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drinking problem, 242, 248
Eisenhower’s comment, 204–5, 243
as Eisenhower’s vice president, 188, 201, 203–5, 218, 236, 240–43
environmental legislation and creation of the EPA, 236, 248–49
family and background, 236, 238, 248
famous response to the press after California loss, 245
forced resignation, xiii, 236, 251, 254, 294
foreign policy, 246
funeral of Anwar Sadat and, 268
Haldeman and, 247
health issues of, 251–52
Kennedy in Congress and, 216, 239
Kissinger and, 246–47
manned moon landing and, 236
mob incident in Venezuela, 242–43
pardoned by Ford, 251, 254, 255, 261–62
political career, 238, 239, 240, 245
post-presidency life, 252
presidential accomplishments, 236
presidential election loss (1960), 226–27, 236, 243, 244–45
presidential election win (1968), 236, 245–46
reelection landslide (1972), 236, 250
Rubenstein and, 237
service in World War II, 239
Soviet Union détente, 236, 248
speechwriters for, 246
as a successful lawyer, 245
Truman and, 190
vice president Agnew and, 246, 250, 254, 260
vice president Ford and, 250, 254, 260–61
Vietnam War, 237
Watergate scandal and White House tapes, 237, 247, 249–51, 254, 261, 294
Nunberg, Sam, 381, 389
Obama (Baker), 349
Obama, Barack, xiii, xiv, 346–66 Affordable Care Act, 307, 310, 325, 346, 350–51
Afghanistan War and, 351, 361
background, family, and early years, 348, 354–56
Biden and, 364, 366, 410, 411, 418, 441
Biden as vice president, 362, 363, 406, 418, 425
Biden’s presidential candidacy and, 366
Bush people in administration, 360, 361
Bush’s helpfulness to, 365–66
character and personality, 352, 358, 359
Charleston church shooting and, 363
chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, 360
civil rights issues and, 362–63
debates with Romney, 363–64, 393
disdain for the political process, 352, 362, 418
economic policy, 351
first black president of the @cstyle:Italic:Harvard Law Review@cstyle::, 348, 355
foreign policy and diplomacy of, 361
Great Recession and, 350, 360
as Illinois State Senator, 356, 357
Iraq War and, 351, 361
ISIS and, 351
keynote address, Democratic Convention (2004), 347, 356
killing Osama bin Laden, 318–19, 337, 350, 351, 362
legacy as president, xiv
oratory of, 353, 356–57
Oval Office meeting with Trump, 365–66, 370, 384
Paris Climate Accord and, 361
post-presidency life, 348–49, 366
presidential nomination fight and election (2008), xvi, 304, 313, 347–48, 357–59
presidential reelection (2012), 348, 363–64
presidential style, 429
Republican opposition to, 351–52, 361
Rubenstein and, 348
Rubenstein anecdote about, 354
Sandy Hook school shooting and, 352
second term and clean record, 364
secretary of state Hillary Clinton, 304, 307, 309, 313–14, 323–24, 359
stimulus program, 321
strengths and weaknesses, 353, 358
supports Hillary as successor, 364–65
Trump’s animus toward, 365, 376–77
as U.S. Senator, 347, 348, 356, 357
Obama, Michelle, 305
Obama Presidential Center, 349
O’Donnell, Kenny, 235
O’Neill, Tip, 215
Ordinary Man, An (Smith), 256
Oswald, Lee Harvey, 235
Outlier, The (Bird), 272, 273
Paine, Thomas, Common Sense, 34
Panetta, Leon, 362
Paulson, Hank, 338, 339, 360
Pence, Mike, 382, 394, 397–98, 401
Pendergast, Tom “Boss,” 177
Penn, William, 45
Penn Biden Center, 401, 406, 419
Perot, H. Ross, 287, 288, 301, 306
Pershing, John J., 195
