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THE NEW YORK TIMES VS. HELMS, PART 529,876July 9, 2008 Last Friday, on the Fourth of July, the great American patriot Jesse Helms passed away. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson also went to their great reward on Independence Day, so this is further proof of God. Helms is now the second great American patriot I've always wanted to meet and never will, at least in this lifetime. The only other one is the magnificent Reagan aide Lyn Nofziger. (Wikipedia quote: "I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.") After a week of...

Tomorrow marks one year since the conservative movement mourned the loss of a truly great man, former Reagan communications director, Lyn Nofziger (he passed away on March 27, 2006). Lyn Nofziger was the man who addressed the press ? and kept Americans calm ? after the assassination attempt on President Reagan (Reagan?s press secretary, James Brady, was shot in the attempt). Lyn was a personal friend of mine. He always went out of his way to mentor young conservatives. And, at the age of 81, he was a blogger. Seriously, he maintained a blog for years (though he called it...

On the day that longtime White House Chief of Staff Andy Card took a bullet for an incompetent White House operation – more on that in a moment – another former White House staffer has also departed. Lyn Nofziger, longtime aide to Ronald Reagan and a personal friend and adviser of mine, died of bladder cancer Monday at the age of 81. Lyn had been a newspaper reporter when then-candidate Ronald Reagan's kitchen cabinet asked him in the 1966 race for governor to become press secretary to the campaign. From that day forward – with a few temporary postings elsewhere...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lyn Nofziger, press secretary and political adviser to President Reagan, has died at 71.</p>

Leadership Problems Plague Steele in Md. by Matt Lewis Posted Feb 18, 2006 It seems the wheels are coming off of Lt. Governor Michael Steele's U.S. Senate campaign. In the past couple of weeks, he has lost his campaign manager and his communications director. Steele, the African-American Republican Lt. Governor of Maryland, represents one of the few chances Republicans have of picking up a formerly Democrat Senate seat. Additionally, several pundits have speculated that his election, along with Lynn Swann in Pennsylvania and Ken Blackwell in Ohio, would be a major step forward in terms of attracting blacks to the...

The Washington Timeswww.washingtontimes.com A not-so-mellow skeptic sees a GOP with no focusBy Ralph Z. HallowTHE WASHINGTON TIMESPublished November 23, 2005 Lyn Nofziger, at 81, is almost who he was at 41 -- a plain-talking, slightly disheveled California skeptic. He's a newspaperman who became the plain-talking, slightly disheveled top aide to Ronald Reagan, from the Gipper's 1966 campaign for California governor through his first year in the White House 15 years later.     With shirt collar still unbuttoned and tie still loosened, the goateed Mr. Nofziger has been lobbying for a living and, on the side, writing opinion columns and authoring...

With Simon out, there's only one conservative in the race -- - McClintock's 1) the most experienced; 2) the most knowledgeable; 3) the one with the most well-articulated vision; 4) the one with Reagan-like CONVICTIONS (not convenient "opinions" adopted yesterday -- and subject to change tomorrow; 5) the one who's from the MIDDLE CLASS so he KNOWS that TAXES HURT -- he feels it in his bones, not through a focus group -- so we can trust him to keep his word. NOTE: LYN NOFZIGER HAS JUST ENDORSED MCCLINTOCK!

Lyn Nofziger, Senior Advisor to President Reagan, Endorses Tom McClintock for Governor A Letter from Lyn Nofziger Reagan Advisor Lyn Nofziger was the man who got the job done and elected Ronald Reagan as Governor of California in 1966, reversing a series of Republican losses in California and restoring California to greatness. Dear Friend, Our State of California is in the national spotlight these days because it appears likely that disgusted voters will recall Governor Davis, the man who put the state in severe financial trouble and doesn’t have either the brains or guts to fix the problems. Because I...

<p>Why Arnold Schwarzenegger is no Ronald Reagan By Lyn Nofziger -- Special to The Bee Published 2:15 a.m. PDT Sunday, August 17, 2003 The year was 1966, a year in which Californians were to elect a new governor or re-elect an old one. Three major Republican candidates were vying for the right to challenge the two-term incumbent Democrat, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown.</p>

Yesterday was the 22nd anniversary of the shooting of Ronald Reagan by a love-crazed nut named John Hinkley, but I saw no mention of it in the papers; the war has eclipsed mention of many past events Yet Hinkley‘s inability to kill the nation‘s 40th president was perhaps the most significant failure if not in the history of the United States then certainly since 1933 when Joseph Zangara took a potshot at Franklin D. Roosevelt but fatally wounded Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak instead. Zangara’s miss put the United States on the road to semi-socialism that it continues to travel to...

He's Really Simple Simon, Nofziger Says of California Candidate California Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon is inept, weak and just plain too dumb to have any hope of beating incumbent Gov. Gray Davis, according to former Reagan top aide Lyn Nofziger. Writing on his "Musings" website, Nofziger, President Reagan's White House communications director and an official of the former president's California governor's office, ripped into Simon for failing to maintain consistent positions in his race against Davis. "Californians now are going to have a clear choice when they go to the polls elect a governor this November," Nofziger wrote. "They...