1928 Graduated from Dixon high school

1932 Hired as a Sportscaster for a radio station WOC in Davenport, Iowa

1937 Traveled to Southern CA to report on Chicago Cubs spring training

1937 Put under contract to Warner Brothers

1941 Daughter, Maureen Elizabeth Born

1945 Discharged from Air Force as a Captain

1947 - 1952 President of the Screen Actors Guild

1948 Campaigned for President Harry S. Truman

1952 Campaigned for Dwight D. Eisenhower

1954 – 1962 Hosted “The General Electric Theater”

1956 Campaigned for Dwight D. Eisenhower

1959 – 1960 President of Screen Actors Guild

1960 Campaigned for Richard M. Nixon

1962 – 1965 Hosted “Death Valley Days”

1964 Made speech for Barry Goldwater

1966 Elected Governor of California

1968 Campaigned for Republican Presidential nomination

1991 Ronald Reagan Presidential Library opened in Simi Valley, Ca.

During President Reagan’s first term in office arms control negotiations were largely put aside in favor of the military buildup. In November of 1981 President Reagan proposed the so called Zero Option, which was a scheme to eliminate nearly all intermediate range nuclear forces both on the NATO and Warsaw Pact sides from Europe. Zero Option appeared to be a public relations ploy to defuse the growing peace demonstrations in Europe because the Reagan administration knew that the Soviets possessed the most intermediate range missiles and thus would have to destroy the most therefore, they would reject it. Smart politics I say.

The Reagan Library. February 3, 2003

During this time he was in demand as a public speaker. He was seen as a potential savior of the California Republican party, which had been torn apart by factional infighting. In 1962 he formally switched parties and campaigned for former vice-president Richard Nixon, the unsuccessful Republican gubernatorial candidate in California.

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