Petit, Adrien, 52
Philadelphia, 48, 258 historic significance, 1, 10, 11, 17, 37, 43, 80–81
Lincoln in, 69, 77, 80–81
Pinkerton, Allan, 83
populism, 338, 426
Powel, Elizabeth, 21
Powell, Jody, xix, 276, 278
Priebus, Reince, 384, 385–86
Princeton University, 121, 123, 124, 128–29, 130, 132, 211
Profiles in Courage (Kennedy), 209
Putin, Vladimir, 314, 315–16, 317, 322, 390, 431 Biden anecdote and, 428
Bush anecdotes and advice, 340–41
Quayle, Dan, 298
Rafshoon, Gerald, 276
Randolph, Edmund, 20
Randolph, Martha Jefferson, 49, 51, 56, 61
Rangel, Charlie, 312
Rayburn, Sam, 180
Reagan, Nancy, 265, 305
Reagan, Ronald, xiii, xx, 26, 282–838 air traffic controller strike and, 145–46
assassination attempt, xiii, 119
Bush as vice president, 267, 286, 297, 336
Coolidge’s portrait and, 138, 145
debates with Bush, 296
debates with Carter, 282
Ford and vice president offer, 265, 267–68, 286
Iran-Contra affair, xiii–xiv, 298, 371
Iranian hostage release, 283
presidential election (1980), xx, 282
presidential nomination fight (1976), 255, 265
presidential nomination fight (1980), 286, 295
speaking ability, 353
tax cuts and, 322, 298
Reagan Library, 256
Reed, Bruce, 430
Reid, Harry, 357
Republican Party Biden’s opinion of, 406–7
Bush family as moderates, 289
Bush ‘41 as chair, 286, 293–94
Bush ‘43 nomination, 335–36
Coolidge and, 137, 141, 143
Dewey as “Mr. Republican,” 241
divisiveness in government today and, 309–10, 329, 403
Eisenhower nomination, 188
Eisenhower Republicans, 289, 296
Eisenhower’s vision for, 201–2
Ford’s presidency and, 256–57
Garfield nomination, 103
Gingrich and, 301
Goldwater debacle, 260
Grant and, 86, 97–100, 105–6
health care bills and, 324–25
Hoover nomination, 137
Hoover beats Al Smith and FDR, 164
League of Nations and, 120, 121, 128
Lincoln elected president, 72
MacArthur and, 187
move to isolationism, protectionism, and nativism, 342
Nixon and, 226–27, 236
Obama administration opposed by, 351–52, 361
right-wing members, 309
RINOs in, 371–72
rise of the Tea Party, 350
“stalwarts” and “half-breeds,” 107
Taft nomination, 131
in Texas, 292
Trump and, 371–72
Revolutionary War, 9–10, 12, 30 Adams’s role in, 31, 35
American army mutinies, 14
American independence and, 29
battles of, 10, 12, 13–14, 29
Britain could have prevented it, 28–29
Britain’s Intolerable Acts and, 10
British Army, 12
Carlisle Peace Commission, 28–29
Continental Army, 12–13
France’s role in, 13–14
German mercenaries in, 12
Jefferson’s role in, 35
Newburgh conspiracy, 14
Washington as commander in chief, 1–2, 10, 11–16, 29–30
Washington’s Newburgh speech, 14–15
Washington’s winter campaigns, 16
Ricchetti, Steve, 425, 429–30
Rice, Condoleezza, 340
Richards, Anne, 335
Richardson, Elliot, 261
Rickover, Hyman, 237
Roberts, Roy, famous Truman quip, 176
Rockefeller, David, 279
Rockefeller, Nelson, 236, 263, 265
Rogers, William “Bill,” 247
Romney, Mitt, 363–64
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 151, 156, 305 FDR’s polio and, 151, 160–62, 305
relationship with FDR, 155–57, 169–70
Truman as president and, 180
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano “FDR,” xii, 148–70 affairs of, 156–57, 169, 170
appeal of, 165–66
as assistant Navy secretary, 149, 155, 157
birth, background, and family, 148, 152–54, 157, 158–59
Campobello and, 156, 159–60, 161
character, 149, 161
children of, 159, 170
