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Nancy Reagan

Early life

Anne Frances Robbins was born on July 6, 1921, in Manhattan's Sloane Hospital for Women, New York, the only car salesman's son Kenneth Seymour Robbins (18941972) and his wife, actress Edith Luckett (18881987). Her godmother was the star of silent film – Alla Nazimova. She lived during his early two years in Flushing, Queens, New York. While her parents divorced shortly after her birth, they had been separated for some time. Like his mother traveled the country to perform the work as Nancy was raised in Bethesda, Maryland, for the next six years by his aunt and uncle Audley Galbraith Virginia. Nancy describes longing for her mother during these years: "My favorite moments were when the mother had a job in New York, Aunt Virgie and I would train to be with her."

In 1929, his mother married Loyal Davis (18961982), a neurosurgeon, a prominent political conservative who took his family to Chicago. Nancy and her stepfather got along very well, she would writing that he was "a man of great integrity who exemplified the old values." He formally adopted her in 1935, and she always referred to him as his father. At the time the adoption, her name was legally changed to Nancy Davis (from birth, she was commonly called Nancy). She attended the Girls' Latin School Chicago (describing himself as an average student), graduated in 1939 and later attended Smith College in Massachusetts, where he majored in English and drama and graduated in 1943.

Acting career

Nancy Davis poses for a publicity photo from 1950

After graduation, Davis held job in Chicago as a clerk in the department store Marshall Field's and as a nursing assistant. With the help of colleagues from his mother in the theater, including ZaSu Pitts, Walter Huston, and Spencer Tracy, she pursued a career as an actress professional. She won a part on tour Pitts "Ramshackle Inn Road in 1945, moving to New York City. She played the role of Si-Tchun, a lady-in-waiting, in 1946 the Music Broadway Battle on the music of the Orient, starring Mary Martin and a pre-stardom Yul Brynner. The show's producer told her: "You look like you could be Chinese ".

After passing a screen test, she moved to California and signed a seven-year contract with Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios (MGM) in 1949, she later remarked, "Joining Metro was like walking into a dream world." Davis appeared in 11 movies, usually branded as "loyal housewife", " responsible young mother, "or" woman stable. "She kept her professional name, Nancy Davis even after getting married. His film career began with minor roles in 1949, the doctor and the girl with Glenn Ford, and went to East Side, West Side, starring Barbara Stanwyck. She played a child psychiatrist in the film noir Shadow on the Wall (1950) with Ann Sothern and Zachary Scott, her performance was called "beautiful and compelling" by the New York Times critic AH Weiler. She co-starred in 1950 is the next voice you hear …, playing a pregnant housewife who hears God's voice from his radio. Bosley Crowther of The reviewer influential New York Times wrote that "Nancy Davis [is] delightful as [a] gentle woman, simple, and understanding." A critic later admired the film's effort to portray the way Davis pregnantany convincing as other films from the time left to do that. In 1951, Davis appeared on the screen of your favorite role, Night Into Morning, a study of grief, starring by Ray Milland. Crowther said that Davis "does well as the groom is a widower and if you know the loneliness and sadness," while another noted critic, Richard The Washington Post L. Coe, said Davis "is splendid as the widow of understanding." Davis left MGM in 1952, seeking a wide range of parts. Soon she starred the science fiction movie Donovan Brain 1953; Crowther said Davis, playing the role of a scientist is possessed "the woman sadly mistaken," "Went through all that screaming in confusion" into "a movie totally stupid." In his last movie, Hellcats of the Navy (1957), she played Lt. Nurse Helen and Blair shared the screen for the only time with her husband, playing what one critic called "a housewife who came along for the ride." Another critic, however, Davis said he plays his part well, and "get on with what she has to work with."

noted author Garry Wills believes that Davis was underestimated as a global actor, because part of it was constrained in Hellcats their performance more widely seen. Moreover, Davis downplayed the aims of his Hollywood: MGM promotional material in 1949 said his "greatest ambition" was to have a "good marriage happy," decades later, in 1975, she said: "I was never really a woman career, but [became a] just because I had not found the man who wanted to marry. I could not do nothing, so I became an actress. "Ronald Reagan biographer Lou Cannon, however, characterized it as an interpreter "reliable" and "solid", which held its own in performances with best-known actors. After his last film, she appeared for a brief time in television dramas Wagon Train and the tall man until 1962, when he retired as an actress. During her career, she served on the board of directors of the Screen Actors Guild for almost 10 years. Decades later, Albert Brooks tried to persuade Reagan to act to retirement by offering him the title role opposite himself in his 1996 film Mother Reagan refused to care for her husband, and Debbie Reynolds played.

