Visitors can park at 400 National Way in Simi Valley, and from there access transportation shuttles that will take them up to the Library. She beat breast cancer during her husband’s presidency.
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“What do you say about someone who gives your life meaning?”
“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. Matt also interviewed Ronnie following his father and former president Ronald Reagan death in 2004. He credited Mrs. Reagan for arranging the first overnight stay at the White House by an openly gay couple, and for encouraging her husband to engage in the fight against AIDS.
Members of the community may view her in repose at the library Wednesday from 1 p.m.to 7 p.m. and Thursday from 10 a.m.to 2 p.m., said Lori Love, the library’s transition coordinator. “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.
To Wendy Armstrong, a volunteer docent at the Reagan library, the late first lady’s legacy was much clearer.
From 1981-87 he served in the White House under President Reagan as special assistant and deputy press secretary. When he asked her how it went afterward, she shrugged.
Regan was the president’s chief of staff, but he was forced to resign in 1987 shortly after he hung up on Nancy Reagan in the middle of a conversation with the first lady.
They were married in “The Little Brown Church” in Studio City, California in 1962 and from that moment, she devoted her life to him. She was also famous for consulting an astrologer to create her husband’s schedule, a practice the White House acknowledged was related to concerns she had about his safety.
“Let’s have a little respect for the woman who somehow managed to co-opt an entire color”, says actress Alison Fraser, who played Nancy Reagan in the recent off-Broadway musical “First Daughter Suite”, at the Public Theater.
The people who work at the Alzheimer’s Alliance of Smith County say ever since the Reagans announced the president’s struggle with the disease over 20 years ago, more people have been encouraged to get help.
I’ll discuss her more tomorrow on radio and LevinTV.
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At the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, the USA flag, along with the California state and library flag, was lowered to half-staff shortly before 10 this morning. “It doesn’t seem possible but that’s what it is”.
