Ronald Reagan Teaches from The Past

Learning From Reagan's Past

With the presidential election heating up daily and the media, the GOP and Republican Nominee, Donald Trump constantly making references to President Reagan's much-admired accomplishments, comes a very unique book about our 40th President.  Heralded by Hon. George P. Shultz, Secretary of State under President Reagan and renowned Reagan historians alike, Reagan's 1968 Dress Rehearsal: Ike, RFK, and Reagan's Emergence as a World Statesman is an inspiring never-before-told history of how Ronald Reagan began to restore pride in America when he first ran for president in the late 1960s.

Author and historian, Gene Kopelson's tireless research uncovered findings based upon never-before-analyzed critical archives. He reveals may lessons President Reagan can teach us today that mirror the past.

America is torn by racial strife, as blacks riot in the cities. A Democrat president is mismanaging a war in Asia, as he refuses to let American forces win the war. A Democratic leader sides with the law breakers and says that blacks do not have to obey the law. Is this 2016? No, it's the mid-1960s, and the only candidate running for the presidency who wants the rule of law to be paramount and to apply equally to all American citizens is the Republican candidate running for president for the first time: Ronald Reagan.

As part of a secret Kennedy-organized plan to harass conservative political enemies, RFK arranges for the IRS to audit ten years of Ronald Reagan's taxes. Then RFK pressures CBS to cancel Reagan's TV show. Faced with no income, Ronald Reagan decides to enter politics but needs the advice of a highly-respected senior political elder of the same conservative philosophy. 

Reagan turns to former President Dwight Eisenhower, and this begins a never-before-described multi-year political mentorship and friendship that changed American and world history. Eisenhower guided Reagan to win the governorship of California and then, as Reagan first sought the presidency in 1967-68, Ike mentored Reagan on world affairs. Indeed, future President Ronald Reagan's successes in no small part depended upon his fulfillment of Ike's policies, whose effects are very much with us today.  

A steadfast and principled conservative is running for president for the first time. He is an accomplished speaker who electrifies his audiences but is opposed by the GOP's establishment. Yet the grassroots American public loves him. Is this 2016? No, it's 1968 and Ronald Reagan is generating huge enthusiasm across the country as he tries to win the nomination from establishment-favorite Richard Nixon.

Early in the 20th century, Republican President Theodore Roosevelt first called for Americans never to be divided into subgroups; he wanted all citizens to be called Americans first. Yet Democrats call for division: they call Americans by hyphenated subgroups to promote discord: Black Americans, Mexican Americans, etc. In the mid and late 1960s, Roosevelt's call was continued by Republican Ronald Reagan on his first quest for the presidency and by his hidden political mentor, Republican and former president, Dwight Eisenhower. They saw through the Democrats' plan for divisiveness in order to claim grievances and garner votes.

Both Reagan and Eisenhower called for all citizens to see themselves as Americans first and to identify with the pride and goodness of their country. During Reagan's first campaign for the presidency in 1966-1968, and in the correspondence between Reagan and Ike, this theme of discarding the Democrats' "hyphenated Americans" was a critical theme for the unity of all Americans.

Go here to see Gene and the book featured on C-SPAN.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Gene Kopelson is president of the New England chapter, and on the Board of Trustees, of the Theodore Roosevelt Association, an active Churchillian, and a holocaust educator. As an historian, he has published works on Theodore Roosevelt's Great White Fleet, Ronald Reagan's 1966 campaign and Mexican American voters, the 1968 Nebraska and Oregon Republican primaries, and Washington State Republican politics in the 1960s. His research on Reagan and Eisenhower was featured in 2015 at the 125th Commemoration of the Birth of Dwight Eisenhower at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library.  Kopelson is a popular speaker and frequent guest on talk radio.

Armageddon By Dick Morris

Dick Morris's 'Armageddon' 

Reveals Hillary Secrets, Trump's Strategy

Set for Release June 28, 2016, Book Now!

Armageddon is the ultimate battle between good and evil. Now, in their powerful and timely new book Armageddon: How Trump Can Beat Hillary, authors Dick Morris and Eileen McGann reveal a surprising political game plan that could change the outcome of the 2016 elections.

"Make no mistake about it, Trump faces an uphill battle," Dick Morris says. "With a liberal media biased in Hillary's favor, demographic trends favoring younger and ethnic voters - and some Republicans at war with their own nominee - Trump must take a different approach. He can still win and defeat Hillary," Morris argues in Armageddon.

