AHC DBWI: President Ronald Reagan

The premise of this AHC is to make the movie star Ronald Reagan President of America. Some of you might know him as the actor who starred in Kings Row, Code of the Secret Service, Bedtime for Bonzo, and eventually, The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. What will his campaign be like and what will be his foreign and domestic policy?
 
I doubt people would elect that goon. I mean, who wants a Christian Conservative in charge of the land of the free? Doesn't that run contrary to the United States' principle of freedom for all, not just freedom for a certain group?
 
The premise of this AHC is to make the movie star Ronald Reagan President of America. Some of you might know him as the actor who starred in Kings Row, Code of the Secret Service, Bedtime for Bonzo, and eventually, The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. What will his campaign be like and what will be his foreign and domestic policy?
Well, he's an FDR Democrat and a union activist, so probably pretty liberal, with big emphasis on making things better for the little guy.

Maybe if he hadn't have had that riding accident on the set of Black Riders, he might have gone into politics. But it's a ling shot.

I doubt people would elect that goon. I mean, who wants a Christian Conservative in charge of the land of the free? Doesn't that run contrary to the United States' principle of freedom for all, not just freedom for a certain group?
No, not the Reverend Ronald Regan, the old actor - the old movie star and union activist. I know Regan Ministries is famous and all political, but Kerguelen specified the actor instead.

OOC: That's actually IC serious. ITTL, the Rev. Ronald Regan is more famous.
 
You'd probably have to butterfly him being the spokesperson for the Corvair away. I'm assuming that's why we created the thread, it's kind of hard to separate him from that in the consumer consciousness.
 
Ronald Reagan? The actor? Then who's vice president? Jerry Lewis?
Well, he was a union activist too. That's a possible entry. Tough Tony Boyle did almost beat General Ridgeway in the 1962 presidential election, after all.

Here's a possibility:
After his accident on the set of Black Riders in 1967, Regan retires from acting and his second run as SAG president, just as per OTL. He's bored, and his freind Ed Roybal* suggests running for mayor. He does and then runs for governor in 1975. Then he runs for president in 1980.

*OOC: ITTL, they're friends. Why not? :)
 
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