Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan pose outdoors with their family, 1985. Patti is on the far right. Many of us are sitting at bedsides now, holding hands grown smaller with age, searching in the eyes ...

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.

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 ...

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.