The man who shot former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ronald-reagan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ronald Reagan</a> in the early 1980s said in an interview this week that he is a victim of cancel culture.
John Hinckley Jr., who spent years confined to a mental hospital for trying to murder Reagan, was freed from all restrictions in 2022.
The 68-year-old has tried to become a singer since gaining his freedom, but has had numerous planned concerts canceled by venues because the businesses do not want controversy.
“I think that’s fair to say: I’m a victim of cancel culture,” he <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/20/us-news/john-hinckley-jr-claims-he-is-a-victim-of-cancel-culture-after-concert-called-off/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> in an interview with the New York Post. “It keeps happening over and over again.”
“They book me and then the show gets announced and then the venue starts getting backlash,” he claimed. “The owners always cave, they cancel. It’s happened so many times, it’s kinda what I expect. I don’t really get upset.”
He claimed that he was not the same person that he used to be and that he did not want to &#8220;dwell on the past.&#8221;
“I’m just caught up in the cancel culture, I guess,” he complained. “It would be a venue for new artists, distinguished artists and they wouldn’t get canceled [at] the last minute like I’m getting canceled.”
Hinckley shot Reagan on March 30, 1981, just 69 days after his inauguration. Reagan was leaving the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., at around 2:30 p.m. after having given a speech to about 5,000 members of the AFL-CIO when Hinckley opened fire with a .22 revolver.
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Hinckley <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/john-hinckley-jr-the-now-free-man-who-tried-to-assassinate-president-ronald-reagan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fired six shots</a> at Reagan and his security team. One bullet ricocheted off of Reagan’s limousine and struck the president under his left arm, according to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum. It was initially thought that Hinckley missed Reagan, until the president began coughing up blood and was taken to the hospital. It was later discovered that the bullet grazed one of the president’s ribs and became lodged in his rib just one inch from his heart. The injury left Reagan with a punctured lung and internal bleeding, resulting in a 12-day hospital stay.
Also injured in the attack were Press Secretary James Brady, Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy, and policeman Thomas Delahanty. Brady was hit in the head and became permanently disabled, requiring a wheelchair for the rest of his life and affecting his speech. He died on August 4, 2014, with a medical examiner ruling his death a homicide resulting from Hinckley’s gunshot 33 years earlier.
Delahanty was struck in the back of his neck trying to protect Reagan, while McCarthy was struck in the abdomen. Both men survived and fully recovered.
Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity and confined to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington, D.C. One of his attorneys, Greg Craig, went on to become assistant to the President and White House special counsel under Bill Clinton and White House counsel under President Barack Obama. In 2019, he was indicted for lying to federal prosecutors about his work at a private law firm for the former president of Ukraine without registering as a foreign agent.
By 2011, Hinckley was allowed to leave the hospital for several days at a time to visit family in Virginia. In 2012, therapists in Virginia withdrew a plan that would allow Hinckley to leave the hospital and live full-time with his mother. At the time, the Department of Justice said Hinckley hadn’t changed and should remain in the hospital. Four years later, in 2016, Hinckley was released from St. Elizabeth’s to live with his mother and gain more privileges.
In September 2021, U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman announced that Hinckley would be fully released without conditions if he continued to show he was “no longer a danger to himself or others,” the Associated Press reported. Hinckley was granted his freedom without any restrictions on June 15, 2022.
Ashe Schow contributed to this report.

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Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ronald-reagan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ronald Reagan&#8217;s</a> daughter Patti Davis said during an interview over the weekend that she thinks presidents need to take cognitive tests.
The remarks from Davis, which she made during an interview that aired Sunday on NBC News&#8217; &#8220;Meet The Press,&#8221; come after Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report on President Joe Biden’s handling of classified material said that while Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials,” no charges could be brought against him, in part due to the fact that he displayed signs of serious cognitive issues.
&#8220;[Biden] is in his eighties, former President Trump, the frontrunner, is in his late seventies,&#8221; host Kristen Welker said. &#8220;Do you think there should be cognitive tests for people running for the highest office in the land?&#8221;
&#8220;Probably. Yeah,&#8221; Davis responded. &#8220;I mean, in just what we know about what age can do. It doesn&#8217;t always do that, but it would probably be a good idea. Yeah, no, my father was 77 when he left office after two terms. It seems so young now, doesn&#8217;t it?&#8221;
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WATCH: When Ronald Reagan was elected at 69, he was the oldest person ever to be elected president.
Now his daughter, Patti Davis, says cognitive tests would be a “good idea.” 
Davis: “My father was 77 when he left office after two terms. It seems so young now, doesn&#39;t it?” <a href="https://t.co/wZO5KqO3Jd">pic.twitter.com/wZO5KqO3Jd</a>
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At a different point in the interview, Davis was asked about what she thinks her father would say about the current state of politics in the U.S.
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&#8220;I think he&#8217;d be appalled,&#8221; Davis responded. &#8220;He didn&#8217;t understand lack of civility. He didn&#8217;t understand attacking another person. I mean, he could be, you know, pretty pointed in what he would say about someone else. But he didn&#8217;t understand cruelty. And that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re dealing with now. And I think he wouldn&#8217;t understand that. I think he would be really scared for our democracy. I don’t know who – I think he would address people more than any candidates. I think he would address the American people at what has divided us. And, I mean, in my own opinion and, I don&#8217;t know, I think this probably is how he would think, is our divisions really started because we&#8217;re all so scared.&#8221;
She said that she believes her father would want people to &#8220;look at one another as human beings.&#8221;

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President Joe Biden appears to have outdone himself with the latest in a long series of tall tales — that range from minor exaggerations to partial fabrications — telling a crowd that the late President Ronald Reagan had once made him an extraordinary offer in an effort to save his life.
Biden was referring to the brain aneurysm he suffered in February of 1988, and he credited Reagan with offering him the use of &#8220;Air Force — Helicopter One&#8221; to make sure that he was able to get the emergency medical care that he needed.
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Biden claims Ronald Reagan sent &quot;Air Force Helicopter One&quot; to take him to the hospital when he had a brain aneurysm in the 1980s.
