New papers redefine Reagan

The Los Angeles Daily News takes a look at the new Reagan papers. The library recently made available nearly 25,000 additional pages of Reagan’s personal papers, including speeches, radio scripts and articles he wrote in the 1960s and ’70s.

“All this dispels the myth that Ronald Reagan was somehow a creature of his advisers,” Kaufman said. “The radio addresses prove the contrary. They show that Ronald Reagan was the driving force of his administration and the key policies emanating from it.”