Anthony "Tony" Dolan was an enduring fixture in the Republican Party
and the conservative movement. Born in 1948, he was a most enthusiastic
volunteer for the Goldwater campaign at just sixteen years of age, and
later went to Yale.
In 1970 he became the deputy press secretary on the James L. Buckley
Senate campaign. Yes, THAT James L. Buckley, brother of William F.
Buckley Jr., the godfather of modern conservativism. Later working
for the Stamford Advocate, Dolan won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting
on municipal corruption. As chief speechwriter for President Ronald
Reagan he was the one who called the Soviet Union an "evil empire",
and Reagan did same in a rather famous speech. Dolan also did some
work in the George W. Bush and Donald J. Trump administrations.
Dolan even wrote and recorded folk songs; who says that folk songs
can only be written and sung by lefties?
All this is but a part of Tony Dolan's legacy. He has left this world
at the age of 76. R.I.P.
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