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Nancy Reagan

Early

Anne Frances Robbins was born July 6, 1921, in Manhattan Sloane Hospital for Women in New York, only son of car dealer Kenneth Seymour Robbins (18941972) and his wife, actress Edith Luckett (18881987). Her godmother was the film star Alla Nazimova silent. She spent her first two years in Flushing, Queens, New York. While his parents were divorced shortly after his birth, had been separated for some time. As his mother traveled the country to continue its work as an actor, Nancy was raised in Bethesda, Maryland, during next six years by his aunt and uncle Audley Gailbraith Virginia. Nancy describes the desire of his mother during these years: "My favorite moments were when the mother had a job in New York, and Aunt Virgie had me stay with her now. "

In 1929, her mother married Loyal Davis (18961982), a leading neurosurgeon, politically conservative who moved the family from Chicago. Nancy and her stepfather got along very well, she wrote later it was "a man of great integrity who embodies the old-fashioned values. He has officially adopted its 1935 and always refer to him as his father. At the time of adoption, his name was legally changed to Nancy Davis (birth had been commonly known as Nancy). He attended Chicago Latin Girls (she describes herself as an average student), graduated in 1939, and later at Smith College in Massachusetts, where she majored in English and Drama and graduated in 1943.

Performance

Nancy Davis poses for a photo in 1950 advertising

After graduation, Davis worked at odd jobs in Chicago as a sales in department stores Marshall Field's and as an aid nursing. With the help of colleagues from his mother in the theater, including zasu Pitts, Walter Huston and Spencer Tracy, began a career professional quality. She earned her first leg of the 1945 Inn Road dilapidated Pitts, moving to New York. She won the role of Si-Tchun, a bridesmaid in 1946 Broadway musical about East Lute Song with Mary Martin and Yul Brynner pre-celebrity. show producer, said: "It seems to be Chinese."

After a screen test, he moved to California and signed a seven-year contract with studios Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) in 1949, she later remarked, "The Union Underground was as enter a dream world. "Davis appeared in 11 films, often typecast as a housewife" fair "," responsible for the young mother, "or" Women's fixed. "She kept her professional name Nancy Davis, even after marriage. His film career began with small roles in 1949 Doctor and the Girl with Glenn Ford, and went to the East Side, West Side with Barbara Stanwyck. She played a psychiatrist in the child film noir shadow the wall (1950) with Ann Sothern and Zachary Scott, his performance has been called "beautiful and irresistible" New York Times, AH Weiler. She co-starred in 1950 La Voz When next you hear …, playing a pregnant housewife who hears God's voice from his radio station. Influential reviewer Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote as "Nancy Davis [is] delicious as [a] pagan woman, normal, and understanding. "A critic later admired the effort of the film to represent Davis convincingly pregnantany other films of the time it failed. In 1951, Davis appeared on the screen of his favorite role, tomorrow evening, a study of pain with Ray Milland. Crowther said that Davis "not very good as it is a boyfriend and knows the pain of loneliness, while another spokesman said Richard L. Washington Post Coe said Davis is magnificent as the widow of understanding. "Davis left MGM in 1952, looking for a wider range of parties. She soon played in 1953 science fiction film Donovan's Brain, Crowther said Davis, who plays the role of a scientist had sadly puzzled "woman" entered into disarray, however hard "in a" completely ridiculous "The film. In his latest film, Hellcats of the Navy (1957) played a nurse Lt. Helen Blair and share the screen for the only time with her husband, playing what one critic called "a housewife who came to walk. "Another critic, however, Davis said that the role of their part well, and "is doing well with what he has to work with."

