Dr. Joseph Giordano, a surgeon who played a central role in saving President Ronald Reagan’s life after an assassination attempt in 1981, has died. He was 84.

Secret Services agents and police swarm a gunman, obscured from view, after he attempted an assassination on President Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton hotel on Monday, March 30, 1981.

Reagan, in His Own Hand: The Writings of Ronald Reagan That Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America. The Free Press, $30 (549pp) ISBN 978-0-7432-0123-0.

It takes a heart of stone, for instance, not to be moved by Reagan’s 1987 “tear down this wall” in Berlin every time you hear it. Like Lincoln or Truman, Reagan belongs to all of us now, and ...

Ronald Reagan governed in California much more pragmatically than he campaigned. If only today's Republicans would do the same. Opinion: If you think Gov. Reagan ruined California, you're ...