As Governor, Reagan did just thatto his own ideas
"Horns begin to grow as soon as I cross the Mississippi," jokes Ronald Reagan to top aides who fret about his image, particularly among Easterners, as an inflexible ultraconservative. Most Americans want their next President to have right-wing principles, argues a Reagan adviser, but also to be "reasonable and able to recognize when it is necessary to make an exception" to conservative tenets. Reagan, in fact, demonstrated just that ability when he was Governor of California from 1967 to 1975. As Jimmy Carter...
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