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Government Reagan and his legacy: His enduring impact / 2 is not the Freedom in Europe: / 4 solution to our Tearing down a wall “ problem. Nancy Reagan: A partner for life / 4 Government Commentary: Ed Meese / 8 Michael Reagan / 9 IS the Hollywood: An actor on the world stage / 10 problem.” Democrats: Reaching across the aisle / 12 — Ronald Reagan, first inaugural address, The Reagan library: Simi Valley attraction wows the crowds / 13 Jan. 20, 1981 2 // SPECIAL SECTION A FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Reagan’s enduring legacy

ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Ronald Reagan, who would have turned 100 on Sunday, is remembered by many Americans for his sunny disposition and bold rhetoric. Historians and contemporaries measure his impact

BY STEPHEN DINAN “Parts of him have aged very well — to reflect the new name of the airport. tenders who their political hero was — THE WASHINGTON TIMES the Reagan image. Even I, who disagreed At the height of the movement to com- “aside from President Reagan.” with almost all the substance of his poli- memorate Reagan, some wanted his vis- Mr. Dallek, though, said the irony is that rom the granite facade of cies, have come to have a higher regard age on the dime or the $10 bill. there’s not even consensus among his sup- Mount Rushmore to road for his skills. I think those will last, you Historians say Reagan has benefited porters about why he should be revered. signs and school buildings can’t deny them,” Mr. Schaller said. “The from a concerted effort by backers to de- Instead, Reagan is “a bit of a Rorschach in communities across the public Reagan is probably here to stay, fend his legacy, particu- test” for conservatives, country, the push is going like the public FDR, the public Teddy larly against what they per- Reagan is who see what they want to strong to enshrine Ronald Roosevelt. That’s pretty well enshrined ceive as press coverage see in his legacy. Reagan’s legacy in stone and now. I think the substance of the policy stacked against him. For- unique in the Some Republicans, par- Fsteel — a fitting tribute, admirers say, to is still much contested.” mer aides do that for every current time in ticularly those from the the man who ended communism in Eu- Perhaps it’s because Reagan is still president, but Mr. Dallek, tea-party wing of the party, rope and turned the political debate from within the purview of present-day and the historian, said Reagan’s that both appreciate his support of Roosevelt’s New Deal to supply-side eco- historical debate that efforts to enshrine backers are particularly historians and limited government, nomics or, more simply, Reaganism. him have not been mammoth successes. adept and committed. though they tend to look More than two decades after he left His backers are trying to change that. A 2005 Wall Street present-day past the explosion of the office, the 40th president, whose 525 “We aren’t past the number of things Journal survey of an ide- federal bureaucracy dur- electoral votes in 1984 are an all-time re- that ought to be named after Reagan. We ologically balanced group politicians claim ing his two terms in office. cord, is a hot topic for historians, who de- have a ways to go,” said Grover Norquist, of political scientists, his- him as theirs. Hawkish conservatives ad- bate his place among the top chief exec- president of Americans for Tax Reform torians and law professors mire his foreign policy, es- utives of all time, and for lawmakers, and chairman of the Ronald Reagan rated Reagan as sixth pecially his uncompromis- who still spar over who best lays claim Legacy Project, whose goal is to have most successful among the nation’s 45 ing rhetoric about communism. to his legacy. something named after Reagan in every presidents. Liberal historian Arthur M. Reagan also is benefiting from nos- “There is a growing sense that we one of the country’s 3,140 counties. Schlesinger Jr.’s 1996 survey designated talgia for George W. Bush, another two- need to reckon with Reagan, reckon with Mr. Norquist said 600 to 800 public him as “average.” term Republican president who left his legacy to understand the broad po- Historians in a 2010 office scorned by many conservatives. litical culture over the past three Siena College poll ranked In one of the stranger juxtapositions, decades,” said Matthew Dallek, a histo- the greatest and worst Reagan also has become a favorite for rian who has written about Reagan’s presidents. Reagan came those on the left who once reviled him 1966 campaign for California governor. in 18th, three behind but now paint him as a courteous and op- “His presidency and the movement he Barack Obama and five be- timistic statesman willing to cross party led and his ideas really matter.” hind Mr. Clinton. He lines to work with Democrats. During Reagan’s eight years in office, scored high marks on lead- In a House floor debate in January inflation fell from its staggering late- ership, communication over campaign financing in presidential 1970s peak, relations with the Soviet ability and “luck” but was elections, Democrats pointed to Reagan’s Union thawed, the unemployment rate rated near the bottom on participation in the public financing sys- fell and incomes rose. But measured by “intelligence.” tem as ammunition to use against House other standards, income inequality grew Surveys of broader Republicans trying to dismantle the sys- and federal spending ballooned. Histo- America taken over the tem. Rep. David E. Price, North Car- rians still debate how much credit Rea- past decade regularly find olina Democrat, called Mr. Reagan “the gan should get for his management of Reagan immensely popu- best example of this program’s success.” foreign relations. lar among average voters. That prompted some head-scratching More than anything else, though, Rea- On polls asking who the from Republicans. gan’s sunny disposition helped Ameri- greatest president was, “When I find myself on the floor lis- cans recover from the cultural and eco- Reagan’s name is almost al- tening to my colleagues on the other side nomic shocks of the 1970s, and has made ways in the top three or five. declaring Ronald Reagan to be the pa- Reagan an icon for many. Whether he was great tron saint of Democratic Party ideas, I “The last century, I believe, he would or merely average, his in- am bemused a bit because I served here go down as the most effective president,” fluence stretches to mod- when Ronald Reagan was president, and said former Rep. Matt Salmon, an Ari- ern-day politics — so I don’t recall those same words at that zona Republican who in the 1990s spon- much so that Mr. Obama, time,” said Rep. Dan Lungren, Califor- sored legislation trying to get Reagan’s on the campaign trail in nia Republican. face carved onto Mount Rushmore be- 2008, said Reagan In many ways, the fight over Rea- side those of George Washington, Abra- President Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan, with their “changed the trajectory of gan’s legacy has intensified because of ham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and dog Rex, wave to White House visitors on July 27, 1986. America in a way that the rise of the tea-party movement. Theodore Roosevelt. “He certainly goes Richard Nixon did not and For two decades, Reaganism was the down as [among] a handful of presidents in a way that Bill Clinton goal of Republicans — a unifying theme who have shaped this nation’s future.” works are named after Kennedy and civil did not.” During his Hawaiian vacation and a governing philosophy. But over the Some presidents belong to the histo- rights legend Martin Luther King Jr., and in December, Mr. past two years, some of rians — the debates over John F. reaching those levels is his group’s next Obama read a biography that focus has shifted to Kennedy, Harry S. Truman and Franklin milestone. As of mid-January, members of his predecessor, Lou Historians say the tea party, which is the D. Roosevelt have passed from the politi- counted 107 Reagan listings. Cannon’s “President first post-Reagan conser- cians to the academics — and others, “There are 100,000 teaching moments Reagan: The Role of a Reagan has vative governing philoso- such as Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, that flow from these things,” Mr. Norquist Lifetime.” benefited from a phy to emerge. remain firmly rooted in the political said. “Somebody who’s got something “In some ways both “Reagan’s policies do zeitgeist, picked apart in Congress and named after him is important.” Obama and Clinton have concerted effort not sync up with the tea on talk shows. Opponents were enraged when the had to deal with Reagan’s by backers to party’s agenda or Sarah Reagan, however, is claimed by his- former president’s supporters pushed to legacy,” Mr. Dallek said. Palin’s agenda,” Mr. torians and present-day politicians alike have Reagan’s name added to Washing- “Yes, Obama’s supporters defend his legacy, Dallek said. “Sarah — as the proliferation of biographies ton National Airport in commemoration talk about the mess that Palin and the tea party and the ongoing debates in political of his birthday in 1998. They called it an George W. Bush left — particularly are really to Reagan’s weeklies attest. unfitting tribute because Reagan, in one whether it’s Afghanistan, against what they right. They really are It’s one of the ironies that the histori- of the defining moments of his presi- deficits, there’s something more extreme, and so in ans tend to focus on Reagan’s shortcom- dency, in 1981 fired thousands of strik- to that. But if you take the perceive as press that have made Reagan ings and failures to live up to his rheto- ing air traffic controllers who refused his longer view, I think coverage stacked look tamer.” ric, while average Americans instead order to return to work. Obama and Clinton are Reagan defenders, remember the sunny outlook and the During a fiery debate in Congress, very much grappling with against him. though, say Reaganism bold rhetoric. some were harsher still. Reagan’s rhetorical com- and the tea party philos- “If you look at the specifics of his “The average black American thinks mitment to smaller gov- ophy are one and the agenda — cutting federal spending — Reagan is responsible for the rebirth of ernment and trying to figure out how same. Mr. Reagan in his day also was un- well, he didn’t. . . . He readjusted [taxes] racism in this country,” said Rep. Eddie they are going to pursue a more progres- afraid to challenge “establishment” Re- somewhat, but total federal tax takes Bernice Johnson, Texas Democrat. The sive agenda while still maintaining their publicans, including a sitting GOP pres- were the same when he left office as legislation to rename the airport passed hold on the country.” ident in Gerald Ford, in his drive to see when he came in,” said Michael Schaller, the House by a 240-186 vote and the Sen- Republicans’ assertions that Reagan his conservative ideas prevail. a professor at the University of Arizona ate by a 76-22 vote. President Clinton is still the dominant figure of their party “The tea-party movement was paral- who has just published a book, “Ronald signed it into law. could be an understatement. lel to the Reagan movement within the Reagan.” “Somehow those details are for- Fights to add the Reagan name contin- At last month’s debate among candi- Republican Party, the party that wants gotten, and what we tend to remember is ued over whether other public works, dates for chairman of the Republican limited government and free markets — the ceremonial president who tends to such as the Washington area’s Metro sub- National Committee, the party’s central that’s what the tea party means,” Mr. evoke a sense of pride and can-do spirit.” way system, would change their signage office, Mr. Norquist asked the con- Norquist said. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2011 A SPECIAL SECTION // 3

