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

THE WAR AGAINST CHRISTMAS "The War Against Christmas seems to have picked up a couple of new recruits named George and Laura Bush. I am one of X thousands of Americans who is on what used to be the president's Christmas Card list. As a result, a card from George and Laura arrived in my mail today. Needless to say I was pleased and honored. After opening it, I was - and am - also disappointed. "The card was not a Christmas card; it was a holiday card. It was lovely but it wasn't Christmas-y. . . . Inside, there...

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...

I keep thinking about the liberal effort to canonize Sandra Day O'Connor as one of the Supreme Court greats. What a joke. She was appointed by President Reagan at the urging of Barry Goldwater as a political sop to feminists. She was not a great legal mind and was not one of Reagan’s better appointments, mainly because she was ruled by her emotions rather than by logic or any particular knowledge of the Constitution. The best thing she has done is resign. For this she deserves our praise I don’t know or care if this president intends to replace her...

The Washington Timeswww.washingtontimes.com The 'vast' left wingBy Lyn NofzigerPublished May 31, 2005 THE VAST LEFT WING CONSPIRACY     By Byron York     Crown, $26.95, 288 pages          When President George W. Bush broke a campaign promise in his first term and signed into law the ill begotten McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill he little guessed that he was opening a can of political worms that down the line would seriously threaten his bid for reelection.     McCain-Feingold, named after Republican senator John McCain of Arizona and Russell Feingold, Wisconsin Democrat, like all earlier campaign legislation, was supposed for all time to put...

GUEST OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR Washington — While President Bush would like to think that the voters gave him a mandate last Tuesday to push his "compassionate conservative" agenda through Congress, the wish may well be father to the thought. The truth of the matter is that barring such virtual clean sweeps as Richard Nixon's re-election in 1972 and Ronald Reagan's in 1984, political mandates are usually in the eye of the beholder. And there is no certainty that the Republican Party will remain unified when the choice is not between Mr. Bush and a Democrat, but between accepting or rejecting his...

Lyn Nofziger, a White House aide under Ronald Reagan, is a Washington political consultant. Four years ago, when Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush selected Richard Cheney as his running mate, the word among political pundits was Cheney brought much-needed gravitas to the ticket. From the dictionary, where most people had to go because they'd never heard the word, the world learned gravitas means seriousness of purpose. A person with real gravitas is a mental heavyweight. Bush was seen by his critics to lack gravitas and Cheney assertedly balanced the Republican ticket by bringing gravitas to it. Yesterday Massachusetts Sen....

<p>Jack Germond is a fat man. But he makes up for it by being short. He is not Mr. Five-by-Five, though he comes close.</p> <p>More importantly, Mr. Germond is, or rather was, one of the nation's better political reporters and columnists. Although he is now what one might call semi-retired, he still dabbles in television, writes an occasional op-ed piece, and now and then a book. His first four books were co-authored with fellow columnist Jules Witcover.</p>

Ronald Reagan: 1911-2004 - How he always left his detractors bewildered By Lyn Nofziger -- Special To The Bee Published 2:15 am PDT Sunday, June 13, 2004 When Ronald Reagan was elected president, liberal Democrats were quick to label him as a not-very-bright far-right-winger likely to get the United States into a nuclear war abroad while returning it to the Dark Ages at home. Perhaps the kindest thing any prominent Democrat said of him at the time was when Clark Clifford, longtime adviser to Democratic presidents, called him "an amiable dunce." For the most part, however, Democrats had difficulty understanding...

LYN'S PAGE e-mail: franklynnof@cs.com It turns out that Bob Dole, P. X. Kelly and all the other folk who has something to do with the building of the World War II memorial owe an explanation and an apology to the American people. It turns out that they edited, or approved the editing of President’s Roosevelt’s talk to the nation on Dec. 8, 1941, announcing the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to make it politically correct. They chopped off the last four words. No big deal, you say. Yes it is a big deal. They are not idle words; they are...

WASHINGTON On the surface, President Bush's re-election campaign seems to be doing those things necessary to bring about victory. The president and his surrogates have begun attacking the record and remarks of Senator John Kerry. Television advertisements are being broadcast. The organizing needed to identify and get his supporters to the polls is well under way. And fund-raising, already at a record level, continues apace.And yet, the effort appears wanting in one key area: the president has not secured the support of that part of his conservative base still inspired by former President Ronald Reagan, which has been slipping away...

<p>Mark Katz, as he readily admits, comes from a New York Jewish family that expected him to be an orthodontist like his father, or perhaps a lawyer. Instead, after graduating from Cornell University and working for a couple of advertising agencies, he followed his natural smart-aleckproclivities (again self-admitted) and became a humor writer.</p>

This week on RadioFR: (all times Eastern) Tuesday, November 4 8pm Always Right with Chuck Muth Guest: Lyn Nofziger   10pm On Fire! with Tom Adkins       Wednesday, November 5 8pm Jeff Gannon's Washington Election wrap-up and 2004 preview     Thursday, November 6   8pm The American Way with Michael King 10pm Unspun with AnnaZ    

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...