Includes index.

"'For the Record' provides an insider's account of the way in which Ronald Reagan conducts his Presidency: his work habits, his way of thinking, his decision-making - and, always, the people, including the First Lady and others, who influence him. Regan describes how, as Secretary of the Treasury, he helped revolutionize U.S. economic policy, and he offers a spirited advocacy of the controversial measures that overcame inflation and helped to reform the tax system. He reconstructs his two years as Chief of Staff - and presents a vivid picture of Reagan's vist to Bitburg and of the superpower summits with Gorbachev. In the lively personal section of the book Donald Regan turns to the modest circumstances of his boyhood in Cambridge, Massachusetts....Regan discusses his career at Merrill Lynch, where he began as a trainee in 1946 and rose through the ranks to become Chairman of the Board in 1971"--from book jacket.