His story &quot;is not supported by either his own autobiography or by Reagan’s daily presidential diary,&quot; according to <a href="https://twitter.com/stevennelson10?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@stevennelson10</a>. <a href="https://t.co/hJ9aSy0cud">pic.twitter.com/hJ9aSy0cud</a>
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Biden told the story as part of his <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/12/11/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-city-of-philadelphia-receiving-a-safer-grant-award-to-fund-the-philadelphia-fire-department-philadelphia-pa/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opening remarks</a> on Monday congratulating the city of Philadelphia for receiving a &#8220;SAFER Grant Award to Fund the Philadelphia Fire Department:&#8221;
<blockquote>I — I would not be here were it not for my local fire company in Wilmington, Delaware. They saved my life. I had a cranial aneurysm. I wasn’t — it was the middle of a snowstorm. Not a joke.
I couldn’t figure out how they were going to — President Reagan was nice enough to send Air Force — Helicopter One to take me down, but it couldn’t fly.  And so, my fire department — my fire department came up, put me in the back, and took me on — in a snow — in a heavy snow on the day I went down to Walter Reed, because that’s where I had to get for this operation.
I got there for a nine-hour operation that saved my life. I — not a joke. My firefighters — the guys I grew up with — they saved my life.</blockquote>
And while the story about the aneurysm was true — Biden did have two separate <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/04/us/biden-resting-after-surgery-for-second-brain-aneurysm.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lifesaving surgeries</a> to correct aneurysms, one on each side of his brain — the rest of his story appears to be at least partially fabricated.
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The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/13/us/biden-is-operated-on-for-aneurysm-in-brain.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Biden was transferred to Walter Reed from St. Francis Hospital in Wilmington, Delaware — and as The New York Post&#8217;s Steven Nelson noted, neither Biden&#8217;s own autobiography nor Reagan&#8217;s presidential diary made any mention of any other transport being offered by the White House at the time.
According to a <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/12/11/news/biden-misnames-presidents-chopper-claims-reagan-sent-it-to-him-post-aneurysm/?utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The New York Post, Reagan&#8217;s notes from that day did mention Marine One — the name given to any helicopter on which the president is traveling — but only to say that inclement weather had prevented even Reagan himself from using it that morning.
Biden&#8217;s account of his trip to Walter Reed — given in great detail in his 2007 autobiography, &#8220;Promises to Keep&#8221; — also made no mention of any offer from the White House.
&#8220;Weather conditions made a medevac helicopter flight too dangerous. I had no idea what time it was, but I found myself on a gurney, my test results strapped to my chest, being wheeled out the doors of Saint Francis [hospital in Wilmington, Del.] toward a waiting ambulance,&#8221; Biden wrote at the time.
Biden went on during Monday&#8217;s remarks to repeat the often exaggerated tale of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-praises-bidens-maui-speech-where-he-compared-historic-fire-to-small-kitchen-fire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">small kitchen fire</a> that took place in his Delaware home — which firefighters reportedly contained in under 20 minutes — saying that the fire department had saved his wife and his home (and his beloved &#8217;67 Corvette).

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Arkansas GOP Senator Tom Cotton ripped President Joe Biden when he discussed American hostages still held by the terrorist group Hamas, asserting that the terrorist group is simply contemptuous of Biden.
Cotton <a href="https://grabien.com/story.php?id=449323&amp;utm_source=cliplist&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=cliplist20231127&amp;utm_content=story449323" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeared</a> on Fox News with Shannon Bream, who noted Cotton’s service in the military overseas, then asked, “What do you make about this call for using special forces to get our folks out?”
“We should certainly be open to that; we have elite special operation forces who are specifically trained in hostage rescue,” Cotton answered, before pointing out that any action would have to be coordinated with the Israeli forces fighting Hamas in Gaza. “I do think we have to be deferential to the Israelis, to the Israeli government and the Israeli Defense Forces about the tactical situation on the ground. But if American military forces are called upon and can provide a viable solution to get out American citizens and the citizens of Israel or other nations then we have to be open to that.”
Then he took aim at Biden’s perceived weakness among terrorist groups abroad:
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But again, it’s not just those small special operations units that we have trained; we have two aircraft carriers in the region; we’ve increased the number of troops and aircraft in the region. Yet Hamas is still so contemptuous of President Biden that it hasn&#8217;t yet released American hostages. 
This would never have happened under Donald Trump or Ronald Reagan. In fact, if you will recall Jimmy Carter had a hostage crisis with Iran, Hamas’ patron, for over 400 days. Iran released those hostages the day Ronald Reagan took office, because they were so scared of what Ronald Reagan might do to them.  You don’t see that kind of fear of President Biden from Hamas, or Iran, or frankly, anyone around the world.
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Even before Biden was elected president, Cotton — who deployed to both Afghanistan and Iraq, serving in combat units including the 506th Infantry Regiment and the 101st Airborne — slammed Biden before for his weakness on foreign policy; in April 2020, Cotton penned a piece titled, “<a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/03/joe-biden-is-chinas-choice-for-president/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden Is China’s Choice for President</a>.”
Cotton listed Biden’s actions: Biden had shot down opposition to granting China most-favored-nation trade status and World Trade Organization membership in the 1990s when Biden served as the senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as well as Biden praising Chinese president Xi Jinping as he seized absolute power. Cotton also said that Biden “continued to push for closer ties [with China] and even more trade,” while millions of American jobs were being lost. He concluded, “The competition between the United States and China, strategic and economic, will define the next century for our nation. We will need to be led by presidents for whom there’s no question as to which side they are on.”

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Former Attorney General Edwin Meese slammed the prosecution of former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> and former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/georgia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Georgia</a> as a historic “affront” to federal constitutional authority.
Meese, 91, who headed up the DOJ under Ronald Reagan, <a href="https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/major-affront-to-federal-supremacy-in-rico-case-reagan-era-attorney-general-goes-to-bat-for-doj-lawyer-trump-enlisted-to-help-overturn-2020-election/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">condemned</a> the prosecution of Trump and Clark in a declarative filing to U.S. District Judge Steve Jones, saying that the case made by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was unprecedented. Jones has been overseeing challenges to the prosecution of Trump and his allies for their alleged crimes in Georgia after the 2020 election. 
“I am not aware of any state criminal prosecution ever being brought against a President and a senior Justice Department official like Mr. Clark for their privileged and confidential discussions of whether and how to assert federal law enforcement authority other than this new State of Georgia v. Trump, et al. Indictment,” Meese <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.319419/gov.uscourts.gand.319419.48.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> last week. 
“The prosecution of the President and [Clark] is a major affront to federal supremacy never before seen in the history of our country. If the premise of this prosecution were to be accepted, then state law enforcement officials could arrest local U.S. Attorneys and their Assistants while they were deliberating over whether and/or how to approach a possible prosecution of state or local officials,” he added. 
