Bob Schieffer spoke with author Craig Shirley about Ronald Reagan's journey to the presidency.

For inspiration, Obama looks to Reagan.

Craig Shirley first wrote about President Ronald Reagan in his 2005 best-seller Reagan’s Revolution, in which he examined Reagan’s primary challenge to President Gerald Ford Read more...

A particularly shrewd political analyst once remarked that Ronald Reagan's great strength as a candidate was that he was "a sincere phony." In the world of electoral realpolitik, that's a compliment.

Bob Schieffer hears from Washington correspondent Nancy Cordes on the votes Democratic senators will need to start a formal debate on their healthcare bill. And, how did Ronald Reagan really get elected?

Karna Small Bodman, a former high-level White House staffer who now writes political thrillers, had an enthusiastic reception for her talk at the...

The 19th-century American writer Henry Adams said the descent of American presidents from George Washington to Ulysses S. Grant was enough to discredit the theory of evolution. The same could be said of the pantheon of conservative political heroes, which in the last half-century has gone from Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan to Sarah Palin. That refutation may be agreeable to Palin, who doesn ...

Mikhail Gorbachev got credit, and even President John F. Kennedy got a mention, but nothing for former President Reagan. How soon we forget!Let’s not allow the revisionists to reverse true history.

Gallup Daily tracking from Nov. 17-19 shows President Barack Obama’s job approval slipping to 49% for the first time in his presidency. Among post-World War II presidents, only Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton, and Ronald Reagan dropped below the symbolic majority approval level faster than Obama did.

by Clarence E. Hill When then-Governor Ronald Reagan introduced returning POW John McCain at a speaking engagement in 1974, the future president asked, “Where do we find such men?” He was speaking of many veterans, when he answered, “We find them in our streets, in the office, the shops and the working places of our country and on the farms.” read more