Remembering Stu Spencer, the Reagan guru who tried to save the GOP
In March 1965, a washed-up B-movie actor dialed a couple of young Republican operatives and invited them to lunch at his home ...
Stuart Spencer, Political Pioneer Who Helped Propel Reagan’s Rise, Dies at 97
One of the nation’s first campaign consultants for hire, he advised leading Republicans, including President Gerald Ford, but ...
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Stuart Spencer, mastermind of Reagan’s winning campaigns, dies at 97
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 ...
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Stuart Spencer, GOP strategist who helped Reagan become California governor, 40th president, dies
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 ...
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Lee Edwards, Historian of the Conservative Movement, Dies at 92
In his books about Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater and other figures on the right, he was, one observer said, “a keeper of the flame and spreader of the gospel.” By Trip Gabriel Lee Edwards ...