(Courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library) In March 1965, a washed-up B-movie actor dialed a couple of ... “This guy could do it,” they told each other. “If we handle it right ...

Spencer, a Republican strategist who took a washed-up movie actor named Ronald Reagan and helped make him ... advice in the Oval Office and other perches of the powerful. It was Spencer who ...

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 into one ...