Despite the fact that he’d served two full terms as governor of California, the nation’s most populous and prosperous state, when Ronald Reagan was running for President in 1980 he was most frequently dismissed by the perception that he… Read More ›
The Reagans
JFK Shot: Other Presidents & First Ladies React
Like millions of people across the globe, there was horrified shock among those who had once held the position of President of the United States and First Lady, and most of those who would someday follow, when they heard the… Read More ›
The Reagans Host Old Hollywood & New “Royalty” at the White House
There seemed to be a time that, rather than go to Hollywood and take a tour bus through Beverly Hills hoping to glimpse one of the famous names of its Golden Era, one had a better chance of seeing them… Read More ›
Reagan’s 1985 Big Chill Sunday Inauguration with Videos, Part 7
Unlike Eisenhower’s private Sunday swearing-in ceremony in 1957, which banned television cameras and limited the recording of the event to two still black-and-white pictures, the first of Reagan‘s two second-term oath-taking on that day of the week was carried live… Read More ›
A Reagan Country Song & California Classic by ABBA: His 1980 & 1984 Campaign Music
The presidential campaign year of 1980 marked the beginning of what might be termed “theme music” being adopted by presidential candidates, rather than the traditional campaign song. 1976, the year Ronald Reagan lost his challenge to incumbent President Gerald Ford… Read More ›
Dynasty to Fantasy Island: An Eighties TV Star Galaxy at Ronald Reagan’s White House
Sometimes looking at just what famous faces came to meet a President can suggest the man in the White House as being one who knows what’s up with the people outside the gates of what Harry Truman called, ‘the great… Read More ›
Ronald Reagan & Bette Davis: Politically Oppositional Co-Stars
Unlike Presidents such as Franklin Roosevelt, Nixon, or Obama, chronicling an unusual pairing between any Hollywood Actor or Actress and Ronald Reagan is almost an exercise in futility, a nearly moot story since Reagan was himself a professional Hollywood Actor… Read More ›
Reagan Campaigns for Truman
Thirty-two years before he was elected as the most popular Republican President since Theodore Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan was out campaigning for one of his favorite Presidents – Democrat Harry Truman. In his capacity as President of the Screen Actors Guild,… Read More ›
When a First Lady Battles a President’s Chief of Staff
The conflict between First Lady Michelle Obama and the President’s first Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel exposed in the book The Obamas by New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor may offer new insights into the popular presidential wife’s political acumen… Read More ›
Nancy Reagan & Gary Coleman…and Clint Eastwood, Tom Selleck & Brooke Shields
She wasn’t the first First Lady to have worked as a professional actress, but Nancy Reagan’s cameo appearance on the popular 80s television sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes” (which actually ran from 1978 to 1986), starring as herself, made headlines. Appearing in… Read More ›
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