Reagan’s 1968 Dress Rehearsal: Ike, RFK, and Reagan’s Emergence as a World Statesman

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By Gene Kopelson ’73

Published April 8, 2016

Reagan’s 1968 Dress Rehearsal: Ike, RFK, and Reagan’s Emergence as a World Statesman is an inspiring never-before-told history of how Ronald Reagan began to restore pride in America when he first ran for president in the late 1960s. Gene Kopelson ’73 relies on critical archives to explore how behind the scenes, Reagan’s private political mentor was Dwight Eisenhower, and his public political foe was Robert Kennedy.

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