p. 991 of Gore Vidal's rather lousy United States.
On the drafting of Reagan by Henry A. Salvatori et al. for the California governor in 1966. The quotations are sloppy and appear here as they do in the original. The bolding is mine.
". . . Salvatori didn't think you could run an actor against an old political pro like the Democratic incumbent Pat Brown. But when Ronnie went national with The Speech on television, Ronnie was in business as a politician, and his friends decided to finance a Reagan race. To these new-rich Sunbelters, "Politicians and candidates, even Ronnie, were an inferior breed. 'Reagan doesn't have great depth,' Salvatori admits, 'but I don't know any politician who does. He's not the most intelligent man who ever was, but I've never met a politician with great depth. I don't know of any politician who would be smart enough to run my business, but Reagan just might.'"
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