Few know and understand Hillary and Bill Clinton better than Dick Morris. For over 20 years, Dick served as their personal political adviser and trusted confidante. Dick knows their strengths and weakness... and their darkest secrets.

For the first time, he reveals Hillary's secrets in Armageddon - and explains why Trump must ignore the traditional GOP playbook to make her the issue and defeat her once and for all.  Morris believes the 2016 election will be the most decisive in history. America can go down the road of socialism, "Obama's third term," or take a path of economic and spiritual resurgence - one that makes us truly great again.

In Armageddon, Dick Morris outline his attack plan on Hillary:

• She is a "compulsive, pathological and serial liar" that must be exposed - he reveals the evidence.
• Hillary lost any claim to "commander-in-chief" after Benghazi - new details show she covered up her role.
• She will once again put America into another needless war.
• She is "obsessively secret and paranoid" - Morris reveals never before known details that show her to be the "controller in chief."
• She is very vulnerable to criminal prosecution right now - and may be the target of impeachment hearings almost from day one of any Hillary presidency.

But Morris says attacks on Hillary alone won't defeat her. Donald Trump needs a masterplan - a grand strategy to avoid the GOP mistakes of 2008 and 2012. Dick Morris gives solid advice to Trump that reveals:

• How Trump can woo 8 million white voters who failed to show up for Romney in 2012;
• Why terrorism may prove to be Trump's ace in the hole - and why he must expose Hillary and Obama's efforts to let terrorists into the U.S.;
• The fact that Obamacare is not a dead issue - and how Trump can use it get low-income voters who have been hurt by this socialist program;
• Why immigrants and union voters may prove to be Trump's biggest allies;
• Hillary's vulnerabilities with China, Iran, Israel and Mexico, and much more; and
• Trump's secret strategy for black voters: he can win a bigger proportion than any Republican using this one issue.

On Tuesday, November 5, 2016, American voters will make a momentous decision. They will decide whether or not this great country will remain a free market, constitutional democracy. The stakes could not be higher. If Hillary Clinton is elected president, it will mean the end of the America we know and love.

In Armageddon, Morris offers a manual on how the forces of good can win this battle. Whether you support or oppose Donald Trump, you need to get this book and share it with friends and family. And Republicans need to stop playing by the old rules of the game. Those rules don't work - they elected Barack Obama twice. Obama has changed America in fundamental ways. Now, in Armageddon, Morris shows Hillary's opponents how they can take advantage of her many vulnerabilities - to elect a president who wants to make America a great nation again.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Dick Morris is admired for his probing, insightful, hard-hitting, and clear commentary on Newsmax, Fox News, and other international media outlets. Time magazine has dubbed him "the most influential private citizen in America." A well-known political strategist, he was the architect of Bill Clinton's comeback landslide in 1996 and has handled the winning campaigns of more than 30 U.S. senators and governors. Internationally, he has piloted the successful campaigns of presidents and prime ministers of five continents. Together with his wife, Eileen McGann, he has written 15 books, including 10 New York Times bestsellers. Eileen is the publisher of thehillarydaily.com. Morris and McGann write for DickMorris.com. 

Reagan's 1968 By Gene Kopelson

The Never-Before-Told Story of Ronald Reagan's 

First Quest for the Presidency

"Kopelson has provided an extensively detailed and carefully documented account of Ronald Reagan's first foray into presidential candidacy. Particularly fascinating is the author's original research, which reveals how a highly successful president of a prior era-Dwight D. Eisenhower-provided invaluable advice and encouragement to Reagan, which helped to shape the leadership and accomplishments of our 40th president."

--The Honorable Edwin Meese III, former Attorney General

With the presidential election heating up daily and the media, the GOP and Republican Nominee, Donald Trump constantly making references to President Reagan's much-admired accomplishments, comes a very unique book about our 40th President.  Heralded by Hon. George P. Shultz, Secretary of State under President Reagan and renowned Reagan historians alike, Reagan's 1968 Dress Rehearsal: Ike, RFK, and Reagan's Emergence as a World Statesman is an inspiring never-before-told history of how Ronald Reagan began to restore pride in America when he first ran for president in the late 1960s.

