7 Ibid.
8 Massie quote from interview, March 21, 2005. Nancy Reagan quote from Nancy Reagan, My Turn (New York: Random House, 1989), 89.
9 Robert F. Gates, From the Shadows (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), 344.
10 Author interview with Rozanne Ridgway, June 20, 2005.
11 Jack F. Matlock, Jr., Reagan and Gorbachev (New York: Random House, 2004), 143-44.
12 Anatoly Dobrynin, In Confidence (New York: Times Books, 1995), 584.
13 Reagan’s appointment calendars from Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
14 Suzanne Massie letter to Ronald Reagan, October 27, 1985; Ronald Reagan letter to Suzanne Massie, November 15, 1985, Presidential Handwriting File Box 14, Folder 209, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
15 Ronald Reagan letters to Elsa Sandstrom and Alan Brown, in Skinner et al., Reagan: A Life, 414-15.
16 Author interview with Colin Powell, November 2, 2006.
Chapter 6: An Arrest and Its Consequences
1 Daily diaries of President Reagan and memo, Jack F. Matlock to John Poindexter, September 22, 1986, in Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
2 George Shultz, Turmoil and Triumph (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1993), 724. See also Serge Schmemann, “Chernobyl Fallout: Apocalyptic Tale and Fear,” New York Times, July 26, 1986, 1.
3 Author interview with Suzanne Massie, March 21, 2005.
4 Mikhail Gorbachev letter to Ronald Reagan, October 12, 1985; Ronald Reagan letter to Mikhail Gorbachev, November 1, 1985, in White House Staff and Office Files, Head of State, Box 2940, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
5 Ronald Reagan, An American Life (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990), 667.
6 For the general facts of the Daniloff case, see Jack F. Matlock, Jr., Reagan and Gorbachev (New York: Random House, 2004), 197-214, and Shultz, Turmoil and Triumph, 728-50.
7 Shultz, Turmoil and Triumph, 746.
8 George F. Will, “Reagan Botched the Daniloff Affair,” Washington Post, September 18, 1986, A25; George F. Will, “Reeling Toward Reykjavik,” Washington Post, October 3, 1986, A23.
9 Author interview with Frank Carlucci, January 19, 2005.
10 Anatoly S. Chernyaev, My Six Years with Gorbachev (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000), 84.
11 Barrett Seaman, “Has Reagan Gone Soft?” Time, October 13, 1986, 38.
12 Reagan’s memory as an actor: William H. Webster, oral interview, Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia, August 21, 2002, 26; David Remnick, “Reagan to Gorbachev, ‘Rodilsya, Ne Toropilsya,’” Washington Post, May 29, 1988, A20.
13 Chernyaev, My Six Years, 51.
14 Robert M. Gates, From the Shadows (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), 377.
Chapter 7: Keep Her Away
1 William S. Cohen and John Heinz, letter to The Honorable Ronald W. Reagan, June 3, 1986, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, WHORM files PE002, casefile 404941.
2 Suzanne Massie letter to Ronald Reagan, January 4, 1987, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
3 Ronald Reagan letter to Suzanne Massie, January 13, 1987, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
4 James Mann, Rise of the Vulcans (New York: Viking, 2004), 157.
5 President’s Daily Diary, February 3, 1987, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library; George Shultz, Turmoil and Triumph (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1993), 872-73.
6 Author interview with Suzanne Massie, February 16, 2008; Shultz, Turmoil and Triumph.
7 Author interview with Frank Carlucci, January 19, 2005.
8 Author interview with Nelson Ledsky, March 2, 2005.
9 Steven Engelberg, “Marines Say Two Guards Allowed Russians to Roam U.S. Embassy,” New York Times, March 28, 1987, 1.
10 The former NSC official passed on the information on the understanding that it would not be attributed to him.
11 Pete Early, “Spy Fiasco,” Washington Post Magazine, February 7, 1988, W20.
12 Shultz, Turmoil and Triumph, 880-85, 900.
13 Memorandum for Frank C. Carlucci from Fritz W. Ermarth (and attached letter to Massie for the president’s signature), April 23, 1987, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
14 Memorandum for the President from Frank C. Carlucci, April 30, 1987, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
Chapter 8: Carlucci’s Notes
1 Handwritten notes of Massie meeting of February 25, 1987, and Memorandum for the President from Frank C. Carlucci, April 30, 1987, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
2 Ibid.
3 Message to be mailed to Suzanne Massie, March 2, 1989, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
4 Author interview with Suzanne Massie, February 16, 2008.
PART III: BERLIN
Chapter 1: The Speech
1 Interview with Dana Rohrabacher, May 5, 2005.
2 Philip Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice, Germany United and Europe Transformed (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1995), 20.
3 Author interview with Brent Scowcroft, May 26, 2006.
Chapter 2: Twenty-fifth Anniversary
1 For details of the anniversary celebrations, see Rupert Cornwell, “German Views Collide Across Berlin Wall,” The Guardian, August 14, 1986, 2; Kevin Costelloe, “Berlin Wall Turns 25,” Associated Press, August 13, 1986.
2 Robert J. McCartney, “Berlin Wall At 25,” Washington Post, August 13, 1986, A19.
3 Terence Hunt, “Reagan Says East Germany Should Tear Down Wall,” Associated Press, August 11, 1986.
4 Ronald Reagan News Conference, August 12, 1986, in Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
5 Author interview with Barry Lowenkron, May 18, 2005.
6 John Lewis Gaddis, Now We Know (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), 140 and passim.
7 Hope M. Harrison, Driving the Soviets Up the Wall (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003), 158.
8 Gaddis, Now We Know, 146.
9 Harrison, Driving the Soviets, 180-81.
10 David Binder, “Revival of the Berlin Wall Debate: If West Had Knocked It Down,” New York Times, August 14, 1986, A-16.
11 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., A Thousand Days (London: Mayflower-Dell, 1967), 681-82.
12 Author interview with Egon Bahr, December 20, 2005.
13 Author interview with Eberhard Diepgen, October 12, 2005.
Chapter 3: Day Visit of a Presidential Candidate
1 Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, and Martin Anderson, eds., Reagan: A Life in Letters (New York: Free Press, 2003), 536.
2 Memorandum for Governor Reagan from Dick Allen re “The Strategy for Peace Theme,” August 25, 1978.