5:30pm Buffet Dinner
7:00pm Lecture
8:00pm Book Signing

Please join us on Tuesday, May 21, for a Reagan Forum and book signing with former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on his new book, Rumsfeld’s Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War and Life (publish date: May 14, 2013). Tickets are $45 per person and include a dinner preceding the lecture (Lecture registration is closed). To purchase a copy of Rumsfeld's Rules for the book signing, please CLICK HERE.

Throughout his long and distinguished career—as a naval aviator, a U.S. Congressman, a top aide to four American presidents, a high-level diplomat, a CEO of two Fortune 500 companies, and the only twice-serving Secretary of Defense in American history—Donald Rumsfeld has collected hundreds of pithy, compelling, and often humorous observations about leadership, business, and life. When President Gerald Ford ordered these aphorisms distributed to his White House staff in 1974, the collection became known as "Rumsfeld's Rules."

First gathered as three-by-five cards in a shoebox and then typed up and circulated informally over the years, these eminently nonpartisan rules have amused and enlightened presidents, business executives, chiefs of staff, foreign officials, diplomats, and members of Congress.  They earned praise from the Wall Street Journal as "Required reading," and from the New York Times which said: "Rumsfeld's Rules can be profitably read in any organization…The best reading, though, are his sprightly tips on inoculating oneself against that dread White House disease, the inflated ego."

Meanwhile, the collection continued to grow as Rumsfeld added new rules derived from things he read, heard, or observed in more than eight decades of a remarkable life. Now these legendary rules are made available for the first time to corporate executive. Rumsfeld has selected his most useful and important rules for effective leadership, enhanced with fresh insights and entertaining anecdotes, and discusses them in the blunt and witty style that made his Pentagon press conferences "must-see TV."

Distilled from a career of unusual breadth and accomplishment, and organized under practical topics like hiring people, running a meeting, and dealing with the press, Rumsfeld's Rules can benefit people at every stage in their careers and in every walk of life, from aspiring politicos and industrialists to recent college graduates, teachers, and business leaders.

The book provides unprecedented insight into leadership, management, strategy, and life—thinking that not only helped Rumsfeld lead the Pentagon in wartime, but earned him a reputation as one of America's toughest and most effective CEOs.

To purchase a copy of Rumsfeld's Rules for the book signing, please CLICK HERE. (Lecture registration is closed).

*Books must be purchased in the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Museum Store to receive signature.

Carol Burnett, award-winning actress and bestselling author, will sign copies of her new book, Carrie and Me: A Mother-Daughter Love Story (Publish Date: April 9, 2013) and participate in a moderated Q&A session on Thursday, May 30. Tickets are $65 per person*, which include a dinner following the program. Click here to purchase tickets. No photography or videography of any kind will be permitted at this event. Cell phones, cameras, video cameras, etc. will not be permitted into the event.

As Miss Burnett will only be signing books for one hour, only the guests with the first 300 books sold will be guaranteed a book signed through the book signing line. All other guests may get in line, but if Miss Burnett cannot accommodate everyone, the remaining people in line will receive their book with her signature on our book plate. To pre-purchase your book, please CLICK HERE or call 805-522-2977. Books must be purchased in the Ronald Reagan Museum Store to receive signature. To accommodate the short timeframe of the book signing, Miss Burnett will not be personalizing books (she will sign her name only).

In this beautiful and poignant tribute to her late daughter, Carol Burnett presents a funny and moving memoir about mothering an extraordinary young woman through the struggles and triumphs of her life. In Carrie and Me, Carol Burnett shares her personal diary entries and correspondence revealing her anguish as a mother of a troubled teenager, the epiphanies that helped her help her family, and the grief and then the hope she felt after Carrie’s death from cancer. Through Burnett’s inimitable voice, we get a portrait of an unforgettable young woman that will bring hope to anyone struggling with raising or losing a child.

Carol Burnett is widely recognized by the public and her peers for her work on stage and screen, most notably The Carol Burnett Show. Named in 2007 by TIME magazine as one of “100 Best Television Shows of All Time,” The Carol Burnett Show ran for 11 years, averaged 30 million viewers per week, and received 25 Emmy Awards, making it one of the most honored shows in television history.

Miss Burnett has been honored with six Emmy Awards, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, is a Kennedy Center honoree, and has been inducted into the Television Hall of Fame. But it is Carol’s artistic brilliance, her respect and appreciation of her fans, and her graciousness, integrity, warmth, and humor on and off screen that have made her one of the most beloved performers in entertainment and one of the most admired women in America.

Please CLICK HERE to register and pre-purchase your book.

The evening’s buffet dinner includes the following:
Carved roast sirloin, chicken bruschetta, roasted tricolored potatoes and yams, bowtie ragout with zucchini, artichoke heart and onions, green beans, fresh baked bread, coffee, tea, water, wine, ice tea and dessert (chocolate pecan bars, raspberry white chocolate cheesecake, ginger cookies with lemon fondant).

