Ronald and Nancy Reagan were disappointed. That's what White House press secretary Larry Speakes told reporters on Jan. 18, 1985, after the Republican president and first lady decided to hold his second inauguration indoors because of an unusually cold weather forecast.

Stuart K. Spencer, the California political strategist who guided Ronald Reagan's ascent from Hollywood to the governor's mansion, and ultimately to the presidency, has died at age 97.

In March 1965, a washed-up B-movie actor dialed a couple of young Republican operatives and invited them to lunch at his home in Pacific Palisades. Ronald Reagan was thinking of trying his hand at politics: a long-shot bid for California governor against a sitting Democrat.

Stuart K. 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 of the most successful politicians of his time,

One of the nation’s first campaign consultants for hire, he advised leading Republicans, including President Gerald Ford, but Reagan was his prized candidate.

FILE – In this Jan. 20, 1981, file photo, President Ronald Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan wave to onlookers at the Capitol building as they stand at the podium in Washington following the ...

Spencer helped invent the modern political consulting business with its emphasis on TV-centric campaigning. In a Republican Party that turned sharply rightward and more combative, Spencer was a ...

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With a tap of her badge, Erica Donnelly can go from one end of the north concourse at Reagan National Airport ... second only to California. The District also has the highest concentration of ...

(Butler, who died before Donald Trump’s political rise, heard the phrase used by President Ronald Reagan ... spent much of her life in Southern California before moving to the Seattle ...

A woman’s body was found in the utility corridor the morning of May 2, 1992, police said. The San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office identified the woman as 45-year-old Nancy Hernandez and determined she “had been badly beaten and strangled,” police said. She had also been sexually assaulted.