IN will lower flags to half-staff at state facilities to honor late first lady Nancy Reagan.
Advertisement
“I had just happened to finish reading the Reagan’s diaries, and I noticed throughout the diaries that every page he was pining away for Nancy”, Heubusch said.
Graham, 97, released a statement mourning the former first lady’s passing on the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association’s website, saying he was “privileged to know Nancy and Ronald Reagan for more than 50 years and greatly valued their friendship”.
Mr. Obama remarked on Nancy Reagan’s role in Ronald Reagan’s life.
His wife Nancy, whose cause of death was congestive heart failure, according to a spokeswoman for the Reagan presidential library, will lay in repose on Wednesday, March 9 and Thursday, March 10, with funeral services on Friday, March 11.
“He was lucky to have her, and I’m sure he would be the first to acknowledge that, so she will be missed”, Obama said. But his wife was the “flypaper first lady”, as longtime adviser Michael Deaver once quipped, because almost everything negative stuck to her.
A fierce protector of her husband and his political legacy, Reagan had outsized influence during her White House years from 1981 to 1989.
“Ronald Reagan was the keynote speaker”.
She first became First Lady of California when her husband served as governor from 1971 to 1975 (California is no stranger to celebrity governors).
By all accounts, the couple remained close until the former president died in 2004 after a decade of living with Alzheimer’s disease.
An undated photo of Billy Graham with President Ronald Reagan and then First Lady Nancy Reagan. “Mrs. Reagan was fiercely loyal to her beloved husband, and that devotion was matched only by her devotion to our country”, Former president George W. Bush said.
“She’s going to be with Ronnie Reagan and that’s what she’s wanted”, Franklin said. Mila and I had many wonderful visits with them.
Advertisement
“I could kind of see just in Nancy’s face that she was kind of anxious”, Branstad said. My mother was more aware of the dark corners of life.