Ronald Wilson Reagan was one of only a handful of “common He was George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Andy Jack- stock” Americans to become President of the United States. Most son all rolled into one. He was our leader. Then, he was gone. of America’s presidents had blue blood ties to the royals of Europe. Reagan’s burial odyssey began with a week of mourning as he What resident of Tampico, Illinois on February 6, 1911, walking lay in state at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley. Over 100 thousand past the town’s General Store, took a moment to glance at the small Californians lined the roadway to say goodbye as his funeral pro- apartment above the store and wonder if the baby born to John and cession traveled to the airport for the fl ight to Washington where he Nellie Wilson Reagan that day might grow up to become the Presi- would lay in state in the Capitol Rotunda where millions of Ameri- dent of the United States? cans would come to say goodbye. Or, for that matter, the common folks who raised their children The outpouring of affection for America’s most adored Presi- in Dixon, Illinois where John Reagan lost his shoe store during the dent was expressed by hundreds of thousands of those who voted Depression? Or, even Reagan himself, who believed that Franklin for him and those who did not, who lined the procession routes D. Roosevelt was the greatest President in the world when the New of the limousines that transported him on both coasts as simple Deal put his father back to work — did he aspire to greatness? Americans expressed their love and admiration of another simple As America remembers this great man let them also remember American — Ronald Wilson Reagan. the simple man that he was. A simple man with a simple wish. A great man crossed the nation that day. June 11, 2004. A grateful A wish that everyone would treat their fellow man with dignity nation wanted to say goodbye to a leader that nation loved. and respect; and that all people, everywhere, would be able to en- Reagan is gone. But the sound of his footsteps, and his favor- joy liberty in a free society. And, for those who live in America, he ite phrase, “...there you go again...” will remain enshrined in our strengthened the bonds of liberty and made a free nation even more minds and our hearts for an American eternity. free by dissolving the Iron Curtain and crushing the Berlin Wall. On February 6, 2011, Ronald Wilson Reagan’s legacy and the leg- To most of us, he was the Great Communicator who spoke the end of a man bigger than the life he lived, will be a century old. words of the common man in a working man’s world. He spoke He was the “George Washington” we actually knew, the “Thomas the words of Hope; and he made us all believe we could be more Jefferson” we respected, and he was the “Andrew Jackson” the en- than we thought we could be. emies of the United States came to respect and trust.

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To Eastern eyes, a liberator

Cold War. After 1983 and the His steadfastness freed deployment of U.S. Pershing 2 and cruise missiles in millions from communism Western Europe, they could hope only for a stalemate. Then in 1986, when Rea- BY ROMAN JOCH from communism, embrace gan refused to give up SDI — SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES democracy and a free-mar- derisively dubbed “Star ket economy; otherwise a Wars” by skeptics — at the PRAGUE bloody revolt of the people Reykjavik summit, Soviet ou know the story. would smash us. We shall leader Mikhail Gorbachev There was Athens, surrender power to dissi- had only one option left: Ne- and there was dents — in exchange for our gotiate from a position of Sparta. Athens was immunity and amnesty. weakness, quit the arms race, a commercial re- After all, we do not care let Russia cease being a su- public, a democ- about socialism at all. In the perpower on an equal stand- racy.Y Sparta was a militarist new capitalist society, we ing with the U.S., and hence oligarchy. Athens had philos- could be happy capitalists.” lose the trust, allegiance and ophy, academia, arts, sciences. That, in short, is the basic healthy fear of his collabora- Sparta had military drills. story of how Reagan won the tionist allies abroad. By the Sparta won. Cold War. For those of us late 1980s, the game was over. In the 1970s, America was who suffered under commu- Mr. Gorbachev’s intent the new Athens, the Soviet nism, he was our liberator. was not to abolish commu- Union the new Sparta. Who As Britain’s Margaret nism but to reform and would win this time? There Thatcher said: “Ronald Rea- strengthen it. In order to com- was no reason to expect the gan won the Cold War with- pete with Reagan economi- modern era would be any out firing a shot.” cally and militarily, he also in- different. Militarist oli- Reagan was the first troduced economic reforms garchies always seemed to American president who did under his “perestroika” pro- triumph over weak, self- not wish merely to coexist gram. In order to have pere- doubting democracies. stroika work, he needed to The communist ruling Mr. Gorbachev’s allow at least limited free- classes in Central and East- dom of speech for economic ern Europe in the 1970s and intent was not to matters, and thus “glasnost,” ’80s were cynical oppor- abolish communism or openness, was born. tunists. They cared only for And still the people de- power, wealth and status. but to reform and manded more. And they simply knew that strengthen it. Communism did not col- power, brute force, would al- lapse on its own. Tyrannies ways prevail over human de- can endure for long periods if sires for freedom and democ- with Soviet communism but they are brutal enough. Why racy. Western self-doubt only sought to destroy it instead. did the Soviet empire col- aided their cause. His approach to that crazy lapse in the late 1980s instead Then Ronald Reagan ap- ideology and to its monstrous of the late 1970s? Because peared on the scene. He ter- regimes is best illustrated previously, there was no rified the brutes, scared the by his own words, spoken Western pressure against the hell out of them, compelled the very first year of his pres- Soviets. It was the time of them — for the first time in idency: “I believe that com- President Carter and detente. ASSOCIATED PRESS their lives — to entertain a ter- munism is another sad, President Reagan is flanked by West German Parliament President Philipp Jenninger There was, however, very rible thought: “What if Athens bizarre chapter in human (left) and Chancellor Helmut Kohl at West Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, where he said, definite and sustained pres- (Western democracy) is not history whose last pages “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” sure in the 1980s — gener- conquered by Sparta (Soviet even now are being written.” ated by Ronald Reagan. militarism) after all? What if, The words kept coming. The American people had this time, Athens defeats He infuriated Moscow’s state, declare its omnipotence balance Soviet SS-20s already The Strategic Defense Ini- the good sense to elect him Sparta? With that man in the leaders a year later, telling over individual man and pre- deployed in Eastern Europe. tiative (SDI), announced in president in 1980, and as a Oval Office, it’s possible. Nay, the British Parliament in dict its eventual domination He imposed an embargo on 1983, was perhaps the most result, tens of millions of it’s likely. Inevitable . . .” 1982, “The march of free- of all peoples on the earth. construction of Soviet crucial factor. The idea of a people in Central and East- We can only guess their dom and democracy will They are the focus of evil in pipelines to the West (re- high-tech missile defense ern Europe are free. mental processes: “Com- leave Marxism-Leninism on the modern world. . . . I urge stricting revenue of hard cur- scared the Soviets to death. rades, we must be careful. the ash heap of history as it you to beware the temptation rency). The Polish Solidarity They knew their moribund He is tough, probably a mad- has left other tyrannies.” . . . to ignore the facts of his- labor movement received se- socialist economy would not Roman Joch is director of man. We must avoid conflicts And again, in 1983, in his tory and the aggressive im- cret funding. Anti-commu- be able to compete with such the Civic Institute, a con- with him; otherwise we lose. immortal — and much-criti- pulses of an evil empire.” nist guerrillas in Nicaragua, a massive buildup. They had servative think tank in In fact, we already have lost cized at the time — “evil em- How did Reagan win the Angola, Afghanistan and to negotiate — and from a po- Prague, and an adviser to the arms race. We must take pire” address: “Let us be Cold War? He deployed Cambodia received aid, and sition of weakness, at that. Czech Prime Minister Petr precautions, negotiate a aware that while Soviet rulers medium-range missiles in Grenada was liberated by Until 1983, the Soviets had Necas on human rights and smooth transition of power preach the supremacy of the Western Europe to counter- military action in 1983. a fighting chance to win the foreign policy. First lady was a true political partner Nancy helped shape NANCY REAGAN Former First Lady of the United States her husband’s legacy Born: July 6, 1921, New York; Protestant Education: B.A., Smith College, 1943 BY ANDREA BILLUPS complex personal-political Family: Married Ronald Reagan, March 1952; two relationship. THE WASHINGTON TIMES children, two stepchildren “A lot of what is known he was a size-2 fash- about her comes from the Career highlights: First lady, 1981-1989; launched ionista, a former ac- memoirs of Reagan’s advis- “Just Say No” anti-drug campaign, 1982; first lady of tress who inspired ers, who wrote a lot of kiss- California, 1967-1975; actress, New York and Hollywood, media wrath decades and-tell books after they 1945-1962. ago for her couture were out of office. They did Of note: Mrs. Reagan published a memoir, “My Turn,” in Sand decorating appetites — disclose that there was this 1989. In 2002, President George W. Bush awarded her not to mention her proximity tug of war between her and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest to power. some of his hard-line advis- civilian award. The 4,372-piece red china ers, which made them de- Source: Reagan Presidential Library and Museum; www.firstladies.org she sought to gussy up White spise her but made many THE WASHINGTON TIMES House entertaining — a gift historians see her as a mod- from a private foundation, erating influence.” man is a strong woman: gan deserves much credit not a taxpayer expense as Mrs. Reagan’s push Nowhere was this more for starting an open conver- some thought — cost more against those from the far clear than the relationship sation about Alzheimer’s dis- than $200,000. At the time, right helped save her hus- between Ronald and Nancy ease, the affliction that critics denounced it as an band’s presidency, Ms. Olm- Reagan. She was the back- clouded the last decade of unseemly show of excess in sted said. bone of that White House her husband’s life. Her sto- the depths of a national re- “After [the Iran-Contra during her husband’s icism in handling Reagan’s cession. Now, like Nancy scandal], his approval rat- tenure, and her style was death in 2004 “brought the Reagan herself, the china set ings were abysmal,” the his- fierce and unique — and I’m issue into every dining room has endured to become an torian said. “There was talk not just talking about fash- and every office water-cooler iconic treasure. of impeachment. She was ion,” Ms. Tantaros said. “De- discussion,” he said. Mrs. Reagan’s value in the perhaps his most forceful ad- THE WASHINGTON TIMES spite the controversy she in- “She really displayed grace White House was much more viser in counseling him to Ronald and Nancy Reagan were deeply affectionate, voked during her years in under pressure. It’s such a than as a sidelines tea-pourer meet with [Soviet leader close friends say. the West Wing, she was a tough job for a loved one deal- with a penchant for Galanos Mikhail] Gorbachev and role model for wives, moth- ing with it, and I absolutely do gowns and a distrust of out- come to some sort of deal ers, young people and any- think part of her legacy is the siders. She loomed large — that led to the [Intermediate- a minor role in the produc- her husband’s tenure as gov- one who deeply loved the Alzheimer’s conversation.” often in her famed red power Range Nuclear Forces] tion of “Lute Song.” Soon, ernor of California, those United States.” Mr. Watson also praised dress — in all aspects of her Treaty to cool tensions. It en- after a screen test, she was closest to the handsome cou- Robert Watson, a professor Mrs. Reagan, now 89, as “a husband’s life and career, couraged Reagan to go away working under contract for ple described them as of American studies at Lynn legacy-shaper and advocate wielding outsized political in- from hard-line, hawkish poli- MGM in Hollywood, where deeply affectionate. Actor University in Boca Raton, for her husband.” fluence for a first lady and cies and make peace and she played small roles in 11 Charlton Heston, upon Mr. Fla., calls Mrs. Reagan “one “All presidents are con- helping to shape Reagan’s agree to reduce the nuclear films. In her next to last Reagan’s death, called their of the most influential first cerned about legacies when now-lauded and history-mak- arsenal. She played a big role movie, “Hellcats of the relationship “the greatest ladies in modern times.” they leave office. They invite ing Cold War policy. in ending the Cold War.” Navy,” she was joined on the love affair in the history of “A lot of the people who historians to meet with them, Much more than many Born Anne Francis Rob- screen by actor Ronald Rea- the American presidency.” were not following politics their proxies go on talk shows. knew during his presidency, bins in 1921, the daughter of gan, whom she married in a A book chronicling their didn’t believe she was [influ- They write books to make Ronald Reagan relied mainly an actress and car salesman, simple ceremony in 1952. romantic relationship in let- ential], but people who had their case,” Mr. Watson said. on the council of his wife, even she was raised for a time by She retired from movies in ters, “I love you, Ronnie,” known Reagan and studied “The fact that Reagan was on the big issues. Some say relatives because her 1962, her heart more de- was published in 2000. Al- his governing knew Nancy stricken with [Alzheimer’s] she was likely his only true mother’s career kept her away voted to marriage and a fam- though Mrs. Reagan was was a power broker,” Mr. so early after leaving the friend in Washington — much from home. After her mother ily than to a career on the sil- criticized in the press for her Watson said. White House, he never got to the chagrin of his power- remarried, she was adopted ver screen. fashion tastes and formality, “In some ways, I’ve al- the chance to do that. What player associates, many of by her stepfather, Loyal The blended family in- her enduring devotion to her ways felt that each first lady we have seen with Nancy is whom regarded her as the Davis, a well-known neuro- cluded two children from husband and her grace in makes the next one possi- that she has stepped up, con- tiny but ferocious pit bull surgeon and conservative Mr. Reagan’s first marriage dealing with his final illness ble,” he added. “And I think sistently and quietly reach- guarding the Oval Office door. whose name she took. She to actress Jane Wyman and and death have softened her [Mrs. Reagan] made Hillary ing out to his inner circle to “I think she was the only grew up in Chicago and grad- two children born after the image with time. Clinton and Michelle Obama make the case for her hus- person he really listened to, uated from Smith College in couple married. It also be- Political pundit Andrea a little more possible. Both band’s legacy. the only person he was really Massachusetts in 1943. came a lifelong partnership, Tantaros said Mrs. Reagan’s are Ivy League lawyers who “I think she was more am- close to,” historian Kathy After working several with Mrs. Reagan famously strength on behalf of her are seen as full political and bitious than he was. And I Olmsted, a professor at the jobs, she followed her devoted to her “Ronnie.” husband has been inspira- policy partners” with their think in a lot of ways, she is University of California at mother into acting, perform- Over her lifetime in the tional across generations. presidential spouses. even more relevant today Davis, said about Reagan’s ing on Broadway in 1946 in public eye, including during “Behind every successful Mr. Watson said Mrs. Rea- than she was a few years ago.” FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2011 A SPECIAL SECTION // 5

