http://millercenter.org/academic/oralhistory/news/2007_0330

[accessed July 13, 2011]. Ron Reagan, Jr., told me that when he asked his father not to run for a second term, citing safety concerns, the president demurred, insisting that there were "a lot of things he needed to do and do for the country and it was really important, and so he appreciated my concern but he was just going to have to run anyway." Telephone interview with Ron Reagan, Jr., March 8, 2012.

32. Carl Bernstein and Marco Politi, His Holiness: John Paul II and the Hidden History of Our Time (New York: Doubleday, 1996), 357.

33. See Ronald Reagan, "Why I'm for the Brady Bill," New York Times, March 29, 1991,

http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/29/opinion/why-i-m-for-the-brady-bill.html?src=pm

[accessed April 5, 2012].

34. See the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence website,

http://www.bradycampaign.org

[accessed April 5, 2012].

35. See Gallup poll (AIPO), April 10April 13, 1981, iPOLL Databank, Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut,

http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll.html

[accessed May 1, 2012], and ABC News / Washington Post poll, April 20April 22, 1981. iPOLL Databank, Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut,

http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/data_access/ipoll/ipoll.html

[accessed May 1, 2012].

36. Ronald Reagan, "Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the Program for Economic Recovery," April 28, 1981, Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project,

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=43756

[accessed April 2, 2012].

37. Ronald Reagan, "Remarks on Signing the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 and the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, and a Question-and-Answer Session with Reporters," August 13, 1981, Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project,

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=44161

[accessed April 2, 2012].

38. Paul D. Erickson, "The Once and Future President: John F. Kennedy in the Rhetoric of Ronald Reagan" in Paul Harper and Joann P. Krieg, eds., John F. Kennedy: The Promise Revisited (New York: Greenwood Press, 1988), 313.

39. Richard Hansen, "John F. Kennedy Quote Compendium: The Reality Behind the Image," ID#190458, FG00234, WHORM: Subject File, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. The Reagan Library could not tell me when Hansen's report was written, but Frank Fahren-kopf, chairman of the Republican National Committee at the time, believes the report was done in "late '83 or early '84," just as the Reagan team was gearing up for reelection. E-mail from Frank Fahrenkopf, April 2, 2012. Fahrenkopf's recollection is backed by Bill Greener, the RNC's Director of Communications at the time. Reagan White House political director Ed Rollins suggested a date of October 1983 or perhaps a bit before that. In any event, it is clear that Hansen wrote the report in the critical months leading up to the successful 1984 Republican campaign.

40. John F. Kennedy, "Special Message to the Congress on Tax Reduction and Reform," January 24, 1963, Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project,

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=9387

[accessed April 5, 2012].

41. See Ronald Reagan, "Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session on the Program for Economic Recovery at a Breakfast for Newspaper and Television News Editors," February 19, 1981, Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project,

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=43428#axzzihlMJQkyM

[accessed December 27, 2011], and "Remarks in Denver, Colorado, at the Annual Convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People," June 29, 1981, Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project,

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=44016

[accessed December 28, 2011]. Stacey Chandler, an archivist at the JFK Library, sent the following e-mail message on 4/6/12: "The earliest record we were able to find of JFK using this phrase is in the "Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy at Picnic, Muskegon, Michigan," September 5, 1960. The Muskegon speech is available here: John F. Kennedy, "Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, Picnic, Muskegon, MI," September 5, 1960, Online by Gerhard Peters and John T Woolley, The American Presidency Project,

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=60414

[accessed April 6, 2012].

42. Ronald Reagan, "Remarks at the Illinois Forum Reception in Chicago," September 2, 1981, Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project,

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=44192

[accessed December 28, 2011].

43. Steven F. Hayward, The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution 198089 (New York: Crown Forum, 2009), 7980.