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Opinion: It's Time to Move On From Reagan

I was a writer in Ronald Reagan's re-election campaign in 1984, a fact I usually don't mention until I get, say, two sentences into conversation with anyone I meet. I only met the president once in a grip-and-grin reception for staff. But because of my role, however minor, in the success of the greatest chief executive of...

Reagan Remembered: It Can Be Done

When I think of Ronald Reagan, I remember a natural leader -- someone who inspired me with his belief that our best days are still ahead and his confidence in the indomitable spirit of the American people. Before Reagan was elected president, the country was demoralized, adrift and staring into an economic abyss. I...

Reagan Remembered: A Democrat at Ronald Reagan's Inaugural

Ronald Reagan's first inauguration as president in 1981 had Californians in a tizzy, especially Republicans. But Democrats, too, as I can attest. As a Californian, I hotfooted it over to my only well-connected Republican friend and begged for tickets to the Kennedy Center California Ball and the candlelight dinner. I got...

Reagan Remembered: An Unyielding Faith in America's Greatness

Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congres

When I was a prisoner of war, the Vietnamese went to great lengths to restrict the news from home to only prominent opponents of the war. They wanted us to believe America had forgotten us. They never mentioned Ronald Reagan. No matter. We knew about him. New additions to our ranks told us how the then governor and Mrs....

Reagan Remembered: Courage in Seeking Freedom

One hundred years after his birth, 30 years after his inauguration as president and only seven years after his passing, it's already widely acknowledged by both Democrats and Republicans that Ronald Reagan was a great man and a great president. His role in ending the Cold War, with America victorious and the forces of...