Made famous author Garry Wills believes that Davis was underestimated as an actress in general, because its limited role in the Hellcats have they been seen more. In addition, Davis has rejected their targets Hollywood MGM promotional material in 1949, said his "greatest ambition" was to have a "good marriage happy", decades Later, in 1975, said: "It was never really a career woman, but [became] just because I found the man who wanted to marry. I could not sit still and do nothing, so I became an actress. "Ronald Reagan biographer Lou Cannon, but was a reliable "and" solid "performer, which held its own shows with famous actors. After his last film, appeared for a brief time television wagon train and dramas of the great man until 1962, when he retired as an actress. During his career, he served Board of Directors of the Screen Actors Guild for almost 10 years. Decades later, Albert Brooks has tried to convince Reagan retired as offering the role leading to himself in his film 1996, the mother. Reagan refused to take care of her husband, and Debbie Reynolds played the title role.

Marriage and Family

Newlyweds Ronald and Nancy Reagan, March 4, 1952

During his career as an actress, Nancy Davis dated Hollywood actors, later known as Clark Gable, who briefly dated the most beautiful of the stars he had known. The November 15, 1949, he met Ronald Reagan, who was then president of the Screen Actors Guild. Nancy had noticed that his name had appeared on the blacklist in Hollywood and has requested assistance from Reagan to keep his job as an actress in Hollywood guild and contribute to his name be removed from the list. Reagan said he had been confused with Another actress of the same name. The two began dating and their relationship has been the subject of many gossip, Hollywood press has described their time free together as nightclub "the romance of a couple who have no vices." Ronald Reagan was skeptical about marriage, however, after his painful divorce from Jane Wyman in 1948, and he saw other women. After three years of engagement, has finally proposed Davis on the stand couple's favorite restaurant in Beverly Hills Chasen. They were married March 4, 1952 at a simple ceremony, designed to avoid the press at the small church Brown in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. The only people who attended the actor William Holden, the best man, and his wife, the maid of honor. couple's first child, Patricia Ann Reagan (better known by his stage name Patti Davis) born October 21, 1952. His son, Ronald Prescott Reagan, was born six years later, May 20 Nancy Reagan also became the stepmother Maureen Reagan (19412001) and Michael Reagan (born 1945), the son of her husband's first marriage to Jane Wyman.

Nancy and Ronald Reagan in 1964 on a boat

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

Observers described Ronald and Nancy Reagan intimate relationship. As president and first lady, Reagan was reported to show their affection frequently, Press with a secretary said: "I've never taken the other for granted. never stopped courting. Ronald often called Nancy" Mommy " she called "Ronnie". While the president was recovering in hospital after an assassination attempt in 1981, Nancy Reagan, wrote in his diary: "Nothing can happen to my Ronnie. My life was over." In a letter to Nancy, Ron wrote, "I value and enjoy all would no sense if I did not. "In 1998, while her husband suffered from Alzheimer's, Nancy told Vanity Fair," Our relationship is very special. We have been very much in love and still are. When I say my life began with Ronnie, well, it's true. And he did. I can not imagine my life without him. "Nancy has been known for its attentive, called" the look "she always had her husband in his speeches and appearances. death President Reagan in June 2004 ended what Charlton Heston called "the greatest love affair in the history of the American presidency. "

Nancy relationship with your children is not always the closest with her husband and she often fought with their biological children and stepchildren. His relationship with Patti was the most controversial, Patti makes fun of American conservatism, and rebelled against their parents to join the movement to stop nuclear and the author of several books anti-Reagan. The nearly 20 years a family quarrel has left her far from her mother and father. Little long after his father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, Patti and her mother reconciled and began to speak on a daily basis. Nancy Michael also clashes with public affairs in 1984, was quoted as saying that the two were at a distance "now". Michael said Nancy was trying to conceal the fact that he had not met his daughter, Ashley, who was born a year earlier. They have also finally made peace. Nancy has been thought to be closer to his stepdaughter Maureen during the years of the White House but either Reagan's son experienced periods of separation from parents.

