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- Eason, B. Reeves
- Director of Sergeant Murphy (1938).
- Eastland, Terry
- was Justice department spokesman, author of _Ethics, Politics and the Independent Council_
- Edwards, James B.
- served as South Carolina governor from 1975-78 and Secretary of Energy from 1981-1982.
- Einfeld, Charles
- (Warner director of publicity)
- Eisenhower, Dwight
- Five Star general who led D-Day invasion into Normandy, France. General of army in 1944 commander of US occupation forces in 1945. President 1952-1961. In 1952 Reagan and other democrats wired a telegraph to him asking him to run for presidents as a democrat. When he ran as republican, Reagan cast his first vote for a Republican candidate. Goldwater's meeting with Eisenhower almost aired in the place of Reagan's televised speech in support of Goldwater.
- Eizenstat, Stuart
- was Jimmy Carter's chief domestic policy adviser from 1977-1981.
- Elizabeth II, Queen
- Queen of England and distant relation of Ronald Reagan according to Burke's Peerage research done in honor of his visit to Ireland.
- Elliot, Bentley
- (speechwriter)
- Emmert, Hazel
- Friend of Nelle Wilson Reagan in Dixon, to whom she wrote several times after she moved to California. Emmert taught Sunday school at the Christian Church in Dixon.
- Enright, Ray
- Director of Brother Rat & a Baby 91940) and An Angel From Texas (1940).
- Evans, M. Stanton
- (chairman of American Conservative Union)
- Fagan, Myron
- (agitated against Communists in Hollywood)
- Fahrenkopf, Frank
- served as Chairman of Republican National Committee from 1983-1989.
- Falwell, Jerry
- (Moral Majority leader)
- Feeney, John Philip
- (original name of J. Parnell Thomas)
- Feldstein, Martin
- was the head of Council of Economic Advisers who advised Reagan both during the campaign of 1980 and while he was in the White House.
- Felner, Kim
- (public relations officer of SAG)
- Felt, W. Mark
- (Nixon administration agent pardoned by RWR)
- Fernandez, Joseph
- With the CIA. In 1983, worked with resupply operations on the southern front. CIA Chief of Station in Costa Rica 1984-1986, using code name Tomas Castillo. Worked with North and Owens. Indicted April 24, 1989 for lying to investigators. Case dropped when Bush administration refused to release documents.
- Field, Betty
- Actress, appearing in King's Row (1942).
- Field, Mervin
- Conductor of California political polls during Reagan's 1966 gubernatorial bid.
- Fielding, Fred F.
- (WH Counsel)
- Fields, W. C.
- (comedian and actor)
- Fiers, Alan D.
- Succeeded Clarridge in 1984 as CIA person in charge of day-to-day covert operations in Central America. Chief of Central American Task Force (C/CATF) Member of Restricted Inter-Agency Group (RIG) with North and Abrams. July 1991 plead guilty two misdemeanor counts, pardoned by Bush, January 24, 1992.
- Finch, Robert H.
- A moderate Republican who served as Nixon's 1960 presidential campaign manager; Nixon ignored Finch's advice not to run in the 1962 California gubernatorial race, where Nixon was defeated. Successfully ran in 1966 as California Lieutenant Governor, but was never comfortable with Reagan, and left in 1968 to become an unofficial advisor to Nixon's presidential campaign and then to become Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.
- Firestone, Leonard
- A member of Ronald Reagan's "kitchen cabinet," a group of unofficial advisors who helped to persuade Reagan to run for governor.
- Fisher, Asa Starbuck
- Co-founder and first president of Eureka College. Fisher was recommended to Dr. Ben Major by his nephew as a good teacher for the new school for the fledgling town of Walnut Grove. Fisher had been raised on a farm in Central Illinois and studied at the Knox Manual Labor Institute in Galesburg. He taught in a small school in Marshall County, Illinois for two years before coming to Walnut Grove. Major and the rest of the town elders liked Fisher so much that they raised money for a small schoolhouse. They added onto it in 1849 and named it Walnut Grove Academy. In 1854-55 the school became Eureka College, fulfilling the dreams of both Major and Fisher. Fisher became the first president of Eureka College.
- Fiske, Guy
- (deputy secretary of Commerce, resigned)
- Fitzwater, Marlin
- Deputy Assistant secretary of the Treasury from 1981-1983. Assistant Press secretary for the White House from 1983-1985. Assistant press secretary for the Vice President from 1985-1987, and assistant to the President from 1987-1989.
- Flanagan, Pat
- Flanagan was an NBC sportscaster who had invented the telegraphic report process. WHO manager Joseph Maland sent Reagan to see him in Chicago to learn more about major league baseball and to actually see Wrigley field.
- Flynn, Errol
- Star of Desperate Journey (1942) and appearing in It's a Great Feeling (1949).
- Ford, Betty
- Gerald Ford's wife.
- Ford, Gerald
- Replaced Agnew as Nixon's vice-president and succeeded Nixon after resignation in 1974. Lost Presidential election to Carter in 1976. He offered Reagan position in cabinet and later defeated Reagan for the Republican presidential nomination in 1976 and almost ran for vice president under Reagan in 1980 with rumors of a "co-president situation" but Ford declined after a Cronkite interview.
- Foster, Lewis
- Producer of The Last Outpost (1951), writer/director of Hong Kong (1952) and appearing in Tropic Zone (1953).
- Foster, William Z.
