Half a century ago, Gavin Newsom’s predecessor launched a multimedia campaign to communicate with voters as his party was sinking in the polls and his own ambitions shifted from California to D.C.

with the full knowledge of National Security Adviser Admiral John Poindexter and with the unspoken blessing, he assumed, of President Reagan. Poindexter resigned, and North was fired, but Iran ...

He was 93 years, 165 days. Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, was born Fe.b 6, 1911, and died June 5, ...