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- Cagney, James
- Actor in Boy Meets Girl (1938).
- Calero, Adolfo
- Head of Coca-Cola Nicaragua while Somoza was dictator. In June 1983, the CIA chose him to become head of Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN). Later one of three leaders of United Nicaraguan Opposition (UNO). Worked closely with North.
- Camp, Garrard
- Eureka teammate, recalls Reagan pretending to be a sports announcer and relating entire imaginary football games on his way back to the gym after practice.
- Cantor, Eddie
- (actor)
- Carleson, Robert B.
- (chair of Cabinet Council on Human Resources)
- Carlson, Richard
- (represented SAG in New York meeting)
- Carter, Jimmy
- Elected president in 1976, Reagan beat him in the 1980 elections by a landslide.
- Carter, Rosalyn
- Jimmy Carter's wife
- Casey, William
- Director of Central Intelligence Agency, 1981-1987. Worked closely with Oliver North. Supplied CIA assets for Contra and Iran initiatives.
- Castro, Fidel
- Rebel who ousted Batista from Cuba in 1958, instituted communist government there and proclaimed self president.
- Cavanaugh, James
- James Cavanaugh was a member of the transition team in 1980.
- Cave, George W.
- CIA's top man on Iran until he retired 1980. After January 1986 he contracted with CIA to work on Iran negotiations.
- Champion, Hale
- Hale Champion was a liberal Democrat and former finance director who helped run Pat Brown's 1966 gubernatorial campaign against Ronald Reagan.
- Chandler, Dorothy B.
- Vice-chair of the California University board of Regents; voting member of the board that ousted Clark Kerr.
- Chandler, George
- (SAG board; seconded RWR's first nomination for president)
- Channell, Carl R. ("Spitz")
- President of the National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty (NEPL). Prominent fund raiser and lobbyist for Contra causes; funneled $2 million to Contras in tax-exempt funds. In April, 1987 pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud United States. Sentenced to two years probation.
- Cheek, James E.
- (president of Howard University)
- Cheney, Richard B.
- Richard B. Cheney served as a congressman from Wyoming from 1979-1989 and as Bush's Secretary of Defense from 1989-1993.
- Chew, David
- (aide to Regan)
- Chotiner, Murray
- Helen Gahagan Douglas's campaign manager in 1950 US race against Richard Nixon; Reagan is cited as having actively campaigned for her, voting for the last time for the democratic ticket in toto.
- Christopher, George
- Ronald Reagan's primary opponent for the 1966 GOP primary gubernatorial nomination; two term mayor of San Francisco.
- Churchill, Winston
- Prime Minister of Britain in World War II.
- Cicippio, Joseph James
- Taken hostage in Beirut September 12, 1986. Released December 2, 1991.
- Clark, Judson
- (worked for California Research, top aide to assembly speakers)
- Clark, William P. (Bill)
- Clark served as Reagan's cabinet secretary,executive secretary, and chief of staff in Sacramento. Came on board White House staff in 1982 as National Security Council Adviser. Replaced Watt as Secretary of the Interior in Fall, 1983.
- Clarridge, Duane R ("Dewey")
- Top CIA official in charge of covert Nicaraguan war, 1981-1984. In November, 1985 assisted North in Hawk shipment to Iran. Indicted November, 1991 on seven counts including perjury and false statements. Pardoned on December 24, 1992.
- Cleaver, Ben
- Eureka pastor, father of Margaret Cleaver, Reagan's college and highs school sweetheart. Reagan admired and looked up to him. He encouraged Reagan to go into the ministry. As the father of three daughters, he also encouraged them to follow their dreams, helping Helen and Margaret through college and supporting their desire to travel even though the family could hardly afford it. He later became the pastor at Eureka.
- Cleaver, Helen
- Older sister to Margaret, went to Eureka College, both sisters were members of the sorority Delta Zeta. Helen and went to France with Margaret after Margaret's senior year. She was the maid of honor in Margaret's wedding.
