Ronald Reagan
Former President George H. W. Bush Receives Regan Freedom Award
At a gala dinner Tuesday night, former President George H. W. Bush was given the 2007 Ronald Reagan Freedom Award.
Getting Shot Hurts: Reagan's Folk Wisdom Gets New Airing
Ronald Reagan was famous for his succint, folksy one-liners. On being shot by a would-be assassin in Washington, the president told his wife, Nancy: "Honey, I forgot to duck."
Bush Breathes New Life Into Reagan's Dream
American dreams of a Star Wars defence system were first revealed by Ronald Reagan in a speech in 1983 as a way of ending the deadlock of the cold war doctrine of mutually assured destruction.
Jet With Jelly Beans: Reagan's Plane Goes Public
Air Force One, the gleaming blue, white and silver Boeing 707 newly installed inside the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, has gone on public display.
The Greatest American? Lincoln? Einstein? No - It's Ronald Reagan
As an actor he had a sidekick called Bonzo. And as politician, he never quite lived down his quip to start bombing Russia in five minutes. But in life Ronald Reagan was forgiven most of his faults, and in death America now regards him as the greatest of them all.
Reagan Diaries to Be Published
For eight years Ronald Reagan kept a meticulous record of his presidency. That insider's account of life at the helm of the world's superpower will be publicly available with the publication of Reagan's White House diaries.
US Says Goodbye to Reagan
The US was today bidding farewell to Ronald Reagan in funeral rites designed by the 40th president to evoke his optimism about the country. At around 10.45am local time (1545 BST), a motorcade bearing Reagan's coffin left Capitol Hill, where it had been lying in state in the Capital...
He Lied in the Name of Anti-communism
From Iraq, Reagan didn't look so freedom-loving. It will be odd for Iraqis to watch TV tonight (power cuts permitting) and hear the eulogies to freedom-loving Ronald Reagan at his state funeral.
Frank Keating: Goodbye to 'the Gipper'
Gipper was George Gipp, the US football folk hero who died at 25 and whom Ronald Reagan portrayed in the 1940 movie.
Presidential Contenders React to Reagan's Death
George Bush and his Democratic rival John Kerry cancelled campaign events yesterday as a mark of respect to Ronald Reagan, but that did not stop the former president becoming an election issue. As a week-long nationwide farewell got under way, the Bush camp quickly sought to assert...
Reagan Attracts Tributes and Criticism
Thousands of Americans will today begin filing past the coffin of former US president Ronald Reagan, as it lies in state in his library in California, remembering a president who represented an era of confidence that many in the US will be mourning as much as the man. Reagan, 93, died on...
Towering Reagan Wasn't
Lady Thatcher, Michael Howard and George W scurried yesterday to bury Ronald Reagan in an oleaginous ocean of tribute. How deep is that ocean? It's amazing how fast your feet touch rocky bottom.
US Prepares Long Farewell for Reagan
America began saying a long farewell to Ronald Reagan yesterday at the start of a week of commemoration that will culminate in a state funeral the like of which has not been seen in Washington since the death of Lyndon Johnson in 1973. After lying in state at his presidential library in...
Ronald Reagan dies at 93
Ronald Reagan, the former US President and towering figure of the Cold War political era, died last night after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease. He was 93.
How the Gipper stole into American hearts
Ronald Reagan was one of the most controversial Presidents in the modern United States but his slow death from a terrible brain disease united Americans in a sense of pity.
Bush invokes the Reagan spirit at the cold war's final frontier
President George Bush peered across the last frontier of the cold war yesterday and called, in a clear echo of Ronald Reagan, for freedom in North Korea, repeating his description of the current regime as "evil" but assuaging anxieties on both sides of the border by insisting he had no plans for an invasion.
American dreams of a Star Wars defence system were first revealed by Ronald Reagan in a speech in 1983 as a way of ending the deadlock of the cold war doctrine of mutually assured destruction.
Jet With Jelly Beans: Reagan's Plane Goes Public
Air Force One, the gleaming blue, white and silver Boeing 707 newly installed inside the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, has gone on public display.
The Greatest American? Lincoln? Einstein? No - It's Ronald Reagan
As an actor he had a sidekick called Bonzo. And as politician, he never quite lived down his quip to start bombing Russia in five minutes. But in life Ronald Reagan was forgiven most of his faults, and in death America now regards him as the greatest of them all.
Reagan Diaries to Be Published
For eight years Ronald Reagan kept a meticulous record of his presidency. That insider's account of life at the helm of the world's superpower will be publicly available with the publication of Reagan's White House diaries.
US Says Goodbye to Reagan
The US was today bidding farewell to Ronald Reagan in funeral rites designed by the 40th president to evoke his optimism about the country. At around 10.45am local time (1545 BST), a motorcade bearing Reagan's coffin left Capitol Hill, where it had been lying in state in the Capital...
He Lied in the Name of Anti-communism
From Iraq, Reagan didn't look so freedom-loving. It will be odd for Iraqis to watch TV tonight (power cuts permitting) and hear the eulogies to freedom-loving Ronald Reagan at his state funeral.
Frank Keating: Goodbye to 'the Gipper'
Gipper was George Gipp, the US football folk hero who died at 25 and whom Ronald Reagan portrayed in the 1940 movie.
Presidential Contenders React to Reagan's Death
George Bush and his Democratic rival John Kerry cancelled campaign events yesterday as a mark of respect to Ronald Reagan, but that did not stop the former president becoming an election issue. As a week-long nationwide farewell got under way, the Bush camp quickly sought to assert...
Reagan Attracts Tributes and Criticism
Thousands of Americans will today begin filing past the coffin of former US president Ronald Reagan, as it lies in state in his library in California, remembering a president who represented an era of confidence that many in the US will be mourning as much as the man. Reagan, 93, died on...
Towering Reagan Wasn't
Lady Thatcher, Michael Howard and George W scurried yesterday to bury Ronald Reagan in an oleaginous ocean of tribute. How deep is that ocean? It's amazing how fast your feet touch rocky bottom.
US Prepares Long Farewell for Reagan
America began saying a long farewell to Ronald Reagan yesterday at the start of a week of commemoration that will culminate in a state funeral the like of which has not been seen in Washington since the death of Lyndon Johnson in 1973. After lying in state at his presidential library in...
Ronald Reagan dies at 93
Ronald Reagan, the former US President and towering figure of the Cold War political era, died last night after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease. He was 93.
How the Gipper stole into American hearts
Ronald Reagan was one of the most controversial Presidents in the modern United States but his slow death from a terrible brain disease united Americans in a sense of pity.
Bush invokes the Reagan spirit at the cold war's final frontier
President George Bush peered across the last frontier of the cold war yesterday and called, in a clear echo of Ronald Reagan, for freedom in North Korea, repeating his description of the current regime as "evil" but assuaging anxieties on both sides of the border by insisting he had no plans for an invasion.