I was saddened last week to learn of the unexpected death of Tony Dolan, who passed away at age 76. Tony was the chief speechwriter to President Ronald Reagan in a “speechwriting shop” (as he called ...

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 ...

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, who ...

You probably don't know his name, but you know his work. He penned or had a hand in some of the greatest speeches of the 20th century, serving as President Ronald Reagan's chief speechwriter. The "Ash ...

“Were we fools then,” William Hazlitt asked in his essay about William Godwin, “or are we dishonest now?” Today, as the nation pays its final respects to Ronald Reagan, Hazlitt’s words come back to me ...

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 Soviet ...

As a conservative presidential speechwriter, he also relegated communism to “the ash heap of history.” Earlier, he won a Pulitzer Prize as a young reporter. By Sam Roberts Anthony R. Dolan, who as ...