“Nancy was an extraordinary woman: a gracious first lady, proud mother and devoted wife to President Reagan – her Ronnie”.
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First lady Michelle Obama will attend the funeral on Friday of Nancy Reagan, who will be buried next to her husband, former President Ronald Reagan, at his presidential library in California, officials said on Monday.
Nancy Reagan died at her home in Los Angeles on Sunday. (He said she’d been confused with another actress with the same name).
This WWII-set film about a submarine commander charting minefields off the Japanese coast marks the only time Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan, already married for five years, shared the big screen.
Among those praising Nancy Reagan was Gregory Angelo of Log Cabin Republicans – a pro-gay-rights GOP group.
“I think she deserves credit for opening up the AIDS money”, Black told PBS.
Revered in Republican politics, Reagan was known as a fierce protector of her husband, both personally and politically.
“I will continue her work in trying to keep kids from the Dangers of Drugs”, he wrote, “GOD Bless You First Lady”.
Schroeder got a similar feeling when Ronald Reagan would tell a story about how Nancy Reagan would keep bananas handy at night so that if she became hungry, she could eat and not disturb her husband as he slept. Loyal Davis, a Chicago neurosurgeon, who adopted her. But it wasn’t just her own individual style that Nancy Reagan was interested in, Graddy notes. “All those years in Sacramento (as a governor’s wife) and nobody ever critiqued her clothing”.
But sometimes they love she had came across in chance moments. She also launched the “Just say no” anti-drugs campaign and advocated for stem-cell research later in life. “She had a definite vision of how the White House and the presidency should present themselves, and (also) the United States, on an global level”. Secret Service, Orland Park Police Chief Tim McCarthy was shot in the abdomen protecting President Ronald Reagan in 1981. “My prayers are with the entire Reagan family”.
In 1987, the then 66-year-old first lady was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Her husband’s tie tack was missing and his cufflinks were wrong. She had a hand in nudging her husband to make deals with then House Speaker Tip O’Neill.
The former first lady was remembered for the issues she championed, but perhaps her biggest legacy was her unbreakable love with Ronald.
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Anthony says he doesn’t think Nancy Reagan “fully grasped what it was saying to exhibit that kind of luxury when there was a homeless crisis, and joblessness”.
