Years before he became head of Fox News -- way before there even was a Fox News -- Roger Ailes was a media consultant.  Most prominent among his many clients, perhaps, was President Ronald Reagan. Ailes was an adviser to the Presidentg in his 1984 reelection bid, and was indrectly responsible for one of that campaign's most memorable, and decisive, moments.

I met Roger Ailes in the fall of 1987.