Editing Human Events (section)

==Influence on Ronald Reagan==
Biographer [[Richard Reeves (American writer)|Richard Reeves]] wrote in 2005 that ''Human Events'' was former [[U.S. President]] [[Ronald Reagan]]'s "favorite reading for years".<ref>{{cite book |title=President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination |last=Reeves |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Reeves (American writer)|year=2005 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York |isbn=978-0-7432-8230-7 |page=[https://archive.org/details/presidentreagant00reev/page/24 24] |url=https://archive.org/details/presidentreagant00reev |url-access=registration |access-date=2010-07-24}}</ref> A loyal subscriber since 1961,<ref name="Shirley 2005 337"/> Reagan said it “helped me stop being a liberal Democrat,”<ref>{{cite journal |author=Lee Edwards |date=February 5, 2011 |title=Reagan's Newspaper |journal=Human Events |publisher=Eagle Publishing |url=http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=41609 |access-date=5 February 2011 |archive-date=February 7, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110207105627/http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=41609 |url-status=dead }}</ref> calling it "must reading for conservatives who want to know what is really going on in Washington, D.C."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eagleinteractive.com/card_heprint_print.htm |title=HUMAN EVENTS: The Conservative Weekly |work=Conservative Advertising Network |publisher=Eagle Interactive |access-date=5 February 2011 |archive-date=August 28, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828135006/http://www.eagleinteractive.com/card_heprint_print.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> Reagan contributed some articles to ''Human Events'' in the 1970s.<ref name="hea" /> During the [[Ronald Reagan 1980 presidential campaign|1980 presidential campaign]], Democrats released a document entitled "Ronald Reagan, Extremist Collaborator — An Exposé," in which, according to biographer [[Lee Edwards]], "[a]mong the proofs of Reagan's extremism was that he read the conservative weekly ''Human Events''."<ref>{{cite book |title=The essential Ronald Reagan: a profile in courage, justice, and wisdom |last=Edwards |first=Lee |year=2005 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-0-7425-4375-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/essentialronaldr0000edwa/page/57 57] |url=https://archive.org/details/essentialronaldr0000edwa |url-access=registration |access-date=5 February 2011}}</ref> After Reagan's landslide win in the election, Reagan would occasionally write or call Winter or Ryskind.<ref name="Shirley 2005 337"/>

"''Human Events'', however, was no favorite of the new men around Reagan," writes Reeves. "Baker and Darman, and Deaver too, did their best each week to keep it out of the reading material they gave the President."<ref>{{cite book |title=President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination |last=Reeves |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Reeves (American writer)|year=2005 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York |isbn=978-0-7432-8230-7 |page=[https://archive.org/details/presidentreagant00reev/page/24 24] |url=https://archive.org/details/presidentreagant00reev |url-access=registration |access-date=2011-02-05}}</ref> "When he discovered White House aides were blocking its delivery, President Reagan arranged for multiple copies to be sent to the White House residence every weekend," writes Edwards, who adds that Reagan took care "marking and clipping articles and passing them along to his assistants."<ref>{{cite journal |author=Lee Edwards |date=February 5, 2011 |title=Reagan's Newspaper |journal=Human Events |publisher=Eagle Publishing |url=http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=41609 |access-date=5 February 2011 |archive-date=February 7, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110207105627/http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=41609 |url-status=dead }} Cf. {{cite book |title=President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination |last=Reeves |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Reeves (American writer) |year=2005 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York |isbn=978-0-7432-8230-7 |page=[https://archive.org/details/presidentreagant00reev/page/25 25], fn |url=https://archive.org/details/presidentreagant00reev |url-access=registration |access-date=2010-07-24 }}</ref>

Just before his 1982 tax hike, Reagan met with what he called "some of my old friends from ''Human Events''" (he mentioned Ryskind and [[M. Stanton Evans]]),<ref>{{cite book |last1=Skinner |first1= Kiron K. |last2=Anderson |first2=Annelise |last3=Anderson |first3=Martin |author-link3=Martin Anderson (economist) | author-link1=Kiron Skinner |title=Reagan: A Life in Letters |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZrRc_ABenS8C |access-date=2010-07-24 |year=2004 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York |isbn=978-0-7432-7642-9 |page=595}}</ref> who warned him about "disloyal" [[White House]] staff (in particular [[James Baker]]) who favored making a deal on taxes with the Democratic Congress. (Reagan subsequently made such a deal, in which for each $1 in higher taxes Congress promised $3 in spending cuts. Ultimately, both taxes and spending increased.)<ref>{{cite book |title=The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution, 1980–1989 |last=Hayward |first=Steven F. |author-link=Steven F. Hayward |year=2009 |publisher=Random House, Inc. |location=New York |isbn=978-1-4000-5357-5 |pages=210–12 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-TUBoKsLAjAC |access-date=2010-07-24}}</ref>

At the 1986 [[Reykjavík Summit]], Reagan told [[General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] that he could not give up the [[Strategic Defense Initiative]] because of "'the people who were the most outspoken critics of the [[Soviet Union]] over the years’—he mentioned his favorite paper, ''Human Events''," according to Reeves, "‘They’re kicking my brains out’."<ref>{{cite book |title=President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination |last=Reeves |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Reeves (American writer)|year=2005 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York |isbn=978-0-7432-8230-7 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/presidentreagant00reev/page/351 351]–52 |url=https://archive.org/details/presidentreagant00reev |url-access=registration |access-date=2010-07-24}}</ref>