She will join her beloved Ronald at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, who died on June 5, 2004. Nancy Reagan will be buried next to her husband at the library.
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“I will continue her work in trying to keep kids from the Dangers of Drugs”, he wrote, “GOD Bless You First Lady”.
Sadly, Reagan passed away in 2016 from congestive heart failure, at 94.
Born in New York City on July 6, 1921, she would go on to marry actor Ronald Reagan in 1952.
Smullen attended the dedications of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in California and the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. He recalled the Presidents’ Summit for America’s Future in April 1997 in Philadelphia.
Franklin said the Reagans were honest about everything they did and he says they were also sincerely in love.
She visited Ireland with President Reagan in 1984. He knows how much she meant to the president and the country as a whole.
Years later, I was one of several experts and scholars, including George Shultz and Ed Meese, who participated in a 1999 seminar on the fall of the Berlin Wall at the Reagan Presidential Library.
Nancy Reagan acknowledged the limits of her influence.
“I think they had a little bit of an edgy relationship really because dad was a real independent Texan and he was part of the grass-roots campaign because Reagan was really a political outsider”, Gabriel said.
President Barack Obama ordered Monday that the US flag be flown at half-staff until sunset on the day of her burial “as a mark of respect for the memory of Nancy Reagan”. She nudged him to publicly accept responsibility for the arms-for-hostages scandal.
The Miller Center has been tweeting and sharing quotes and facts on Nancy Reagan’s legacy as first lady.
One of those moments was the March 30, 1981, assassination attempt on President Reagan, which took place 69 days after he was sworn into the presidency.
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Nancy Reagan is survived by Patti Davis and Ron Reagan – her two children with Ronald Reagan – and Michael Reagan, a son from Ronald Reagan’s first marriage to Jane Wyman.
