“While remembering the former First Lady Clinton misremembered the history of HIV/AIDS in the USA when she praised Reagan for her HIV activism (and not her ” Just Say No” anti-drug campaign).
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Leading the roster of VIP mourners slated to attend is Michelle Obama, joined by close relatives of all of President Barack Obama’s nine immediate predecessors, including former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura. Famous faces like Katie Couric, Larry King, Diane Sawyer, and Tom Selleck were in also attendance.
She also selected the opening song for the funeral service, “Battle Hymn of the Republic”, a favorite of her husband. The letter described the various roles that she filled in his life: mother, first lady, homemaker, rancher, and wife.
In a retraction that did little to calm the waters, Clinton said she had meant to say Alzheimer’s, but said she “misspoke” during her initial interview. “Everything is done with class”.
“People died while Reagan administration officials ignored pleas from government scientists and did not allocate adequate funding for Aids research until the epidemic had already spread throughout the country”, wrote the journalist Randy Shilts in his book “And the Band Played On ” , about the disease’s rise”.
“She had an instinct for reading people that the president knew he lacked”.
“There would be no Ronald Reagan Presidential Library without a President Ronald Reagan, and there likely wouldn’t have been a President Ronald Reagan without a Nancy Reagan”, said Ron Reagan, delivering the last of several eulogies during the 90-minute service.
Baker said Ronald Reagan never would have won the White House without her “or succeeded as well as he did”.
Hillary ClintonHillary Rodham ClintonClinton further apologizes for Nancy Reagan AIDS comment De Blasio: Of course Trump’s a racist How Carson arrived at Trump MORE penned an article in Medium Saturday, expanding on her previous apology for praising Nancy and Ronald Reagans’ response to HIV and AIDS. “I didn’t want to offend her”.
Ms Clinton, in her race against Bernie Sanders, has received extensive support for LGBT advocacy groups and donors.
He said the only time he saw Nancy Reagan lose her composure “was the day the president was shot”. The former first lady will be buried. She could a bit excessive.
Let’s hope Hillary doesn’t make this mistake again!
President Reagan spoke in public so warmly, and so often, about his wife, former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney recalled, that he once told Reagan he was making every other world leader look bad in front of their wives. “Truly, she could be a royal pain in the ass when she wanted to be”, he continued.
The Reagans traveled between Bel Air and their ranch at Rancho del Cielo, in the mountains above Santa Barbara.
In 1994, the former president did bravely acknowledge his Alzheimer’s diagnosis.
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Nancy Reagan was laid to rest next to her husband of 52 years, Ronald Reagan, on the grounds of the Reagan Library.
