Fellow actor, Ronnie Reagan, the Gipper,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,becomes President.......of course Ronnie was 1st the governor of California...............oh boy............

Politics[edit]

Stewart was a staunch supporter of the Republican Party^[105] and actively campaigned for Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. He was a hawk on the Vietnam War, and maintained that his adopted son, Ronald, did not die in vain. Stewart actively supported Reagan's bid to win the Republican presidential nomination in 1976.

Following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, Stewart, Charlton Heston, Kirk Douglas and Gregory Peck issued a statement calling for support of President Johnson'sGun Control Act of 1968.

One of his best friends was fellow actor Henry Fonda, despite the fact that the two had very different political ideologies. A political argument in 1947 resulted in a fistfight, but they maintained their friendship by never discussing politics again.^[106] This tale may be apocryphal as Jhan Robbins quotes Stewart as saying: "Our views never interfered with our feelings for each other, we just didn't talk about certain things. I can't remember ever having an argument with him—ever!" However, Jane Fonda told Donald Dewey for his 1996 biography of Stewart that her father did have a falling out with Stewart at that time, although she did not know whether it was because of their political differences. There is a brief reference to their political differences in character in their movie The Cheyenne Social Club.^[107] In the last years of his life, he donated to the campaign of Bob Dole in the 1996 presidential election and to DemocraticFlorida governor Bob Graham in his successful run for the Senate.^[105]