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Testimony of Ronald Reagan Before the House Un-American Activities Committee, October 23, 1947

Testimony

By: Ronald Reagan

Date: October 23, 1947

Source: Reagan, Ronald. Testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee, October 23, 1947. Reprinted in Bentley, Eric, ed. Thirty Years of Treason: Excerpts From Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938–1968. New York: Viking, 1971, 146–147.

About the Author: Ronald Reagan (1911–) worked in several Hollywood films in the 1940s and 1950s before forgoing movies altogether to pursue a career in politics in the 1960s. Winning the California governorship in 1966, Reagan quickly rose to become the popular leader of a new conservative movement in the United States. In the 1980s he resurrected the Republican Party by winning the presidency in 1980 and gaining reelection in 1984 by...