First Lady of California, 19671975

That First Lady Nancy California

Reagan was the first lady California during her husband's two terms as governor. He did not live in Sacramento, without emotion, social, and mild climate I was used in Los Angeles. It has attracted controversy in early 1967 when, after a four month stay in the mansion of Governor of California in Sacramento, he moved with his family in an affluent suburb because firefighters had marked the house like Firetrap. "Despite the Reagan praised the new home of the coast, the movement was considered by many to be a snob. Nancy has defended its actions and for the love of his family, a decision with which her husband agreed. Family Friends later helped to defray the cost of rented house, while Nancy Reagan oversaw the construction of a new governor next Ranch style residence Carmichael. The new home 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.

Nancy Reagan in 1967 was appointed by her husband to the California Arts Commission a year later became the wife of the Los Angeles Times this year, its profile, the Times called " A model of the First Lady. "His style and glamor of youth makes her a frequent subject for press photographers. As the first lady, Reagan visited veterans, the elderly and disabled, and worked with a range of charities. It is involved in the program Home grandparents, helping to popularize in the United States and Australia. He then expanded his work with the organization after his arrival in Washington, and wrote about his experiences in his 1982 book For the love of a child. The Reagan has held dinners for former prisoners War and veterans of the Vietnam War, while the governor and first lady.

Paper in 1976 and 1980 presidential campaigns

Main article: United States presidential election of 1976 and the 1980 U.S. presidential election

Governor Reagan mandate ended in 1975, and it does not work for third, but met with advisers to discuss a possible bid for the presidency in 1976, defying incumbent President Gerald Ford. Reagan is still needed to convince a reluctant Nancy before launch, however. She feared for the health of her husband and his career as a whole, but felt he was the man for the job and finally approved. Nancy has had a more traditional role in the campaign to celebrate coffees, lunches and conversations with the elderly. With that, she oversaw staff Moment of her husband, and sometimes give lectures Press. The campaign included the 1976 "Battle of the queens" in contrast with the first lady Betty Ford Nancy. They talked during the campaign on similar issues, but with different approaches. Nancy was particularly upset by the image that Ford had made bellicose campaign of her husband.

Despite lost the Republican nomination in 1976, Reagan ran again for president in 1980 and succeeded to win the nomination and election. During this second season, Nancy has played a very important role and its management staff has become more evident. She organized a meeting between the directors campaign feud John Sears and Michael Deaver and her husband, who has led the campaign to leave Deaver Sears gives full control. After Camp Reagan lost the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire behind in the polls, Nancy held a second meeting and decided it was time to make Sears and his staff; Sears gave a copy of the press release announcing his dismissal. His influence over her husband have been particularly remarkable, his presence at meetings, lunches, receptions and increased confidence.

First Lady of the United States, 19811989

The first lady Nancy Reagan and President Reagan at the 1981 Inaugural Parade

The Casa Blanca, glamorous

Renewal

Nancy Reagan became First Lady United States when Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as president in January 1981. At the beginning of her husband's presidency, Ronald Reagan expressed his wish establish a more appropriate "first home" to the White House since the building fell into disrepair after years of neglect. From the White House describes Michael Deaver floor of the residence of the family of the second and third have "cracked walls dry wood chips [paint] a plant cons, "instead of using public funds to renovate and decorate, solicited private donations. Nancy has completed a major renovation of several rooms of the White House, including all second and third floors and adjacent rooms in Oval Office, including the press conference room. The renovations included painting the walls, floors, chimney repair, and replacement of old pipes, windows and wiring. The master bedroom closet has become a beauty salon and a dressing room to the west and became a small gym.

The first lady said with recognized designer Ted Graber, popular among the wealthy social figures west coast, to redecorate the family living quarters. A Chinese-style, painted wallpaper Main was added to the master bedroom. family furniture was placed in the chair private study. The first lady and her designer to retrieve a number of antiquities from the White House, which had been in storage, and placed throughout the house.

The renovation was funded by private donations. Many important changes and long term was the result of the renovation and refurbishment, where Nancy Reagan said: "This house belongs to all Americans, and I want it to be something that we can be proud. "

Mode

The new first lady in his inaugural gown, 1981

Another Nancy Reagan has been expressed interest in fashion. While her husband was still president-elect, the press speculates on the social life of Nancy and interest in fashion. In many reports, the meaning Nancy style has been compared favorably to that of the former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy. Friends and loved ones she noted that Kennedy and fashion, which is different from other first ladies, a close friend Harriet Deutsch was quoted as saying "Nancy has her own label."