- (leader of American Communist Party after Browder)
- Fox, Richard
- (head of National Jewish Coalition)
- Foy, Brian
- Producer some of RWR's films: Love Is In the Air (1937); Sergeant Murphy (1938); Accidents Will Happen 91938); Brother Rat (1938); Girls on Probation (1938); Secret Service of the Air (1939); Code of the Secret Service (1939); Hell's Kitchen (1939); Smashing the Money Rings (1939); Murder in the Air (1940); Tugboat Annie Sails Again (1940); and The Winning Team (1957).
- Fraser, B. J.
- Reagan's drama teacher at North Dixon High School. He was a man Reagan respected and looked up to as a father-figure. Fraser taught English and world history. As advisor to the Dramatic Club, he encouraged Reagan to join.
- Fricano, John
- (Justice Department attorney interviewing RWR about MCA)
- Friedersdorf, Max
- (congressional lobbyist for J Baker)
- Friedman, Milton
- (economist)
- Fulks, Emma Reiss Weymann
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- Fulks, Sara Jane
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- Fuller, Craig L.
- (WH cabinet secretary)
- Futterman, Myron
- Wyman's first husband, Futterman owned a successful dress company in Los Angeles. He and Futterman married in 1937, when he was 35 and she was 20. He had a teenage daughter from a previous marriage that wasn't much older than his new bride. Wyman separated from Futterman only three months after they were married and divorced him only a little more than a year after they were married. Wyman said that he didn't want to have children and was obsessively jealous. The basis for their uncontested divorce was mental cruelty.
- Gable, Clark
- Actor appearing in Hollywood in Uniform (1943).
- Gadd, Richard L.
- Secord's deputy supervising day-to-day resupply operations January to April 1986. Replaced by Dutton.
- Galan, Augie
- The batter up against pitcher Dizzy Dean in the Cubs, St. Louis game that Reagan had foul repeatedly when he had to improvise due to a broken telegraph connection.
- Galbraith, Audley
- Nancy Davis Reagan's uncle, Edith L. Davis' brother-in-law, married to Virginia Galbraith. They lived in Bethesda, Maryland and had a daughter about the same age as Nancy. When Edith was traveling with the stock company, she left Nancy in the Galbraith's care. The Galbraiths were good to Nancy and sent her to Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC She stayed with the Galbraiths until Edith married Dr. Loyal Davis in 1929 and settled in Chicago.
- Galbraith, Charlotte
- Daughter of Audley and Virginia Galbraith, cousin of Nancy Davis Reagan. Charlotte was raised with Nancy and attended school with her until 1929, when Nancy moved to Chicago.
- Galbraith, John Kenneth
- (economist)
- Garfield, John
- (actor; also active in SAG)
- Garland, Judy
- Actress best known for The Wizard of Oz. RWR appeared on "The Judy Garland Show" April 8, 1956.
- Garrett, Thaddeus, Jr.
- (domestic policy adviser to Bush)
- George, Claire E.
- During 1980s served as deputy director of the CIA responsible for covert operations. Indicted in September, 1991, but not convicted by jury. Retried and convicted. Pardoned by Bush December 24, 1992.
- Gergen, David R.
- (WH communications director)
- Gessner, Elizabeth
- (helped train Wyman for Johnny Belinda)
- Ghorbanifar, Manucher
- Iranian arms dealer and middle man in arms deals from mid-1985 to mid-1986.
- Gianelli, William R.
- Ronald Reagan's California water resources director who favored expansion of the water project to build the Dos Rios dam, a controversial project opposed by Norman Livermore and eventually rejected by Reagan over concerns for local Indian communities; (later assistant secretary of Army)
- Gilder, George
- (economist)
- Gilder, Josh
- (speechwriter)
- Ginsburg, Douglas
- Nominated by Ronald Reagan as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Nomination withdrawn upon revelations of marijuana use by Ginsburg.
- Ginsburg, Douglas H.
- (unsuccessful SC nominee)
- Gipp, George
- (legendary Notre Dame football player)
- Godfrey, Peter
- Director of That Hagen Girl (1947) and The Girl from Jones Beach (1949).
- Gogol, Nikolai
- Ukrainian poet Reagan quoted in Reagan's speech to students at Moscow.
- Goldwater, Barry
- Senator and unsuccessful 1964 Republican presidential candidate against Lyndon Johnson; Reagan became a national political figure campaigning for Goldwater after delivering the "A Time for Choosing" speech.
- Goldwater, Margaret Prescott Johnson
- Barry Goldwater's wife.
- Goldwyn, Sam
- (from MGM)
- Gotleib, Alex
- Appeared with RWR in It's A Great Feeling (1947) The Girl from Jones Beach (1949).
- Goulding, Edmund
- Director of Dark Victory (1939).
- Grace, J. Peter
- (head of committee on government efficiency)
- Graham, Billy
- (religious leader)
- Gramm, Phil
- (Representative/Senator converted from D to R)
- Grant, Cary
- (actor)
- Gray, Edwin
- (chair of Home Loan Bank Board ; S&L crisis)
- Green, Johnny
- (member of HICCASP)
- Green, William
- (member of SAG board)
- Greenspan, Alan
- Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, 1985-present, appointed by Ronald Reagan.
- Gregg, Donald P.
- National Security Adviser to vice-President Bush beginning in 1982
- Grimm, Charlie
- (Cubs manager while RWR was announcing)
- Grinde, Nick
- Director of RWR's screen test and of Love Is on the Air (1937).
- Griscom, Thomas
- (replaced Pat Buchanan)
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