Marriage and family

Newlyweds Ronald and Nancy Reagan, March 4, 1952

During his career as an actress, Nancy Davis dated actors in Hollywood, she later named Clark Gable, whom she dated briefly, most entertaining stars she knew. On November 15, 1949, she met Ronald Reagan, who was then president of the Screen Actors Guild. Nancy had noticed that his name had appeared in the Hollywood blacklist and sought help from Reagan to keep his job as an actress in Hollywood guild, and for assistance in having your name removed the list. Reagan reported that she had been confused with another actress of the same name. The two started dating and their relationship was the subject of many gossip columns, an account of Hollywood press reported their leisure club together as "the romance of a couple who has no vices." Ronald Reagan was skeptical about marriage, however, 1948 after his divorce from Jane Wyman painful, and he still saw other women. After three years of dating, he finally proposed to Davis in the booth at the couple's favorite restaurant Chasen's in Beverly Hills. They were married on March 4, 1952 at a simple ceremony, designed to avoid the press at the Little Brown Church in San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles. The only people present were the actor William Holden, the best man, and his wife, the maid of honor. The couple's first child, Patricia Ann Reagan (better known by her professional name, Patti Davis) was born on October 21, 1952. His son, Ronald Prescott Reagan, was born six years later, on May 20. Nancy Reagan also became stepmother Maureen Reagan (19412001) and Michael Reagan (born 1945), the children of the husband's first marriage to Jane Wyman.

Nancy and Ronald Reagan in a Boat in 1964

The Reagan family in 1967, soon after the inauguration of Ronald Reagan as governor of California

Observers described Ronald and Nancy Reagan's relationship is so intimate. As president and first lady, the Reagans were reported to show their affection frequently, with one press secretary noting, "They never took to him granted. They never stopped courting. "Ronald, often called Nancy" Mommy, "she called him" Ronnie. "While the president was recovering in hospital after the attack in 1981, Nancy Reagan wrote in his diary: "Nothing can happen to my Ronnie. My life would be." In a letter to Nancy, Ronald wrote, "I appreciate and enjoy everything would be meaningless if I did what you have." In 1998, while her husband suffered from Alzheimer's disease, said Nancy Vanity Fair, "Our relationship is very special. We were and still are very passionate. When I say my life began with Ronnie, well, true. It did. I I can not imagine my life without him. "Nancy was known for his gaze focused and attentive, called" the look ", she clung to her husband during his speeches and appearances. President Reagan died in June 2004 ended Charlton Heston called "the greatest love affair in the history of the American presidency."

Nancy relationships with children was not always as close as that with her husband, she often fought with the biological children and stepchildren. His relationship with Patti was the most controversial; Patti disrespected American conservatism and rebelled against his parents by joining the movement of "nuclear freeze and author of numerous books anti-Reagan. The nearly 20 years of family feuding left far from his mother and father. Soon after his father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, Patti and her mother reconciled and began to speak on a daily basis. disagreements Nancy and Michael were also public affairs, in 1984, she was quoted as saying the two were in a "strangeness now. "Michael said that Nancy was trying to cover up the fact she had found her daughter, Ashley, who was born almost a year before. They also finally made peace. Nancy was thought to be closer to his stepdaughter Maureen over the years in the White House, but each of the Reagan children experienced periods of separation from their parents.