Author and historian, Gene Kopelson's tireless research uncovered findings based upon never-before-analyzed critical archives.  Against the backdrop history of Reagan's first campaign for the presidency, it can now be revealed that behind the scenes, none other than former President Dwight D. Eisenhower was Ronald Reagan's hidden political mentor. In fact, throughout the 1960s, Ronald Reagan was tutored by former President Eisenhower on how to enter politics, how to run his 1966 gubernatorial primary, and then general election campaigns. Eisenhower even counseled Reagan on how to fight charges of antisemitism and critiqued Reagan's speaking style.

Reagan followed Eisenhower's political advice virtually to the letter, and indeed Reagan based his 1966 campaign theme on Ike who said he would endorse Reagan for president if he were the 1968 nominee, urged him to run for president as California's favorite son, and may actually have favored political winner Reagan over loser Nixon as the 1968 Republican nominee.

In Reagan's 1968, you'll learn that:

• Ronald Reagan ran for president for the first time in 1966-68 and did so deliberately with the goal of stopping Richard Nixon from achieving a first-ballot convention victory at the '68 GOP convention.  
• During many weekends during 1967-68, Reagan left Sacramento and crisscrossed the country to seek delegates, building a network of financial backers and setting up grassroots activist campaign staffs for the critically-important Wisconsin, Nebraska and Oregon primaries. 
• During Reagan's first quest for the presidency, Ike's mentorship of Reagan expanded into world affairs. While Reagan was the leading Republican hawk on Vietnam, his strategic calls for winning the war, and specific military and geopolitical tactics, came directly from mentoring by Ike. Reagan saw Vietnam through the lens of Eisenhower and Korea.
• Ronald Reagan's major public political foe during this era was Robert Kennedy.  Reagan trounces RFK during a 1967 debate on Vietnam.  Many Republicans did not want to see another Nixon-Kennedy debate fiasco for 1968 but rather a winner - Reagan as their nominee. Once RFK declared his candidacy in March, 1968, Reagan re-energized his campaign, which culminated in 5 scathing White Paper speeches attacking the foreign affairs failures of the Kennedy-Johnson years, tying RFK directly to them.
• Presidential candidate Reagan achieved almost 11% of the vote in the Wisconsin primary, then 22% in Wisconsin and Oregon. As favorite son, he won all California delegates and before the GOP convention, there were more votes cast for Reagan than for Nixon. Delegates couldn't wait to vote for Reagan on the second ballot.

Eisenhower's direct influence on Reagan continued until the end of Reagan's presidency. President Reagan saw his agreements with Gorbachev to lessen nuclear stockpiles, and the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union and communism, as his own official direct fulfillment of President Eisenhower's goals. Other crucial issues associated with President Reagan (tearing down the Berlin Wall, freedom for Eastern Europe, creating an anti-ballistic missile defense shield, siding with Israel versus staying neutral in the Mideast, how to deal with hostages and negotiate with communists and eventually to win the Cold War through peaceful means) all began during Reagan's first presidential campaign.

Ronald Reagan's 1968 campaign was a crucial dress rehearsal for his ultimate triumph in 1980. During 1968, Reagan became a world statesman and shaped his crusade to restore pride in America. For Reagan, Ike's tutelage was critical. Indeed, Ronald Reagan now may be seen as one of Dwight Eisenhower's proteges and his major political heir. This political mentorship changed America's national priorities through the end of Reagan's presidency, whose effects still are very much with us today.

Go here to see Gene and the book featured on C-SPAN.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Gene Kopelson is president of the New England chapter, and on the Board of Trustees, of the Theodore Roosevelt Association, an active Churchillian, and a holocaust educator. As an historian, he has published works on Theodore Roosevelt's Great White Fleet, Ronald Reagan's 1966 campaign and Mexican American voters, the 1968 Nebraska and Oregon Republican primaries, and Washington State Republican politics in the 1960s. His research on Reagan and Eisenhower was featured in 2015 at the 125th Commemoration of the Birth of Dwight Eisenhower at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library.  Kopelson is a popular speaker and frequent guest on talk radio.

