Reaganites at Risk

Richard Vigilante

Phil Crane hasn’t been heard from much over the past six years. For most of the 1970s he was one of the two or three best-known movement conservatives in the House of Representatives. In 1980 Crane was eminent enough to be a fallback presidential candidate in case Reagan faltered. Indeed, the gossip on the eclipse of Crane’s career in the Reagan years is that he took his own 1980 run for the nomination a bit too seriously for the tastes of the Reagan people.