Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, standing alongside his wife Callista, premiered a new documentary on the life of President Reagan at the Reagan Library in March 2009. Speaking about the message of the film to an audience of one-thousand, Speaker Gingrich said, "Reagan’s greatest achievement was turning around America, rebuilding our economy and making us proud to be Americans again." He commented on the issues facing Americans today, noting that we’re "currently in the greatest economic challenge the country has ever seen." Speaker Gingrich also noted that if President Reagan could offer President Obama advice, it would be to "roll up his sleeves to help fix the problems."

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Emmy-award winning Cokie Roberts spoke at the Reagan Library on May 8, 2009 to promote her book, "Ladies of Liberty." Speaking to the audience, Ms. Roberts stated that the wives of America’s founding fathers often don’t get the credit they deserve for shaping the country.

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On Saturday, May 9th, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation welcomed Patti Davis for a lecture and book signing for her latest book, The Lives Our Mothers Leave Us: Prominent Women Discuss the Complex, Humorous, and Ultimately Loving Relationships They Have with Their Mothers. Signed copies are still available in the Library’s Museum Store by calling 800-998-7641.

The Lives Our Mothers Leave Us is a compilation book of interviews with more than 20 well-known women about their relationships with their mothers. The book includes the stories of Diahann Carroll, Cokie Roberts, Anne Rice, and Candice Bergen. The book also contains a chapter about Ms. Davis’s relationship with her mother, Nancy Reagan. The book is a cross between a reaffirming self-help book and a candid women’s narrative, with individual daughters’ stories creating a collective memoir. Readers may recognize traces of their own relationships with their mothers as these women recount histories of addiction, sickness and death. Along with memories of friendship, strength and reconciliation.

Ms. Davis is the author of seven books, fiction and non-fiction, including The Long Goodbye. She has written for Time Magazine, Newsweek, Ladies Home Journal, Glamour, More, HarperVs Bazaar, Redbook, Sunset, and L.A. Confidential. She has also contributed to The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and The Washington Post.

On Monday, May 11th, from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m., Dennis Miller broadcasted his radio show live at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library to promote the Library’s release of the unabridged Ronald Reagan Diaries. Dennis Miller’s radio program can be heard live, locally on 870 KRLA from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Miller is known to millions from his six seasons behind the Weekend Update anchor desk of Saturday Night Live, a nine-year run on HBO’s Dennis Miller Live, countless TV and film appearances, and currently with his successful radio program heard nationwide.

In addition to his HBO shows and specials, Mr. Miller was the host and executive producer of CNBC’s “Dennis Miller,” a topical interview talk show featuring reasoned discourse, opinion and humor. Additionally, Mr. Miller has appeared on many politically oriented television talk shows on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News Channel and others. He has been cast in films, most notably “Disclosure,” “The Net,” and “Murder at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.” He is the author of several New York Times best selling books, The Rants, Ranting Again, and The Rant Zone. And for two seasons, Mr. Miller called the plays alongside Al Michaels and NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Fouts on ABC’s “Monday Night Football.”

On Monday, May 11, 2009, historian and author Douglas Brinkley was at the Reagan Library to sign copies of The Reagan Diaries: Unabridged. Signed copies are still available in the Library’s Museum Store by calling 800-998-7641.

During his two terms as the fortieth president of the United States, Ronald Reagan kept a daily diary in which he recorded, by hand, his innermost thoughts and observations on the extraordinary, the historic, and the routine day-to-day occurrences of his presidency. Now, nearly two decades after he left office, this remarkable record-the only daily presidential diary in American history is available in an unabridged version.

Brought together in TWO volumes and edited by Doug Brinkley, The Reagan Diaries provides a striking insight into one of this nation’s most important presidencies and sheds new light on the character of a true American leader. Whether he was in his White House residence study or aboard Air Force One, each night Reagan wrote about the events of his day, which often included his relationships with other world leaders Mikhail Gorbachev, Pope John Paul II, Mohammar al-Qaddafi, and Margaret Thatcher, among others, and the unforgettable moments that defined the era from his first inauguration to the end of the Cold War, the Iran hostage crisis to John Hinckley, Jr.’s assassination attempt.