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S1E2: Will the Real Evil Empire Please Stand Up?

SNAFU with Ed Helms

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Reagan's Life Was Falling Apart, and the FBI Comes Knocking

The FBI thought Hollywood communists were brainwashing the American public by sneaking pro-communist propaganda into movies. Reagan was a vice president of the Screen Actors Guild, and the FBI came knocking. The FBI offered him a chance to enlist in the world's next great conflict, the war against the communists. He says he wasn't interested in what he called red baiting.

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