us not be weary in well doing, be kindly affectioned to one another with brotherly love, and god loveth a cheerful giver. schoolmates bullied young dutch for his stance on compelling social issues. adopting his father's politics, he disapproved of what he considered the robber barons controlling banks and railroads, and a fierce union advocate, he never missed a chance to speak out for the working man. he was violently opposed to segregation. it inspired him that william s. hart, his boyhood cowboy movie hero, opened his ranch for the benefit of the american public of every race and creed. young dutch was a champion of the needy and those affected by the epidemic of homelessness. my god, ronald reagan was a liberal biographer's heartthrob. by the time he was an established actor, he had become if anything more political. he loved sparring with his passionate republican buddies, william powell and robert montgomery, really going at it, then patching it up afterwards over drinks at the brown derby. reagan relished how jack benne always called him governor and how robert cummings referred