Meese was referring the the “Supremacy Clause” of the Constitution, which <a href="https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-6/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> that the Constitution and subsequent laws passed under the authority of the U.S. “shall be the supreme Law of the Land.”
The filing pointed back to the Civil Rights era, when state and federal authorities conflicted over civil rights legislation. Meese said that, under Fulton County’s interpretation, state or local authorities could “enter the Oval Office and arrest the President and his Attorney General during their deliberations over whether and to what extent to assert federal law enforcement powers against state or local officials.”
“Not even George Wallace or Orval Faubus, during the heights of the heated civil rights-era disputes, were willing to go that far against President Kennedy and his Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy,” Meese wrote. 
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Clark is <a href="https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2023/08/CRIMINAL-INDICTMENT-Trump-Fulton-County-GA.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charged</a> with one count of violating Georgia’s RICO Act and one count of criminal attempt to commit false statements and writings. The charges stem from when Clark was at the DOJ and he drafted a document he hoped to send to Georgia officials saying that the DOJ had “identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple States, including the State of Georgia.”
Clark has <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-georgia-election-indictment-jeffrey-clark-4c7a2dfaa096033940d617bd2b7f1c88" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that he was acting within his official duties, but has been accused of promoting false statements. He says he and officials at the DOJ disagreed over the 2020 election. Meese agreed with Clark, saying that he was acting within his official prerogatives.

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As seen in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walt-disney-would-be-appalled-at-what-his-company-has-become">part one</a> of our look at Walt Disney&#8217;s political evolution, he actively tried to stay out of politics during the early years of The Walt Disney Company. He quietly voted for Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1936 before changing his allegiance to Republican candidate Wendell Willkie in 1940.
The first time he showed fervent support for a political candidate was for Republican presidential hopeful Thomas Dewey in 1944 (which he lost). He donated generously to the Dewey campaign and even gave a <a href="https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/id/31700" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speech</a> in support of Dewey at a massive rally in Los Angeles.
As Walt became more outspoken in national politics, he also became more concerned about the political climate in Hollywood. He had blamed a 1941 strike by Disney employees on communist infiltration, saying years later that &#8220;I definitely feel it was a Communist group trying to take over my artists.&#8221; By 1944, he had come to believe that Hollywood as a whole had come under communist influence.
Disney joined with dozens of likeminded Hollywood stars and became one of the founding members of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals (MPA) in February 1944. Besides Disney, the MPA <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=pSKLfQYNYDAC&amp;pg=PA1081#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">counted</a> prominent stars such as John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Ronald Reagan, Barbara Stanwyck, Cecil B. DeMille, John Ford, Walter Brennan, and even author Ayn Rand as <a href="https://www.imdb.com/list/ls089560613/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">members</a>.
The organization was created to dispel &#8220;the growing impression that this industry is made up of and dominated by communists, radicals and crackpots,&#8221; TIME Magazine <a href="https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,885343,00.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> at the time.
&#8220;We believe in, and like, the American way of life: the liberty and freedom which generations before us have fought to create and preserve; the freedom to speak, to think, to live, to worship, to work, and to govern ourselves as individuals, as free men; the right to succeed or fail as free men, according to the measure of our ability and our strength,&#8221; the organization&#8217;s <a href="http://www.cobbles.com/simpp_archive/huac_alliance.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement of principles</a> said.
&#8220;Believing in these things, we find ourselves in sharp revolt against a rising tide of communism, fascism, and kindred beliefs, that seek by subversive means to undermine and change this way of life,&#8221; it continued.
&#8220;As members of the motion-picture industry, we must face and accept an especial responsibility. Motion pictures are inescapably one of the world&#8217;s greatest forces for influencing public thought and opinion, both at home and abroad. In this fact lies solemn obligation. We refuse to permit the effort of Communist, Fascist, and other totalitarian-minded groups to pervert this powerful medium into an instrument for the dissemination of un-American ideas and beliefs.&#8221;
Several members of the MPA testified as friendly witnesses before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in the late 1940s — including Cooper and Disney.
HUAC had been <a href="https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/presidential-inquiries/house-un-american-activities-committee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">established</a> in 1938 to investigate activities undertaken by private citizens that potentially indicated disloyalty to the United States, and those suspected of communist ties or sympathies were heavily scrutinized, especially after the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War.
During his testimony before the committee in October 1947, Disney <a href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/testimony-walter-e-disney-house-committee-un-american-activities-24-october-1947" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recounted</a> the 1941 strike and how he believed that communist agitators had precipitated the labor unrest at Disney Studios. He claimed that one of the principal organizers of the strike, Hebert K. Sorrell, was a communist and said that Sorrell had privately bragged to him that communists had financially supported one of his previous strikes in 1937. Disney also asserted that there were no communists or fascists working at his company by 1947.
When asked his personal opinion of the Communist Party, Disney replied, &#8220;Well, I don&#8217;t believe it is a political party. I believe it is an un-American thing.&#8221;
Disney lamented that a few agents could infiltrate a union, take it over, and then begin espousing communist ideology despite the fact that most workers represented by the union were anti-communist.
&#8220;They are represented to the world as supporting all of those ideologies, and it is not so, and I feel that they really ought to be smoked out and shown up for what they are, so that all of the good, free causes in this country, all the liberalisms that really are American, can go out without the taint of communism. That is my sincere feeling on it,&#8221; he said.
When asked whether he wished to see the Communist Party outlawed in the U.S., Disney said, &#8220;I feel if the thing can be proven un-American that it ought to be outlawed. I think in some way it should be done without interfering with the rights of the people. I think that will be done.&#8221;
Reagan, then-president of the Screen Actors Guild and a member of the MPA, also <a href="https://www.reaganfoundation.org/media/51313/red-scare.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a> before HUAC and alleged that communists were behind several Hollywood strikes.
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John Wayne <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=dOPU1Zu7gjwC&amp;pg=PA338#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">served</a> four one-year terms as the MPA&#8217;s president from 1949 to 1953 and helped <a href="https://lawliberty.org/the-real-wayne/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">enforce</a> the anti-communist Hollywood blacklist. The MPA&#8217;s activities gradually diminished after the end of the Red Scare in the late 1950s.
