Editing Art Linkletter (section)

===Activism===
A [[Republican Party (United States)|registered Republican]] who campaigned for his old friend [[Ronald Reagan]] for [[President of the United States]], Linkletter became a political organizer and a spokesman for the United Seniors Association, now known as [[USA Next]], an alternative to the [[AARP]]. As part of this role, Linkletter was active in campaigning for more stringent restrictions on elderly motorists. He was also a member of the [[President's Council on Service and Civic Participation]] (which ended in November 2008).

In 1978, he wrote the foreword to the bestselling self-help book ''Release Your Brakes!'' by James W. Newman, in which he wrote, "I believe none of us should ever stop growing, learning, changing, and being curious about what's going to happen next. None of us is perfect, so we should be eager to learn more and try to be more effective persons in every part of our lives."

In 2005, at the age of 93, he opened the [[Happiest Homecoming on Earth]] celebrations for the 50th anniversary of [[Disneyland Park (Anaheim)|Disneyland]]. Half a century earlier, he had been the commentator on the opening day celebrations in 1955. For this, he was named a [[Disney Legend]].