Nancy Reagan was firm in dresses, suits and dresses made by designers of luxury, including James Galanos, Bill Blass, Adolfo, Oscar de la Renta. His white, molded by hand, shoulder Galanos 1981 inaugural gown was a cost estimated at $ 10,000, while the overall price of opening your closet is said to cost $ 25,000. She favored the color red, calling it a "pick up top, and set accordingly. Her wardrobe included red so often that the shadow of firefighters came to be known as "Reagan red. We used two private hairdressers style your hair regularly with the White House.

Reagan models for Vogue magazine in the Red Room, 1981

Fashion designers have been satisfied with the emphasis on clothing Nancy Reagan. Adolfo said the first lady has devoted an elegant, rich, well educated, to American chic, "as Bill Blass, said:" I do not think there was someone at the White House since Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis has his style. William Fine Cosmetics company president Frances Denney said: "keep in style, but do not become fashionable."

Although its elegantly and costumes have been hailed as a model of chic glamor, have also been contentious issues. In 1982, she revealed that she had accepted thousands of dollars in clothing, jewelry and other gifts, but defended his actions by saying that had borrowed clothes and he could be returned or donated to museums, and she was promoting the industry American fashion. Faced with criticism, he quickly said he will no longer accept such loans. Although often buy her clothes, she has continued to borrow, and times to keep clothing brand through his time as first lady, who was released in 1988. Nothing of this is included in the declaration forms financial-reporting of loans under $ 10,000 in liability was in violation of a voluntary agreement of the White House had done in 1982, without ever mentioning the loan more valuable or clothing was returned a possible violation of the law on ethics in government. Nancy expresses through his press secretary "regrets not heeding the advice of counsel" in the broadcast.

Despite the controversy, many designers who allowed him to borrow clothes said the deal was good for business and for the American fashion industry in general. In 1989, Nancy was honored at the annual awards gala Council of Fashion Designers of America, during which he received the prize board life. Barbara Walters told her: "She has served every day for eight long years the style of speech. ""

Elegance and formality

About a year after the first of her husband, Nancy Reagan has explored the idea of ordering a new service for China House State white. There is a full set of china, had not been acquired from the Truman administration in the 1940s, with only partial service was directed to the Johnson administration. She was quoted as saying, "The White House really badly, badly needs China." Working with Lenox, a leading manufacturer of ceramics in America, the First Lady has chosen a design in red with a gold band engraved border plates in red and ivory with an embossed seal stamped on the golden chair in the center. The complete service consists of 4,370 pieces, 19 pieces per set. The service amounts to $ 209,508. Although he was paid by private donations, some of the private Knapp Foundation, purchase generated a controversy because it is ordered at a time when the nation suffered an economic slowdown.

New China, the renovation White House, expensive clothing, and assistance to the marriage of Charles and Diana, the Prince and Princess of Wales, gave him an aura of being "disconnected" with the American people over a period of economic slowdown. This and her taste for splendor inspired the derogatory nickname "Queen Nancy". Although Jacqueline Kennedy had also faced criticism from the press their spending habits, Reagan was much more consistent treatment and negative. In an attempt to deflect criticism, self-contempt brought a suit Baglady 1982 BBQ lunch and sings "second-hand clothes, imitating the song "Second Hand Rose". The skit helped to restore his reputation.

Reagan and her husband with her predecessor as First Lady, Jackie Kennedy, widow of President Kennedy in 1985. Nancy and Jackie is often compared because of her glamorous, unlike the intervention of First Ladies.