as Cox’s vice president pick, 149, 157–58
death in office, xii, xiii, 170, 180
Democratic Party and, 148, 149, 154–55, 163, 165–66
failing health of, xiii, 179
First Inaugural Address, 168–69, 228
Great Depression and, xii, 148
importance of, 148
intellect of, 284
managing optics, 158
Marshall and, 196
polio and disability of, xii, 149, 150–52, 159–62, 166, 167, 169
political career, 149, 154–55, 162–65
presidential ambitions, 154, 157, 165
presidential campaign (inevitability campaign), 165
presidential election (1932), 166–68
speechwriting and, 168–69
unprecedented third term, xii, 2
vice president Garner, 167, 178
vice president Truman, 178–79
vice president Wallace, 178
Warm Springs, Georgia, 151–52, 162, 169
wife, Eleanor, and, 155–57, 169–70, 305
World War II and, xii, 148
Yalta summit and, 179
years of presidency, 148
Roosevelt, Theodore, 111, 127, 134–35, 148, 154 Eleanor Roosevelt related to, 156
FDR related to, 153–54
as third-party candidate, 131, 144
Rubenstein, David M. background and family, xxii, 413
as bipartisan, xxi
Carlyle Group, xxi, 148, 255, 285, 330
Carter administration and, xix–xx, 271, 272, 285–86
Carter presidential campaign, xviii, 255
as chief counsel, Senate subcommittee, xvii
Declaration of Independence copies purchased by, 50
Kennedy’s Inaugural Address and, xvii
lifelong interest in the presidency, xvi–xxii
memories of Eisenhower, xvi, 191
memories of Kennedy, xvii, 207
Mondale and, xx–xxi
most desired interview, 69
Nixon and, 237
Obama anecdote, 354
philanthropic work, xvii, xxi–xxii, 2, 50, 331, 348, 368, 402, 413
relationships with Republican presidents, xxi
relationship with Biden, xxi, 402
relationship with Clinton, xxi
relationship with George H. W. Bush, xxi, 285–86, 332
relationship with George W. Bush, 331–32
relationship with Obama, xxi, 348
relationship with Trump, xxi, 368–69
working at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison law firm, xvii
See also specific interviews
Rumsfeld, Donald, 263, 265, 295
Rush, Benjamin, 28, 43
Rush, Bobby, 356
Rusk, Dean, 231
Rutledge, Ann, 84
Ryan, Paul, 386, 387
Sadat, Anwar, 268, 278
Saddam Hussein, 287, 289, 298, 299–300, 339
Safire, William, 246
Sanders, Bernie, 307, 322
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 173, 228, 252, 287 A Thousand Days, 207
Schlesinger, James, 263
Schumer, Chuck, 327–28
Scott, Winfield, 89
Scowcroft, Brent, 263
Searcher, Victor, 70
Sessions, Jeff, 384
Seward, William H., 74
Seymour, Horatio, 86
Shales, Amity as Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation chair, 138
Coolidge, 138, 139
Rubenstein interview, 138–47
at the Wall Street Journal, 139
why Americans should learn about Coolidge, 146
Sherman, John, 103, 105, 107
Sherman, Roger, 31
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 105
Short, William, 53
Sidey, Hugh, 228
slavery abolitionism and religion, 62–63
Adams and, 45
creation of a sectional crisis and, 45
Declaration of Independence and, 48
DNA evidence of paternity and, 49, 54
Emancipation Proclamation, 68
Founding Fathers and, 62, 346
Grant’s support of abolition, Civil Rights Act of 1866, and Constitutional amendments, 97
Jefferson and, 37–38, 45, 46, 52–53, 62–64
Lincoln on, pre-election, 73–74
Missouri Crisis of 1819–20, 45
outlawed in France, 52–53
positions on emancipation and expatriation, 63