A Good Month for Murder By Del Quentin Wilber

"Rawhide Down" Author Reveals Police Like Never Before

Award-Winning Journalist Goes Inside One of Our Nation's Busiest Homicide 

Units to Portray the Men and Women Who Handle Police Work's Most 

Demanding and Consequential Job

"Superb! One of the best real-life cop books ever written!" --Lee Child

In A GOOD MONTH FOR MURDER: The Inside Story of a Homicide Squad, bestselling author Del Quentin Wilber pulls back the curtain to reveal what it's like to be a cop in today's turbulent climate, politically and socially.  Being in the midst of a national conversation about the role of the police in American communities, there is no better time to discuss what it takes to be a good cop and why it matters, especially as homicide rates spike across the country. This book is not a work of sociology; it's pure reportage. Del wanted to experience police work up close and personal - to smell the suspects in the interrogation rooms, go out with cops who haven't slept for days, and watch as they try to solve some of the worst crimes in history.  He found that these are dedicated cops - some of the best in their profession - who fought their way through patrol, specialized units, and are now responsible for the most critical investigations done by any police agency.

In A GOOD MONTH FOR MURDER, Del Quentin Wilber will tell you:

• About his years covering the D.C. police for The Washington Post;
• How detectives solve, or try to solve, murders, shootings and burglaries;
• All about community policing - whether they should be warriors or guardians;
• How he spent time with homicide detectives, shooting detectives, burglary detectives, officers on the beat, and auto theft investigators;
• What it was like working with the son of a Secret Service agent who was in Rawhide Down;
• About being embedded with Prince George's County's homicide squad in suburban D.C. and how he rode with the 25-detective unit for many months;
• How he watched the interrogations of suspects via a live video feed on a small computer monitor in a closet; and so much more...

In A GOOD MONTH FOR MURDER, Del Quentin Wilber writes about how one particular homicide squad - a dedicated, colorful team of detectives in Prince George's County, Washington, D.C. - does its almost impossible job. For these men and women, February 2013 was a good month for murder, with twelve homicides, three police-involved shootings, and the furious hunt for an especially brutal killer.  Mr. Wilber was there to see it all. Having gained unparalleled access to the homicide unit in Prince George's County, which borders the nation's capital, he begins shadowing the talented, often quirky detectives who get the call when a body falls. He rides with a hard-charging investigator who pops diet pills while devouring cheeseburgers; he stands over a corpse with a hulking detective who moonlights as a security guard at a cemetery; he spends hours in the interrogation room, a.k.a. the box, with a hyper-competitive, chain-smoking vegan.

After a quiet couple of months, all hell breaks loose: suddenly every detective in the squad is scrambling to solve one shooting and stabbing after another. The body of a young man carrying nothing but a bus ticket in his pockets is found in a deserted park; an ailing 71-year-old woman is killed in her home during an apparent robbery; a high school freshman is gunned down by thieves hoping to snatch the shoes he'd just purchased for his girlfriend. Meanwhile, the entire unit is obsessed with a stone-cold "red ball," a high-profile case involving a seventeen-year-old honors student whose killer kicked down the door to her house and shot her in her bed.

Murder is the police investigator's ultimate crucible: to solve a killing, a detective must speak for the dead.  More than any recent book, A GOOD MONTH FOR MURDER shows what it takes to succeed when the stakes couldn't possibly be higher.  Prince George's County is a lot like many others in America grappling with these same issues.  It's the new America - a microcosm of Ferguson, Baltimore, the south side of Chicago and other communities where the forces in blue put their lives on the line every day to keep their citizens safe.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Del Quentin Wilber is the New York Times-bestselling author of Rawhide Down, an account of the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan. An award-winning reporter who previously worked for The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Post, and Bloomberg News, he now covers the justice department for the Los Angeles Times. 

GI Film Festival

THE GI FILM FESTIVAL RETURNS TO WASHINGTON, D.C. AREA

Tenth Annual “Sundance for the Troops” Runs May 21-29

The Nation’s Only Military Film Festival Announces Complete Lineup for 2016 

The GI Film Festival (GIFF), the nation’s premiere entertainment enterprise exclusively dedicated to presenting the veteran experience through film, television and special events, today announced its complete lineup for the 10th annual event, running May 21 – 29, 2016 in Washington, D.C. and Fairfax, VA.

This is the most power-packed and diverse line-up of movies we have featured over our ten-year history,” says GI Film Festival President Brandon Millett.  “This festival will confront every challenge facing our nation’s military veterans and their families, showcasing some of the most incredible stories of heroism you have ever seen. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll be on the edge of your seat, covering your eyes. Come to GIFF X and you’ll experience every single conceivable human emotion. It will be unforgettable.” 