- Cleaver, Margaret "Mugs"
- Margaret was Ronald Reagan's girlfriend when he was in high school and college. He followed her to Eureka. Her father, Ben Cleaver was the pastor of the Christian Church in Dixon and later in Eureka. She graduated from Eureka with honors, having spent a year at the University of Illinois because she wasn't satisfied with the intellectual stimulation at Eureka. Though Reagan thought they would be engaged soon after graduation, Margaret had other ideas. She and her sister Helen traveled to France, where they spent the next year. There Margaret met her future husband, James Waddell Gordon Jr. They married, and after spending time abroad, settled in Richmond, Virginia.
- Clegg, Hugh
- (FBI agent in charge of Los Angeles division; RWR contacted as agent)
- Cline, Thomas G.
- CIA operative associated with Secord. Worked behind the scenes on arms shipments to Contras through Enterprise 1985-1986.
- Coate, Robert L.
- California state Democratic chairman in 1966; actively campaigned against Ronald Reagan and in support of Governor Brown in the 1966 gubernatorial campaign, releasing a 29 page document charging that Ronald Reagan was a conservative extremist.
- Coburn, Charles
- Actor in Kings Row (1942) and Desperate Journey (1942).
- Cochran, Steve
- Actor with RWR in Storm Warning (1951).
- Cohan, George M.
- (Broadway composer)
- Colburn, Byron
- Alumnus and Eureka College Board member, he became the arbitrator between the students, faculty, alumni, trustees and the administration during the student strike in 1928.
- Cole, Enos (Bud)
- Eureka teammate, who, after an injury sidelined him, coached Reagan and helped him get off the bench. He had taken three years off after his freshman year at Eureka to play pro ball. McKinzie asked him to coach some of the weaker players and Reagan was one of those he coached. Reagan said that Bud made the decisions and he just executed the decisions.
- Cole, Lester
- (accused in HUAC investigation of film industry)
- Coleman, Nancy
- Actress, in Kings Row (1942) and Desperate Journey (1942).
- Collins, Gordon
- (accused in HUAC investigation of film industry)
- Collins, Ray
- (replaced on SAG board by NDR)
- Cook, Bill
- TEKE fraternity brother and best man to Reagan in his marriage to Jane Wyman.
- Cook, Charles E.
- A member of Ronald Reagan's "kitchen cabinet," a group of unofficial advisors who helped to persuade Reagan to run for governor.; Cook helped to first get Ronald Reagan into politics.
- Cook, Howard
- (brother and business partner of Charles Cook)
- Coolidge, Calvin
- Harding's vice president succeeded him upon Harding's death, Reagan hung picture of him in Cabinet room. Reagan reportedly respected him because he succeeded in lowering the post World War I debt by employing Ibn Khaldoon's theories.
- Cooper, Charles
- Cooper was Assistant Attorney General involved in the investigation of Iran-Contra.
- Cooper, Gary
- Actor, appearing with RWR in It's A Great Feeling (1949).
- Cordiner, Ralph H.
- (G.E. Chairman)
- Coughlin, Charles
- Radio broadcast Catholic priest until the Catholic Church ordered him to cease anti-Semitic broadcasts.
- Cox, Archibald
- Watergate special prosecutor.
- Crabtree, John
- Boyhood friend of Reagan in Dixon, quoted as saying he never heard Reagan swear and remembers the one time he saw Reagan drink. He says that they drank wine and Dutch was fined a dollar by the police for sitting on top of a stop light and being insubordinate to an officer.
- Cranston, Alan
- Democratic Senator from California who denounced Reagan as "trigger happy" over US involvement in Grenada.
- Crispen, Elaine
- (NDR's press secretary at end of administration)
- Crockett, Gertrude
- Schoolmate of Reagan's in Monmouth, Illinois. She recalls a time when she and six or eight classmates chased him all the way home from Central School and onto his porch.
- Crowther, Bosley
- (New York Times movie critic)
- Crump, Colonel Owen
- Warner producer with RWR during War. He also produced Night Unto Night (1949).
- Cruz, Arturo, Sr.
- Member of Sandinista junta and ambassador to Washington; later became an opponent of the Sandinistas. In February, 1985 he was transferred from CIA payroll to one controlled by North. In June, 1985, he was named director of the United Nicaraguan Opposition.
- Cukor, George
- (movie director)
- Culvahouse, Arthur B.