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The life of Ronald Wilson Reagan

1911 1984 1989 Feb. 6: Born in Tampico, Ill., to Aug. 20-23: Republicans Jan. 11: Delivers his farewell itinerant shoe salesman John renominate the Reagan-Bush address to the nation. Edward “Jack” Reagan and team in a single roll-call vote Jan. 20: Leaves office for his wife, Nelle Wilson Reagan. in Dallas. His acceptance retirement in Los Angeles. 1920 speech criticizes Democrats His job-approval rating of 68 as the party of higher taxes percent is the highest to be The Reagan family settles in and inflation. received by a president at the Dixon, Ill., where his parents Nov. 6: Wins re-election with end of a term since World continue to instill a ruggedly 59 percent of the vote, War II. individualistic, optimistic ethic carrying 49 states in a record in young Ronald that reflects landslide. Republicans gain 1990 Midwestern values of home, 14 seats in the House but November: Publishes his family and patriotism. lose two Senate seats. autobiography, “An American 1928 1985 Life.” Graduates from Dixon High AP March 13: Vows to veto any 1991 School, where he was active AP Talking with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev tax increase by Congress, Nov. 4: Dedicates his in sports and drama and was Working as a sportscaster in the 1930s. in Washington Dec. 8, 1987. saying: “Go ahead, make my presidential library in Simi elected president of the day.” Valley, Calif., in a ceremony student body. June-December: Consistently attended by all five living U.S. 1932 condemns acts of terrorism presidents. throughout the world that kill 1992 Graduates from Eureka or threaten Americans, College, a small liberal arts vowing never to negotiate Aug. 17: Endorses President college affiliated with the with terrorists. Bush’s re-election in a Disciples of Christ, where he Dec. 12: Signs the Gramm- speech to the Republican played football, was elected Rudman Act providing for him National Convention in student body president and to impose spending cuts if Houston. supplemented a partial Congress does not meet Nov. 27: Meets with scholarship by working as a yearly targets designed to President-elect Clinton in his lifeguard, swimming coach eliminate the federal deficit Los Angeles office, and dishwasher. by 1991. suggesting how to cut 1933 spending and recommending 1986 that he seek “peace of mind” Hired as a sports announcer Oct. 11-12: Deadlocks with often at the presidential at WOC; after it is Soviet leader Gorbachev retreat at Camp David, Md. consolidated with WHO in Des during a summit in Reykjavik, 1994 Moines, he announces Iceland, over U.S. plans to Chicago Cubs baseball games deploy a space-based missile Nov. 5: In a handwritten letter, throughout the Midwest. defense system. he tells the American people 1937 Oct. 22: Signs a bill enacting that he is in the early stages of sweeping tax reforms that Alzheimer’s disease; his Discovered by an agent for benefit individuals and the poor decision to increase public the Warner Bros. movie UPI and give the biggest windfall to awareness of the disease is studio while covering Cubs Proposing “Reaganomics” tax cuts July 27, 1981. the wealthiest Americans. widely praised. spring training near Los Angeles. After a screen test, 1987 1997 he signs to play the leading 1956 1970 Winter-spring: Pushes budget Oct. 2: The New York Times role of a crusading radio and tax cuts dubbed Jan. 5: Undergoes “routine” reports that he no longer can Campaigns for President Nov. 3: Handily wins re- “Reaganomics.” prostate surgery. announcer in “Love Is On the Eisenhower’s re-election. election, defeating State remember that he had been Air,” the first of 55 films in a March 30: Wounded by a June 12: Challenges Soviet president, nor recognize Assembly Speaker Jesse bullet in his left lung in an leader Mikhail Gorbachev to 28-year acting career. 1957 Unruh by 3.4 million votes to close friends and former assassination attempt outside “tear down this wall” during a aides. 1940 Co-stars with his wife in 2.9 million. the Washington Hilton. speech on the west side of “Hellcats of the Navy,” his Stars as George Gipp, the 1971 July 7: Nominates Sandra the Berlin Wall dividing the city. 1998 last theatrical release. Day O’Connor to become the Oct. 23: The Senate, after a University of Notre Dame July: Vetoes $503 million in Feb. 6: In an honor timed to football player who died 1958 first woman on the Supreme bitter fight, votes 58-42 to mark Mr. Reagan’s 87th the state budget for salary Court. young, in “Knute Rockne, All Son Ronald Prescott is born. increases and for education, American.” Marries actress welfare and medical care. Aug. 4: Congress approves Jane Wyman. 1960 his income tax cuts, at $33 Aug. 13: Signs a welfare billion the largest in history. Campaigns for reform measure that tightens Vice President eligibility, establishes August-October: Faces down Richard M. residency requirements and striking air traffic controllers by Nixon, the increases protection against firing those who refuse to Republican fraud. return to work and ordering the nominee for Federal Aviation Administration president, 1972 to recruit new ones. against Sen. March: Announces that Fall: Deep recession begins, John F. Kennedy, about 30,000 welfare national debt surpasses $1 Massachusetts recipients would lose benefits trillion for the first time. Democrat. if they did not work off the 1982 AP grants in part-time jobs. Wincing after a bullet strikes March 30, 1981. 1962 June 8: In a speech to the 1975 British Parliament, asserts birthday, Mr. Clinton signs Leaves the reject his nomination of Democratic Party Jan. 6: Leaves office after that “the march of freedom legislation renaming and democracy” will “leave Robert H. Bork to the Washington National Airport and registers as eight years as governor of Supreme Court. a Republican. California. Marxism-Leninism on the ash as Ronald Reagan Nov. 11: Nominates Anthony Washington National Airport. His mother dies Nov. 20: Opens his campaign heap of history.” September: Sends U.S. M. Kennedy for the Supreme May 5: Mr. Clinton and Mrs. at 76. against President Ford for the Court. Republican nomination. troops to Lebanon as part of Reagan dedicate a new 1962-1965 a peacekeeping force to ease Dec. 8-10: Hosts Mr. federal office complex, the 1976 tensions between Israel and Gorbachev at a three-day Ronald Reagan Building and Hosts and summit in Washington that performs in the Feb. 24: Narrowly loses the the PLO. Monthly International Trade Center. At unemployment climbs to produces a treaty calling for 3.1 million square feet, it is television New Hampshire primary to the dismantling of all Soviet Western series Mr. Ford, 51 percent to 49 10.8 percent, the highest the second-largest federal since the Depression. and U.S. medium-range building, after the Pentagon. “Death Valley percent. nuclear weapons. Days.” Does March 23: Pulls an upset of 1983 1999 AP commercials for Mr. Ford in the North Carolina 1988 Conferring with British leader Margaret the sponsor, March 8: Reasserts December: Deteriorates to primary, 52 percent to 46 January: Signs a free-trade the point that he no longer United States percent. conservative roots and calls Thatcher at Camp David Dec. 22, 1984. the Soviet Union an “evil agreement with Canada. can hold a coherent Borax & Aug. 19: Falls only 60 Aug. 15: Passes the torch of Chemical Corp., which makes empire” in a speech to conversation or engage in delegates short of making Mr. Protestant evangelicals. Republican leadership to Vice recreational activities. 1941 cleaning products. Stars in his Ford the first incumbent of the March 23: Proposes to President Bush in a speech Daughter Maureen Elizabeth last film, the made-for- century to lose his party’s at the national convention in 2001 television “The Killers” (1964). develop a space-based is born. His father dies. nomination (claiming 1,070 New Orleans. Jan. 12: Breaks his hip in a delegates to the president’s defense against nuclear 1942 1964 missiles called the Strategic Nov. 8: Mr. Bush wins the fall at home. 1,187 with 1,130 needed to presidency over Oct. 27: Gains widespread Defense Initiative. Aug. 8: Daughter Maureen Stars in the critically win). The convention requires Massachusetts Gov. Michael dies of cancer. attention with a nationally Mr. Ford to run on a Nov. 2: Signs a bill creating a acclaimed “Kings Row.” Dukakis, a victory widely Oct. 11: Becomes the Enters Army Air Corps as a televised speech, “A Time for conservative platform. federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King. seen as an extension of the longest-lived president. second lieutenant. Choosing,” on behalf of the Nov. 2: Becomes the Reagan presidency. Disqualified from combat Republican presidential Republican favorite for 1980 2003 nominee, Sen. Barry duty for nearsightedness, he when President Ford is July 12: U.S. Navy is assigned to make Air Force Goldwater of Arizona. It defeated by his Democratic establishes him as a commissions its newest training films in Hollywood. challenger, Georgia Gov. aircraft carrier, the USS spokesman for conservatism Jimmy Carter. 1945 and spurs California’s Ronald Reagan, the first Republican leaders to ask 1979 carrier named for a living Discharged with the rank of ex-president. captain. Adopts a son, him to run for governor. Nov. 16: Announces his bid Michael Edward. 1966 for the Republican 2004 nomination for president, 1947 June 7: Wins the Republican June 5: Dies at his Bel entering the race as the front- Air, Calif., home. Elected to the first of five nomination for governor of runner among 10 declared consecutive terms as California with almost 65 candidates. The Washington Times president of the Screen percent of the vote in a five- Actors Guild. Appears as a candidate primary. 1980 friendly witness before the 1967 July 14-17: Accepts the House Un-American Activities Republican nomination for Committee, supporting Jan. 2: Sworn in as president in Detroit after Hollywood producers’ California’s 33rd governor. winning 1,939 of 1,994 blacklist of actors and writers 1968 delegates and chooses suspected of communist ties. George Bush as his running May: Though not a formal mate on a conservative 1948 candidate for the presidential platform. Campaigns for President nomination, issues “position Nov. 4: Confounds Truman’s re-election. Is papers” and makes a five- predictions of a close divorced from Jane Wyman. state fund-raising tour for the contest, carrying 44 states party. 1952 and routing Mr. Carter by 51 1969 percent to 41 percent of the Marries actress Nancy Davis. popular vote. Republicans Campaigns as a Democratic January: Asks state take control of the Senate for supporter of Republican legislators to help him drive the first time in a quarter- presidential nominee Dwight “criminal anarchists and century; Democrats lose 33 D. Eisenhower. Daughter latter-day Fascists” off seats in the House. Patricia Ann is born. California campuses. Feb. 4: Calls for a $100 1981 1954-1962 million tax rebate. Jan. 20: In inaugural Hosts and occasionally stars April 8: Proposes reforming address, calls upon in a television drama series, the state tax structure, Americans to “begin an era “General Electric Theater.” including ceilings on local of national renewal.” Iran Tours the country as a property taxes and an releases 52 American spokesman for GE, including average reduction of 80 hostages held for 444 days. speeches to factory workers percent in residential stressing the dangers of too property taxes levied for much government regulation. education. 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Upholding the rule of law Ronald Reagan rekindled the principle of judicial restraint

