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I was saddened last week to learn of the unexpected death of Tony Dolan, who passed away at age 76. Tony was the chief speechwriter to President Ronald Reagan in a “speechwriting shop” (as he ...
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Anthony R. Dolan, 1948-2025
Some men wield pens like six-shooters, firing words that echo through history long after the smoke clears. Anthony R. Dolan, who died last month at 76, was one such gunslinger: a Pulitzer ...
The "Tear Down This Wall" speech. The "Evil Empire" speech. They had Tony Dolan's fingerprints, his handprints, all over them. Prior to working for Reagan, Dolan was the youngest journalist in ...
In whispered tones, staffers would note that this was Tony Dolan, Reagan’s chief speechwriter. He knew everyone, or seemed to, even those far removed from the speechwriting shop. And he had time ...
Tony Dolan's strategic rhetoric, rooted in moral clarity, played a key role in shaping Reagan's Cold War speeches and accelerating the Soviet Union's collapse.
STAMFORD — Anthony "Tony" Dolan, a former reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner for The Stamford Advocate who was recently named to President Donald Trump's administration, has died at 76.
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Colucci’s book is dedicated to Dolan. As Vito has previously said, “If Tony Dolan had never come to Stamford, CT, I don’t think anything would ever have changed. Stamford was running on 20 ...
His father, Joseph, and mother, Margaret Kelley Dolan, raised a brood that included Tony’s brother Terry, who’d later co-found the National Conservative Political Action Committee. Young Tony ...
Anthony R. Dolan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist-turned-chief-speechwriter to President Ronald Reagan who used insights into what he called the phenomenology of evil ...