Nancy Reagan is reflected in the criticism in his autobiography, 1989, in my turn. Reagan describes lunch with former Democratic National Committee Chairman Robert Strauss, which Strauss said: "The first time I came to Nancy, I was not happy at all. But then, I know, I changed opinion and said: "It is a" great "Nancy said:" Bob, based on press reports I read then I would not have liked so much! "

After the presidencies of Gerald Ford (who support the fight song of Michigan "Hail to the Chief") and Jimmy Carter (which reduces considerably the formality of the presidential office), Nancy Kennedy-style glamor back to the White House. She has received 56 state dinners more eight years, compared to six by George and Laura Bush. He said that the conclusion of the dinner is "the easiest thing in the world. You do not have to do some thing. Have fun and make a small business. And how Washington works. "In 1987, Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the first Soviet leader to travel to Washington, DC Nikita Khrushchev in 1959, and Nancy Reagan was responsible for the planning and conduct of the important and much anticipated dinner State. After dinner, Nancy Van Cliburn pianist hired to sing an interpretation of "Moscow Nights" for the Soviet delegation Mikhail and Raisa at which erupted into a song. Former Secretary of State George Shultz said in the afternoon, saying: "We feel the ice of the Cold War falls apart. "Nancy concluded:" It was a perfect ending to one of the major afternoon Presidency my husband. "

Just Say No

Main article: Just Say No

Nancy Reagan launched the "Just Say No campaign on drugs "in 1982, which was its main project and great initiative that the first lady. Nancy became aware of the need to educate young people about drugs at a campaign stop in 1980 to Daytop Village, New York. She said in 1981 that "Understanding what drugs can do for their children, comprehension and understanding of peer pressure, why use of drugs is … the first step to solve the problem. "His campaign focuses on drug education and inform young people about the dangers of drug abuse.

Reagan delivered a speech at a rally Just Say No to Los Angeles, 1987

In 1982, Nancy Reagan was asked by a pupil what to do when offered drugs, Nancy said: "Just say no". The expression is increasing in the popular culture of the 1980s and was finally adopted as the name of the club and organizations school anti-drug programs. Reagan was actively involved in journeys of more than 250,000 miles (400,000 kilometers) to the United States and several countries in visiting programs for the centers of drug prevention and rehabilitation. She also appeared on television programs, service announcements registered public, and wrote articles and breakfast. She appeared in an episode of the hit TV series Dynasty to emphasize its Support the fight against drugs. As we have continued to promote "Just Say No", she appeared in an episode of the popular series television Diff'rent Strokes in 1980 and 1985, a rock music video, "stop the madness. When asked about his campaign, the first lady said: "If you can save one child, it's worth. "

In 1985, Nancy expanded international campaign, calling on the First Ladies of various nations to the White House for a conference on drug abuse. On October 27, 1986, President Reagan signed a bill on the control law drugs, which gave $ 1.7 billion in funds to fight against the crisis and ensure a mandatory minimum sentence for drug offenses. Although the project legislation has been criticized by some, Nancy Reagan considered a personal victory. In 1988, he became the first First Lady invited to address the UN General Assembly, who spoke in the international drug interdiction and traffic laws.

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

Critics of Reagan's efforts to question his purpose and said The program goes far enough to solve many social problems including unemployment, poverty, and the dissolution of the family of Nancy's approach to promote awareness drug was labeled as simplistic liberal critics. However, a series of "Just Say No" clubs and organizations remain in operation at all the country and aims to educate children and adolescents about the effects of the drug.

Her husband protector

Nancy Reagan has assumed the role of the agent "protector" of her husband after the assassination attempt against him in 1981. On 30 March this year, President Reagan and three others were killed as they left the Washington Hilton Hotel. Nancy has been alerted and arrived at George Washington University Hospital, where the president was hospitalized. She remembered having seen "the emergency room, but never seen one like thisith my husband in him." She was escorted into a waiting room, and if it is granted access to see their husband, the actor replied to her: "Honey, I forgot to duck, ready joke defeated boxer Jack Dempsey, his wife.

