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 strategist who took a washed-up movie actor named Ronald Reagan and helped make him California governor and, later, president — helping invent the modern political consulting business along the way — has died.

Unlike past incoming presidents, Trump knows how to get his agenda done because he already had one term sitting in the Oval Office.

The Dec. 30 edition of The Republican carried a front page article entitled “Jimmy Carter dies at 100.” Regarding the 52 hostages held for 444 days by Iran, the story said this: “ (Carter’s) negotiations ultimately brought all the hostages home alive, but in a final insult, Iran didn’t release them until the inauguration of Ronald Reagan.”

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,

Biden is in the unique position of writing a letter — if he so chooses — to Trump, his successor and the predecessor who left a note for him.

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

Trump's role in securing a hostage deal in Gaza before taking office drew parallels with Iran's release of American hostages in 1981.

Spencer, a Republican strategist who took a washed-up movie actor named Ronald Reagan and helped make him ... prophetically in a 1997 open letter to GOP leaders. He coupled his counsel with ...