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“Nancy Reagan’s Early Years: A Matter of Relativity.” Both stories were illustrated with photographs from a Robbins family album that was put together by Patsie Robbins and later surfaced in a New Jersey flea market.
90. Kelley, Nancy Reagan, p. 35.
91. Nancy Reagan with Libby, Nancy, p. 25.
92. People, July 18, 1983, “A Find at a Flea Market Sheds Light on Nancy Reagan’s Life with Her Real Father,” pp. 23–24; Los Angeles Times, January 20, 1981,
“Nancy Reagan’s Early Years: A Matter of Relativity.”
93. Richard Davis, to author, September 29, 2000.
94. Nancy Reagan, to author, April 30, 2001.
95. Jean Wescott Marshall, to author, April 19, 2001.
96. L. Davis, A Surgeon’s Odyssey, p. 242.
97. Ibid., pp. 238–40.
98. Dunning, Tune in Yesterday, pp. 61–62; Lackmann, The Encyclopedia of American Radio, p. 38.
99. Kelley, Nancy Reagan, p. 37.
100. L. Davis, A Surgeon’s Odyssey, p. 231.
101. Richard Davis, to author, April 10, 2001.
102. Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 84, “Mrs. Loyal Davis (Edith), In Memoriam.”
Chapter Three: Iowa, 1933–1937
1. “B. J. Palmer’s Epigrams,” from the Web site of Palmer Chiropractic University, www.palmer.edu/pfch/Epigrams.htm.
2. Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 84, “Letters/Nelle Reagan, Reagan family letters (early),”
“My New Year Poem, 1935–36,” by Nelle Reagan.
3. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 17.
4. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 43.
5. Nachman, Raised on Radio, p. 16.
6. E. Morris, Dutch, pp. 37, 693.
7. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , pp. 42–43.
8. Ibid., pp. 43–44; Ronald Reagan, An American Life, pp. 59–60.
9. Ronald Reagan, An American Life, pp. 59–60.
10. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 45.
11. Ibid., p. 46.
12. Ibid.
13. Ronald Reagan, An American Life, p. 63. Garry Wills says that it was an “old Chevrolet” (Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 59).
14. Cannon, Reagan, p. 44; Edwards, Early Reagan, pp. 121–23.
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15. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 124.
16. Ibid., pp. 125–26. Lou Cannon differs slightly, saying that Reagan’s room cost $18 per month (Cannon, Reagan, p. 44).
17. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 55.
18. Ronald Reagan, An American Life, p. 66.
19. Ibid., pp. 66–67.
20. Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 61.
21. Edwards, Early Reagan, pp. 138–39.
22. Ibid., pp. 133, 143.
23. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , pp. 56–58; Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 99.
24. Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 97.
25. Ibid., pp. 97, 99.
26. Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood, p. 24.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid., pp. 23–25.
29. Ronald Reagan, An American Life, p. 71; E. Morris, Dutch, pp. 116, 708.
30. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 48.
31. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 131.
32. Ronald Reagan, An American Life, p. 75; Edwards, Early Reagan, pp. 134–35.
33. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 45.
34. E. Morris, Dutch, pp. 122, 709.
35. Neil Reagan oral history, pp. 13–16.
36. Edwards, Early Reagan, pp. 143–44.
37. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 59.
38. Ibid.
39. Ibid., p. 60.
40. Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 110.
41. Cannon, Reagan, p. 46.
42. Wills, Reagan’s America, pp. 112–13.
43. Ronald Reagan, An American Life, p. 74.
44. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 145; Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , pp. 67–68.
45. Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 113; Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 134. Note that her surname has been withheld at the request of her family.
46. E. Morris, Dutch, p. 119; Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 114.
47. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 149.
48. Ibid.
49. Wills, Reagan’s America, p. 108.
50. Edwards, Early Reagan, pp. 150–51.
51. E. Morris, Dutch, p. 124.
52. Ronald Reagan with Hubler, Where’s the Rest of Me? , p. 70.
53. Ibid., p. 72;