From a little later in the same interview with Ronald Reagan ...
But again, I stand on my statement that I think that libertarianism and conservatism are travelling the same path.
http://reason.com/archives/1975/07/01/inside-ronald-reagan
On the meta level, my reason for producing Reagan’s thoughts on libertarianism was in response to your evinced hatred of libertarians. You don’t come across to me as being a socon extremist, but maybe I am in error.
Once again you failed to cut/paste the most relevant part of that interview. The one where he clearly distances himself from libertarianism.
But even if Reagan was stretching then; trying to find something nice to say about this failed philosophy, one thing is clear now:
Reagan would be adamantly against it today. The Ron/Rand Pauls and Gary Johnson that are their lib leaders, the pro-abortion, pro-dope, open borders agenda. The gross immorality and anti-conservative rhetoric that is today’s libertarianism.
This is why I said upthread - I hate libertarians.