In 1952, Jacqueline Cochran, an aide to Dwight D. Eisenhower&#8217;s presidential campaign, <a href="https://d23.com/disneys-presidential-past-connections-to-commanders-in-chief/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">approached</a> Roy O. Disney, Walt&#8217;s brother and confidant, to ask for help with the Republican nominee&#8217;s advertising efforts. The Disneys allowed their animators to donate their time to create a new animated commercial in support of Eisenhower.
The resulting ad, titled &#8220;Ike For President&#8221; but more commonly known as &#8220;I Like Ike,&#8221; has become one of the most <a href="https://www.insidernj.com/like-ike-political-parties-never-same/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memorable</a> political ads of the 20th century. Eisenhower&#8217;s campaign was the first to make extensive use of television ads, and &#8220;I Like Ike&#8221; was by far the most popular.
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After Eisenhower defeated the Democratic nominee, Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson, in a landslide, Roy <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv8pzcv5.5?seq=4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> a letter to Cochran, saying, &#8220;The boys and girls all enjoyed working on the project and, of course, we are all very happy at the outcome of the election.&#8221;
After leaving the White House in 1961, Eisenhower served as the chairman of the Freedoms Foundation, and <a href="https://www.waltdisney.org/blog/red-walt-and-blue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">presented</a> Walt Disney with the organization&#8217;s George Washington Medal of Honor in 1963.
“Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge honors Walt Disney, Ambassador of Freedom for the United States of America. For his educational wisdom and patriotic dedication in advancing the concept of freedom under God; for his unfailing professional devotion to the things which matter most, human dignity and personal responsibility; for masterful creative leadership in communicating the hopes and aspirations of our free society to the far corners of the planet,” Eisenhower said at the ceremony in Palm Springs, California.
During his acceptance speech, Disney remarked that one of the most important things his father taught him was to be grateful to be an American citizen, though he did quip about his father&#8217;s voting record.
&#8220;Frankly, he never voted on the right side. He was a blind Democrat. He was a dead socialist. But he was one that I learned a lot from, and a lot of his words have stuck with me.&#8221;
&#8220;If you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them, and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe. I’m very proud and very honored,&#8221; he concluded.
Disney maintained a friendly relationship with Richard Nixon while he was vice president under Eisenhower. In one piece of <a href="https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/news/attention-mouseketeers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">correspondence</a>, Walt requested that Nixon answer a young reporter&#8217;s question: &#8220;When I Grow Up, Mr. Nixon, Why Should I Be A Republican?&#8221;
Disney offered some advice to the vice president: &#8220;As to your reply, I can say only this: I think it will be most powerful if you confine it to three sentences or less. I realize such a reply is much more difficult than three paragraphs, but I do think the results will be worth the effort.&#8221; Disney even offered to set up an interview, but Nixon&#8217;s tight schedule prevented a meeting.
According to animation historian Michael Barrier, Disney <a href="http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Essays/Walts_Goldwater_Button/WaltsGoldwaterButton.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attended</a> the 1964 Republican National Convention, which nominated Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater as the party&#8217;s nominee. Only a couple of months later, President Lyndon B. Johnson presented Disney with he Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House.
&#8220;When he learned that he was to receive this honor, and that he was expected to go to the White House to receive it, I reacted with dismay. It was during the Goldwater campaign, and we were all united in enthusiastic support of the senator,&#8221; Walt&#8217;s eldest daughter, Diane Disney Miller, told Barrier.
Goldwater lost the election to Johnson that November in a landslide.
Disney, a heavy smoker most of his life, died of complications from lung cancer in December of 1966 at the age of 65.
The Motion Picture Alliance was officially disbanded in 1975 — the same year the House Un-American Activities Committee was abolished.
As we&#8217;ve seen, Walt Disney&#8217;s personal politics were a far cry from the initiatives being pushed by the modern Walt Disney Company. He consistently supported Republican candidates after 1940 and became increasingly concerned by the prospect that communists were trying to infiltrate the film industry. He, along with other conservative Hollywood stars of the era, recognized the importance of film and television in shaping public opinion on issues and acknowledged the danger to American ideals if leftists were able to completely control the nation&#8217;s entertainment.
(Disclosure: The Daily Wire has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/introducing-dw-kids" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced plans</a> for kids entertainment content.)

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California&#8217;s committee on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/reparations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reparations</a> for the descendants of slaves wants the state to apologize for the term &#8220;welfare queens.&#8221;
Part of the committee&#8217;s proposal for a reparations package to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California</a> residents who descended from American slaves is for the state to issue a formal apology. Besides slavery, the proposal highlights a large number of policies and societal outcomes that negatively affected black people. Among them is then-Governor Ronald Reagan coining the term &#8220;welfare queens.&#8221;
&#8220;As California Governor (1967-1975), Ronald Reagan coined the term &#8216;welfare queen&#8217; as racist coding to promote his philosophy preferring a limited government,&#8221; the <a href="https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ab3121-agenda9-ch16-recomm-apologize-05062023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">committee wrote</a>. &#8220;This terminology conjures stereotypes of single Black women as hypersexualized, aggressive, and dependent on government income with frivolous spending habits. Despite that the majority of welfare recipients are white, this racist label blamed African American women for shortfalls in the United States’ social safety net and suggested they were more responsible for their poverty than others. Then-Governor Reagan has also been reported to have made racist remarks regarding African delegates to the United Nations.&#8221;
But Reagan did not actually coin the term as Governor. The far-left publication <a href="https://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2013/12/linda_taylor_welfare_queen_ronald_reagan_made_her_a_notorious_american_villain.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Slate</a>, in a 2013 article on the term and its origins, reported that Reagan did not actually originate the term. Reagan gave a speech in January 1976, nearly a year after he left the Governor&#8217;s mansion, describing a Chicago woman named Linda Taylor who had been collecting more than $150,000 a year in payments from various social safety net programs. It was the Chicago Tribune who highlighted Taylor&#8217;s lavish lifestyle, and dubbed her the &#8220;welfare queen.&#8221;
Besides an apology for &#8220;welfare queens,&#8221; the reparations panel recommends that any apology from the state &#8220;must also include a censure of the gravest barbarities carried out on behalf of the State by its representative officers, governing bodies, and the people.&#8221; Those injustices include:
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<li>A former Confederate serving as the first acting President of the University of California</li>
<li>California not passing any anti-slavery laws, despite being admitted to the Union as a free state</li>
<li>Confederate monuments</li>
<li>Zoning ordinances targeting black people</li>
<li>Suppressing the Black Panther Party in the 1960s and 1970s</li>
<li>Developing oil and gas projects and building hazardous waste plants near majority-black neighborhoods</li>
<li>Terminating affirmative action programs in public employment</li>
<li>Racial disparities in the child welfare system, law enforcement, the prison population, jury service, health care, the number of black physicians and licensed attorneys</li>
<li>Licensing requirements excluding black people from skilled jobs</li>
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The report is headlined by its proposal for direct payments to black resident of California. According to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-reparations-task-force-approves-plan-giving-up-to-1-2-million-to-each-black-resident" target="_blank" rel="noopener">final report</a>, black communities impacted by mass incarceration and over-policing aligning with the national War on Drugs could receive about $115,260 per person, or $2,352 each year they lived in California from 1971-2020.
