Reagan gave the 'Evil Empire' speech on Mar. 8, 1983 to the National Association of Evangelicals. White House via CNP A friend in the White House called last week to let me know that Tony Dolan ...

His name may be unfamiliar, but you know his words: Tony “Evil Empire” Dolan was President Ronald Reagan’s chief speechwriter. It was a title he held throughout all eight years of the Reagan ...

Mr. Dolan had tried for about a year to get the phrase “evil empire” into a speech, ... “Speechwriting in the White House is plagiarizing Ronald Reagan,” he told the New York Times in 1986.

President Ronald Reagan, left, delivers a speech at the Pointe du Hoc Memorial in Normandy, France, on June 6, 1984, during commemorative ceremonies of the 40th anniversary of the Allied D-Day ...

Anthony R. Dolan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist-turned-chief-speechwriter to President Ronald Reagan who used insights into what he called the phenomenology of evil ...

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 ...

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.

Reagan could quote Lenin, say, quite readily, except that what Reagan quoted was not what Lenin had ever said. Mr. Boot comes close to saying that if he feels obliged to point out the fissures in the ...

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 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 ...

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 ...