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RN and RR

As I listened to the well earned and much deserved tributes paid this past weekend to the life and legacy of Ronald Reagan on his centennial, and thought about RN’s coming 100th birthday in 2013, I recalled this anecdote from Reagan’s memoir: In 1962, while...

RN Helped Switch RR

In The Nation, Greg Mitchell says that Ronald Reagan’s shift to the GOP started with the 1950 California Senate race between Richard Nixon and Helen Gahagan Douglas.  Reagan initially backed Douglas, Mitchell says, but then moved in RN’s direction.  He...
Donald Rumsfeld Talks About the Nixon Years

Donald Rumsfeld Talks About the Nixon Years

[youtube https://youtu.be/Kgj8VTltHtg] February 7, 2011: Donald Rumsfeld, the 13th and 21st Secretary of Defense talks about working on his memoir, “Known and Unknown” and his work during his years in the Nixon Administration. Topics include his tenure as...

Khachigian: Reagan, the Great Communicator

Nixon Foundation Board Member, Nixon Speechwriter and Chief Reagan Speechwriter writes in the OC Register: Of the eight years and multiple hours I spent collaborating with President Ronald Reagan on speeches, among the most frequent questions I’m asked is, what...