By Ed Meese and judicial decisions to determine their proven un- derstanding and allegiance to constitutional values. oth as governor By instituting within his of California and administration this empha- as president of sis on judicial restraint and the United constitutionalism, Presi- States, Ronald dent Reagan produced a Reagan was de- virtual revolution in judi- Bvoted to the appointment of cial philosophy. For years, judges who understood the the courts had departed proper role of the judiciary from their legitimate role and the important limita- with little criticism from tions the U.S. Constitution the legal community, the sets on government. news media or political He took office as gover- commentators. Now the nor amid great controversy question of “judicial ac- tivism” or “judicial re- straint” became a matter of Commentary debate among law schools, the legal profession and about the politicization of public discourse. the judiciary and the quality The work of the Justice of judicial appointments. So Department in carrying out he initiated a new system the president’s directions for considering the candi- on judicial selection pro- dates for California’s courts. vided the implementation He organized in each of the “originalism” philos- county a group composed of ophy. Justices of the ASSOCIATED PRESS a presiding judge, the presi- President Reagan announces the resignation of Chief Justice Warren E. Burger (right) during a briefing at the White Supreme Court, as well as dent of the local bar associa- House on June 17, 1986. Reagan said he would nominate Justice William H. Rehnquist (second from right) to the appellate and trial court tion and one to three resi- post of chief justice and Antonin Scalia (left) as a member of the Supreme Court. judges, were appointed on dents knowledgeable about the basis of this doctrine. To the court system and the make clear his personal in- candidates. From their indi- gress actually provided. balances. When the federal the Constitution and of the administration of justice. terest in restoring the rule vidual assessments, he was Many legal scholars and courts turned from inter- federal statutes. He ex- He said that the courts, like of law and constitutional fi- able to select the judge with knowledgeable observers preting the law to making plained that the Founding the Constitution itself, must delity to judicial proceed- the best qualifications and were concerned that we the law or improperly in- Fathers had given careful not be liberal or conserva- ings, President Reagan per- eliminate any who did not were no longer a govern- terfered with the actions of thought to the role of the fed- tive, but solely focused on sonally telephoned each of measure up to his exacting ment of laws, but a govern- the executive branch, they eral judiciary and thought following the law and pre- the new judges as he ap- standards. As a result, he ment where the result de- serving justice. pointed them. was recognized by mem- pended on who the judge He said that the courts, like the To remedy this situation, The president’s careful bers of both political parties might be. This was particu- the president directed the efforts produced the same as having appointed the best larly true in such cases as Constitution itself, must not be liberal or Department of Justice to results at the federal level judges in California history. religious liberty, freedom conservative, but solely focused on develop a method for exam- as he had in California: a As he was running for of speech, economic affairs ining candidates for the judiciary of increasingly president, Ronald Reagan and criminal justice. These following the law and preserving justice. federal judiciary. In addi- high-quality judges com- raised the issue of “judicial were matters that most af- tion to the usual back- mitted to constitutional activism” among the fed- fected the personal lives of usurped the powers of the that it should be independent ground investigation and government. eral courts. He noted that American citizens. other two branches. and strong, but with its pow- evaluation by the American too many judges were sub- Most important to the Ronald Reagan was com- ers confined within the Bar Association, the attor- stituting their own personal president was the fact that mitted to restoring the con- boundaries of a written Con- ney general and his staff Ed Meese holds the Ronald views, policy preferences judicial activism violated cept of constitutional fidelity. stitution and laws. established a system of in- Reagan Chair at the Her- and political ideas for what the basic constitutional Judges, he maintained, He considered this prin- terviews and extensive re- itage Foundation and was the Constitution and the principles of limited gov- should base their decisions ciple, known as judicial re- search into the candidates’ U.S. attorney general during statutes enacted by Con- ernment and of checks and on the original meaning of straint, critical to the fair prior writings, speeches the Reagan administration. The Bull Run Republican Humorist in chief Women’s Club of Reagan left a legacy of laughs Western Prince William County, Virginia By Martin Tullai said, with mock seriousness, “exploit my op- ponent’s youth and inexperience.” During the 1980 campaign, with the state of the economy a significant issue, he here’s debate about where offered this definition: “Recession is when Ronald Reagan ranks among your neighbor loses his job, depression is America’s greatest presidents, when you lose yours and . . . recovery will but there is far less doubt be when Jimmy Carter loses his.” whether he should be recog- Like all good politicians (Abraham nized as our “most hu- Lincoln included), Ronald Rea- Tmorous president.” gan realized a little self-ef- President Reagan’s de- facement about the recogni- meanor after the attempt on tion factor helps one to his life offered testimony maintain a sense of propor- that he, like many of his tion, like the story about his predecessors, found humor experience in New York. an effective antidote to the One day while hurrying burdens of the presidency. down Fifth Avenue back to “Honey, I forgot to duck,” his hotel, he was suddenly he cracked to his wife. confronted by a man who As he was being pointed his finger at him and wheeled into the operating said, “Ah, hah! I know you — I room, he grinned and kid- see you all the time in the ded with the doctors, “I ‘pitchas’ and on the TV.” As he IS CELEBRATING… hope you’re all good spoke, the man fumbled in his Republicans.” pocket for pen and paper. Fi- Following sur- nally, he triumphantly gery he came off thrust the pen and The 100th Birthday Anniversary with, “All in all, I’d paper in his hands rather be in Philadelphia.” and said, “I gotta have Later, he sent a note to your autograph, Ray Of Ronald Wilson Reagan, waiting White House aides: “Win- Milland!” So Reagan th ston Churchill said, ‘There’s no more signed: Ray Milland. 40 President of the exhilarating feeling than being shot at He also enjoyed Russian without result.’ ” jokes, like the story he told about Several hours later came another mes- Adam and Eve. “I sometimes think Adam United States of America! sage: “If I had had this much attention in and Eve were Russians,” he said. “They Hollywood, I would have stayed there.” didn’t have a roof over their heads, nothing President Reagan’s use of humor was as to wear, but they had one apple between widespread as it was varied. them, and they thought that was paradise.” Jane Beyer • Sherry Brown • Robyn Candland Much of his humor was Speaking at a Veterans of Dr. Barbara Lee Chapman • Anne Clagett • Judy Colucci self-effacing. When shown a “Recession is when Foreign Wars convention, he picture of himself with quipped, “The Russians have Jeannie Couch • Geraldine Davie • Meg Desmedt • Carol Ferguson Bonzo, a chimpanzee he had your neighbor loses a new million-dollar lottery. Debbie FitzSimmonds • Martha Hendley • Betty Latham appeared with in a movie, The winner gets a dollar a he cracked, “I’m the one his job, depression year for a million years.” Jeanine Lawson • Michelle McQuigg • Jacquie Meeks with the watch.” Forever the optimist and From the beginning, the is when you lose positive thinker, he told a Ardene Nickisch • Kim Nicoletti • Sheila Niemela question of Reagan’s age yours, and recovery Gridiron Dinner, “Since I Carolyn Pohemus • Kathryn Rawley • Mary Jo Rigby • Jean Robinsonprompted much discussion. came to the White House, I By kidding it to death, he ef- will be when Jimmy got two hearing aids, a colon Alyson Satterwhite • Rose Schulz • Kerstin Schweizer • Ilma Striker fectively defused it. operation, skin cancer, a Karen Ulrich • Shirley Way • Donna Widawski After quoting Thomas Carter loses his.” prostate operation and I was Jefferson’s advice that “We shot. The damn thing is, I’ve should judge a president not by his age, never felt better in my life.” but by his deeds,” he declared, “And ever Not surprisingly, Ronald Reagan once since he told me that, I stopped worrying.” pointed out that politics is like show busi- “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. When he and Jimmy Carter attended ness. “You have to have a hell of an open- We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be the Al Smith dinner in New York in 1980, ing, you coast for awhile, you have to have he told the story about how he had re- a hell of a closing.” fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” ceived a call from President Carter asking, Nearing his 100th birthday, it is safe to say “Mr. Reagan, how come you always look we remember him because he never coasted, — Ronald Wilson Reagan younger each time I see you riding a and he did have one hell of a closing. horse?” Reagan’s reply: “Jimmy, I just keep riding older horses.” God Bless America! His quip during the second debate with Martin Tullai is author of “The Presidency Walter Mondale in 1984 put the issue at rest. — Once Over Lightly” and “Speaking of “I am not going to, for political purposes,” he Abraham Lincoln.” FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2011 A SPECIAL SECTION // 9

