4. Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan won a fan in Merle Haggard when he pardoned the singer for crimes he committed when he was a young man. Haggard did time in San Quentin Prison for burglary in the late 1950s. But in 1972, then-California governor Ronald Reagan granted Haggard a full pardon, which Haggard said gave him “a second chance at life.”
Turns out Reagan was a pretty big fan of Haggard, too. Ten years after he was pardoned, Haggard performed at the White House for the president of the United States.
