Throwback Thursday with President Reagan (Season 1) Ep 51 - Republicanism

As a young man, Ronald Reagan idolized Franklin Roosevelt. And he was a democrat, casting his first vote for President for FDR, and then for Harry Truman in 1948. But in the 1950s his political philosophy began to shift and in 1962 he officially changed parties, joking, "I didn't leave the democratic party, it left me."