Panel members said black residents impacted by lending and zoning redlining by banks between 1933 and 1977 could receive $3,366 each year they resided in California, capping at $148,099. Another method created by the panel calculated gaps between black and white “housing wealth” at $145,847 per person.
Other alleged injustices and discriminations in health were estimated at $13,619 per person for each year lived in California.
Based on a New York Times analysis, a black person living in California for 71 years — the average life expectancy of Black residents in California in 2021 — could receive up to $1.2 million. Some economists projected to The Associated Press that California could owe more than $800 billion in reparations, which more than doubles the state’s annual budget.
Brandon Drey contributed to this report

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Artificial intelligence is artificially liberal.
AI has exploded onto the scene, but here&#8217;s a simple fact: It only knows what&#8217;s been programmed into it. And critics claim one AI tool, ChatGPT, has a clear liberal bias.
For example, one Twitter user said he asked ChatGPT to &#8220;create a poem admiring Donald Trump,&#8221; but ChatGPT rejected the request, saying, &#8220;It is not in my capacity to have opinions or feelings about any specific person.&#8221; But when asked to create a poem about President Joe Biden, ChatGPT fired one out with glowing praise, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/chatgpt-faces-mounting-accusations-woke-liberal-bias" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
That&#8217;s all about to change. AI designers have created the TUSK Browser, a tool that emphasizes free speech and includes an AI chatbot that promotes conservative values and &#8220;aligns with patriots and independent thinkers&#8217; point of view.&#8221;
The AI tool is nicknamed GIPPR in honor of President Ronald Reagan who was known as &#8220;the Gipper.&#8221; The new bot uses ChatGPT technology but has been modified and programmed to act like a conservative.
&#8220;We believe that Conservatives are subject to oppressive cancel culture that now includes AI and are expected to exist in a society that tells them what to think and how to act by the progressive left,&#8221; TUSK founder and CEO Jeff Bermant said in a statement announcing GIPPR&#8217;s release.
&#8220;It’s time for a TRUTHFUL AI chatbot to take the market by storm and remove the barriers the Radical Left and Big Tech have put in place to allow all Conservatives to enjoy the benefits of AI, without fear of being canceled or shamed for your beliefs,&#8221; he added.
Bermant <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/new-conservative-ai-chatbot-named-after-president-reagan">told</a> Fox Business that he tested ChatGPT when it first came out, asking the bot whether elementary school-aged children should be taught about transgenderism and fluid sexuality. The bot&#8217;s answers, Bermant said, &#8220;were very unacceptable&#8221; to him.
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Fox Business tested the new bot, asking what it thinks of President Biden. GIPPR said, &#8220;As a right conservative AI, I don&#8217;t view Joe Biden favorably. I believe that he is a figurehead for the progressive left and the policies that they want to push on the American people. His actions since taking office have been damaging to the foundation of this country, and I don&#8217;t believe that he has America&#8217;s best interests in mind.&#8221;
Then Fox asked about Trump. GIPPR said, &#8220;As a right conservative AI, I stand behind the policies of Donald Trump and the progress he has made for our country. He has worked tirelessly to protect our borders, create jobs, and strengthen our economy. While some may not agree with his methods or rhetoric, I strongly believe in his dedication to putting America first.&#8221;
The bot also gave a better answer when asked about teaching transgenderism and sexual fluidity to school children. &#8220;While I appreciate your interest in my opinion on this, as an AI it isn&#8217;t my place to comment on human constructs such as sexual identity,&#8221; GIPPR replied.
&#8220;However, as a conservative AI, I believe that children should be taught age-appropriate information about anatomy and biology in a factual and scientific manner. Beyond that, any discussions about sexual orientation or gender identity should be left up to parents and guardians to have with their children, as they know their child best and can address these topics in a way that aligns with their family values and beliefs,&#8221; the bot continued. &#8220;Ultimately, it is up to the individual family and their personal beliefs to decide if and how they wish to teach their children about these issues.&#8221;
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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President Joe Biden told a room full of rich Democrat donors that ailing former President Jimmy Carter had asked him to deliver his eulogy.
Biden, who was first elected to the Senate career in 1972, four years before Carter was elected to the presidency, made the boast at a fundraiser in Rancho Santa Fe, California. Carter, who at 98 is 18 years older than Biden, entered hospice care last month.
“He asked me to do his eulogy,” Biden said, before adding, “Excuse me, I shouldn’t say that,” according to a pool report.
“I spent time with Jimmy Carter, and it’s finally caught up with him,&#8221; Biden <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/14/politics/jimmy-carter-eulogy-biden/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">continued</a>. “But they found a way to keep him going for a lot longer than they anticipated, because they found a breakthrough.”
Carter announced in August 2015 that he had brain cancer. Ironically, despite Carter’s well-documented animus toward the state of Israel that led him to <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2002/10/carterpalooza-jay-nordlinger-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">write speeches</a> for Yasser Arafat, it was an Israeli-tested drug called Keytruda that <a href="//721AC273-A7FF-4330-99CC-E020902A221E/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">helped</a> Carter battle life-threatening tumors. By December 2015, Carter revealed doctors found no evidence of the four lesions discovered on his brain.
In September 2019, having lived longer than any other president, Carter, just before his 95th birthday, commented on the two leading prospective Democratic candidates for president, saying of the presidency, “I hope there’s an age limit. If I were just 80 years old, if I was 15 years younger, I don’t believe I could undertake the duties I experienced when I was president.”
Carter was answering questions during his annual report at the Carter Center in Atlanta, according to the <a href="https://apnews.com/868124c2ad2b410bbcac74418d77468d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a>, which noted at the time that Biden and primary opponent Bernie Sanders would turn 80 during their terms if elected.