* Miss Burnett will not be attending the dinner.
Moderated Q&A with Carol Burnett is not a free event for Chairmen levels.

Book Signing: 4:30 p.m.
Lecture: 6:00 p.m.
Dinner: 7:00 p.m.

Senator Rand Paul will deliver the Reagan Forum on Friday, May 31, 2013 and will sign copies of his recent book, Government Bullies: How Everyday Americans are Being Harassed, Abused, and Imprisoned by the Feds (Publish Date: September 2012). Tickets are $55 per person, which include a dinner following the lecture. Books must be purchased at the Reagan Library’s Museum Store to receive signature. Books may be pre-purchased during the reservation process.

In Government Bullies, Senator Paul takes an in-depth look at the legislation that is trampling the rights of ordinary citizens, strangling their ability to conduct private, everyday activities without egregious government interference. Most importantly, he charts a direction out of this mess, and toward renewed freedom for all Americans. Dr. Rand Paul is the junior United States Senator for Kentucky. Rand has been a vocal advocate for term limits, a balanced-budget amendment, a Read the Bills Act, and an audit of the Federal Reserve, and is the son of former Republican Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul of Texas.

The evening’s buffet dinner includes the following:
Braised boneless short ribs, broiled lemon tarragon chicken, mashed potatoes, vegetable risotto, grilled asparagus and zucchini, romaine salad, fresh baked bread, coffee, tea, water, wine, ice tea and dessert (dark chocolate ganache brownies, spiced apple streusel cheesecake, raspberry filled cookies).

This event is SOLD OUT.

Click here to be on the waitlist.

Click here to purchase Government Bullies for the book signing.

1:00 p.m.

On Saturday, June 8, 2013, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation is honored to host a book signing for Buzz Aldrin. Dr. Aldrin will be signing his newest book, Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration (publish date: May 7, 2013) in the Reagan Library’s Museum Store beginning at 1:00 p.m*. Books must be purchased in the Library’s Museum Store to receive signature. To pre-purchase a book, please CLICK HERE or call 805-522-2977 for more information.

In Mission to Mars, legendary “space statesman” Buzz Aldrin speaks out as a vital advocate for the continuing quest to push the boundaries of the universe as we know it. As a pioneering astronaut who first set foot on the moon during mankind’s first landing of Apollo 11--and as an aerospace engineer who designed an orbital rendezvous technique critical to future planetary landings--Aldrin has a vision, and in this book he plots out the path he proposes, taking humans to Mars by 2035.

Selected by NASA in 1963 into the third group of astronauts, Dr. Aldrin was the first with a doctorate and became known as “Dr. Rendezvous.” The docking and rendezvous techniques he devised for spacecraft in Earth and lunar orbit became critical to the success of the Gemini and Apollo programs, and are still used today. In 1966, on the Gemini 12 orbital mission, Buzz performed the world’s first successful spacewalk. Then, on July 20, 1969, Buzz and Neil Armstrong made their historic Apollo 11 moonwalk, becoming the first two humans to set foot on another world. Upon returning from the moon, Buzz was decorated with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest American peacetime award.

*Buzz Aldrin will only autograph the following three books, all which must be purchased at the Reagan Library Museum Store to receive signature: Mission to Mars, Reaching for the Moon, and Look to the Stars. No other memorabilia, photos, etc will be signed. To get through the line, Dr. Aldrin will not personalize the books (he will only sign his name). No posed photography will be allowed.

CLICK HERE to pre-purchase your books.

6:00 pm  Lecture
7:00 pm Book Signing

Just a few weeks after the Reagan Library’s extraordinary exhibit opens on Abraham Lincoln, the Reagan Foundation is pleased to offer a Reagan Forum and book signing with National Review editor and New York Times bestselling author Rich Lowry on his new book, Lincoln Unbound: How an Ambitious Young Railsplitter Saved the American Dream – and How We Can Do it Again (publish date: June 11, 2013). There is no cost to attend this lecture on Wednesday, June 19, however reservations are recommended by CLICKING HERE.

Lincoln Unbound is a thoughtful mix of history and politics which traces Abraham Lincoln’s ambitious climb from provincial upstart to political powerhouse. 

Revered across the political spectrum, President Lincoln believed in a small but active government in a nation defined by aspiration. He embraced the market and the amazing transportation and communications revolutions beginning to take hold. He helped give birth to the modern industrial economy.

Abraham Lincoln’s vision of an upwardly mobile society that rewards and supports individual striving was wondrously realized. Now, it is under threat. To meet these challenges, conservative columnist Rich Lowry draws us back to the lessons of Lincoln. It is imperative, he argues, to preserve a fluid economy that makes it possible for individuals to thrive and live the American dream.

CLICK HERE to register and pre-purchase your copy of Lincoln Unbound for the book signing.

*Books must be purchased in the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Museum Store to receive signature.