(then as farce? I kid, I kid):<\/p>\n
On this day, June 20, in 1958, FBI headquarters learned of actor Ronald Reagan<\/a>\u2019s desire to star in the film \u201cThe FBI Story,\u201d but the bureau rejected the idea because of Reagan\u2019s association with alleged Communist front organizations in the 1940s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
more<\/a>\u2013and Reagan played a dashing Cold War liberal in real life, as recounted in Red Star Over Hollywood<\/em><\/a>. My review of that book isn\u2019t online any longer, unfortunately, so I will just tell you a) it was really good, much better than it needed to be; and b) I am still stupidly proud of my headline: \u201cTinselgrad.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(then as farce? I kid, I kid): On this day, June 20, in 1958, FBI headquarters learned of actor Ronald Reagan\u2019s desire to star in the film \u201cThe FBI Story,\u201d but the bureau rejected the idea because of Reagan\u2019s association with alleged Communist front organizations in the 1940s. more\u2013and Reagan played a dashing Cold War […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[173,277,86],"class_list":["post-7302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-i-could-pick-a-better-century-out-of-a-hat","tag-ronald-reagan","tag-the-dark-continent-europe-in-the-twentieth-century"],"yoast_head":"\n
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