“... perhaps, have been truer of the White House of Richard Nixon than it is of the White House of Ronald Reagan, which Henry and Cromwell would have found a very dull place. In making the remark Dr Starkey has perhaps also underestimated how hard it is to change ideological furniture. A change of coat is within the power of many politicians, but a change ...”

“... except him. His overall demeanour gives one pause. Nor are peace prospects really made less dim By Ronald Reagan recommending firm Measures that make his Nato allies squirm. Snow falls again. The atmosphere turns white. The airfields of East Anglia are socked in. The atom bombers will not fly tonight. Tonight the Third World War will not ...”

“... violating obscure Fish and Game codes.) The legislation passed and was signed into law by Governor Ronald Reagan, who for once put aside his principled belief in the right of citizens to bear arms. The attempts to suppress the movement through legislation only increased support for the Panthers on the left. This episode, and the legislative limits placed ...”

“... Welles was the original activist-actor, the precursor of John Wayne and Jane Fonda, if not Ronald Reagan. Hoping to reclaim the prodigal for the theatre, the Broadway producer Billy Rose addressed an open letter to him: ‘Listen, Thunder-in-the-Mountains, isn’t it about time you made up your mind whether you’re Senator Pepper, D.W. Griffith ...”

“... there were very different assessments of the premiership of Margaret Thatcher or the presidency of Ronald Reagan.) They have also been more confident than most that some kind of accurate calibration of monstrosity v. political virtue is attainable. Hence there has been a long series of worthy studies reaching the unsurprising conclusion that Nero was ...”

“... welfare spending, one policy pioneer was already seeking to mobilise opposition to the New Left: Ronald Reagan. As the governor of California between 1967 and 1975, he worried about the direction that federal welfare policy was taking. In 1970, he appointed a taskforce for welfare reform, which recognised ‘the need to establish and enforce the ...”

“... a delegate from California. ‘It’s exactly imaginable, if you know about Lincoln, Kennedy or Ronald Reagan.’‘Detail,’ she said.‘The truth is that my father is a malignant presence, a bully and a liar. This is the day his reign ends. He’s a fucking beast. Maybe the poison drips through. I don’t wanna be you. I can’t forgive you. There ...”

“... arrived in Washington as vice president in January 1981 he seemed little more than a sideshow to Ronald Reagan, the one-time leading man who had been overwhelmingly elected to the greatest stage in the world. Biography after inconclusive biography would be written about Reagan’s two terms, as their authors tried to ...”

“... Her devotees on both sides of the Atlantic have also lauded her supposed close personal bond with Ronald Reagan. At the time of Reagan’s death, Harold Evans, an English journalist long exiled in America, said that ‘the relationship between Thatcher and President Reagan was closer ...”

“... Republican doctrine and get the Federal Government out of local problems. After all, as Ronald Reagan never tired of repeating, ‘in the Sixties we fought a war against poverty, and poverty won.’ Did Washington’s intervention actually exacerbate the problems of the inner cities, as American conservatives have always claimed, or did it ...”

“... that every effort was being made to stop the world from blowing itself to smithereens. But it took Ronald Reagan to fulfil Kennedy’s prophecy, and make rockets into a final sales pitch for global capitalism. We know that the spoils of German rocket technology were unequally divided after the war: a handsome young aristocrat, Wernher von Braun, a major ...”

“... features, at once steely and benign, cropping up in a Western. ‘He has a lot in common with Ronald Reagan,’ commented Graham Greene, who had been a close friend of Paul VI but, significantly, never received an overture from John Paul: ‘They are both world leaders who were in fact just actors.’ Greene had a dream in which he opened a newspaper ...”

“... riots in 1965 and 1992; the formative years spent in southern California by Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, and the region’s postwar conservative movement, which greatly influenced their presidencies; and last year’s protests over policing and racism, which were among the largest in the US. The rest of the time, you might suppose, Angelenos have ...”

“... the process must have started with the election of the pro-big business, anti-big government Ronald Reagan in 1980 (and concomitantly, Margaret Thatcher in Britain in 1979). But Hacker and Pierson argue that the real turning point came in 1978, during the presidency of Jimmy Carter. This was the year the lobbyists and other organised groups who were ...”

“... Nixon was readier to appease them, but the first presidential hero of the religious right was Ronald Reagan. Ironically, it was the liberal thinking of Reagan’s predecessor, Jimmy Carter, that catalysed Christian conservatism on the national scene. Carter, a born-again Baptist from Georgia, had been maddeningly ...”