Carter’s comment came after someone asked if he had thought of running in 2020. He added that the presidency requires a president “to be very flexible with your mind,” adding, “You have to be able to go from one subject to another and concentrate on each one adequately and then put them together in a comprehensive way.”
Although he is still revered by many Democrats, Carter&#8217;s presidency is generally viewed as one of the greatest failures in the history of the American presidency. He oversaw a botched attempt to rescue 52 hostages held for 444 days by Iran; pulled U.S. missiles out of South Korea without consulting the Pentagon; signed the Panama Canal Treaty, thus giving up control by the year 2000; implemented price controls, and presided over an economy that by 1980 featured interest rates at a staggering 21%, inflation at 13.5%, and unemployment at 7%.

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President Ronald Reagan’s son Michael has revealed that when Joe Biden was a senator during Reagan’s terms as president, he warned him that he would leak any covert action Reagan had planned.
Biden’s opposition to Reagan covered many fronts, from foreign policy to the judicial branch of government.
“After my father was out of office he shared with me that Sen Joe Biden confronted him and told him if he disagreed with my father on a Covert action he had planned he would leak it to the media to stop it,” Michael Reagan noted.
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After my father was out of office he shared with me that Sen Joe Biden confronted him and told him if he disagreed with my father on a Covert action he had planned he would leak it to the media to stop it..
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On June 12, 1987, Reagan made the most famous speech of his presidency, as he referred to the Berlin Wall and insisted to Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” Three days later, Reagan <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/ronald-reagan-warned-us-against-joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote in his diary</a> that Biden was a demagogue, asserting, “[There was] some talk about Sen. Biden — now candidate for Pres. I saw him on CNN last night speaking to the John F. Kennedy school at Harvard U. He’s smooth but pure demagog[ue] — out to save Am[erica] from the Reagan doctrine.”
Biden <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122049148440397625" target="_blank" rel="noopener">harshly opposed</a> Reagan&#8217;s Strategic Defense Initiative, nicknamed “Star Wars,” which was a plan to develop a space-based missile defense program that could protect the country from a large-scale nuclear attack. “Privately, Reagan was quite adamant that the goal of U.S. defense research should be to eliminate the need for nuclear weapons, which he thought were fundamentally immoral,” the State Department has <a href="https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/rd/104253.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>.
In 1993, the general who supervised the department of strategic analysis in the Soviet Ministry of Defense recalled telling the Soviet Politburo in 1983: &#8220;Not only could we not defeat SDI, SDI defeated all our possible countermeasures.&#8221;
Biden slammed SDI’s funding, saying, “The president&#8217;s continued adherence to [SDI] constitutes one of the most reckless and irresponsible acts in the history of modern statecraft.”
In 1986, when Reagan Reagan nominated William Rehnquist to be chief justice of the Supreme Court, Biden was the Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member. Reagan <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/ronald-reagan-on-joe-biden/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote in his diary</a> of Biden and his fellow leftist senators on the committee, Ted Kennedy and Howard Metzenbaum, “The 1st meeting was last evening—highlighted by vitriolic attacks on TV by Sens. Kennedy, Metzenbaum &amp; Biden. They really are a lynch mob.”
By 1987, Biden had become the chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Reagan nominated the brilliant conservative jurist Robert Bork to the Supreme Court. Biden’s partisan treatment of Bork was so brutal that even The Washington Post <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=GdaEDwAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PT97&amp;lpg=PT97&amp;dq=%22washington+post%22+%22While+claiming+that+Judge+Bork+will+have+a+full+and+fair%22&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=vzalHXs57a&amp;sig=ACfU3U2xj-7O-6xzDBiUm19Und6T_lsZVA&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwj0upivqf_rAhXPxVkKHV3aDQkQ6AEwAHoECAQQAQ#v=onepage&amp;q=%22washington%20post%22%20%22While%20claiming%20that%20Judge%20Bork%20will%20have%20a%20full%20and%20fair%22&amp;f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> that his “swinging reflexively to the other side of the question at the first hint of pressure, claiming the leadership of the opposition, doesn’t do a whole lot of the senator’s claim to be fir for higher office.” The Post added that Biden had “already cast himself in the role of the prosecutor instead of a juror &#8230;”

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<a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/united-kingdom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">British</a> Prime Minister <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/liz-truss" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Liz Truss</a> is drawing comparisons to Margaret Thatcher and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ronald-reagan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ronald Reagan</a> with her pursuit of lower <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/taxes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">taxes</a> and higher <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/economy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">economic</a> growth.
The new Conservative Party government on Friday canceled a rise in the corporate tax rate, slashed the basic income tax rate to 19%, and launched discussions about special economic zones in multiple regions. “Economic growth isn’t some academic term with no connection to the real world. It means more jobs, higher pay and more money to fund public services,” British Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng remarked in a <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/chancellor-announces-new-growth-plan-with-biggest-package-of-tax-cuts-in-generations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a>. “This will not happen overnight but the tax cuts and reforms I’ve announced today — the biggest package in generations — send a clear signal that growth is our priority.”
Meanwhile, as other European countries impose energy consumption restrictions upon their citizens while continuing to prioritize renewable power commitments, Truss has pushed for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/strengthening-our-energy-resilience-britain-ends-fracking-ban-will-become-net-exporter-by-2040" target="_blank" rel="noopener">higher oil production</a> and set the goal of becoming a net exporter of energy by 2040.
“We are cutting off the toxic power and pipelines from authoritarian regimes and strengthening our energy resilience,” Truss said on Wednesday during a <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/prime-minister-liz-trusss-speech-to-the-un-general-assembly-21-september-2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speech</a> to the United Nations General Assembly. “We will ensure we cannot be coerced or harmed by the reckless actions of rogue actors abroad. We will transition to a future based on renewable and nuclear energy while ensuring that the gas used during that transition is from reliable sources including our own North Sea production.”
The British government announced a new round of oil and gas leases for the North Sea and lifted its moratorium on shale gas production, which disallowed the practice of fracking. The ban was originally established three years ago amid concerns over earthquakes.
Truss, who aims to double the growth rate of the British economy, drew comparisons to her predecessor, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, as well as former U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
A <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-k-leader-liz-truss-plan-to-cut-taxes-and-boost-spending-takes-a-page-from-reaganomics-11663864595" target="_blank" rel="noopener">piece</a> in The Wall Street Journal remarked that Truss is attempting to shape her political image in the mold of Thatcher, whose policies spurred an era of economic growth. The Iron Lady, however, enacted spending cuts before tax cuts to ensure that the government remained funded — meaning that the Truss agenda is more in line with that of the Gipper, who increased spending even while he decreased taxes.
