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3. Richard Davis, to author, April 25, 2002.
4. Horowitz, Alma Mater, p. 70.
5. Kelley, Nancy Reagan, p. 49.
6. Nancy Reagan with Libby, Nancy, p. 52.
7. China Ibsen Oughton, to author, February 12, 2001.
8. Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, pp. 82–83.
9. Nancy Reagan with Libby, Nancy, p. 52.
10. “Nancy Reagan: An American Story,” Fox News Channel, July 6, 2002.
11. Letter from Loyal Davis to Nancy Davis, postmarked December 6, 1939, provided courtesy of Nancy Reagan.
12. L. Davis, A Surgeon’s Odyssey, p. 252.
13. Richard Davis, to author, April 10, 2001.
14. Richard Davis, to author, April 25, 2002.
15. “Nancy Reagan,” A&E Biography, A&E Television Network, March 31, 1997.
16. Richard Davis, to author, April 25, 2002.
17. Lambert, Nazimova, p. 370.
18. “Nancy Reagan,” A&E Biography, A&E Television Network, March 31, 1997.
19. Grobel, The Hustons, p. 176.
20. Affron, Lillian Gish, p. 200.
21. Ibid., pp. 20–21, 39.
22. Ibid., p. 270.
23. Ibid., pp. 272, 389.
24. Ibid., p. 158.
25. Ibid., p. 175.
26. Ibid., p. 287.
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27. Ibid., p. 289.
28. Moore, Silent Star, p. 66.
29. Affron, Lillian Gish, pp. 286, 391.
30. Ibid., p. 290.
31. Berg, Lindbergh, pp. 421–22.
32. Ibid., p. 419.
33. McDaniel in Los Angeles Herald Examiner, October 28, 1980, “Dr. Loyal Davis—the Stepdaddy of Kingmakers.”
34. Richard Davis, to author, April 25, 2002.
35. Homer Hargrave Jr., to author, February 22, 2002.
36. Higham, Merchant of Dreams, pp. 270–71; Lardner Jr., I’d Hate Myself in the Morning, p. 89.
37. Homer Hargrave Jr., to author, February 22, 2002.
38. Richard Davis, to author, April 25, 2002.
39. Richard Davis, to author, April 10, 2001.
40. Brown and Brown, Reagan, p. 165.
41. Nancy Reagan, to author, October 27, 1997.
42. Richard Davis, to author, April 25, 2002.
43. Barbara A. Chernow and George A. Vallasi, eds., The Columbia Encyclopedia: Fifth Edition (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993), p. 1092.
44. Kelley, Nancy Reagan, p. 39.
45. Richard Davis, to author, April 10, 2001.
46. Mike Wallace, to author, May 30, 2002.
47. Nicholas Wetzel, to author, April 11, 2001.
48. Richard Davis, to author, September 29, 2000.
49. Nicholas Wetzel, to author, April 11, 2001.
50. L. Davis, A Surgeon’s Odyssey, pp. 10–11.
51. Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, p. 75.
52. Cannon, Ronnie and Jesse, p. 158.
53. Kelley, Nancy Reagan, p. 39.
54. Nicholas Wetzel, to author, April 11, 2001.
55. Daniel Ruge, to author, April 11, 2001.
56. Richard Davis, to author, April 10, 2001.
57. Biles, Big City Boss in Depression and War, p. 107.
58. Ibid., p. 145.
59. Nancy Reagan, to author, April 30, 2001.
60. Richard Davis, to author, April 25, 2002; April 10, 2001.
61. L. Davis, A Surgeon’s Odyssey, p. 294.
62. Leamer, Make-Believe, p. 46.
63. New York Times, December 11, 1941, “Mrs. Davis Named to Smith Dean-ship”; New York Times, July 24, 1969, “Hallie Flanagan Davis Is Dead; Headed Federal Theater in 30’s.”
64. Leamer, Make-Believe, pp. 52–53.
65. Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 20, Nancy Reagan scrapbook #1, 1946–1950.
66. Nancy Reagan with Libby, Nancy, p. 64.
67. Martin Manulis, to author, May 4, 2002.
68. Ibid.
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69. Nancy Reagan with Libby, Nancy, p. 64.
70. Ibid., p. 65.
71. People, July 18, 1983, “A Find at a Flea Market Sheds Light on Nancy Reagan’s Life with Her Real Father”; Los Angeles Times, January 20, 1981, “Nancy Reagan’s Early Years: A Matter of Relativity.”
72. Jean Wescott Marshall, to author, April 19, 2001.
73. Kelley, Nancy Reagan, pp. 51–52.
74. Richard Davis, to author, April 25, 2002.
75. Ibid.
76. Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, p. 82.
77. Nancy Reagan with Libby, Nancy, p. 53.
78. Bruce McFarland, to author, February 14, 2002.
79. Gauss Jackson and Haydn, The Papers of Christian Gauss, pp. 118–20.
80. Edwards, Early Reagan, p. 390, quoting Daily Princetonian, December 16, 1941.
81. Kelley, Nancy Reagan, pp.