On Wednesday, July 28, 2010, Mrs. Ronald Reagan stood alongside Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger at The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library as the Governor held a ceremonial bill signing for SB 944 by Senator George Runner and AB 1911 by Assembly Republican Leader Martin Garrick honoring President Ronald Reagan for his life’s accomplishments and his contributions to California.  In addition to the bill signing, a special announcement was be made about the Reagan Foundation’s plans for the Reagan Centennial Celebration.

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation welcomed Chris Matthews to deliver the Reagan Forum on Tuesday, July 20, 2010.

Chris Matthews hosts “The Chris Matthews Show,” a syndicated weekly news program produced by NBC News and distributed by NBC Universal Television Distribution, which is seen Sundays at 8:30 PM. Matthews is a regular commentator on NBC's “Today” show and also hosts “Hardball with Chris Matthews,” seen weekdays on MSNBC.

A television news anchor with remarkable depth of experience, Matthews has distinguished himself as a broadcast journalist, newspaper bureau chief, Presidential speechwriter, and best-selling author. Matthews covered the fall of the Berlin Wall, the first all-races election in South Africa and the Good Friday Peace Talks in Northern Ireland. Matthews has covered American presidential election campaigns since 1988, including as moderator for the GOP Presidential Candidates Debate at the Reagan Library on May 3, 2007.

In March 2004, he received the David Brinkley Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism.  He has also been awarded The Abraham Lincoln Award from the Union League of Philadelphia and in 2005 he received the Gold Medal Award from the Pennsylvania Society.

“Heilemann and Halperin have conducted hundreds of interviews to provide the inside story of the 2008 campaign . . . It vividly shows how character flaws large and small caused Obama’s opponents to self-destruct.” (Jacob Heilbrunn, The New York Times Book Review)

Co-authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann discussed and signed copies of their latest book, Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime.

In Game Change, John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, two of the country’s leading political reporters, use their unrivaled access to pull back the curtain on the Obama, Clinton, McCain, and Palin campaigns. Game Change answers questions such as “How did Obama convince himself that he could beat the odds to become the nation’s first African American president?”, “Why did McCain make the novice governor of Alaska his running mate?” and more, laying bare the secret history of the 2008 campaign. They unearth the quiet conspiracy in the U.S. Senate to prod Obama into the race. They expose the twisted tale of John Edwards’s affair and the doubts of those responsible for vetting Palin about her readiness for the Republican ticket.

Based on hundreds of interviews with the people who lived the story, Game Change is a reportorial tour de force that reads like a fast-paced novel. Character driven and dialogue rich, replete with extravagantly detailed scenes, this is the occasionally shocking, often hilarious, ultimately definitive account of the campaign of a lifetime.

Mark Halperin is editor-at-large and senior political analyst for Time Magazine. He has covered six presidential elections, including during his decade as the political director for ABC News. John Heilemann is the national political correspondent and columnist for New York Magazine. He is an award-winning journalist.

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Two-time American Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez was at The Reagan Library for a lecture entitled Editorial Cartooning, Journalism and a Citizen’s Responsibility in a New World Order. Mr. Ramirez signed copies of his book Everyone Has the Right to My Opinion.

Michael Ramirez, currently a Senior Editor and editorial cartoonist for Investor’s Business Daily, has said, “An editorial cartoon is not just a funny picture. It is a powerful instrument of journalism, sometimes sharp and refined, its message cutting quickly to the point, and other times, blunt and overpowering, seizing the readers’ attention with its dark imagery.”

Mr. Ramirez is a regular contributor to USA Today and The Weekly Standard Magazine. His work is seen worldwide with a distribution of over 400 newspapers and magazines through Creators Syndicate.

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The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and KRLA presented a live radio
broadcast with Dennis Prager on Thursday, June 10, 2010. .

Dennis Prager is one of America’s most respected radio talk show hosts. He
has been broadcasting on radio in Los Angeles since 1982. His popular show
became nationally syndicated in 1999 and airs live, Monday through Friday,
9:00 a.m. to Noon (Pacific Time) from his home station, KRLA. Widely sought
after by television shows for his opinions, he has appeared on Larry King Live,
Hardball, Hannity & Colmes, CBS Evening News, The Today Show and many others.

Dennis Prager was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the U.S. Delegation to the Vienna Review Conference on the Helsinki
Accords. He is the author of four books and currently writes a syndicated column that is published in newspapers around the country and on the internet. Since 1992, Mr. Prager has been teaching the Bible verse-by-verse at the University of Judaism. Mr. Prager also periodically conducts orchestras.