By Michael Reagan tional security is dangerously undermined by political correct- An actor on God’s stage ness. Our government has na- n June 11, 2004, we tionalized banks, car companies buried my father at his and the health care system. We presidential library in The moment has come for a new champion of freedom have more government and less Simi Valley, Calif. I freedom than at any other time kissedO my father’s casket and said in our history. goodbye to the greatest man I’ve The decisions we make as a na- ever known — one of the greatest tion will determine whether or not men the world has ever known. we leave to our children the same The next morning, at the Bel American dream that was en- Air Hotel, I saw one of my father’s trusted to us. As Abraham Lincoln dearest friends, Lady Margaret said in 1862, “We shall nobly save, Thatcher. She or meanly lose, the last best hope greeted me of earth.” Or as Ronald Reagan warmly, and we The challenges said in 1983, “Freedom is never talked about her we face today more than one generation away friendship with my from extinction.” father. “Michael,” are startlingly The challenges we face today she said, “I’ve often similar to are startlingly similar to condi- thought it was tions at the dawning of the Rea- tragic that your fa- conditions at gan era. The good news is that, ther was not the dawning with the hindsight of history, we elected in 1976. now know what works. We know Perhaps the Cold of the that a free economy, lower tax War would have rates, and a pro-business regula- ended four years Reagan era. tory climate can bring an ailing earlier. The world economy roaring back to life. We would have been spared so much know that a strong military and a suffering.” coalition of staunch international “Actually,” I said, “I think allies can topple an evil empire. Ronald Reagan became presi- Some say that America’s best dent at exactly the right time. If days are over, that we must learn he’d been elected in 1976, I don’t to accept increasing scarcity and think he would have accom- ILLUSTRATION BY GREG GROESCH rising terrorism as facts of life. plished so much.” Ronald Reagan rejected the pes- “What do you mean?” I believe God chooses the drama of history unfolds. end of the road. He saw defeat as simist view. He told us that Amer- “My father needed allies to times and selects the people to In 1976, after Dad lost the a bump in the road. He seemed ica’s best days were ahead, that bring down the Iron Curtain. accomplish His purpose in the nomination to Gerald Ford, we in to know he’d be back to win it all American ingenuity and free en- Lady Thatcher, you were Dad’s world. He brought the Founding the Reagan family thought his ca- in 1980. I don’t think he ever terprise could defeat any enemy. strongest ally, and you became Fathers together in Philadelphia reer was over, too. My sister Mau- doubted it. Then he set out to prove it. prime minister in 1979. Pope in 1776 to craft the Declaration reen took it the hardest of all. She Dad watched from the side- It’s time to listen and learn John Paul II came on the scene of Independence. He assembled was a weeping mess for days lines as Jimmy Carter took from him again. It’s time to prove in 1978 — and his visit to Poland the Constitutional Convention in after the convention. America to the brink of economic him right once more. It’s time for in 1979 sparked the rise of Lech 1787, so the Founders could draft disintegration and military col- a new Reagan revolution. Walesa and the Solidarity move- a Constitution to bind us together lapse. Then, when the country ment. And there was Vaclav as “We the People.” Commentary turned to my father for leader- Havel in Czechoslovakia in 1977. God chose the right time for ship, he pulled America back Michael Reagan is the son of And Mikhail Gorbachev didn’t Ronald Reagan’s election. On Finally, Dad sat Maureen down from that brink. President Ronald Reagan and a come to power until 1985. None March 30, 1981, He arranged and said, “Everything happens for Now, on the 100th anniversary political consultant. He is the of Dad’s allies were in place in events to the split-second to pre- a reason — even this loss. When- of my father’s birthday, our econ- founder and chairman of the Rea- 1976 — but nearly all of you vent my father from being killed ever you get knocked down, you omy is dangerously weakened gan Group and president of The were there in 1981. It took all of by an assassin’s bullet. And He have to get up and keep going. once more. Our national debt is Reagan Legacy Foundation (rea- you, working together, to end the chose the right time for the Iron When the time is right, you’ll do unsustainable. Trillions of dol- gan.com). Portions of this column Cold War.” Curtain to fall. God places the what you were born to do.” lars of Social Security and are adapted from his book “The “Why, I never thought of that,” actors on the grand stage of his- My father seemed unfazed by Medicare payouts are scheduled New Reagan Revolution” (St. she said. tory. As they play their parts, the defeat. We all thought it was the to hit us like a tsunami. Our na- Martin’s Press, 2011).

By Donald Lambro cut plan wasn’t working. But Reagan, who took Stock- Conversations with Reagan man to the proverbial “wood- shed” for criticizing his policies entennial events here in a series of meetings with a re- and around the world He was always anxious to share conservatism porter for The Washington Post, officially begin this still stuck by his brilliant budget week to commemorate reporter for United Press Inter- with Democrats, rather than fight commandment against “speaking chief and his recovery plan. In- Ronald Reagan’s 100th national at the time, and when- for party principles. Reagan be- ill” of fellow Republicans. But stead, he blamed the reporter for birthdayC that will mark the 40th ever he came to the capital to ad- lieved the GOP needed to strike out when Ford began attacking him taking quotes “out of context” and president’s historic legacy. dress some group, we would meet with bolder strokes on foreign pol- as a warmonger, Reagan exploded inserting his own views as if they Celebrations were planned in his room at the Madison Hotel icy toward the Soviet Union, fed- in anger during an interview with were Stockman’s. from Prague to Washington, and talk policy and politics for eral spending and tax policy. “No me on his campaign plane that “I think the real cynicism and the where the National Archives will more than an hour. more pale pastels” was his motto. June, calling the president “a cry- doubts in the plan were written by display an array of Reagan’s pa- On his bed was his well-worn I would always ask him if he baby” whose attacks threatened the author and his interpretation,” pers, including a copy of his “Evil leather attache case, filled with had other interviews scheduled his “spirit of unity,” warning Ford Reagan told me. The Post played Empire” address, with his hand- lots of newspaper clips and legal while he was in Washington, and, that he was “playing with fire” if my exclusive story across the top of written changes, and his corre- pads on which he wrote his five- surprisingly, he would have none. he continued the “phony war ads” the front page the next day. spondence with Soviet President times-a-week radio commen- The dominant national news against him that he said threat- When I walked into the Oval Mikhail Gorbachev that led to a taries on a broad range of issues, ened to divide the party. Office again on Oct. 6, 1983, Rea- historic U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms from nuclear-arms policies to “This angered me. Because gan was getting ready to run for a reduction treaty. farm price supports. While re- Reagan believed the again, it seemed to be . . . push- second term, despite a steady The theme of these centennial porters saw him only as a little- GOP needed to strike ing beyond a point in which you’d wave of pleas from critics and as- observances — which will mark known, right-wing former gover- have to say, don’t they realize that sorted talking heads that he was his role in the collapse of the Soviet nor, Reagan was reaching out with bolder strokes they could? . . . well, sometimes I too old to serve another term. Union and the end of the Cold War millions of listeners across the on foreign policy think he’d rather win a conven- But he dismissed such sugges- — is “Ronald Reagan: Inspired American heartland on hundreds tion than win an election.” tions out of hand. “I haven’t found freedom, changed the world.” of radio stations, building an toward the Soviet Ford won the nomination in a that it is deleterious to my health These events, which will for- army of grass-roots supporters. Union, federal spending squeaker, but lost to Jimmy so far,” he said, despite his brush mally get under way on his Feb. 6 I had begun writing books about Carter, and Reagan began at once with death. “As a matter of fact,” birth anniversary, have rekindled wasteful federal spending at this and tax policy. to prepare for the 1980 election, he added, “I’ve gained an inch and a lot of fond memories of my in- time, a favorite topic in his which he won with ease. three-quarters around my chest in terviews with Reagan, as well as speeches, so we immediately con- media dismissed him as someone Flash forward to the Oval Office the exercise that I’m doing.” private conversations, before his nected with one another. Because who was too conservative to be on Nov. 16, 1981, when Reagan had Pressing him further about his presidency, on the campaign trail of that comfort level, he was candid electable. Notably, The Washing- fully recovered from an assassina- health, I asked if it was his “inten- and in the Oval Office soon after and forthcoming in his views with ton Post was just across the street tion attempt and was grappling tion to fill out the entire four-year his remarkable recovery from an me, but always on his guard with from his hotel. with the worst recession since the term.” Reagan replied with char- assassination attempt that nearly liberal reporters looking only for a But the national news media es- 1930s. On the day of my interview acteristic wit, “Considering the took his life. “gotcha” moment. Still, he under- tablishment began to gain grudg- with him, both his economic and alternative, yes.” They began in the 1970s, after stood that I was looking for a good ing new respect for Reagan’s pop- fiscal program had been hit by a he had completed his two terms story, and he always gave me one. ular appeal when he suddenly bombshell story from his own as California governor and was Reagan believed the Republican began gaining on Ford in the race budget director David Stockman, Donald Lambro is a syndicated gearing up to challenge President leadership — Ford in particular — for delegates in the GOP’s 1976 who said the budget numbers columnist and former chief politi- Ford for the Republican nomina- was too namby-pamby in its views, presidential primaries. didn’t add up, the deficits were cal correspondent for The Wash- tion. I was a young Washington too eager to get along and go along Reagan had stuck to his 11th worse than expected, and his tax- ington Times