- (White House Counsel)
- Cummings, Robert
- Actor with RWR in King's Row (1942).
- Cuomo, Mario
- Served as governor of New York from 1982-1994 (?)
- Curtiz, Michael
- Director of Santa Fe Trail (1940) and This Is the Army (1943). Also appeared in It's a Great Feeling (1949).
- Cutler, Lloyd
- (Carter's White House Counsel)
- Dailey, Dan
- A reserve cavalry officer who helped Reagan start riding in California.
- Dalen, George M.
- (GE executive; succeeded Earl Dunckel)
- Dales, Jack
- (director of SAG)
- Danforth, John C.
- served as a senator from Missouri from 1976-?
- Daniels, Mitchell
- (White House political director)
- Darby, Nellie
- Reagan's teacher at Tampico Grade School.
- Darman, Richard G.
- was an influential economic policy adviser in the first administration.
- Dart, Jane Bryan
- Jane Bryan Dart was an actress who later married Justin Dart.
- Dart, Justin
- A member of Ronald Reagan's "kitchen cabinet," a group of unofficial advisors who helped to persuade Reagan to run for governor.
- Dart, Ruth Walgreen
- Daughter of Charles Walgreen and first wife of Justin Dart. She was a writer, poet and publisher. Reagan and Justin were good friends, having met him during the filming of the sequel to the movie Brother Rat because Dart was engaged to actress Jane Bryan. Dart was then in the process of divorcing Ruth Walgreen, though he still had business dealings with Ruth's father and owned a big portion of the family business. He and Reagan liked to debate economics. Barry Goldwater married one of Ruth's friends, Margaret Prescott Johnson, daughter of a prominent businessman, and one of the founders of Borg-Warner Corp.
- Davis, Bette
- Actress and star of Dark Victory (1939)
- Davis, Edith Luckett
- Nancy Davis Reagan's mother, born in Petersburg, Virginia in 1889. She grew up in Washington, DC Her older brother owned the Columbia Stock Company, which Edith joined when she was 15. A year later she began traveling and playing the piano for Irish tenor Chauncey Olcott. That job ended in 1914, and she joined a stock company in Massachusetts. There, she met her Kenneth Seymour Robbins, whom she married in 1916. They separated before Nancy was born, and divorced several years later. She continued traveling and acting with a stock company, leaving Nancy with her sister. Later she met Dr. Loyal Davis and after both were divorced they married. Nancy considered Dr. Davis to be her father.
- Davis, Loyal
- Neurosurgeon and adopted father of Nancy Davis Reagan. The two had a loving relationship, she considered him her "real" father.
- Davis, Nancy
- RWR's wife and his co-star in Hellcats of the Navy (1957).
- Davis, Nancy (Lee)
- (actress confused with NDR)
- Davis, Patti
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- Davis, Richard (Dick)
- Nancy Davis' adopted brother, son of Dr. Loyal Davis and his first wife.
- Dawson, Rhett
- (White House chief of operation in later years)
- Dawson, Tom
- Dawson was an aide to Reagan, serving on the Reagan transition team and as White House personnel director. He also served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury from 1981-1984 and assistant to the Chief of Staff from 1985-1989.
- Day, Doris
- Hollywood actress and star of: It's A Great Feeling (1949); Storm Warning (1951); and RWR's co-star in The Winning Team (1952).
- De Cordova, Fred
- Director of Bedtime for Bonzo(1951).
- De Havilland, Olivia [de]
- (actress; politically active w/RWR in Hollywood)
- Dean, Dizzy
- Pitcher, on the mound for the game between the Cubs and the St. Louis Cardinals when the telegraph went dead, leaving Reagan to improvise for six minutes. Reagan had Augie Galan foul-hit several times and resorted to describing the fans in the stadium.
- Deaver, Carolyn
- Michael Deaver's wife.
- Deaver, Michael
- Reagan aide in California and the White House; served as assistant to Edwin Meese in California. Worked on the 1976 and 1980 campaigns until forced out by Sears in late 1979, and returned in 1980 after Sears' departure. Deaver was hired to oversee the administration and operation of the campaign in 1980. Became Deputy Chief of Staff after Reagan's election. After leaving the White House, convicted of influence-peddling.
