Progress Reports: Ralph Garbutt

Breakfast with Mr. Reagan

Ralph Garbutt, a retiree of GE’s Housewares Division, recalls a chance meeting with Ronald Reagan at an early-morning sales meeting, during a blinding New England blizzard in 1958. They discussed everything from Hollywood to World War II. Everything, Mr. Garbutt says, but politics.

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