President Richard Nixon (far right) offered advice to President Ronald Reagan's speechwriter Ken Khachigian (left). Ronald Reagan Library and Foundation There are political insiders and then there ...

For Richard Nixon, it was a lavish spread near the beach in San Clemente. For Ronald Reagan, it was his beloved dusty horse ranch in the hills above Santa Barbara where he would escape the Beltway.

Ken Khachigian, the son of a Visalia farmer, just published the memoirs of his years in the White House as a speechwriter to ...

Richard Nixon made Carter tempting; Carter made Ronald Reagan necessary. The deceits and crimes of Nixon’s imperial presidency bred Carter’s pompous crusade against pomp. Carter proclaimed ...

Smith titled a television segment “The Political Obituary of Richard M. Nixon.” In the wake of ... Nelson Rockefeller of New York and Ronald Reagan of California — who could offer, in ...