Anthony Dolan, Reagan speechwriter behind ‘evil empire,’ dies at 76 At 29, he won a Pulitzer for investigative reporting. He later became a conservative speechwriter, supplying memorable ...

White House staffers sought to protect Ronald Reagan from his more “conservative instincts” — but speechwriter Tony Dolan rescued some of the president’s most enduring words.

It's the speech that included the most important two words Dolan ever wrote for Reagan: "evil empire." Those two words infuriated the Soviet Union's leadership.

Reagan’s “Evil Empire” speech got plenty of attention at home and abroad. The movie does an excellent job of adapting the work of “The Crusader,” a book by Paul Kengor.

In 1983, President Ronald Reagan called Russia “The Evil Empire” at a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals.

Ronald Reagan's ability to galvanise the American public with a direct style of address earned him the accolade of the Great Communicator.

To a large extent, Max Boot's biography demonstrates that believing in Ronald Reagan's greatness is a matter of making the legend a fact.

Anthony R. Dolan, a onetime folk singer and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who crafted some of Ronald Reagan’s most memorable lines, drafting speeches in which the president referred to the ...

His name may be unfamiliar, but you know his words: Tony “Evil Empire” Dolan was President Ronald Reagan’s chief speechwriter.

In 1983, President Ronald Reagan called Russia “The Evil Empire” at a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals. In 1987, he stood at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin and demanded ...

Anthony R. Dolan, who as Ronald Reagan’s chief speechwriter deployed the phrase “evil empire” in 1983 to describe the Soviet Union and in another address consigned Marxism and Leninism to ...

Anthony R. Dolan, who as Ronald Reagan's chief speechwriter deployed the phrase "evil empire" in 1983 to describe the Soviet Union and in another address consigned Marxism and Leninism to "the ash ...