Hailed by Bloomberg News as “Sundance for the Troops,” the GI Film Festival’s mission is to preserve the stories of military veterans through film, television and dynamic live special events. Since 2007, the GIFF has spearheaded the lead-up to Memorial Day in our nation’s capital by offering the country’s most expansive view of military themes on film. Including, for the first time this year, on Sunday night May 22, a special event honoring women in the military including a short film showcase and panel discussion.

Kicking off this year’s 10th-anniversary festival will be world-renowned actor Gary Sinise, a supporter of GIFF since year one. Sinise and his Lt. Dan Band will play a concert featuring favorite cover tunes at the Howard Theater on Saturday, May 21. Sinise states, “The GI Film Festival has become the ‘go-to’ place for militarythemed movies. Anyone and everyone with a military-themed film will end up at the GI Film Festival, or at least trying to get in."

Also highlighting the festival will be a 30th-anniversary screening of the military classic Top Gun, with a scheduled appearance from actor Val Kilmer, on Wednesday, May 25 at Angelika Film Center in Fairfax, VA, followed by an 80's after party.  On Thursday, May 26, GIFF will host an advance screening of the new film X:MEN: Apocalypse, for Wounded Warriors, including a special message from Director Bryan Singer. Friday night, May 27, will see the world premiere of the zombie action comedy Range 15, starring William Shatner, Sean Astin, and Danny Trejo, followed by an after party.

This year’s nine-day program boasts a dynamic lineup of 75-plus films. In addition, GIFF will offer interactive Q&As with filmmakers and on-screen talent, embassy soirees, live music, stand-up comedy, star-studded red carpets, and awards ceremonies, all honoring and lending a voice to the veteran community. The Program includes scheduled appearances by Val Kilmer, Gary Sinise, Stephen Lang, J.W. Cortes, Pablo Schreiber, Rep. Tim Walz (D-MN), Rep. Steve Russell (R-OK) and Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ).  

Progressive Racism By David Horowitz

"David Horowitz is an enormously important thinker among American conservatives."  --The Weekly Standard

David Horowitz's provocative new book, Progressive Racism dissects the racial morality play of white supremacy and black oppression, which has transformed the civil rights movement from a campaign against the denigration of individuals on the basis of their skin color into a demand for privileges based on skin color. Horowitz accuses racial extortionists like Al Sharpton and today's Black Lives Matter rioters of transforming a movement for equal rights into a lynch-mob targeting white America, which makes civil rights martyrs out of career predators whose crimes are primarily against African Americans.

Horowitz reveals the many ways that America's culture has been tragically warped by the progressive left, which no longer accepts the colorblind standard of Martin Luther King, Jr. but instead has persuaded the country to believe that whites are guilty before the fact and blacks are innocent even when the facts show otherwise. In Progressive Racism, you will learn about:

• The decline and fall of the Civil Rights movement;
• An alternative to affirmative action;
• Racial correctness and the race card;
• What Hillary Clinton won't say;
• Ten reasons why reparations for slavery are a bad idea; and
• Black skin privilege and the American dream.

In Progressive Racism, Horowitz examines how the term "racism" has been drained of its original meaning and made into a weapon to bludgeon opponents into silence. He describes how today's civil rights movement has become an oppressor of African Americans by supporting a failed school system in poor urban communities and a welfare system that has destroyed the black family and created an underclass dependent on government charity.

David Horowitz's experience as a civil rights activist goes back over five decades; he has been a witness to these events and betrayals, starting with his participation in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. In 2001, he led a national campaign against a proposal for "slavery reparations" that would have required Americans who had no role in slavery to pay reparations to other Americans who were never slaves.

Progressive Racism is an indictment of the hypocrisy that now governs discourse on race, so that a lynch mob seeking to hang a police officer in Missouri because he was white can be portrayed as a civil rights protest and be supported by the first African American president of the United States. [more on Anti-White Racism...]

About the Author: David Horowitz is the bestselling author of numerous books including Unholy Alliance (2004), The Party of Defeat (2008) and Take No Prisoners: The Battle Plan for Defeating the Left (2014). David is the founder and chairman of the David Horowitz Freedom Center which is dedicated to the defense of free societies whose moral, cultural and economic foundations are under attack by enemies both secular and religious, at home and abroad.

