Stuart K. Spencer, a Republican strategist who took a washed-up movie actor named Ronald Reagan and helped make him California governor and, later, president — helping invent the modern political consulting business along the way — has died.

Ronald and Nancy Reagan were disappointed. That's what White House press secretary Larry Speakes told reporters on Jan. 18, 1985, after the Republican president and first lady decided to hold his second inauguration indoors because of an unusually cold weather forecast.

Unlike past incoming presidents, Trump knows how to get his agenda done because he already had one term sitting in the Oval Office.

Every president since Ronald Reagan has left a note for his successor, and President Joe Biden could be the first to write a letter to someone who is both his successor and the predecessor who left a note for him.

With its shift from a globalist to a populist party for nearly a decade, the Grand Old Party has now made the shift from former President Ronald Reagan to ... and hold on the GOP are to be determined.

The Dec. 30 edition of The Republican carried a front page article entitled “Jimmy Carter dies at 100.” Regarding the 52 hostages held for 444 days by Iran, the story said this: “ (Carter’s) negotiations ultimately brought all the hostages home alive, but in a final insult, Iran didn’t release them until the inauguration of Ronald Reagan.”

Stuart K. Spencer, a Republican political consultant who engineered Ronald Reagan’s winning campaigns for the California governor’s office and the U.S. presidency, transforming a B-movie actor into one of the most successful politicians of his time,

Spencer, a Republican strategist who took a washed-up movie actor named Ronald Reagan and helped make him ... prophetically in a 1997 open letter to GOP leaders. He coupled his counsel with ...

In March 1965, a washed-up B-movie actor dialed a couple of young Republican operatives and invited them to lunch at his home in Pacific Palisades. Ronald Reagan was thinking of trying his hand at politics: a long-shot bid for California governor against a sitting Democrat.

If there is one certainty in politics these days, it’s that the status quo rarely holds. And when one party has the White House, the House and the Senate, history tells us that new status quo has a shelf life of closer to two years than four.

Roosevelt pronounced America as the “arsenal of democracy." Continuing through Ronald Reagan's infamous command to Mikhail Gorbachev in Berlin, no living citizen of the U.S. has resided in an ...

The inauguration ceremony welcoming the new President to office is a grand undertaking beginning with the morning worship service and tea. The actual swearing-in follows, then the Inauguration luncheon with orchestral and celebrity performances. Extravagant balls mark the end of the big day.