Authoritarians hate humor because humor exposes them. Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini — every strongman fears the comic more than the critic. A joke spreads fast. A sharp one can cut through a wall of ...

Ronald Reagan was hysterical. He was many other things too, good and bad, but he was always funny, and he knew the power of a well-timed joke or one-liner. Humor was deeply important to Reagan and he ...

As a child, Michael Reagan joked, he would ask his parents his first name because he was always introduced as "Ronald Reagan's or Jane Wyman's son." The conservative talk show host and author has made ...

ATLANTA - A younger generation knows only of the bright afternoon and long evening of Ronald Reagan's gargantuan American life. They know something of his spectacular but relatively brief political ...

Reagan scoffed at the assertions of his one-time chief of staff Don Regan that the president and his wife, Nancy, had relied on astrological advice in connection with Reagan's stewardship of national ...

Which, Miller learned, was allowed to shine by the fact that Ronald Reagan was actually a charming, disarming guy, bringing out her playful, giddy persona. “She obviously laughed at his jokes and ...

President-elect ends his "newsless" news conference with a breezy "Bonjour." Nov. 7, 2008— -- After months of campaigning with discipline, staying on message and sticking to script, an apparently ...