First Lady of California, 19671975

Nancy as first lady of California

Reagan was the first lady of California, during his husband two terms as governor. She did not like living in Sacramento, who missed the fun, social, and mild climate in which it was used in Los Angeles. First, She attracted controversy in early 1967 when, after a residence of four months in the California governor's mansion in Sacramento, she moved her family in a wealthy suburb because firefighters had marked the mansion as a "firetrap." Though the Reagans rented the new house at their expense, the movement was seen by many as a snob. Nancy defended his actions as being for the sake of his family, a decision with which her husband readily agreed. Friends of the family later helped offset the cost of rented accommodation, while Nancy Reagan oversaw the building of a new residence of the governor's ranch-style in nearby Carmichael. The new residence was completed just as Ronald Reagan left office in 1975, but his successor, Jerry Brown, refused to live there. It was sold in 1982, and the governors of California have lived in makeshift arrangements since then.

In 1967, Nancy Reagan was nominated by her husband to the California Arts Commission, and a year later was appointed Women Los Angeles Times of the Year in her profile, the Times labeled her "A Model of first lady." Her glamorous style and youthfulness made her a frequent subject for press photographers. As first lady, Reagan visited the veterans, the elderly and the disabled, and worked with a number of charities. She became very involved with the Foster Grandparent Program, helping to popularize it in America, then in Australia. Later, she expanded her work with the organization after arriving in Washington, and wrote about his experiences in his 1982 book, to love a child. The Reagans held dinners for former prisoners and veterans of the Vietnam War, as governor and first lady.

Paper in 1976 and 1980 presidential campaigns

Main articles: United States presidential election of 1976, and Presidential Election 1980

Governor Reagan term ended in 1975, and he was executed by a third, but instead, he met with aides to discuss a possible bid for the presidency in 1976, challenging the incumbent president Gerald Ford. Reagan still had to convince a reluctant Nancy before implementation, however. She feared for the health of her husband and her career as a whole, although he felt that he was the right man for the job and finally approved. Nancy took a more traditional role in the campaign, holding coffees, lunches and conversations with the elderly. With that, she oversaw staff, accompanying her husband's agenda and, occasionally, from press conferences. The 1976 campaign included the so-called "battle of the queens," contrasting with the first lady Betty Ford Nancy. Both talked about the course of the campaign on similar issues, but with different approaches. Nancy was particularly upset with the belligerent image that Ford's campaign had taken from her husband.

Although he lost the Republican nomination 1976, Reagan ran again for the presidency in 1980 and managed to win the nomination and election. During this second campaign, Nancy played a very important and its personnel management became more evident. He arranged a meeting between the rival campaign manager John Sears and Michael Deaver and her husband, which resulted in leaving the campaign Deaver Sears and being given full control. After the camp Reagan lost the Iowa caucus and was left behind in the polls in New Hampshire, Nancy organized a second meeting and decided that was time to fire Sears and his associates, Sears gave a copy of the press release announcing his resignation. His influence over her husband became particularly noticeable their presence at meetings, luncheons, receptions and increased their confidence.

First Lady of the United States, 19811989

First Lady Nancy Reagan and President Reagan during the inaugural parade, 1981

White House glamor

Renewal

Nancy Reagan became First Lady of the States United States, when Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as president in January 1981. Early in the presidency of her husband, Ronald Reagan declared his desire to create a more suitable environment "First home" in the White House as the building had fallen into a state of disrepair after years of neglect. White House aide Michael Deaver described the family residence, second and third floor as having "cracked plaster walls, chipped paint [and] beaten floor," instead of using government funds to refurbish and redecorate, she sought private donations. Nancy directed a major renovation in several rooms of the White House, including all second and third floors and adjacent rooms to the Oval Office, including the press conference room. The reform included painting walls, refinishing floors, fireplaces, repair and replacement old pipes, windows and wires. The closet in the master bedroom was transformed into a beauty room and dressing room, and the fourth West was made in a small gym.

The first lady has secured the support of renowned interior designer Ted Graber, popular with affluent West Coast social figures, to redecorate the living quarters of the family. A Chinese standard, wallpaper handpainted was added to the master bedroom. family's furniture was placed in the president's private study. The first lady and her designer recovered a series Antique White House, which had been in storage, and placed them throughout the mansion.