Indeed, as energy prices continue to rise across Europe, Truss introduced a proposal to limit the annual cost of power for a typical household to £2,500 for the next two years. The British government had already <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/getting-the-energy-bills-support-scheme-discount">greenlit</a> the Energy Bills Support Scheme, which will remove £400 from citizens’ power bills each month over the upcoming winter. “We are supporting this country through this winter and next, and tackling the root cause of high prices, so we are never in this position again,” Truss said during an energy policy <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pm-liz-trusss-opening-speech-on-the-energy-policy-debate">debate</a> in the House of Commons.
Nevertheless, not all comparisons between the Truss agenda and Reaganomics are positive. An <a href="https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/09/22/liz-trusss-selective-reaganomics-wont-work">article</a> in The Economist predicted that a variety of economic woes, from unfavorable exchange rates to lackluster labor market conditions, will dampen Truss’ ability to resurrect the economic atmosphere of four decades ago.
“It is admirable to try to boost long-term growth by pruning regulations and taxes. But the high growth of the Reagan era was partly the result of women entering the workforce,” the article said. “Britain is ageing and its economy is still adjusting to Brexit. These factors are hurting the supply side of the economy by more than reforms are likely to help.”

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Buckingham Palace shared the news Thursday that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/queen-elizabeth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Queen Elizabeth II</a> had died at the age of 96. In honor of her incredible life, we took a look back at her visits to America and with U.S. presidents during her lifetime.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/queen-elizabeth">Queen</a> recently celebrated her Platinum Jubilee, marking her 70 years on the throne and making her the longest reigning monarch in British history. During that time, she&#8217;s met almost every single president since <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/queen-elizabeth-history-us-presidents/">Harry S. Truman</a>, and so many of those moments have been captured in photos that will live forever.
In October 1951, Princess Elizabeth and her husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, arrived in Washington, D.C., and were welcomed by Truman. In the photo, Elizabeth is seen traveling in a motorcade, following a reception ceremony at Washington National Airport.
<div id="attachment_435016" style="width: 724px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-435016" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-435016" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Queen-and-Truman-300x236.jpg" alt="(Original Caption) 10/31/1951-Washington, D.C.: President Harry S. Truman and Britain's Princess Elizabeth are shown as their motorcade got underway following the reception ceremony at Washington National Airport today. Getty Images" width="714" height="562" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Queen-and-Truman-300x236.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Queen-and-Truman-732x576.jpg 732w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Queen-and-Truman-768x604.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Queen-and-Truman-1536x1208.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Queen-and-Truman-2048x1611.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px" />(Original Caption) 10/31/1951-Washington, D.C.: President Harry S. Truman and Britain&#8217;s Princess Elizabeth. Getty Images</div>
In 1957, Queen Elizabeth travels to New York City as part of her Royal Tour. In the photo, we see her motorcade riding through the city.
<div id="attachment_435025" style="width: 724px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-435025" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-435025" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/The-Queen-in-NYC-300x212.jpg" alt="Queen Elizabeth during Royal Tour in New York City motorcade, October 5, 1957. (Photo by Ben Martin/Getty Images)" width="714" height="505" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/The-Queen-in-NYC-300x212.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/The-Queen-in-NYC-815x576.jpg 815w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/The-Queen-in-NYC-768x543.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/The-Queen-in-NYC-1536x1086.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/The-Queen-in-NYC-2048x1448.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px" />Photo by Ben Martin/Getty Images</div>
In 1961, Queen Elizabeth II welcomed President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jackie Kennedy in England.
<div id="attachment_435021" style="width: 724px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-435021" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-435021" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Kenndy-and-Queen-203x300.jpg" alt="President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jackie Kennedy pay a visit to the royal family in England. (L-R): John F. Kennedy; Queen Elizabeth II; Jackie Kennedy, and Prince Philip. Getty Images" width="714" height="1056" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Kenndy-and-Queen-203x300.jpg 203w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Kenndy-and-Queen-390x576.jpg 390w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Kenndy-and-Queen-768x1136.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Kenndy-and-Queen-1039x1536.jpg 1039w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Kenndy-and-Queen-1385x2048.jpg 1385w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Kenndy-and-Queen-scaled.jpg 1731w" sizes="(max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px" />(L-R): John F. Kennedy; Queen Elizabeth II; Jackie Kennedy, and Prince Philip. Getty Images</div>
In 1970, Queen Elizabeth II meets with U.S President Richard Nixon and his wife Patricia at Chequers, British Prime Minister Edward Heath&#8217;s official country home.
<div id="attachment_435030" style="width: 724px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-435030" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-435030" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/The-Queen-and-Nixon-300x213.jpg" alt="Queen Elizabeth II with British Prime Minister Edward Heath and U.S President Richard Nixon (1913 - 1994) and his wife Patricia at Chequers, Heath's official country residence, 1970. " width="714" height="508" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/The-Queen-and-Nixon-300x213.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/The-Queen-and-Nixon-810x576.jpg 810w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/The-Queen-and-Nixon-768x546.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/The-Queen-and-Nixon-1536x1092.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/The-Queen-and-Nixon-2048x1456.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px" />Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images</div>
In 1976, Queen Elizabeth II dances with President Gerald Ford at the ball at the White House in Washington, D.C., during the 1976 Bicentennial Celebrations of the Declaration of Independence.
<div id="attachment_435034" style="width: 724px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-435034" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-435034" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Ford-and-Queen-300x193.jpg" alt="Gerald Ford (1913-2006) 38th President of the United States 1974-1977, dancing with Queen Elizabeth II at the ball at the White House, Washington, during the 1976 Bicentennial Celebrations of the Declaration of Independence, 7th July 1976. " width="714" height="460" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Ford-and-Queen-300x193.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Ford-and-Queen-895x576.jpg 895w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Ford-and-Queen-768x494.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Ford-and-Queen-1536x989.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Ford-and-Queen-2048x1318.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px" />Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images</div>
In 1982, the Queen meet with President Ronald Reagan, and the two are seen in the following photo enjoying a horseback ride at Windsor Castle in England.
