Lou Cannon, Reagan Biographer, White House Journalist For Decades, Dies in Santa Barbara
Lou Cannon, a consummate journalist who covered the White House for the Washington Post and was the foremost biographer of President Ronald Reagan, interviewing him countless times, chronicling his career through myriad news articles and five books, died at Serenity House in Santa Barbara on Friday. He was 92. Cannon was a throwback journalist, the…
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