Office of Speechwriting
Speechwriter, 1981-1985
Special Assistant to the President and Chief Speechwriter, 1985-1986
Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Speechwriting, 1986-1989
Anthony “Tony” Dolan joined the White House Speechwriting Staff in March 1981, and stayed until the end of the Reagan’s second term in 1989. Dolan had served as the Director of Special Research and Issues, in the Office of Research and Policy at the Headquarters of the Reagan-Bush Committee, and as a speechwriter. Prior to joining the campaign, Dolan had a distinguished career as an investigative reporter and won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.