From The Telegraph files Most any American of a certain age will instantly recognize the man at right, while any Granite Stater of a certain age will likewise recognize the man at left in this photo, probably taken in the late 1970s -- when the man at left, Meldrim Thomson Jr., was governor of New Hampshire and the man at right, Ronald Reagan, was a former California governor running for the Republican nomination for president in the 1980 GOP primary. Gale Thomson and Nancy Reagan accompany their husbands in this photo, which was likely taken at some type of event somewhere in New Hampshire. Thomson, who fancied himself the taxpayer's best friend, served as governor from 1973-79. Upon his death at age 89 in April 2001, Thomson was eulogized in a New York Times story as "an ultraconservative icon with his grand and petty crusades against taxes," and recalled as a "New Hampshire conservative with a Southern accent" in a Baltimore Sun story. (From The Telegraph files)

Most any American of a certain age will instantly recognize the man at right, while any Granite Stater of a certain age will likewise recognize the man at left in this photo, probably taken in the late 1970s – when the man at left, Meldrim Thomson Jr., was governor of New Hampshire and the man at right, Ronald Reagan, was a former California governor running for the Republican nomination for president in the 1980 GOP primary. Gale Thomson and Nancy Reagan accompany their husbands in this photo, which was likely taken at some type of event somewhere in New Hampshire. Thomson, who fancied himself the taxpayer’s best friend, served as governor from 1973-79. Upon his death at age 89 in April 2001, Thomson was eulogized in a New York Times story as ‘an ultraconservative icon with his grand and petty crusades against taxes,’ and recalled as a ‘New Hampshire conservative with a Southern accent’ in a Baltimore Sun story.