Once, there was a gathering of former first ladies at an Indian Wells fundraising dinner for the Betty Ford Center, and I watched as Mrs. Ford, Rosalynn Carter, Mrs. Reagan and Barbara Bush waited for the arrival of then-U.S. Sen.
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Reagan, the widow of former Republican President Ronald Reagan, died Sunday morning of congestive heart failure, according to her spokesperson.
Nancy Reagan is considered one of the most influential first ladies of the United States.
Nancy Reagan was fiercely protective of her husband Ronald Reagan, be it during his Hollywood career, or during their eight years in the White House.
“Nancy Reagan, the wife of a truly great President, was an fantastic woman”.
Reactions came from the campaign trail, including Democratic Candidate Hillary Clinton who, with former President Bill Clinton, called Reagan “a gracious first lady, proud mother, and devoted wife”.
He posted his condolences to the Reagan family on twitter saying, she was an wonderful first lady who defined class, grace, and strength. “Privately folks should also remember she was kind of the rock for President Reagan”, said Brent Leatherwood, Executive Director of the Tennessee GOP. Hutchison asked the first lady. Officials say Nancy Reagan will be buried next to her husband, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. We so often saw her standing close to her husband emphasizing the importance of family support for our nation’s president, both while he was in office, and during his illness after he left the White House. She also became an advocate of stem cell research following her husband’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis in 1994. But she didn’t stop, of course, and honestly never thought she had crossed a line. But she knew well how to work within them.
News of her death prompted President Obama to thank her for her “warm and generous advice. She stood by her man’s side through thick and thin”, said Jonathan Kritzer of Moorpark. “She leaves a remarkable legacy of good”.
“For that reason, she should get credit, with James Baker and Michael Deaver, for helping him to avoid some of the pitfalls that a consistently hard-right presidency would have encountered”, Greenberg says.
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“She helps us decide what speakers should come out here”.