The extensive refurbishment was paid for by private donations. Many significant and lasting changes occurred as a result of renovation and remodeling, that Nancy Reagan said: "This house belongs to all Americans, and I want it to be something that they can be proud. "

Fashion

The new first lady in his inaugural dress, 1981

Other brands Nancy Reagan was her interest in fashion. While her husband was still president-elect, the press speculated about the social life Nancy and her interest in fashion. In many media reports, Nancy sense of style has been favorably compared to former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy. Friends and people close to her said that while fashion as Kennedy, it would be different than other first ladies, a close friend Harriet Deutsch was quoted as saying, "Nancy has her own label."

Nancy Reagan's wardrobe consists of dresses, gowns, and suits made by designers of luxury goods, including James Galanos, Bill Blass, Adolfo, and Oscar de la Renta. His white, hand-bills, a shoulder Galanos 1981 inaugural gown was budgeted at $ 10,000 while the overall price of your wardrobe opening was said to cost $ 25,000. She favored the color red, calling it "a picker superior, "and used it properly. His wardrobe was red so often, that the shadow of firefighters, known as" Reagan red. "She privately hired two hairdressers who style her hair on a regular basis at the White House.

Reagan models for Vogue magazine in the Red Room, 1981

The designers were satisfied with the emphasis placed Nancy Reagan clothing. Adolfo said the first lady embodied an elegant, affluent, well educated, upscale American look "While Bill Blass, said:" I do not think there was someone in the White House since Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who has his talent. William Fine, President the cosmetics company Frances Denney noted that it "remains in style, but it does not become fashionable."

Although their costumes were elegant and stylish hailed as a "paradigm of glamor chic, they were also controversial issues. In 1982, she revealed that she had accepted thousands of dollars on clothes, jewelry and other goodies, but defended his actions, saying she had loaned the clothes and it would be either returned or donated to museums, and she was promoting the fashion industry American. Facing criticism, she immediately said it would no longer accept such loans. Although often buy clothes, she continued to ask and sometimes keep clothes designer throughout her time as first lady, who came to light in 1988. None of this had been included in financial disclosure forms, the report does not loans under $ 10,000 in liability was in violation of a voluntary agreement of the White House had made in 1982 by failing to declare the loans more valuable or clothing not returned was a possible violation of the Ethics in Government Act. Nancy expressed through his press secretary "regrets that she did not to heed the advice of counsel "in its disclosure.

Despite the controversy, many designers who allowed her to borrow clothes to note that the agreement was good for their business as well as the fashion industry at large. In 1989, Nancy was honored at the annual gala dinner of the Council of Fashion Designers of America during which she received the Lifetime Achievement Award Council. Barbara Walters told her: "She has served every day for eight long years the word" style ".

Elegance and formality

Approximately one year to the first term of her husband, Nancy Reagan, explored the idea of ordering new china service state to the White House. A full-service porcelain had not been purchased since the Truman administration in 1940 as a partial service was ordered in the administration Johnson. She was quoted as saying, "The White House very badly, desperately in need of porcelain." Working with Lenox, the leading manufacturer of porcelain in America the first lady has chosen a design scheme of red with a gold band engraved on the border with the red and cream ivory plaques with an engraved presidential seal in raised gold in the center. The complete service consists of 4,370 pieces, 19 pieces per individual game. The service totaled $ 209,508. Despite having been paid for by private donations, some of private companies Knapp Foundation, the purchase generated enough controversy since it was condemned in a time when the country was experiencing an economic downturn.

The new China, the White House renovations, expensive clothing, and his presence at the marriage of Charles and Diana Prince and Princess of Wales, gave him an aura of being "out contact "with the American people during an economic downturn. This and prove it to the splendor inspired the derogatory nickname" Queen Nancy. "While Jacqueline Kennedy had also faced some criticism from the press for their spending habits, the Reagan treatment was much more consistent and negative. In an attempt to deflect the criticism, she self-deprecatingly donned a costume baglady in 1982 Gridiron dinner and sang "second-hand clothes," imitating the song "Second-Hand Rose. "The skit helped restore his reputation.

Reagan and her husband with her predecessor as first lady, Jackie Kennedy, widow of President Kennedy, in 1985. Nancy and Jackie were often compared because of its glamor, in contrast with the First Ladies intervention.