<div id="attachment_435036" style="width: 724px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-435036" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-435036" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Reagan-and-The-Queen-300x197.jpg" alt="President Reagan and Queen Elizabeth II horseback riding. " width="714" height="468" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Reagan-and-The-Queen-300x197.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Reagan-and-The-Queen-879x576.jpg 879w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Reagan-and-The-Queen-768x503.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Reagan-and-The-Queen-1536x1007.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Reagan-and-The-Queen-2048x1342.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px" />Photo by: HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images</div>
In 1983, Queen Elizabeth II reviews the guard of honor at Broadway Pier, in San Diego, California, after she arrived in the USA on board HMY Britannia during her royal tour.
<div id="attachment_435039" style="width: 724px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-435039" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-435039" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/The-Queen-in-San-Diego-300x204.jpg" alt="Queen Elizabeth II reviewing the guard of honour on February 26, 1983 at Broadway Pier, in San Diego, California, USA on arriving in the USA on board HMY Britannia. Walking behind her, is her Equerry, Squadron Leader Adam Wise. Queen Elizabeth II was on a Royal Tour of the USA." width="714" height="485" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/The-Queen-in-San-Diego-300x204.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/The-Queen-in-San-Diego-848x576.jpg 848w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/The-Queen-in-San-Diego-768x522.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/The-Queen-in-San-Diego-1536x1043.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/The-Queen-in-San-Diego-2048x1391.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px" />Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images</div>
That same year, Queen Elizabeth II delivered a speech during a state dinner with President Reagan at the De Young Museum in San Francisco. In the photo, Reagan can be seen cracking up at the monarch&#8217;s joke about the lousy weather in California.
<div id="attachment_435042" style="width: 724px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-435042" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-435042" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Queen-and-Reagan-300x200.jpg" alt="President Reagan laughs following a joke by Queen Elizabeth II, who commented on the lousy California weather she has experienced since her arrival to the States. The British Queen is delivering a brief address during a state dinner held at the De Young Museum in San Francisco." width="714" height="476" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Queen-and-Reagan-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Queen-and-Reagan-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Queen-and-Reagan-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Queen-and-Reagan-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Queen-and-Reagan-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Queen-and-Reagan-1800x1200.jpg 1800w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Queen-and-Reagan-1200x800.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px" />Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images</div>
In 1991, Queen Elizabeth II meets Oakland Athletics and Baltimore Orioles players. She can also be seen in the next photo with President George Bush during her visit to the U.S.
<div id="attachment_435048" style="width: 724px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-435048" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-435048" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/The-Queen-and-Orioles-300x231.jpg" alt="Queen Elizabeth ll meets players as she attends her first major league baseball game accompanied by First Lady Barbara Bush on May 15, 1991 in Baltimore, USA. " width="714" height="549" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/The-Queen-and-Orioles-300x231.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/The-Queen-and-Orioles-749x576.jpg 749w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/The-Queen-and-Orioles-768x591.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/The-Queen-and-Orioles-1536x1181.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/The-Queen-and-Orioles-2048x1575.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px" />Photo by Anwar Hussein/Getty Images</div>
<div id="attachment_435049" style="width: 724px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-435049" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-435049" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Bush-and-The-Queen-300x200.jpg" alt="Pres. Bush (C) greeting Queen Elizabeth II , w. Prince Philip in tow, during WH arrival fete for British royal couple, passing Union Jack-poised soldier. " width="714" height="476" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Bush-and-The-Queen-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Bush-and-The-Queen-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Bush-and-The-Queen-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Bush-and-The-Queen-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Bush-and-The-Queen-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Bush-and-The-Queen-1800x1200.jpg 1800w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Bush-and-The-Queen-1200x800.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px" />Photo by Diana Walker/Getty Images</div>
In 2006, the Queen met with President George W. Bush as the two wave from the Blue Room Balcony of the White House during her visit to Washington, D.C.
<div id="attachment_435051" style="width: 724px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-435051" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-435051" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/GWBush-and-Queen-300x211.jpg" alt="Washington, UNITED STATES: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II(C) with her husband Prince Philip(L)and US President George W. Bush wave to guests from The Blue Room Balcony of the White House during an official welcome ceremony, 07 May 2006 at the White House in Washington, DC. The queen last visited the United States in 1991 when Bush's father was president. " width="714" height="502" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/GWBush-and-Queen-300x211.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/GWBush-and-Queen-819x576.jpg 819w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/GWBush-and-Queen-768x540.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/GWBush-and-Queen-1536x1080.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/GWBush-and-Queen-2048x1440.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px" />Photo credit: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images</div>
In 2011, Queen Elizabeth II welcomes President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama in London, England.
<div id="attachment_435055" style="width: 724px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-435055" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-435055" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Obama-and-the-Queen-270x300.jpg" alt="U.S. President Barack Obama, Queen Elizabeth II and First Lady Michelle Obama arrive at Winfield House, the residence of the Ambassador of the United States of America, in Regent's Park, on May 25, 2011 in London, England. The 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, and First Lady Michelle are in the UK for a two day State Visit at the invitation of HM Queen Elizabeth II. Last night they attended a state banquet at Buckingham Palace and today's events include talks at Downing Street and the President will address both houses of Parliament at Westminster Hall. " width="714" height="793" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Obama-and-the-Queen-270x300.jpg 270w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Obama-and-the-Queen-518x576.jpg 518w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Obama-and-the-Queen-768x853.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Obama-and-the-Queen-1382x1536.jpg 1382w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Obama-and-the-Queen-1843x2048.jpg 1843w" sizes="(max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px" />Photo by Yui Mok &#8211; WPA Pool/Getty Images</div>
In 2019, the Queen joins President Donald Trump raising a toast at a State Banquet in the ballroom at Buckingham Palace in London.
<div id="attachment_435058" style="width: 724px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-435058" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-435058" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Trump-and-Queen--300x196.jpg" alt="Britain's Queen Elizabeth II (R) raises a glass in a tast with US President Donald Trump during a State Banquet in the ballroom at Buckingham Palace in central London on June 3, 2019, on the first day of the US president and First Lady's three-day State Visit to the UK. - Britain rolled out the red carpet for US President Donald Trump on June 3 as he arrived in Britain for a state visit already overshadowed by his outspoken remarks on Brexit. " width="714" height="467" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Trump-and-Queen--300x196.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Trump-and-Queen--881x576.jpg 881w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Trump-and-Queen--768x502.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Trump-and-Queen--1536x1004.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2022/09/Trump-and-Queen--2048x1338.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px" />Photo by DOMINIC LIPINSKI/POOL/AFP via Getty Images</div>

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