, 247–48
Kontorovich, Vladimir, 202
Korionov, Vitaliy, 120, 143–44, 203
Kornilov, Yuri, 110
Kraemer, Sven, 116, 190
Kryuchkov, Vladimir, 295
Krzaklewski, Marian, 308–9
Kuklinski, Ryszard, 92–93
Ladd, Alan, 22
Laghi, Pio Cardinal, 134, 136 Landon, Michael, 112
Latin America, RR and, 268–71 Laux, David, 116
Lawson, John Howard, 15 Leahy, Patrick, 194
Leebaert, Derek, 158, 221 Lehman, Herbert H., 14
Lenczowski, John, 116, 190 Lewis, Anthony, 48
Lewis, Joseph, 34
Lindfors, Viveca, 68
Lithuania, 295–96
Loeb, James, 17
Lomeyko, Vladimir, 203
Lowell Park, Dixon, Illinois, 3–6 Lukhim, Vladimir, 300–301 Lyakhovskii, Aleksandr, 232
Macierewicz, Antoni, 287
Marshall, George C., 14
Martynenko, V., 204
Marvin, Lee, 22
Matlock, Jack, 297
Matthau, Walter, 22
Matthews, Chris, 24–25
McCarthy, Eugene, 66–67
McCarthy, Joe, 38
McClendon, Sarah, 248
McFarlane, Robert “Bud,” 116, 136, 170, 175–76, 192
McNamara, Robert, 178
Meese, Edwin, III, 42, 45, 81, 150, 179, 235–36, 270
Merman, Ethel, 23
Meroney, John, 19
Metcalf, Joseph, III, 193
Meyer, Herb, 120, 199
Miller, Marion, 25
Mitrokhin, Vasiliy, 209
Mitterand, Francois, 122, 124, 150, 154 Mondale, Walter, 194, 212, 213
Montgomery, Robert, 16
Moomaw, Donn, 75
Moral equivalency doctrine, RR’s rejection of, 44–45
Morris, Edmund, 59, 114, 201, 221, 231, 301
Morris, Richard, 116
Moscow summit, 277–78, 297
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), 178–79
National Security Act (1947), 162
National Security Decision Directives (NSDDs), 125–28
NSDD-32, 128–32, 298
NSDD-41, 156
NSDD-48, 156–57
NSDD-54, 158–60
NSDD-66, 160–63
NSDD-70, 163–64
NSDD-75, 165–73
NSDD-153, 246
NSDD-166, 232–37, 257, 258
NSDD-320, 279–81
Nicaragua, 269–71
Nitze, Paul, 246
Nixon, Richard M., 16, 38, 54, 68, 194 moral foreign policy and, 46–47
Nofziger, Lyn, 12, 32
Nordheimer, Jon, 48
Novikov, Yevgenny, 202, 203, 222, 252, 253
Nagorski, Andrew, 286
Nakasone, Yasuhiro, 185
National Endowment for Democracy, 172 national liberation, wars of, 48
O’Brien, Pat, 12
Olin, Viktor, 183
Osborne, Robert, 11–12 Osnos, Peter, 47
Palmer, Olive, 306, 324n6
Palmer, Savila, 306, 324n6
Palydowycz, Severin, 65–66
Pankin, Alexei, 308
Pavel, Dan, 308
Pax Association, 85
peaceful coexistence
RR’s rejection of, 44
Soviet view of, 46–47
perestroika, 223–26
Perle, Richard, 121, 176
Pershing II missiles, deployment of, 205–10 Petrov, Aleksey, 110
Piecuch, Henryk, 290
Pillsbury, Michael, 259
Pipes, Richard, 86, 93, 94, 98–99, 116–17, 125, 129, 136, 149, 166–67, 219, 220, 289
Pirogov, Vladimir, 203
Poindexter, John, 116, 118, 175–76, 246 Poland, 78, 83, 186–89. See also Solidarity
declaration of martial law in, 84–87
fears of Soviet invasion of, 91–93
free elections in, 286–88
possible use of U.S. force to invade, 93–97
RR places sanctions on, 107–9
RR’s visit to, 292–93
Polish Catholic-Social Union, 85
Politi, Marco, 136
Pompowski, Jan, 102
Ponomarev, Manki, 280
Powers, Thomas S., 184
Preuss, David, 108
Price, Vincnet, 22
Puddington, Arch, 290
assassination attempt on, 75–77
on assasssination of Kennedy, 36–39
assessment of, 366n7, 367–68n9
on Berlin Wall, 34–35
boosting military morale and, 81–83
hallenge to tear down Berlin Wall by, 263–67
character of
influence of lifeguard years on, 305–6
influence of mother on, 8
optimism of, 22, 81
religious faith of, 8
self-assuredness of, 66–67
self-esteem of, 8
death of, 307–10
debate with Robert Kennedy and, 33–35
declaration of martial law in Poland and, 84–89