Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on this day in 1911. His legacy still shapes American politics, historians say, and he's a ...

Anyway, as Reagan sees it, the main energies of California’s Republicans need to be used come November “to retire Pat Brown,” the deceptively bland Democratic Governor whose muscles seem to ...

For years, internet users have shared a quote about how to measure the success of welfare programs, attributing the words to Ronald Reagan, the former U.S. president and California governor.

U.S. Marine and civilian speakers praised President Ronald Reagan for his commitment to peace through strength Thursday ...

Ronald Reagan was thinking of trying his hand at politics: a long-shot bid for California governor against a sitting Democrat. Stuart Spencer and his partner, Bill Roberts, were pioneers in what ...

Reagan was born into poverty in small-town Illinois, working his way up as a radio announcer, Hollywood actor, president of the Screen Actors Guild, and then governor of California, before ...

Spencer helped invent the modern political consulting business with its emphasis on TV-centric campaigning. In a Republican Party that turned sharply rightward and more combative, Spencer was a ...

Mr. Spencer was one of Reagan's closest confidants, a key mastermind of his political career from the 1966 campaign that won him the first of two terms as governor through his eight years in the ...

He served as governor of California from 1967 to 1975. Reagan completed two full terms as president from 1981 to 1989, the first president to do so since Eisenhower. The former president died on ...

Stuart K. Spencer, a Republican strategist who took a washed-up movie actor named Ronald Reagan and helped make him California governor and, later, president — helping invent the modern ...

Stuart K. Spencer, a Republican political consultant who engineered Ronald Reagan’s winning campaigns for the California governor’s office and the U.S. presidency, transforming a B-movie actor ...