The first examples of nature protection occurred when the Senator Strom Thurmond entered the hospital room of the President that day in March, the detail of Secret Service alleging that he was the President "Close friend", presumably to attract media attention. Nancy was outraged and asked him to leave. While the president recovered to the hospital, the first lady went to bed with one of his shirts to be comforted by the smell. When Reagan was released April 12, she accompanied him back the White House.

Press accounts framed Nancy and her husband "capital protection", an extension of initial, it fits like a good companion and an ideal of domestic Cold War.

Influence in the White House

"The View": Nancy noted how her husband was sworn in one second mandated by Justice Warren Burger, 20 January 1985.

Nancy said in his memoirs: "I felt panic whenever [Ronald] left the White House "after the assassination attempt, and made it his concern for her husband know how to program: events that will be present, and with whom. Over time, this protective conduit consult an astrologer, Joan Quigley, who proposed the idea of what days were "good", "neutral", or should be avoided, which influence her husband in the White House schedule. Days were color coded according to the advice of astrologers to discern exactly what days and times would be optimal for the safe and successful president. The White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan, he was frustrated by the regime, which has created friction between him and the First Lady. This escalation of revelation administration Iran-Contra scandal, which became the First Lady Regan was the president badly. She thought he should resign, and said her husband, but does not share his opinion. Regan wanted President Reagan to address the Iran-Contra, in early 1987 by a press conference, but refused to allow Nancy Reagan himself exceeded due to recent surgery for prostate and astrological warnings. Regan was so mad Nancy cons who hung on her during a telephone conversation in 1987. According to former ABC News correspondent Sam Donaldson, when the President heard this treatment, which resignation was finally receivedegan demandednd. , Released in 1988 memory, wrote about Nancy Regan consultation with the astrologer, the first mention public of them, which resulted in embarrassment for the First Lady. Nancy later wrote: "Astrology was simply one means that we have faced the fear I felt after my husband almost died … Was one of the reasons astrology [more attempts are a]? I really do not think it was, but I really do not think it was not. "

Reagan speech in the Oval Office, 1985

Nancy Reagan exerted influence on President Reagan. Again, the assassination attempt, access is strictly controlled the president and even attempted to influence the decision of her husband.

In 1985, Nancy is strongly encouraged her husband to take "to summit "conference with Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev, and suggested that a personal relationship in advance. Both Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev had developed a fruitful relationship in the summit negotiations. The relationship between Nancy Reagan and Raisa Gorbachev was anything but environment, a diplomat from their husbands, Nancy finds it difficult to talk with Raisa and their relationship has been described as "frozen." Both women usually tea and discussion of differences between the USSR and the United States. Visit U.S. for the first time in 1987, Raisa anger Reagan with lectures on topics ranging from architecture to socialism, reportedly prompted the wife of the President of the United States United jokingly: "Who can think of this woman is she?

Nancy Production Press has just changed companion and protector someone who has the hidden power. As the image of her as a political outsider growing up, she tried to deny explicitly that it is the power behind the throne. At the end of her time as first lady, but She said that her husband had not been well served by his staff. She acknowledged her role in the reaction of the influence in personnel decisions, saying: "No way, I apologize for that." She writes in his memoirs: "I do not think I was as bad or as extreme in my hand or my weakness, as has been shown, but continued: "[H] owever meeting the first lady, has a unique role and important role in the care of her husband. And of course, she let him know what you think. By Ronnie I have always been and always will be. "

Breast

In October 1987, a mammogram detected a lesion in the left breast, Nancy Reagan and was later diagnosed with cancer breast. She chose a mastectomy instead of lumpectomy and retired 17 October 1987. Shortly after the operation, her mother, Edith Luckett Davis, died in Phoenix, Arizona which copy Nancy "terrible period of one month."

After the operation, more women in the country of mammography, an example of the influence of first lady a.