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How Hollywood shaped Gipper Long movie career helped mold ‘The Great Communicator’

BY CHRISTIAN TOTO leader Mikhail Gorbachev, “I dealt

THE WASHINGTON TIMES with the communists back in Hol- lywood. I’ve got this under con- is many political critics trol,” Mr. Joseph recalled. used Ronald Reagan’s But having a skilled actor in the work in the fluffy 1950s White House wasn’t a plus at all comedy “Bedtime for times. Bonzo” to remind voters “The downside of this type of a that he was just an actor presidency is you’re only as good as H— and a B-movie player, at that. the people around you,” Mr. Joseph The president’s days as an in-de- said. “When they fail you, you’re mand actor weren’t merely a table more at risk than in a typical pres- read for the biggest role of his life. idency . . . like with [the Iran-con- His Hollywood tenure helped tra scandal].” shape his character, refine his com- But being a familiar presence on munication skills and hone negoti- both the big and small screen usu- ating tactics that would serve him ally worked to his advantage, said — and the country — well during Christopher C. Presley, director of his two-term presidency. professional development for the And purely on aesthetic grounds, Actors Studio Drama School at it’s simply wrong to say Reagan’s Pace University. film legacy was that of a glorified “When you’ve seen an actor in so set-filler. many roles, you feel like you have John Meroney, author of an up- an intimacy with them,” Mr. Pres- coming book on Reagan’s role in the ley said. Hollywood labor movement and For Reagan, acting allowed him battles with industry communists, to convey the sense of self he argues that the public has been wanted, the one that fit the needs of badly misinformed about the fu- a given moment. ture president’s time in Hollywood. “A trained actor knows good act- Mr. Meroney recalls a project ing is the honest expression of them- that cried out for a Gregory Peck- selves within a given set of circum- type actor to play the lead. Indus- stances,” Mr. Presley said. “A bad try titan Jack Warner told the film’s actor will play an idea or type, a producers they didn’t need to go stereotype, without even realizing it. outside the Warner Bros. studio. A good actor will put themselves in “We have Ronald Reagan. He’s the circumstance and let whatever’s our Gregory Peck,” said Mr. unique about them come out.” Warner, according to Seth Linden, a media coach and Mr. Meroney. executive vice president of Dukas “He had a face and He provided Public Relations, said Reagan’s demeanor that was directors with a lengthy film career afforded him made to be an A-movie decades to sharpen his ability to star. Audiences re- “solid leading man” connect with the masses. By the sponded to him that time he switched gears to politics, way,” said Mr. who could break he knew precisely how to phrase Meroney, who pro- through at times to what he wanted to say. vides audio commen- But great speechmaking isn’t tary for a new Warner a top-quality simply about proper enunciating. Bros. DVD set “The It involves knowing what not to Ronald Reagan Cen- performance. say as well. tennial Collection.” Former presidential speech- Bob Birchard, editor of the writer James Humes wrote for Rea- American Film Institute Catalog gan as well as Presidents Ford and of Feature Films, said that while Nixon. According to Mr. Linden, Reagan never attained major star Mr. Humes once said when he sub- status, he provided directors with mitted a speech to Nixon he would a “solid leading man” who could edit it for policy issues. When he did break through at times to a top- the same for Reagan, the man quality performance. known by many as “the Great Com- Critics generally contend Rea- municator” edited it for style. gan’s best screen work came in the ILLUSTRATION BY GREG GROESCH “He had the ear and knew how 1942 drama “Kings Row,” in which language affects people,” Mr. Lin- he famously cried, “Where’s the reer to colorful effect. fodder,” Mr. Birchard said. “But Guild gave him a crash course in den said. “And he understood what rest of me?” after a botched sur- What Reagan lacked, Mr. Bir- it’s a perfectly entertaining film, conflict resolution. Those experi- an audience needs to hear. It’s why gery. He also drew acclaim for the chard said, is a signature role like nothing to be ashamed of. It only ences taught him how to threaten, he resonated so well in his first 1949 drama “The Hasty Heart,” as a Dirty Harry or John Rambo that became an issue because he was in when to cajole and an “incredible term. The country needed a hope- well as his gridiron heroism in could have helped define his career. the political arena.” sense of timing,” Mr. Joseph says. ful message.” “Knute Rockne, All American” And “Bonzo,” in which Reagan’s Mark Joseph, producer of an up- The president’s sense of humor The timbre of Reagan’s voice (1940). The latter earned him the co-star was a chimp, didn’t qualify coming biopic of the 40th presi- didn’t hurt. and his natural charm did the rest. nickname “The Gipper,” one he on any level. dent, said Reagan’s days as a union Reagan as president once told an “He was clearly born with dusted off during his political ca- That movie “made good political leader as head of the Screen Actors aide prior to meeting Russian tremendous talent,” Mr. Linden said. Alzheimer’s: The long goodbye Reagan opted to announce his affliction to raise awareness

BY CHERYL WETZSTEIN after taking office in 2001. THE WASHINGTON TIMES ALZHEIMER’S In 2009, the former first lady ap- plauded President Obama’s execu- he shaky, handwritten BY THE tive order reversing the Bush policy. words of the Nov. 5, NUMBERS “We owe it to ourselves and our 1994, note got straight Key facts and figures children to do everything in our to the point. regarding Alzheimer’s in the power to find cures for these dis- “My fellow Ameri- United States eases,” Mrs. Reagan said at the time. cans, I have recently When Reagan, who was 83 when Tbeen told that I am one of the mil- 5.3 million: The number of he made his fateful announcement lions of Americans who will be af- Americans who suffer from in November 1994, he wrote that he flicted with Alzheimer’s disease,” Alzheimer’s was feeling “just fine.” But his last wrote Ronald Reagan, a simple ad- 7th: Rank of Alzheimer’s public speech had already oc- mission of the illness the former among the leading causes of curred earlier that year, and his last president would live with for the death in 2006 public photograph was taken a few last decade of his life. $172 billion: Annual health years later, at his 89th birthday “[W]e feel it is important to share care costs related to celebration. it with you,” he wrote, because Alzheimer’s He died June 5, 2004, aged 93, when he and first lady Nancy Rea- from pneumonia, a common com- gan spoke openly about their previ- 10.9 million: Number of plication of Alzheimer’s. unpaid caregivers aiding ous health problems, “we were able Alzheimer’s patients Over those 10 years, Mrs. Rea- to raise public awareness.” gan and other family members oc- Now, with an Alzheimer’s diagno- 13 percent: Percentage of casionally talked about how sis, “we hope this might promote Americans 65 or older with Alzheimer’s stole away their greater awareness of this condition.” Alzheimer’s beloved husband and father. “The While other famous people had Source: “2010 Disease Facts and Figures,” Great Communicator,” for instance, succumbed to this irreversible, Alzheimer’s Association was strangely quiet at the dinner ASSOCIATED PRESS THE WASHINGTON TIMES progressive neurological disease Former President Ronald table or couldn’t remember jokes he — including such figures as ac- Reagan celebrates with his wife, had told for years. tress Rita Hayworth, writer E.B. Nancy, at their Bel-Air home in INCREASINGLY federal government reviewed mor- In a 1996 speech to the Republi- White and British Prime Minister Los Angeles on Feb. 6, 2000, tality data and realized that many can National Convention, Mrs. Rea- Harold Wilson — the Reagans’ ad- Reagan’s 89th birthday. Reagan DEADLY deaths attributed to other causes gan poignantly talked about “the mission took the prominence and died four years later of Alzheimer’s mortality figures (more than 20,000) were because of terrible pain and loneliness that public awareness of Alzheimer’s to pneumonia, a common have been on the rise, even an underlying case of Alzheimer’s. must be endured, as each day a new level. Alzheimer’s disease as they fall for other In 1995, Alzheimer’s was listed as brings another reminder of this Within a year, the first couple complication. diseases. the 14th-most-common cause of very long goodbye.” created the Ronald Reagan Re- death in America, and the eighth Change in mortality A few years later, Mrs. Reagan search Institute with the rates, 2000-2006 most common among people aged sadly told ABC newscaster Diane Alzheimer’s Association, the na- “I think he was really the first 65 and older. An estimated 5 million Sawyer that “his days are pretty tion’s oldest and largest advocacy, to lay it out,” said Mr. Hall, adding, Alzheimer’s: +46.1 percent Americans have the disease today. well-defined, I don’t have to plan care and research organization for “Mrs. Reagan’s championing of Strokes: –18.2 percent It remains incurable and, while anything.” the disease. the cause has played an enormous research has advanced, the only “Occasionally” the clouds part For years, Mrs. Reagan and role” in putting a spotlight not just Prostate cancer: –8.7 percent treatments available delay but and her husband was like himself daughter Maureen Reagan, a for- on the disease, but also the chal- Breast cancer: –2.6 percent don’t halt the loss of memory and again, Mrs. Reagan told Ms. mer Alzheimer’s Association lenges of caregiving and the need Heart disease: –11.1 percent of physical and mental functions. Sawyer. board member who died of skin for more research. In recent years, Alzheimer’s has “If it comes, it comes, and you cancer in 2001, spoke about the Since that 1994 announcement, HIV/AIDS: –16.3 percent been part of the debate over whether are happy, grateful,” she said. But disease. there has been a “groundswell” of Source: “2010 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and tissues from human embryos should while she felt he always could tell Figures,” Alzheimer’s Association As a presidential couple, there’s interest in Alzheimer’s disease, he be used (and destroyed) by re- how much she loved him, he only no doubt the Reagans did great said, adding that the AFA, founded THE WASHINGTON TIMES searchers seeking medical cures. “sometimes” knew who she was. things “for the cause,” said Eric in 2002, now has 1,600 member or- being officially identified as a lead- Mrs. Reagan became an outspo- “You come to realize more than Hall, founder and chief executive of ganizations and 13 websites dealing ing cause of death in America. ken advocate for such stem-cell re- ever that we’re all here for a certain Alzheimer’s Foundation of Amer- with aspects of the disease. Prior to 1994, Alzheimer’s was search, even though Republican space of time, and then it’s going to ica, another advocacy and educa- Reagan’s diagnosis even ar- considered a debilitating disease, President George W. Bush put lim- be over. And you better make this tional nonprofit organization. guably accelerated the disease but not a fatal one. But in 1995, the its on new federal funding shortly count,” Mrs. Reagan said. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2011 A SPECIAL SECTION // 11

