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 ...

Ronald Wilson Reagan, actor and politician: born Tampico, Illinois 6 February 1911; President, Screen Actors' Guild 1947-52, 1959-60; Governor, State of California 1967-74; President of the United ...

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 ...

President Ronald Reagan with political adviser Stuart Spencer in the Oval Office in 1984. (Courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library) In March 1965, a washed-up B-movie actor dialed a ...

Suzanne Massie, Reagan’s Russian whisperer in Cold War, dies at 94. The author and scholar briefed President Ronald Reagan on Russian history and Soviet life, including the Russian proverb ...

Dennis O’Leary, a Washington hospital administrator who was thrust into the world spotlight in 1981 as the spokesman for medical teams treating President Ronald Reagan after he was shot by would ...

Speechwriter Anthony R. Dolan with President Ronald Reagan in 1989. He was one of the president's few senior advisers to serve for all eight years.