... much of the excess money back to the taxpayers. One campaign promise Reagan kept was to clean up the mess at Berkeley. By confronting the violent demonstrations at that state university, he ordered the California Highway Patrol and later the National Guard to the Berkeley campus when riots broke out in 1969. But he did compromise on a proposed tuition on state ... university students, settling for a charge instead and thus cutting costs while at the same time lessening the education communities feeling of hostility toward him. He was reelected governor of California in ... March 30, 1...

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... Republican Party. These men included, Paul Weyrich, Richard Viguerie, Howard Phillips, Paul Laxalt, Taft Schreiber, Jules Stein, Henry Salvatori and Ronald Reagan. Paul Weyrich started out as an aide to Colorado Senator Gordon Allott and is generally credited with moving the right's agenda away from communism to domestic social issues as the battleground for political control of America. He founded the ... by running on a tough law and order platform. He accused Brown and the Democrats of being soft on crime and focused on street crime and the student demonstrations at the University of...

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... he was constantly on the roam, but never spent more than a couple of months anywhere away from home. During these years his parents were living in a small suburb of Denver, Colorado and he frequently wrote and called his mother when he was away. He was a master at conning his wealthy parents out of money. His parents desperately wanted him to get ... . At this time he was living in California pursuing his dream of a music career after his idol, John Lennon. When Jodie moved to New Haven to attend college at Yale University John moved there also just to be close to her. All of his trips h...

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