Per the President’s proclamation and Governor Walker’s order, all United States and Alaska flags should be flown at half-staff beginning immediately and remain lowered until sunset on the day of interment.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) – The son of Nancy and Ronald Reagan says he was inspired by his parents’ unfailing devotion to each other during their half-century marriage.
“She was first in Ronald Reagan’s life and she put him first”, Gardenhire said in a statement.
Hilary Abramson, a Sacramento journalist who interviewed Nancy Reagan and her husband for a profile in 1976, described the first lady as possessing “an extremely icy personality, almost impenetrable … to a stranger such as myself”.
Gov. Terry Branstad recalls squeezing into an Iowa hotel phone booth with Ronald and Nancy Reagan to prep the future president before a 1976 address to local political activists. But he also emphasized her life after the White House, as she became an advocate for her husband’s legacy and his health. Join us in a conversation about world events, the newsgathering process or whatever aspect of the news universe you find interesting or important. “When the time comes, I am confident that with your help she will face it with faith and courage”.
But Elmets said Nancy Reagan would be “shaking her head in disgust” at the lack of decorum and the vulgarity in the current campaign.
Nancy Reagan, who died Sunday at 94, will be buried next to her husband at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Friday. He said Nancy Reagan could “see right through people”. “Both Reagan and TR tended to like everybody and were easily taken advantage of”, Morris says. And after the assassination attempt, the President’s safety was Nancy Reagan’s No. 1 preoccupation. It’s just that he wanted to be president – so she was going to do her utmost to make sure Ronnie got the chance.
“No, no. When you balance it all out, I’ve had a pretty fabulous life”, she said.
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She did so much to raise the profile of first lady and American fashion that she received a CFDA lifetime achievement award in 1989.