Lessons My Father Taught Me By Michael Reagan

Son Reveals Ronald Reagan as Never Before

"Michael Reagan knew Ronald Reagan better than anyone alive today, and this book reveals him as more than just a great leader, but as a good father with a great soul, a role model for all of us. No one has done more to apply Reagan's principles than Michael, and this book is just one more example of that."    --Newt Gingrich, Fmr. Speaker of the House

Michael Reagan realized something. All his life people have been asking him the same question: "What was your dad really like?" So much had been written about his dad's life, his politics, his Hollywood career but little was ever revealed about Ronald Reagan the man, the private man, home with his wife, kids and friends.And nobody alive knows more about who Ronald Reagan really was than his eldest son, Michael.

For the first time, his just-released book Lessons My Father Taught Me: The Strength, Integrity, and Faith of Ronald Reagan reveals Michael's personal insights into the qualities that made his dad - qualities that can help any of us succeed in our relationships and life. Michael says his father was "the greatest man he ever knew."

But their relationship - and his father's relationship with his other children - had been very rocky at times. The family had weathered a bitter divorce when Michael's mother, Jane Wyman, the famous Hollywood actress, decided she no longer wanted to remain with her husband. Michael wanted to show how his father successfully dealt with the personal defeat of that divorce and remained a great father to him and his sister.

He also uses this book to share the true secrets of his dad's greatness - overcoming tremendous obstacles to become a famous actor, governor of California and president.

He is convinced that people in all walks of life can tap into the same power of faith and love that motivated his dad.

In Lessons My Father Taught Me, Michael reveals several very surprising stories about his father - some even quite shocking - and many that have never been disclosed to the public before. The book reveals:

• Michael's years as a "Beverly Hills brat" and how his dad treated him differently than the kids of Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and other Hollywood stars;
• The big mistake he made with son Ron, Jr. and his failure to "show up;"
• How he discovered a man could express affection without embarrassment;
• The shocking fact that neither Ron nor Patti ever voted for their own father and the surprising reason why;
• Why Ronald Reagan believed "attitude is everything;"
• Reagan's obsession with keeping his charity secret - even from his own family;
• Ronald Reagan's private and "intense" work ethic and why he hid it from the public;
• Reagan's advice always to not only work hard but "work smart;"
• Reagan's obsession with "truth" and why even as an actor he couldn't play an evil character well;
• The important lesson about revealing your "inner truth" to your friends and family to bond and grow;
• His dad's belief that people should be open to "re-creating" their life if facts demanded;
• Time and again, Michael explains how his father used "failure as a launching pad" for his next big success;
• Ronald Reagan had only one reason he wanted to be president, and he revealed it one night to his son;
• A secret promise to his daughter Maureen made Sandra Day O'Connor the first woman Supreme Court justice (it had nothing to do with politics);
• How Reagan surprisingly wasn't bothered by rumors his son Ron might be gay;
• Michael's encounter with actor Alec Baldwin and what he had to say about the former president;
• How optimism can be nurtured and cultivated, it's not always genetic;
• The most important leadership quality his father had;
• The Christian ideals and values shared by his mother, Nelle, that shaped his life and worldview;
• The time Gov. Reagan jumped into a swimming pool wearing his jacket and tie, shocking onlookers;
• Why Reagan wanted to personally meet his would-be assassin John Hinckley and the reason the meeting never took place;
• Dealing with scandal: how Reagan used life principles to put to bed what was to be his Watergate;
• Ethics lessons: his dad revealed scandalous information about JFK to his family and explained why people of "good character" would never make an issue of that publicly;
• ...and much, much more.

Michael Reagan concludes in Lessons My Father Taught Me that his father's ultimate lesson was the "power of one" - that each and every individual has an incredible ability to make themselves a better person while influencing and changing the world.

NOTE: Michael is also available to talk about Donald Trump's candidacy, how his Dad may have felt about the GOP frontrunner, and the impact Trump will have on Ronald Reagan's legacy. Go here to read: "Michael Reagan, son of Ronald, on his relationship with his famous father and the state of politics today."

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Michael Reagan is the eldest son of Ronald Reagan and the chairman of The Reagan Legacy Foundation. Michael, a New York Times bestselling author, is a popular national speaker on issues related to conservative politics. He blogs for Newsmax.com.