slave owners fathering children with slaves, 38, 54
“slavery follows the mother,” 53
South’s desire to expand, 74
Thirteenth Amendment ending slavery, 68
unratified Thirteenth Amendment reaffirming slavery, 74
Washington and, 4, 26
Smith, Al, 149, 162–64
Smith, John, 45
Smith, Margaret Bayard, 58
Smith, Richard Norton as director of the Ford Library, 256
most interesting things about Ford, 256
An Ordinary Man, 256
Rubenstein interview, 256–68
Smith, “Sugar Jim,” 130
Smithsonian Institution, 369, 402
Sorensen, Ted, xvii, xviii, 219–20, 222, 228 Counselor, 219
Kennedy, 207
Spielberg, Steven, 69
Stalin, Joseph, 181, 182
St. Clair, Jim, 262
Stearns, Frank, 142
Stevenson, Adlai, 188, 189, 220, 241, 242
Stimson, Henry, 182
Stone, Harlan, 180
Stone, Roger, 376, 381, 389
Strobel, Wally, 198
Sullivan, Jake, 431
Summers, Larry, 360, 423
Sununu, John, 330
Symington, Stuart, 221
Taft, William Howard, 131, 301
Team of Rivals (Kearns), 68–69
Thatcher, Margaret, 300
Thirteen Days (R. Kennedy), 231
Thomas, Evan, 237 Being Nixon: A Man Divided, 237
father of, Norman Thomas, 252
perspective on Nixon, 237, 252
Rubenstein interview, 237–52
working at Newsweek, 237, 252
Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 60
Thompson, Hunter, 275
Thorpe, Jim, 194
Thousand Days, A (Schlesinger), 207
Thurmond, Strom, 325
Trials of Harry S. Truman (Frank), 172
Truman (McCullough), 171, 172
Truman, “Bess,” 174, 176, 177, 178, 180, 188, 190, 305
Truman, Harry, xiii, 120, 171–90, 411 accomplishments of, 171
administration’s little scandals, 184
Barkley as vice president, 185
birth, family, and background, 174–77
cabinet and Supreme Court appointments, 183–84
character, 171–72, 174, 190
CIA created by, 171, 183
declines running for reelection, 188
drops atomic bombs on Japan, xiii, 171, 173, 182
FDR’s vice president, 178–79
final years and death, 190
firing of MacArthur, 187
glasses worn by, 175–76
global organizations and, 171
health care bill and, 184, 190
Hiss scandal, 240
integration of the military and civil rights issues, 171, 184
Korean War and, 173, 186
lack of vice president, 185
low approval rating, xiii, 171, 173, 189
Marshall Plan and, 173, 183
NATO and, 182–83
Nixon and, 190
offers Eisenhower the Democratic nomination, 200
opposed red-baiting, 171
political career of, 177–78
post-presidency life, 189–90
post-war foreign policy, 182–83
Potsdam summit and, 181–82
presidential election (1948) and famous Chicago Tribune headline, 184–86
reappraisal of, 171, 173
recognition of Israel, 173–74
recruits Stevenson (1952), 188
relationship with Eisenhower, 188–89
Roosevelt’s death and, xii–xiii, 180
sells his memoirs to Life magazine, 189
Time magazine cover, 178
United Nations and, 171, 183
voice of, 171, 174
Truman, Margaret, 174, 180
Truman Library, 172, 190
Trump, Donald J., ix, xiv, 367–399 Abraham Accords, 391
accomplishments in office, 367–68, 374, 389, 391
on administration personnel and appointments, 371–73, 374, 384
animus toward Obama, 365, 376–77
athletics and academics, 377
Bannon and, 381–82
on being president, 370–71
belief in his convictions, 369
Biden criticized by, 372, 373
biggest worries for the country, 374
“birther” idea, about Obama, 376
casinos’ bankruptcy, 379
change from Democrat to Republican Party, 367, 370, 380
character and personality, 385
chiefs of staff for, 385–86, 392