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‘Bipartisan spirit’ part of legacy Democrats recall Reagan’s ability to reach across the aisle

BY SEAN LENGELL tive-leaning Washington THE WASHINGTON TIMES think thank. But Democrats newfound onald Reagan, de- appreciation for Mr. Reagan spite his status as “doesn’t comport with the the “Great Commu- reality we had during the nicator,” was a po- times that he was here” in R larizing figure dur- Washington, he said. Some of ing his eight years in the today’s rhetoric is nostalgia White House. While success- for a time that never was. ful at wooing millions of “It was much more of a set “Reagan Democrats,” Rea- of pitched battles, and for a gan was vilified by liberals lot of [Mr. Reagan’s presi- during his tenure at levels dency] Democrats were perhaps rivaled only by such thinking he was just this rad- Republican presidential fig- ical,” Mr. Ornstein said. ures as Richard M. Nixon ”He did cut a lot of deals and George W. Bush. with Democrats, [and] he But the Reagan legend had, I think, an incredibly has proven malleable and well-honed negotiating style,” open to shifting interpreta- he added. “But this was not a tions over time. In a curious period of sweetness and light twist, many Democrats have where everybody was thrilled begun to evoke Reagan’s “bi- with each other and worked partisan spirit” in an attempt together in harmony.” to prove they are above the A parallel example of this partisan fray and draw a type of presidential “revi- contrast with what they say sionist history,” Mr. Ornstein is a more partisan spirit pre- said, is the recent fondness vailing in today’s GOP. some conservatives have ex- Sen. John Kerry, Massa- pressed for President Clin- chusetts Democrat, recently ton, portraying him as a cen- chastised Republicans for trist always eager to work failing to be more like Mr. with Republicans — at least Reagan, who he said “put after the GOP congressional politics aside” to work with takeover of 1994. Capitol Hill Democrats dur- “That’s a complete denial ing his presidency. of the reality,” Mr. Ornstein Mr. Kerry especially said. “A lot of [Republicans] lauded the California Repub- investigated [Mr. Clinton] lican for forging a working every minute, they voted relationship with Democra- ASSOCIATED PRESS against his major legislation tic House Speaker Thomas P. House Speaker Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill Jr. (right) leans forward to ask President Reagan a question during the Social the years they were in power. “Tip” O’Neill Jr. and former Security bill-signing ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House on April 20, 1983, as various political figures look on. . . . They impeached him.” GOP Sen. Bob Dole in the “There’s a reality check early 1980s on an issue as that’s needed at both fronts.” difficult and politically risky gan biography “The Role of transcended party, [Franklin] Ben Nelson was invoking a different context,” Mr. Nel- Few if any Americans will as Social Security reform. a Lifetime,” by Lou Cannon, Roosevelt on some levels. . . . President Reagan’s name son said, “I hope colleagues forget that Mr. Reagan was a ”They didn’t capitulate, with him during his Decem- John Kennedy has done it, and rhetoric as he urged law- will join me and say, ‘Get rid Republican, Mr. Gibbons said. they compromised,” said Mr. ber vacation to Hawaii. The and I think on some levels so makers to reject the tradi- of this aisle!’” But over time, the public Kerry during a speech last president also reportedly has Reagan.” tional partisan seating pat- While Democrats still tends to remember presidents month at the Center for met with Reagan adminis- Democratic praise for Mr. terns in the House chamber maintain a slight upper hand more for the accomplish- American Progress. “They tration veterans David Ger- Reagan has amped up in the for the presidential address. in the Senate and control the ments of their administration agreed not to let either party gen and Ken Duberstein White House, the elec- than for which party they be- demagogue the issue against in December. The public tends to remember presidents more tions — aided by the surg- longed to. the incumbents who cast the ”Americans generally ing conservative “tea ”That’s not to say that tough votes in order to pass outside of Washington for the accomplishments of their administration party” movement — have everybody agreed with the bill.” . . . tend to venerate peo- than for which party they belonged to. emboldened Republicans every principle the guy had. Mr. Kerry added that, ple who were effective, to take the offensive . . . But you can certainly say “We’d all be better off if some good leaders. And President wake of the party’s “shellack- The Nebraska lawmaker re- against Mr. Obama and the he was extraordinarily of these Republicans re- Reagan has come to be ing” — as Mr. Obama put it called one of Reagan’s most Democratic agenda. gifted at communicating member that their favorite known as an effective, good — during the Nov. 2 congres- famous moments — his To counter the GOP wave, with the American people, person, Ronald Reagan, leader,” said Sean Gibbons, sional elections, when Re- speech in a divided Berlin Democrats increasingly and was appreciated for worked across the aisle to director of communications publicans made historic urging Soviet leader Mikhail have co-opted their rival that,” he said. solve big problems.” for Third Way, a centrist gains to recapture control of Gorbachev to “tear down party’s greatest modern-day ”He didn’t seem to be the President Obama also has Washington think tank. the House and increase their this wall.” hero in an attempt to deflect president of half the Ameri- tried to tap into — or at least ”He has sort of tran- minority in the Senate. “To paraphrase former partisan attacks, said Norm cans who voted for him. I al- understand — the Reagan scended party, and certain As recently as President President Reagan, whose Ornstein, a political expert ways got the impression he mystique. presidents have been able to Obama’s State of the Union declaration about the need with the American Enter- strove to be a president for Mr. Obama took the Rea- do that. Lincoln is a guy who speech, Democratic Sen. for unity rings true today in prise Institute, a conserva- everybody.” Commander in chief of rearming Rebuilding the military after Vietnam was a Reagan presidency hallmark

BY ROWAN SCARBOROUGH that forced Soviet leaders to ity, patience and improvisa- THE WASHINGTON TIMES pursue economic and politi- tional skill, he produced cal reforms in a futile bid to what Henry Kissinger terms hen Ronald keep pace. That, in turn, led ‘the most stunning diplo- Reagan took to the collapse of the Soviet matic feat of the modern era.’ office in 1981, empire in Europe in 1989, Or as Margaret Thatcher put he inherited a Reagan supporters say. it, ‘Ronald Reagan won the broken all-vol- Frank Gaffney was a Cold War without firing a unteerW military force, still hard-line cold warrior bent shot.’ ” reeling from the traumas of on confronting and under- Reagan’s 1980 election the post-Vietnam era. When mining the Soviet Union also ushered in scores of he left the White House eight when he arrived at the Pen- young conservative con- years later, he left the nation tagon in Reagan’s first term. gressmen who, like Reagan, a well-equipped, highly pro- Mr. Gaffney had worked for believed the military was a fessional military on which Democratic Sen. Henry M. force for good. the country has depended “Scoop” Jackson, an ardent One of them was Duncan for three decades. Hunter of San Diego, an Reagan — “Reagan gave America’s Army Vietnam War combat whose presidency veteran who would go on to ushered in a $2 military new equipment, head the House Armed Ser- trillion buildup better pay and a sense of vices Committee. that bought more Now retired from Con- manpower, tanks, worth that had been lacking gress, Mr. Hunter recalls that jet bombers and a for the last 20 years.” morale and pay were so low nearly 600-ship at the time Reagan came to Navy — also ele- — Duncan Hunter office that the Navy was los- vated the theoret- ing 1,000 petty officers a ical idea of missile defense anti-Soviet, and then did month “because they weren’t into actual Pentagon policy. staff work for the Senate able to support their fami- “President Reagan recog- Armed Services Committee. lies.” More than 50 percent of nized the unique and special He knew firsthand that the nation’s tactical aircraft role that America’s men and Washington’s neglect during were not fully mission-capa- women in uniform played in the post-Vietnam era had led ble for lack of spare parts. keeping us free and strong,” to what the Army’s own chief “Reagan gave America’s said former Rep. Pete Hoek- of staff termed in 1980 the military new equipment, ASSOCIATED PRESS stra, a Michigan Republican “hollow Army.” Flanked by physicist Edward Teller (left) and Lt. Gen. James A. Abrahamson, director of better pay and a sense of who headed the House Intel- “The hollowing out of our the Strategic Defense Initiative, President Reagan arrives to address a conference worth that had been lacking ligence Committee. “He military was absolutely pal- marking the first five years of the SDI program on March 14, 1988, in Washington. for the last 20 years,” Mr. loved them, and it showed.” pable,” recalled Mr. Gaffney, Hunter said. “He rebuilt na- The U.S. today maintains who now runs the Washing- tional defense. We started active anti-missile batteries ton-based Center for Na- them to a position of respect tant because we have consis- Became an Extraordinary with a 12.6 percent pay raise. in Alaska, guarding against tional Security Policy. “And and admiration in the Amer- tently failed to follow up on Leader,” Dinesh D’Souza There was a sense of value the possibility of a North Ko- Reagan saw that and he ica society. Second, he re- those kinds of investments. wrote of the president’s sub- that Ronald Reagan, in his rean attack, because Reagan knew it needed to be fixed. built their military capabili- We’re living off the legacy of tle understanding of his ad- unique fashion, embedded braved fierce opposition to And he did it. “ ties specifically with respect Ronald Reagan’s commit- versary’s vulnerabilities. in the hearts of everyone spend the money on ground- Mr. Gaffney said the Pen- to nuclear deterrence and ment to our military.” “This California light- who wore the uniform. Sim- breaking technology. And tagon’s buildup, led by De- power projection. Along the way, Reagan weight turned out to have as ply, Americans wanted to Europe this year set the con- fense Secretary Caspar “And third, his investment coined Cold War phrases that deep an understanding of serve under Reagan.” struction of a defensive mis- Weinberger, became a “crit- . . . built the forces that we irked Moscow — words such Communism as Aleksandr Today, Reagan’s legacy in- sile umbrella for the conti- ical component” in a com- still to this day largely rely as “peace through strength,” Solzhenitsyn,” he wrote. cludes a massive projection nent as a priority because plex strategy to defeat upon. It wasn’t just the folks “the evil empire” and, to the “This rank amateur devel- of power — the carrier USS Reagan made such defense a Moscow, using economic as serving in the 1980s being British Parliament in 1982, oped a complex, often Ronald Reagan launched in mainstream national secu- well as military weapons. re-equipped with modern “the ash heap of history” to counter-intuitive strategy for 2001, three years before his rity idea. “Reagan did three things and highly effective weapons describe — accurately, it dealing with the Soviet death. Mr. Hunter said he It was that missile defense for the armed forces of the that was tremendously im- turned out — the Soviet Union which hardly anyone had heard that sailors volun- program, coupled with his United States that were of in- portant in that moment, but Union’s final resting place. on his staff fully endorsed or teer specifically to serve on decision to modernize the calculable importance,” he [Reagan’s military budgets] In his book, “Ronald Rea- even understood. Through a the Reagan in the late presi- country’s nuclear arsenal, said. “One is, he restored become even more impor- gan: How an Ordinary Man combination of vision, tenac- dent’s honor. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2011 A SPECIAL SECTION// 13

Library update grabs attention and holds it You-are-there sense Docents at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and John Heubusch, executive director of the Ronald Reagan Museum in Simi Valley, Calif., try out a new multimedia keeps visits lively Foundation, shows off a new bronze statue of President exhibit, part of a $15 million renovation and enlargement. Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan.