- Delehanty, Thomas K.
- Washington DC policeman who was shot at the same time as Ronald Reagan in 1981.
- Dempsey, Jack
- Jack Dempsey who lost heavyweight championship to Gene Tunney. After being shot, Reagan quoted Dempsey to his wife, "Honey, I forgot to duck."
- Denison, Vernon
- Denison was one of the members of Tampico's West Side Alley Gang, which Reagan led. The boys of Tampico were divided by Main Street into two gangs, the other, led by "Monkey" Winchell was called the East Side Alley Gang. They would go racing across town trying to catch each other.
- Desilva, Joseph T. [DeSilva]
- (labor leader, organized labor committee for RWR)
- Deukmejian, George [meji"an]
- (California state senator)
- Devine, Donald J.
- Devine was the head of Office of Personnel Management from 1980-1985.
- Dickenson, Russell
- (Park Service Director)
- Dickinson, Burrus
- Burrus Dickinson was a student of Eureka College and president from 1939 to 1954. He recalls that the student rebellion in 1928 was centered at the TEKE house, where Dutch lived.
- Dickinson, Richard
- Richard Dickinson was chairman of the Eureka Board of Directors in 1928. When Eureka President Bert Wilson resigned, he was named acting president of the college.
- Dickstein, Samuel
- (started HUAC)
- Didion, Joan
- (author; did interview with NDR)
- Dies, Martin
- (chair of HUAC)
- Dillon, Bob
- Friend of Neil and Ronald Reagan in Des Moines, drove Ronald to Neil's wedding and recalls Ronald worrying that the marriage was happening too soon.
- Dixon, John
- Founder of Dixon, Illinois who bought a ferry, tavern and a cabin from French-Canadian trader Joseph Ogee around 1830 and a town grew up around it.
- Dmytryk, Edward
- (accused in HUAC investigation of film industry)
- Doherty, William C.
- (arbitrator for AFL in Dec 1945)
- Dolan, Anthony
- (White House speechwriter)
- Dole, Elizabeth
- served as Secretary of Transportation from 1983-1989 (?) and is also the wife of Bob Dole.
- Dole, Robert (Bob)
- Is a senator from Kansas from 1969 to the present. He was a Republican Vice-Presidential candidate in 1976 and is running for president in 1996.
- Domenici, Pete
- New Mexico Senator from 1973-?
- Donovan, John
- Owner of 816 South Hennepin Avenue, the first house the Reagan's rented in Dixon. The house has now been renovated and is available for tour.
- Donovan, Raymond J.
- served as secretary of Labor.
- Donovan, Teresa
- Wife of John Donovan, owner of the Reagan's first rental in Dixon.
- Douglas, Helen Gahagan
- California state representative and 1950 Senatorial candidate against Richard Nixon. Reagan actively campaigned as a Democrat in her support against Nixon.
- Douglas, Melvyn
- (actor, husband of Helen Gahagan Douglas)
- Drew, Elizabeth (Bee)
- Drew was a year ahead of Reagan in high school and best friends with Margaret Cleaver, Reagan's high school and college sweetheart. She loved to take photographs, it is she who took the picture of Reagan as a lifeguard. Bee and her boyfriend often double dated with Margaret and Ronald and canoed together on the river. She recalled that Reagan used to take an old Victrola on the canoe and sing to records, especially one called Ramona, which her boyfriend got so sick of, he threw it into the river.
- Duberstein, Ken
- served as an assistant to Reagan from 1981-1989.
- Duberstein, Sydney
- is the wife of Reagan aide Ken Duberstein.
- Duffey, Molly
- Duffey was Reagan's sixth grade teacher in Dixon.
- Dumke, Glenn
- (chancellor of California state colleges)
- Dunckel, Earl
- (GE executive; toured with RWR)
- Dunn, Bert
- In the CIA from 1985 to 1986 held the leading operational position in the Iran initiative
- Dunne, Father George H.
- (Involved with IATSE in labor disputes)
- Dutton, Robert C.
- Worker under Secord and Dutton supervising Contra resupply starting in the Spring of 1986.
- Dwan, Allan
- Director of Cattle Queen of Montana (1954) and Tennessee's Partner (1955).
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