In March 1965, a washed-up B-movie actor dialed a couple of young Republican operatives and invited them to lunch at his home ...
One of the nation’s first campaign consultants for hire, he advised leading Republicans, including President Gerald Ford, but ...
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 ...
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 ...
Stuart K. Spencer, a Republican strategist who took a washed-up movie actor named Ronald Reagan and helped make him ...