Nancy Reagan, reflected on the criticism in his autobiography of 1989, my turn. Reagan describes lunching with former Democratic National Committee chairman Robert Strauss, where Strauss told her: "When you first came to the city of Nancy, I do not like you at all. But after I got to know you, I changed my mind and said, 'She's a bitch! "Nancy replied," Bob, based on media reports, so I did, I would not have liked me too! "

After the presidency Gerald Ford (who favored the Michigan fight song on 'Hail to the Chief ") and Jimmy Carter (which drastically reduced the formality of the functions presidential), Nancy brought a Kennedy-esque glamor back to the White House. She received 56 state dinners during eight years, compared to six by George and Laura Bush. She commented that the achievement of the dinner is "the easiest thing in the world. You need not do anything. Just have a good time and do a little business. And that's the way how Washington works. "In 1987, Mikhail Gorbachev became the first Soviet leader to visit Washington, DC since Nikita Khrushchev in 1959, and Nancy Reagan was responsible for planning and hosting the highly anticipated and important State dinner. After the meal, Nancy recruited pianist Van Cliburn to sing a rendition of "Moscow Nights "for the Soviet delegation, which Mikhail and Raisa sang. Former Secretary of State George Shultz said on the night, saying:" We feel the ice of the Cold War, disintegrating. "Nancy concluded:" It was a perfect ending to a great nights of my husband's presidency. "

Just say no

Main article: Just say no

Nancy Reagan launched the "Just Say No" campaign of awareness drugs in 1982, which was his main project and major initiative as First Lady. Nancy was aware of the need to educate young people about drugs during a campaign stop 1980, at Daytop Village in New York. She noted in 1981 that "Understanding what drugs can do with their children understand peer pressure and understand why they come back to drugs … is the first step toward solving the problem. "His campaign focused on drug education and inform young people about the dangers of drug abuse.

Reagan gives a speech at a Just Say No rally in Los Angeles, 1987

In 1982, Nancy Reagan was asked by a student to do when offered drugs, Nancy said: "Just say no." The phrase proliferated in popular culture of the 1980s and was adopted as the name of the club drug organizations and school programs. Reagan became actively involved by traveling more than 250,000 miles (400,000 km) across the United States and several nations visiting programs to prevent drug abuse and drug rehabilitation centers. She also appeared on television talk shows, taped public service announcements, and wrote articles for guests. She appeared in an episode of the hit television drama Dynasty to emphasize support for anti-drug campaign. As she continued to promote "Just Say No", she appeared in an episode the popular 1980 sitcom Different Strokes and a rock music video 1985 "Stop the Madness." When asked about his campaign, the first lady said, "If you can save just one child, it's worth it. "

In 1985, Nancy has expanded the international campaign, calling on the First Ladies of various nations to the White House for a conference on drug abuse. On 27 October 1986, President Reagan signed a law on drug enforcement law, which granted U.S. $ 1.7 billion in funding to tackle the crisis and ensured a mandatory minimum sentence for drug offenses. While the bill was criticized by some, Nancy Reagan believed a personal victory. In 1988, she became the first first lady invited to address the UN General Assembly, where she spoke about the international drug interdiction and trafficking laws.

Reagan hosts the First Ladies Conference on Drug Abuse White House, 1985.

Critics questioned the efforts of Reagan their purpose, and argues that the program does not go far enough in addressing many social issues, including unemployment, poverty and family breakdown; Nancy approach to promoting awareness of the drug was labeled by critics as simplistic liberals. However, a series of "Just Say No" clubs and organizations remain in operation throughout the country, and they aim to educate children and teenagers about the effects of drugs.

protective of her husband

Nancy Reagan assumed the role of "protector" unofficial to her husband after the attempt on his life in 1981. On March 30 of that year, President Reagan and three other were shot as they left the Washington Hilton Hotel. Nancy was alerted and arrived at George Washington University Hospital where the president was hospitalized. She recalled seeing "rooms emergency before, but I had never seen one like thisith my husband in it. "She was taken to a waiting room, and when access to see him, he joked with her:" Honey, I forgot to duck ", borrowing the game defeated boxer Jack Dempsey to his wife.

