Editing Dana Rohrabacher (section)

==Early life, education, and early career==
Dana Tyrone Rohrabacher<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-08-28-mn-39769-story.html | work=Los Angeles Times | first=Gebe | last=Martinez | title=Moving From the Fringe to the Forefront: Politics: O.C.'s Dana Rohrabacher is having fun with his newfound clout | date=1995-08-28 | access-date=February 18, 2020 | archive-date=March 6, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306183937/http://articles.latimes.com/1995-08-28/news/mn-39769_1_dana-rohrabacher | url-status=live }}</ref> was born on June 21, 1947,<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-oct-12-me-31778-story.html|title=Rohrabacher Won't Coast This Campaign|first=Jean O.|last=Pasco|date=October 12, 1998|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> in [[Coronado, California]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://capitolweekly.net/surfer-dana-rohrabacher-blue-wave/|title=Surfer Dana Rohrabacher faces the 'blue wave' - and more|first=Rich|last=Ehisen|date=May 7, 2018|website=Capitol Weekly}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CDIR-1999-06-15/html/CDIR-1999-06-15-CA-H-45.htm|title=Congressional Directory for the 106th Congress (1999-2000), June 1999. -|website=www.govinfo.gov}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/CA/bios/H/669.html|title=Dana Rohrabacher (R - CA - 45)|website=www.cnn.com}}</ref> the son of Doris M. (née Haring) and Donald Tyler Rohrabacher.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/reps/rohrabacher.htm|title=rohrabacher|publisher=freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com|access-date=September 19, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170409200529/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/reps/rohrabacher.htm|archive-date=April 9, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=ancestry.com is not a [[WP:RS|reliable source]] and must not be used for ethnicity or descent, per [[WP:BLPCAT]] and [[WP:EGRS]].|date=May 2020}} Rohrabacher graduated from [[Palos Verdes High School]] in [[Palos Verdes Estates, California]],<ref name="auto"/> attended [[Los Angeles Harbor College]], and earned a [[Bachelor of Arts|bachelor's degree]] in history at [[California State University, Long Beach]] in 1969. He received his [[Master of Arts|master's degree]] in [[American Studies]] at the [[University of Southern California]].<ref name="auto1"/>
[[File:C38147-7.jpg|thumb|President [[Ronald Reagan]] faking a punch to Dana Rohrabacher aboard [[Air Force One]] and trip back to California in 1986]]
While in graduate school and during the early 1970s, Rohrabacher had a side activity as a folk singer.<ref>{{cite book|last=Doherty|first=Brian|title=Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement|date=April 28, 2009|publisher=PublicAffairs|title-link=Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement}}</ref> He was also a writer for the ''[[Orange County Register]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dana Rohrbacher – Early Life|url=http://www.rohrabacher.house.gov/about/full-biography|access-date=January 22, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190102040901/https://rohrabacher.house.gov/about/full-biography|archive-date=January 2, 2019|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

Rohrabacher served as assistant press secretary to [[Ronald Reagan]] during his 1976 and 1980 presidential campaigns.<ref>{{cite news|last= May|first= Clifford D.|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/11/us/washington-talk-two-house-freshmen-reflect-clash-of-cultures.html|title= Washington Talk; Two House Freshmen Reflect Clash of Cultures|newspaper= The New York Times|date= 1989-05-11|access-date= 2008-04-15|archive-date= July 29, 2018|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180729081516/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/11/us/washington-talk-two-house-freshmen-reflect-clash-of-cultures.html|url-status= live}}</ref> Rohrabacher then worked as a speechwriter and special assistant to President Reagan from 1981 to 1988.<ref name="Gais">{{cite web|url=https://medium.com/the-eastern-project/there-s-a-u-s-senator-taking-out-his-frustrations-on-twitter-a5f404b9b20d|title=Dana Rohrabacher's No Good, Very Bad Weekend|last=Gais|first=Hannah|date=April 7, 2015|publisher=The Eastern Project|access-date=May 18, 2015|archive-date=April 15, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150415071923/https://medium.com/the-eastern-project/there-s-a-u-s-senator-taking-out-his-frustrations-on-twitter-a5f404b9b20d|url-status=dead}}</ref> During his tenure at the [[White House]], Rohrabacher played a leading role in the formulation of the [[Reagan Doctrine]].<ref name="Gais"/>