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==Democrat to Republican==

==Democrat to Republican==

While remaining a Democrat in the 1950s, Reagan started to increasingly hold conservative points of view. After actively supporting [[Richard Nixon]]'s campaign for president in 1960, Reagan switched political parties and officially became a Republican in 1962. He realized that he had diverged greatly from the tax-and-spend liberalism of the Democratic Party.  As a part of Reagan's change in viewpoints, he came to be a fan of former president [[Calvin Coolidge]], and would later replace a painting of Truman with that of Coolidge in the White House Cabinet Room.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/04/opinion/calvin-reagan.html Calvin Reagan], [[The New York Times]]</ref>

Reagan married Nancy Davis on March 4, 1952, at The Little Brown Church, located in the San Fernando Valley, California.  Nancy Davis's father was a strongly [[conservative]] neurosurgeon from the [[Midwest]], Dr. Loyal Davis, who had a big political influence on Reagan.  By 1961, Reagan wrote a lengthy [[conservative]] article that was published by the [[Association of American Physicians and Surgeons]],<ref>https://jpands.org/vol27no4/reagan.pdf</ref> a conservative group of doctors founded in 1943.

 

Reagan remained a registered Democrat in the 1950s, but actively supporting [[Richard Nixon]]'s campaign for president in 1960 and had been developing [[conservative]] viewpoints while working for [[General Electric]].<ref>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/01/ronald-reagans-conservative-conversion-as-spokesman-for-general-electric-during-the-1950s.html</ref>  In 1962, Reagan felt that the [[Democrat Party]] had left him and he publicly switched his political party to become a Republican. He fully rejected the tax-and-spend liberalism of the Democratic Party, and its appeasement of [[communism]].  As a part of Reagan's change in viewpoints, he came to be a fan of former president [[Calvin Coolidge]], and would later replace a painting of Truman with that of Coolidge in the White House Cabinet Room.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/04/opinion/calvin-reagan.html Calvin Reagan], [[The New York Times]]</ref>

 

==1964==

==1964==