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131. Los Angeles Times, March 8, 1973, “Gubernatorial Race: Top GOP Money Raisers to Meet.”
132. The “Kitchen Cabinet” oral history, Holmes Tuttle, OH 1675, pp. 145–46.
133. Los Angeles Times, January 22, 1973, “Inaugural Whirl Produces Party Crush”; Los Angeles Times, January 18, 1973, “On Fashion: ‘Me-Too’ Coat for Nancy.”
134. Cheshire with Greenya, Maxine Cheshire, Reporter, p. 124.
135. Ibid., p. 121.
136. Los Angeles Times, April 2, 1972, “The State.”
137. Meese, With Reagan, p. 33; E. Morris, Dutch, p. 372.
138. Cannon, Governor Reagan, Chapter 21; Whalen in New York Times Magazine, February 22, 1976.
139. Kelley, Nancy Reagan, p. 158.
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140. Robert Higdon, to author, March 10, 2004.
141. Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, p. 141.
142. Nancy Reagan, to author, April 19, 1998.
143. Ibid.
144. Kelley, Nancy Reagan, p. 194.
145. Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s personal papers, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, box 920, guest list and seating chart for Beverly Wilshire reception, undated.
146. Kelley, Nancy Reagan, p. 194.
147. New York Times Magazine, December 10, 1972, display ad entitled “So You’re Growing Up?,” accompanying article by Mopsy Strange Kennedy, “Juvenile, Puerile, Sophomoric, Jejune, Nutty—and Funny.”
148. Los Angeles Times, October 2, 1974, “Beach Club Gets Favor Following Letter to Reagan”; Los Angeles Times, October 10, 1974, “Sen. Roberti Demands Removal of Beach Club.”
149. New York Times, May 11, 1973, “While Governors Were Doing Business, Wives Did the Town.”
150. The “Kitchen Cabinet” oral history, Holmes Tuttle, OH 1675, p. 146.
151. P. Davis, The Way I See It, p. 138.
152. Colacello in Vanity Fair, July 1998, p. 139.
153. Ibid.
154. Ibid.
155. New York Times, March 19, 1974, “Prince Charles’s Palm Springs Visit: Film Stars, Caviar and Golf.”
156. The “Kitchen Cabinet” oral history, Ed Mills, OH 1677, p. 93.
157. Sacramento Union, December 15, 1974, “Nancy Reagan Looks Back on 8 Years.”
158. Healy in Saturday Evening Post, April 1974.
159. Whalen in New York Times Magazine, February 22, 1976.
Chapter Sixteen: Reagan vs. Ford, 1975–1976
1. Robert Walker, “Political Advising and Advocacy for Ronald Reagan, 1965–1980,” an oral history conducted 1982, 1983, Regional Oral History Office, University of California, Berkeley, 1985, p. 26. Courtesy, The Bancroft Library.
2. Nancy Reagan with Novak, My Turn, p. 178.
3. Author’s diary, September 17, 1999; Betsy Bloomingdale, to author, October 25, 1999.
4. Author’s diary, September 17, 1999; Betsy Bloomingdale, to author, March 15, 2004.
5. Author’s diary, September 17, 1999.
6. Hannaford, Ronald Reagan and His Ranch, p. 34; Cannon, Reagan, p. 195.
7. New York Times, January 6, 1975, “8 on the President’s Panel Span Wide Range of Belief.”
8. New York Times, January 7, 1975, “Brown, Stressing Change from Reagan Era, Sworn In As California Governor.”
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9. Nofziger, Nofziger, p. 154.
10. Skinner, Anderson, and Anderson, eds., Reagan, in His Own Hand, p. xiv; Hannaford, Ronald Reagan and His Ranch, pp. 34–36.
11. Cannon, Reagan, p. 196.
12. Kotkin, Grabowicz, and Stein in Esquire, August 1980, p. 34.
13. Cannon, Governor Reagan, p. 399. See also New York Times, February 26, 1976,
“Reagan Puts His Net Worth at $1,455,571.” Reagan’s declared income for 1975 was $282,253.
14. Skinner, Anderson, and Anderson, eds., Reagan, in His Own Hand, p. xv; Cannon, Governor Reagan, p. 399.
15. Skinner, Anderson, and Anderson, eds., Reagan, in His Own Hand, p. xv.
16. Hannaford, Ronald Reagan and His Ranch, p. 38.
17. Ronald Reagan, An American Life, p. 194.
18. Hannaford, Ronald Reagan and His Ranch, p. 30.
19. Sacramento Union, December 15, 1974, “Nancy Reagan Looks Back on 8
Years”; New York Times, October 6, 1980, “Reagan More than a Millionaire but Extent of Wealth Is Hidden.”
20. Hannaford, Ronald