Reagan was already a budding conservative at the time. He gave a great speech for Goldwater called A Time for Choosing. Of course as a well known actor and host he was well known to the public. A link to it is here:
http://www.nationalcenter.org/ReaganChoosing1964.html
A youtube is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBswFfh6AY
OH okay I thought it was Barry encouragement here
So Ronnie start becoming bubbling conservative