Colonel William A. Phillips

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• ...that Ronald Reagan is the only president of the United States to have his diaries published into a best selling book?

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• ...that Ronald Reagan's autobiography, An American Life, reached number eight on The New York Times' bestsellers list?

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• ...that in 1984 Ronald Reagan timed his first presidential proclamation of National Sanctity of Human Life Day to coincide with the anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade?

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• ... that the film Ronald Reagan called "the worst picture I ever made" inspired Jerry Parr to join the Secret Service, and that Parr saved President Reagan's life during the 1981 assassination attempt?

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• ...that the Ronald Reagan Trail is a collection of highways in central Illinois that connect villages and cities that were of importance to Ronald Reagan?

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• ... that California began celebrating Ronald Reagan Day on February 6, 2011, which would have been Reagan's 100th birthday?

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• ...that Fred Ryan was instrumental in the development of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library?

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  ...that Ginni Thomas (pictured), wife of Supreme Court associate justice Clarence Thomas, collected résumés for appointments in the George W. Bush administration while working at The Heritage Foundation?

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  ...that after thirty-five ballots, Republican Party presidential candidates James G. Blaine and John Sherman withdrew their campaigns to support a dark horse candidate named James A. Garfield at the 1880 Republican National Convention (pictured)?

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  ... that the presidential campaign of Chuck Baldwin (pictured) began only two weeks before the 2008 Constitution Party Convention yet still edged the campaign of political veteran Alan Keyes in the delegate count?

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  ... that Luís Alves de Lima e Silva (pictured) was a Brazilian military hero praised for his victories in the Paraguayan War, and that his birthday is celebrated annually as "Day of the Soldier"?

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  ... that Romanian scholar Nicolae Iorga (pictured) constructed a conservative vision of world history, contrasting Max Weber's Protestant Ethic?

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  ... that journalist Nils Vogt (pictured) was the first chairman of the Norwegian Press Association?

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  ...that Nikki Haley (pictured) of South Carolina is the first Republican Indian American state legislator in the United States?

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• ...that the Minute Women of the U.S.A. was a militantly anti-communist organization for American housewives in the 1950s?

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• ...that the Duncan L. Hunter 2008 presidential campaign was endorsed by both Chuck Yeager and Ann Coulter?

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• ...that before Chuck DeVore became a member of the California State Assembly, he wrote a book that was banned in the People's Republic of China?

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• ...that the California Republican Assembly supported Tom McClintock in the 2003 California gubernatorial recall election?

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• ... that author Jonathan Krohn gave a two-minute speech at the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference at age thirteen?

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• ... that Polish party Forward Poland rejected an alliance with Declan Ganley's Libertas?

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• ... that in 1952, after giving the Checkers speech, Richard Nixon dictated a telegram resigning as Dwight D. Eisenhower's running mate, but his campaign manager Murray Chotiner ripped it up unsent?

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• ... that Holly Coors, wife of beer magnate Joseph Coors, stated while planning to run for governor of Colorado that the way to help women was "not the Equal Rights Amendment but through free enterprise"?

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• ...that in the United States, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and its Republican counterpart promote the election of members of their respective parties to the United States Congress?

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• ...that in Edward Heath's 1968 Declaration of Perth, he pledged the Conservative Party's support for Scottish devolution, a policy later reversed by Margaret Thatcher?

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• ...that before John Gilbert Higgins became a Canadian senator, he hung black crêpe paper on his door in mourning the day that the Dominion of Newfoundland joined Canada?

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• ...that Geoffrey Wheatcroft, the author of The Strange Death of Tory England, advises British conservatives to learn from the conservatism of the socialist George Orwell?

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• ... that the appointment of Sever Voinescu as Romania's ambassador to the United States was rejected by a Senate committee on grounds that he was too close to Romanian president Traian Băsescu?

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• ... that Holby City woman is a voter demographic in the United Kingdom that was considered influential to the outcome of the 2010 United Kingdom general election?

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• ... that Helen Grant became the first black female candidate to be elected as a Conservative member of Parliament?

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• ... that Eugène Olaussen, a one-time personal acquaintance of Vladimir Lenin, shifted views and wrote in Nazi publications during World War II?

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• ... that for Theodore Dalrymple's book Life at the Bottom, he interviewed over 10,000 people who had attempted suicide?

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• ... that scholars estimate that it takes two or three generations for a tradition to emerge?

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• ... that, in its campaign against a Romanian World War I alliance with the Entente powers, the newspaper Seara employed conservatives, socialists and anarchists as contributors?

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• ... that during World War I, future Norwegian politician and railroad chairman Egil Werner Erichsen was hit by the Spanish flu, but did not spend one day in bed?

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• ... that Canadian Conservative Party candidate Bernard Trottier won a seat in the 41st Canadian Parliament by defeating the incumbent Michael Ignatieff, the leader of the Liberal Party and leader of the Official Opposition, in the 2011 federal election?

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• ... that Norwegian botanist and politician Olaf Alfred Hoffstad taught at Sandefjord Upper Secondary School for almost 43 years?

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• ... that Theodore Dalrymple's book Our Culture, What's Left of It describes British culture as a "moral swamp"?

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• ...that the conservative Thai Social Action Party was founded in 1974 by politician and former prime minister Kukrit Pramoj?

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• ... that Jens Wisløff, a Norway Conservative Party politician, was called "the grand old man of asphalt"?

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• ... that Olaf Gjerløw, grandfather of Norway Socialist Left Party politician Tora Aasland, was a conservative editor of Morgenbladet?