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Auction Site Claims To Have Vial Of Reagan's Blood For Sale

Eric Lach | May 22, 2012, 11:24AM

It's the stuff presidents are made of.

A British auction website has put up for sale a vial which it says was used to hold a sample of President Ronald Reagan's blood, drawn after Reagan was shot by John Hinckley Jr. on March 30, 1981.

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Topics: Auctions, Ronald Reagan

Watch The Videos The CIA Made To Tell Ronald Reagan About The Soviets

Ryan J. Reilly | November 10, 2011, 12:17PM

The Central Intelligence Agency's video squad made short documentary-style films to educate President Ronald Reagan about the Soviet Union. Now you can watch them for yourself.

Seven videos the CIA made for Reagan -- "The Soviet Space Program," "Afghanistan: the Gallant Struggle," "Andropov Succession," "Soviet Internal Propaganda," "The Soviet Media's Portrayal of America," "The Chernobyl Accident," and "The Moscow Summit" -- were posted on YouTube by the CIA last week in conjunction with a report on Reagan's use of intelligence during his presidency.

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Topics: CIA, Ronald Reagan

Reagan's Son: Dad Was 'A Far Better Friend' To Blacks Than Obama

Eric Lach | January 18, 2011, 4:22PM

Former President Ronald Reagan

To mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Ronald Reagan's son Michael wrote an opinion piece for Fox News' website in which he argues that his father was a better "friend" to black Americans than Barack Obama.

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Topics: Barack Obama, Michael Reagan, Ronald Reagan

Bob Guccione

Bob Guccione's FBI File: From Direct Mail Smut Peddler To Penthouse Founder

Ryan J. Reilly and Alex Sciuto | January 18, 2011, 1:02PM

Before he rose to notoriety as the founder of Penthouse magazine, Bob Guccione allegedly wrote letters soliciting customers to buy his dirty photos at the bargain rate of 10 photos for $2 under the pseudonym of "Robert Gucci."

That's just part of what is revealed by the more than sixty pages of FBI records on Guccione obtained by TPM through a Freedom of Information Act request. Guccione died in October at the age of 79.

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Topics: Bob Guccione, FBI, Penthouse, Ronald Reagan

John Wheeler

Former Bush, Reagan Official Found Dead In Landfill

Rachel Slajda | January 3, 2011, 5:09PM

A veteran of the Vietnam War who served in the administrations of Reagan and both Bushes, and who was instrumental in getting the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial built, was found dead in a Delaware landfill on Friday.

Police today identified the body they found last week as that of John P. Wheeler III, 66, who lived in New Castle, Del. Police have ruled his death a homicide.

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Topics: Delaware, John Wheeler, Ronald Reagan, Vietnam Memorial

Sharon Browne

Lawyer From Far-Right Group Picked For Key Legal-Aid Post

Zachary Roth | December 18, 2009, 3:11PM

To help run the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), the nation's largest provider of civil legal aid for the poor, Senate Republicans have picked an attorney from a far-right legal organization that has a history of ideological opposition to legal-aid work.

The White House announced yesterday that it had nominated Sharon Browne of the Pacific Legal Foundation as one of three Republican board members of the LSC. Minority party nominees for the LSC board are traditionally generated by the Senate leader of the party that doesn't control the White House, and Don Stewart, a spokesman for Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, confirmed to TPMmuckraker that McConnell's office had recommended all three GOP nominees.