Ronald Reagan was elected president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG an American union of actors) in 1946. He had been on its executive committee since 1941. Then he was elected for seven more one-year terms as SAG president. He had to manage SAG during major crises such as the improvement of television rights for actors and also the period of the Red Scare led by Senator Joseph McCarthy from 1950 to 1954 when many personalities were accused of communist sympathies.Ronald Reagan always affirmed his support for the American society and its democratic principles and never hid the fact that he ref...

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