One of the nation’s first campaign consultants for hire, he advised leading Republicans, including President Gerald Ford, but ...
In March 1965, a washed-up B-movie actor dialed a couple of young Republican operatives and invited them to lunch at his home ...
Carter witnessed a shift from what had been a solidly Democratic South to one that ... low-tax promises of the party of Ronald Reagan. Indeed, after Mr. Carter’s ascension to the White House ...
But Carter, a former Georgia governor who ... Kennedy of Massachusetts for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination, was crushed by GOP nominee Ronald Reagan in the general election, with ...
Richard Nixon made Carter tempting; Carter made Ronald Reagan necessary. The deceits and crimes of Nixon’s imperial presidency bred Carter’s pompous crusade against pomp. Carter proclaimed ...