2007-09-02 11:36:40 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Besides being actors, Sinatra and Reagan had one amazing thing in common: they were both Democrats until 1968. I think they were friends because they shared a fondness for being the center of attention, and had very similar political beliefs.
In the 1980 U.S. presidential election, Sinatra supported Ronald Reagan, and donated $4 million to Reagan's campaign. Sinatra said he supported Reagan as he was “the proper man to be the President of the United States…it's so screwed up now, we need someone to straighten it out”.
Reagan's victory gave Sinatra his closest relationship with the White House since the early 1960s, as a result of which Sinatra arranged Reagan's Presidential gala, as he had done for John F. Kennedy, some 20 years previously.
Nancy Reagan also liked Sinatra, and there was even rumors she had an affair with him.
In 1984 Sinatra returned to his birthplace in Hoboken, New Jersey, bringing President Reagan with him who was in the midst of campaigning for the 1984 U.S. presidential election. Reagan had made Sinatra a fund-raising ambassador as part of the Republicans 'Victory '84 get-the-vote-out-drive.
2007-09-02 11:48:48 · answer #1 · answered by pachl@sbcglobal.net 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Reagan broke each and all the tenets of conservatism different than one: Make the rich richer and rob from the undesirable. They doll up his photograph with a cowboy hat and homespun wisdom, however the guy replaced into flat stupid and in no way worked an afternoon in his life. ---hey, isn't that what the GOP supposedly HATES approximately Obama's base? Their boy Reagan beat an entire technology to stupid as a rock.
2016-10-17 12:43:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Frank Sinatra was a great guy, and he also was very close to John F. Kennedy.
2007-09-02 12:14:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I have no idea, but I will say he was no great friend of the working man. The "Great Communicator" was solemnized endlessly at the funeral that would never end, but did he really do great things for our country? Is not he the one that started the "trickle down economic theory", also known as "Reaganomics". That plan did not work out too well, and yet it has become the doctrine of the Republican Party.
2007-09-02 11:44:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Maybe he though old Blue Eyes could sing.
2007-09-02 11:42:15 · answer #5 · answered by Dee B 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