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 Prize-winning journalist-turned-Ronald Reagan speechwriter whose prose didn’t just shape a presidency but helped topple an empire. With a folk singer’s soul, a cowboy’s swagger, and a wit sharp enough to slice through Washington’s pomposity, Dolan barreled into the American story like a Connecticut tornado, leaving behind a trail of unforgettable lines and a legacy as rugged as the ideals he championed. If politics is a grand stage, Tony Dolan was the playwright who gave Reagan his best script — part poetry, part thunder, all grit.
Born on July 7, 1948, in Norwalk, Connecticut,
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