An early example of their protective nature occurred when Senator Strom Thurmond walked into the hospital's president that day in March, from the Secret Service, claiming he was the President "intimate friend" presumably to gain media attention. Nancy was outraged and demanded that he leave. While the president was recovered in the hospital, the first lady slept with one of your shirts to be comforted by the smell. When Reagan was released from the hospital on April 12, she accompanied him back to the White House.

Press accounts framed Nancy and her husband "Chief Protector", an extension of its initial general framework of her as a companion and a Cold War national ideal.

Influence in the White House

"The Gaze": Nancy watches as her husband is sworn in for a second term by Chief Justice Warren Burger, on January 20, 1985.

Nancy said in her memories, "I felt panicked whenever [Ronald] left the White House" following the assassination attempt and made it their concern know the agenda of her husband:. the events he would be attending and with whom Eventually, this led to its protectionist consulting an astrologer, Joan Quigley, which offered a vision on the days that were "good," "neutral," or should be avoided, which influenced her husband's White House schedule. Days were color coded according with the advice of an astrologer to accurately distinguish the days and times would be ideal for the president's security and success. The White House chief of staff, Donald Regan, frustrated with this regime, which created friction between him and first lady. This escalation with the revelation of the Iran-Contra scandal, a government scandal in which the First Lady felt Regan was hurting the president. She thought he should resign, and he expressed this to her husband although he did not share her view. Regan wanted President Reagan to address the issue of Iran-Contra affair in early 1987, through a press conference, although Nancy Reagan refused to allow the force to himself due to a recent prostate surgery and warnings astronomical. Regan was so angry with Nancy, who hung on her during a telephone conversation 1987. According to former ABC News correspondent Sam Donaldson, when the President heard of this treatment, he eventually demandednd, the resignation of receivedegan. In his memoirs of 1988, Regan wrote about Nancy consultations with an astrologer, the first public mention of them, which resulted in embarrassment for the First Lady. Nancy later wrote: "The Astrology was simply one of the ways that they coped with the fear I felt after my husband almost died … Astrology was one of the reasons [other attempts did not occur]? I do not really believe it was, but I really do not believe it was not. "

The Reagans conversation in the Oval Office, 1985

Nancy Reagan exerted a powerful influence on President Reagan. Again arising from the assassination attempt, she strictly controlled access to the president and even occasionally tried to influence her husband's decision making.

Beginning in 1985, Nancy's husband strongly encouraged to hold "summit" conference with Soviet Secretary General Gorbachev, and suggested forming a personal relationship beforehand. Both Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev had developed a productive relationship with their negotiations summit. The relationship between Nancy Reagan and Raisa Gorbachev was anything but the friendly diplomatic relations between their husbands, Nancy found it difficult to talk Raisa with their relationship was described as "icy." The two women usually had tea and discussed the differences between the USSR and the United States. Visited the U.S. the first time in 1987, Reagan Raisa irritated with lectures on topics ranging from architecture to socialism, reportedly taking the president's wife North American joke, "Who does that dame think she is?"

Press elaboration of Nancy moved that only companion and protector for someone with occult power. As her image as a political outsider grew, she tried to deny explicitly what was the power behind the throne. At the end of her time as first lady, however, She said her husband had not been well served by his staff. She acknowledged their role in reaction to influence it in personnel decisions, saying: " no way, I apologize for that. "She wrote in her memoirs," I do not think I was so bad, or as extreme in my power and my weakness, as was portrayed, "but continued," [H] owever the first lady fits, she has a unique and important role to play in caring for her husband. And it is natural that she will let him know what she thinks. I always did it for Ronnie and I always will. "

Breast cancer

In October 1987, mammography detected a lesion in the left breast of Nancy Reagan and was subsequently diagnosed with breast cancer. She opted to undergo a mastectomy instead of a mastectomy and breast cancer was removed on 17 October 1987. Not long after the operation, her mother, Edith Luckett Davis, died in Phoenix, Arizona, leading Nancy to dub the period "a terrible month."

After surgery, most women around the country have mammograms, an example of the influence of first lady possesses.

