In his quirky and smart 1987 book Ronald Reagan the Movie: And Other Episodes in Political Demonology, political scientist Michael Rogin considered how Reagan the actor became Reagan the president.

In 1980, as former California Gov. Ronald Reagan was challenging President Jimmy Carter for the White House, the Reagan campaign made a stop in Buffalo. The future president had breakfast with ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! An introduction to the 1980 presidential election is featured including remarks from president-elect Ronald Reagan. In the 1980 presidential election ...

Edwin Meese III opened his spare bedroom to a fellow Californian, knotted an Adam Smith tie and went to the White House. William P. Clark, his opinions once again in demand, stayed up late writing a ...

My favorite interview last week was 90-year-old Illinois farmboy John “Jack” Block. Block was former President Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of Agriculture from 1981 until 1986, the worst of the domestic ...

A one-minute government ad out of Canada’s Ontario province includes part of a 1987 address by President Ronald Reagan about tariffs and trade. Overall, the ad’s message aligns with most of Reagan’s ...

In trying to come to grips with a surprisingly big and wide-ranging electoral victory by Donald Trump and his Republican Party on November 5, the search for precedents is inevitable. And to a lot of ...