“In “Bedtime for Bonzo” Ronald Reagan played second fiddle to a chimp.”
As I remember it, Reagan was a governor for quite a while, before trying to run a country, and he was never a comedian (well, he could deliver a joke).
“As I remember it, Reagan was a governor for quite a while, before trying to run a country, and he was never a comedian (well, he could deliver a joke).”
And he was ridiculed in 1966 when he ran for governor of California. I was in California in those days, and I remember that well. That was also the campaign (he ran against the incumbent governor Edmund “Pat” Brown, the father of later governor Moonbeam) where Brown ran a commercial where he said, “Remember, Abraham Lincoln was murdered by an actor.” It backfired, because even some of his supporters said he had gone too far.
Reagan faced the same kind of ridicule when he tested the presidential waters in 1976 and when he actually ran in earnest in 1980.