Later life

Although Nancy was a controversial First Lady, 56 percent of Americans had a favorable opinion of her husband, when he left office on January 20, 1989, with 18 percent having an unfavorable opinion and not the balance of opinion. Compared to fellow First Ladies, when her husband left office, Reagan's approval was higher than that of Rosalynn Carter and Hillary Rodham Clinton, but she was less popular than Barbara Bush and their disapproval Carter was double.

Nancy Reagan's official White House portrait hung in the Room Vermeil.

After leaving the White House, the couple returned to California, where they bought a house in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles, dividing his time between Bel Air and the Reagan Ranch in Santa Barbara, California, Ronald and Nancy participated regularly Bel Air Presbyterian Church as well. After leaving Washington, Nancy has made numerous public appearances, many on behalf of her husband. She continues to reside in the house of Bel Air where she lived with her husband until his death on June 5, 2004.

In early post-White House activities

In late 1989, the former first lady Nancy Reagan established the foundation, which aims to continue to educate people about the dangers of substance abuse. The Foundation teamed with the best basis for A-Drug Free Tomorrow in 1994 and developed the Nancy Reagan Afterschool Program. She continued to travel the country speaking out against the abuse of drugs and alcohol. After President Reagan revealed he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1994, became his primary caregiver and became actively involved with the National Association of Alzheimer's and its affiliate, Research Institute of the Ronald and Nancy Reagan, in Chicago, Illinois.

Ronnie's long journey finally led to a distant place where I can no longer reach him.

Ancy Reagan, May 2004

Also in 1989 she published My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan, who gives an account of his life in the White House, speaking openly about his influence within the Reagan administration and discuss the myths and controversies that surrounded the couple. In 1991, the controversial author Kitty Kelley wrote an unauthorized biography and largely uncited about Nancy Reagan, echoing the accounts of a bad relationship with their children and the introduction of hearsay alleged links sex with singer Frank Sinatra. A wide range of sources commented that Kelley largely unsupported claims are most likely false.

In 1989, the Revenue Federal Reagans began investigating to determine whether they should tax on gifts and loans of couture clothes and jewels of Nancy during their time in the White House (recipients enjoy the display of items such as recognizing taxable income, even if they are returned). In 1992 the IRS determined the Reagans had failed to include about $ 3 million articles of fashion, between 1983 and 1988 on their tax returns, which were billed for a large amount of back taxes and interest, which was subsequently paid.

Nancy Reagan received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, by President George W. Bush on July 9, 2002. President Reagan received his Presidential Medal of Freedom in January 1993. Nancy and her husband were jointly awarded the Congressional Gold Medal on May 16, 2002 on Capitol Hill, and only was the third president and first lady to receive her, she accepted the medal on behalf of both.

funeral of Ronald Reagan

Former first lady Nancy Reagan says that his final farewell to President Ronald Reagan in June 11, 2004, before the funeral and the finalization of a state funeral a week for the president.

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Ronald Reagan, died at his home in Bel Air on June 5, 2004. During the state funeral of seven days, Nancy, accompanied by his sons and military escort led the nation in grief by maintaining a strong composure, traveling from his home to the Reagan Library for a memorial service, then Washington, DC, where her husband's body was in state 34 hours before a national funeral service at Washington National Cathedral. She returned to the library in California for a memorial service and burial of the sun, when touched, she lost her composure, crying in public for the first time during the week. After accepting the folded flag, she kissed the coffin and mouth "I love you" before leaving. journalist Wolf Blitzer said of Ronald Reagan during the week, "She's a very, very strong, even she seems fragile. "

She had directed the detailed planning of the funeral, including ordering all the major events and asking the former president George HW Bush as well as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to speak at the National Cathedral Service. She paid much attention to detail, something she always did in her husband's life. Betsy Bloomingdale, one of Reagan's best friends, said: "She seems a bit fragile. But she is very strong in interior. She is. She has the strength. She is doing her last thing for Ronnie. And she'll be right. "The funeral marked the first major appearance of Reagan public performance since a speech to the Republican National Convention 1996, on behalf of her husband.

