Eastwood: Pieces from the past No 3

Eastwood: Pieces from the past No 3

Eastwood talks politics. This article appeared in the UK’s Mail on Sunday Newspaper Sunday supplement magazine YOU, November 9th 1986. This appeared some 7 months after Clint won the local election to become mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea. 

There was a great deal of coverage in the media – and I have an awful lot of it archived away, so there will be quite a bit turning up here. With Reagan serving as president at the time, it was perhaps inevitable that a lot of comparisons were made, and a lot more speculation that Clint would perhaps move up the political ladder and one day take on the top job for himself. To Clint’s credit, he always maintained that (for him) politics began and ended purely at a local level, and he was true to his word. Nevertheless, it did provide an interesting couple of years. 

This article/interview was by John Arrow.