BY VALERIE RICHARDSON

THE WASHINGTON TIMES SIMI VALLEY, Calif. here’s nothing quite like the thought of visiting a presiden- tial library to make T the average Ameri- can stifle a yawn and reach for the remote. As it turns out, the people behind the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum under- stand this. That’s why they never stop loading the library with goodies. Not interested in poring through the former president’s official docu- ments? Then how about get- ting up close and personal with a piece of the Berlin Wall? Or taking a tour of Air Force One — not a replica, but the real thing — big as life and on display in an enor- mous glass-walled atrium? Attractions such as these have made the Reagan li- brary the best-attended of the 13 presidential libraries, even though its location, atop a hill in the Ventura County suburbs almost an hour north of Los Angeles, isn’t terribly convenient to any- one except local residents of Simi Valley. Fortunately, a history-mak- ing presidency provides a lot of attention-grabbing raw ma- terial for a historical site. “We’re realistic. We’re in Simi Valley,” said Melissa Giller, spokeswoman for the Ronald Reagan Foundation, which runs the museum and library. “We’re just outside Los Angeles, we’re just out- side Santa Barbara. You re- ally have to make a choice to drive here. If you do drive here, we want to make it worth your while.” Deciding whether to make that drive just became a lit- tle easier. On Monday, in honor of the Reagan Centen- nial Celebration, organizers will open the newly reno- vated museum to the public for the first time. And while Among displays at the the old museum wasn’t bad, museum are a 1983 certainly no more ennui-in- Cadillac presidential ducing than any other pres- parade limousine that idential exhibit, the 2.0 ver- joined Reagan’s motorcade sion is a show-stopper. in 1984, the real Air Force For one, the revamped fa- One and a bronze bust cility is huge: The designers featuring his famous spent $15 million on renova- smile. tions that added 26,400 square feet to the previous fa- cility. This is no quickie tour; video have been sent to their the exhibit design. to experience fully the entire e-mail addresses. “It’s history. It’s a defining museum would take at least The museum’s patent on moment of the Reagan pres- three hours. That’s asking a the device is pending, but the idency,” Mr. Heubusch said. lot of the average U.S. atten- GuideCam is just one way of “It’s not possible to tell his tion span, especially when it compelling the attention of story without it, so we try to comes to the subject of his- museum viewers. Every one tell it in the most compelling tory, but even those who of the museum’s 18 galleries way possible.” flunked high school civics contains something to induce The museum also pulls no may find it hard to tear them- patrons to stop watching and punches when it comes to selves away from the Reagan start doing. fingering the bad guys. The museum’s action-packed Kids can climb through section on the Cold War and story of the late 20th century. the holes in a replica of the international relations fea- This museum doesn’t just Berlin Wall and read mes- tures a rogues’ gallery of out- display stuff: It grabs the vis- sages about life behind the sized portraits, including itor by the collar Iron Curtain on Fidel Castro of Cuba, Yuri and pulls him in- Fortunately, the other side. Andropov of the Soviet side, throws him Movie buffs can Union, Mao Zedong of China, in the middle of a history- go before the cam- Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua the action, de- making eras and appear in and Ayatollah Ruhollah mands his partic- a scene from Khomeini of Iran. ipation, lays him presidency “Knute Rockne: Politically correct? Hardly. low with despair provides a lot All-American” This is the Reagan museum, and then lifts him with Ronald Rea- not the Smithsonian. At a time up, finally send- of attention- gan the matinee PHOTOGRAPHS BY GARRETT CHEEN/SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES when traditional U.S. muse- ing him back out grabbing raw idol. Anyone who Employees Kate Suhosky (left) and Jen Hampson proofread and take inventory for ums are loath to display any- into the world, wants to experi- exhibits in the newly renovated museum, which has gained an additional 26,400 thing that hints of American exhausted but material for a ence the reality of square feet plus games, films and interactive and touch-screen displays. exceptionalism, presidential exultant. living in America museums may become the And those are historical site. during Reagan’s go-to destinations for Ameri- just the Mondale tenure as presi- tell the story, make it in 3-D, about the history of commu- before, so now we have this,” cans looking for a blast of pa- voters! Let’s just say it would dent can play a touch-screen put them in the middle of it,” nism (during which viewers Mr. Heubusch said. triotism to go with their his- be difficult for even the most version of the game of Life, said Mr. Heubusch. “We paid sit on faux ammunition The second is the mu- tory. That’s a void the Reagan hardened progressive to complete with information a phenomenal amount of at- crates) and concludes with a seum’s depiction of the 1981 museum fills with aplomb. emerge from the museum about changing stock prices, tention to how we could use cathartic “Greatest Hits” assassination attempt. Visi- After the addition of Air unmoved, and perhaps just a tax rates and government new technology and mu- version of Reagan’s life. tors walk through the repli- Force One in 2005, museum bit more inclined to enter- regulations. seum science to educate new Two aspects of the exhibit cated doors of the Washington attendance shot up to 500,000 tain the possibility that It may be one of the rare Americans who might not in particular are likely to Hilton and find themselves visitors per year. It’s leveled Ronald Reagan may not have museums not specifically de- have been alive when Rea- generate comment. The first on the sidewalk watching life- off to about 375,000, but orga- been a total disaster as pres- signed for adolescents that gan was president.” is the museum’s treatment of sized film footage of Mr. Rea- nizers expect the renovated ident after all. could successfully hold their Then there are the films. the Iran-contra affair, con- gan being shot from just a museum to bring in an addi- The museum is also a attention for more than a few Reagan knew a thing or sidered the low point of the few feet away. tional 100,000, maybe more. technological innovator. It’s minutes. John Heubusch, the two about playing to the Reagan presidency. The mu- The effect is riveting — It’s not hard to imagine fam- the first to employ the Guide- Ronald Reagan Foundation’s camera, and the museum is seum devotes one 10-foot and disquieting. Clearly, mu- ilies starting their vacations Cam, an Apple collaboration executive director, said the generous in its use of his tel- wall panel to a straightfor- seum designers want pa- at Disneyland or Universal that looks like an iPhone but idea was to make the museum evision and movie clips, ward description of the trons to feel as though they Studios, then tacking on a enables patrons to take pho- as interactive as possible, with along with films produced events, including Reagan’s are in the middle of the ac- day for an entertaining yet tos and shoot video during an eye toward engaging the especially for the exhibit. It televised explanation, which tion, but when does being up educational afternoon at the their tour. When they’re fin- younger generation. opens with a “movie trailer” is more than the previous close and personal step over Reagan Presidential Library ished, they return the Guide- “The way people are edu- that sets up the visit, takes a exhibit did. the line into voyeurism and and Museum. Cam, and before they’ve ar- cated today isn’t just by look- long pause toward the mid- “They say we didn’t say tastelessness? It might even be worth the rived home, their photos and ing at artifacts. You want to dle with a documentary enough about Iran-contra Mr. Heubusch defended drive to Simi Valley. 14 // SPECIAL SECTION A FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Ronald Reagan coined the phrase “Death Tax.” His Hollywood friend, Pat Boone and Jim Martin took the phrase to Capitol Hill to help end the "Widow’s" Tax.

When he argued on behalf of a provision in the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 (Kemp- Roth), President Ronald Reagan outlined things in the bill that would benefit working women in America. He said: “For women we’ve provided several forms of tax relief--relief, by the way, which should have been passed long ago. We’ve greatly reduced the marriage tax penalty and we’ve almost doubled the child care tax credit...And we eliminated the widow’s tax--the estate taxes levied on a surviving spouse...This will help women who were hard-working partners on family farms and small businesses. There is no moral grounds for robbing widows and orphans, but the Death Tax does just that.” 60 Plus Association Remembers A Great Man 515 King Street - Suite 315 - Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone (703) 807-2070 - Fax (703) 807-2073 - www.60plus.org

James L. Amy Noone Pat Boone Rep. Roger Zion Martin Frederick National Honorary Chairman Chairman President Spokesman (R-IN) 1967-1975

✔ 60 Plus is the acknowledged leader in efforts to abolish the “Death Tax.” ✔ Instrumental in electing conservative candidates across America who support a pro-freedom agenda. ✔ Launched multi-million-dollar ad campaign in targeted congressional districts. ✔ Launched “Keep Seniors Safe” project to stop the distribution of unapproved, dangerous drugs. ✔ Traveled across country to protest out-of-control government spending and waste. The 60 Plus Association is a 19-year-old nonpartisan seniors organization working for death tax repeal, saving Social Security, afford- able prescription drugs, lowering energy costs and other issues featuring a less government, less taxes approach as well as a strict ad- herence to the Constitution. 60 Plus now calls on support from over 7 million citizen activists. 60 Plus publishes a newsletter, SENIOR VOICE, and a Scorecard, bestowing awards on lawmakers of both parties who vote “pro-senior.” 60 Plus has been called, “an increas- ingly influential senior citizens’ group,” and since its founding in 1992, “the conservative alternative to the AARP.”