The funeral had a major impact on public image Reagan. Following substantial criticism during his tenure as first lady, she was seen both as a national hero, praised by many for supporting and caring for her husband while he was suffering from Alzheimer's disease. U.S. News & World Report opined, "After a decade in the shadows, a different, softer Nancy Reagan arose. "

Life after Ronald

Reagan has remained active in politics, particularly with regard to stem cell research. Starting in 2004, which favored what many consider to be the Democratic Party's position and asked President George W. Bush to support federal funding of research on stem cells embryo in the hope that science can lead to a cure for Alzheimer's disease. Although she could not change the position of president, she supported his campaign for a second term.

In 2005, Reagan was honored at a gala dinner at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC, where guests included Dick Cheney, Harry Reid, and Condoleezza Rice. It was his first major public appearance since the funeral. Asked about his future plans were, Reagan shook his head and replied: "I do not know. I'll know when I'll know. But the [Reagan] library is Ronnie, so that's where I spend my time."

Nancy Reagan dedicates Air Force One Pavilion at the Library with President Reagan and Laura Bush, October 2005

In 2007, she attended the funeral of Gerald Ford's bureau in Washington National Cathedral. Nancy Reagan hosted two presidential debates Republican candidate in 2008 Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, the first in May 2007 and the second in January 2008. While she did not participate in the discussions, she sat in the front row and I heard that the men vying to become president of the nation's 44 claimed to be a legitimate successor of her husband. Despite some speculation arose of whether Reagan could draw New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, in a presidential bid, not came to nothing. She formally endorsed Sen. John McCain, the Republican candidate of his party for president on March 25.

Nancy Reagan, center, receives a diploma Honorary Eureka College, March 31, 2009

Nancy Reagan and one of his successors, Michelle Obama, at a luncheon June 3, 2009

She went to funeral of Lady Bird Johnson in Austin, Texas on July 14, 2007, and three days after accepting the highest Polish distinction, the Order of White Eagle, on behalf of Ronald Reagan at the Reagan Library. The Reagan Library opened the temporary exhibition "Nancy Reagan: A First Lady Style," which aired more than designer dresses and eighty belonging to the first lady.

Nancy Reagan's health and welfare has become a major concern in 2008. In February she suffered a fall at his home in Bel Air and was taken to St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California. Doctors reported that she broke her hip as feared, and she was released from the hospital two days later. News commentators noted that the step of Reagan had slowed significantly, as the following month, she walked a few steps too slow, with John McCain. Brian Williams of NBC, who attended a dinner with Ronald Reagan in mid-2008, recalled, "Mrs. Reagan's vision is not what has always been like she was taking steps much to catch a lot of people his age do … [I] t is so important for people in their age and their life support to remain upright and captain of his own ship. She is captain of his very own ship. "As for his mental capacity, Williams said:" She is sharp as ever, and enjoys a solid life with his friends in California, but [the fall] is always a danger, of course. She is a very stoic, tough full of joy and excitement for life … It is not without opinions on politics and the kinds of politicians these days … She is, like most of her friends described her, a gun. "

In October 2008, Reagan was admitted to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center after falling at home, doctors determined that the 87-year-old had fractured pelvis and sacrum and could recover at home with a regimen of physical therapy. As a result of his accident, medical articles were published, containing information about how to prevent falls. In January 2009, Reagan was said to be improving every day and becoming more and more. "

In March 2009, She praised President Barack Obama to reverse the ban on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. She traveled to Washington, DC in June 2009, to inaugurate a statue of her late husband in the Capitol Rotunda. She was also on hand as President Obama signed the Centennial Commission Ronald Reagan Law and lunched privately with Michelle Obama. Nancy revealed in an interview with Vanity Fair that Michelle Obama telephoned for advice on life and entertainment in the House White. After the August 2009 death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy said she was "terribly sad … in front of our political differences, people are sometimes Ronnie surprised how close and I went to the Kennedy family. … I will miss him. "

Movies

The Doctor and the Girl (1949)

East Side, West Side (1949)

Shadow on the Wall (1950)

The next voice you hear … (1950)

Evening Morning (1951)

It's a Big Country (1951)

Talk About a Stranger (1952)

Shadow in the Sky (1952)

Donovan's Brain (1953)

Rescue Sea (also known as Crash Landing1955)

The Dark Wave (1956)

Hellcats of the Navy (1957)

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