Recent years

Although Nancy was a controversial First Lady, 56 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of her when her husband left office Jan. 20, 1989, 18 percent have an opinion and adverse action and give an opinion. Compared with his fellow first ladies when their husbands leaving office, Reagan's approval were higher than those of Rosalynn Carter and Hillary Rodham Clinton, however, was less popular than Barbara Bush and his disapproval rating was twice that of Carter.

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

Leaving the White House, the couple returned California, where he 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 regularly attended Bel Air Presbyterian Church as well. After leaving Washington, Nancy made many appearances audience, many on behalf of her husband. Continues to live at home in Bel Air, where she lived with her husband until his death June 5, 2004.

The first blank after the activities House

In late 1989, the former first lady Nancy Reagan created the Foundation's mission is to continue to educate people about the dangers of drug abuse. The Foundation partnered with the best foundation for a future without drugs in 1994 and developed the program after school Nancy Reagan. She continued Travel across the country, denouncing the abuse of drugs and alcohol. After President Reagan revealed that he had received a diagnosis Alzheimer's disease in 1994, became his primary caregiver, and has participated actively with the National Association of Alzheimer's and its subsidiary, the Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Institute in Chicago, Illinois.

Ronnie's long journey has finally taken to a distant place where I can not reach.

Ancy Reagan, May 2004

Also in 1989, published my turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan, who realizes his life in the White House, who spoke openly of their influence within the Reagan administration and discuss the myths and controversies surrounding the couple. In 1991, the controversial author Kitty Kelley wrote an unauthorized biography and largely uncited Nancy Reagan, repeating the account of a poor relationship with their children and introduction of Rumors of alleged sexual relations with singer Frank Sinatra. A wide range of sources saying unsupported claims are largely Kelley probably false.

In 1989, the Internal Revenue Service began investigating whether Reagan and how the tax on donations and loans from designer clothes and jewelry Nancy during their stay at the White House (beneficiaries of these people posting revenue recognition, even if they are returned). In 1992, the IRS determines the Reagan does not include some 3 million dollars on fashion items between 1983 and 1988 tax returns, who have been indicted by a large number of back taxes and interest that was paid later.

Nancy Reagan awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor, by President George W. Bush July 9, 2002. President Reagan received his own Presidential Medal of Freedom in January 1993. Nancy and her husband were jointly awarded the Congressional Gold Medal May 16, 2002 at Capitol and only the third president and First Lady to receive it, accepted the medal on behalf of both.

Funeral of Ronald Reagan

Former First Lady Nancy Reagan said his last farewell to President Ronald Reagan on June 11 May 2004, before the burial and holding a state funeral one week for the president.

In addition to information: The death and state funeral of Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan is dead his home in Bel Air June 5, 2004. During the state funeral of seven days, Nancy, with her children and military escort led the nation in mourning to maintain a quiet strong, which moves in the library Reagan Home for a memorial service, then to Washington, DC, where the body of her husband ready for 34 hours before a state funeral in Washington National Cathedral. He returned to the library in California for a memorial service and burial at sunset, when, overwhelmed by emotion, she lost her composure, mourn in public for the first time during the week. After accepting the folded flag, the coffin and kissed her mouth: "I love you" before leaving. Journalist Wolf Blitzer said of Reagan during the week, "It is very, very strong, despite his fragile appearance."

She led the planning details of the funeral, there including its control all the major events and asking the former president George HW Bush and former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to speak during the National Cathedral. Has been paid great attention to detail, something she had always done in the life of her husband. Betsy Bloomingdale, one of the closest friends of Reagan, said: "It seems a bit fragile. But it is very strong inside. It is. She has the strength. She made her last thing for Ronnie. And it will be good. "The funeral marked the first public appearance since Reagan gave Republican National Convention speech in 1996 on behalf of her husband.

The funeral was a major impact on the public image of Reagan. After criticisms substantial to warrant his first lady, who was seen a bit like a national hero, hailed by many to support and care for her husband when he suffering from Alzheimer's disease. U.S. News & World Report said, "after a decade in the shadows, another, gentler Nancy Reagan emerged.

Life after Ronald

Reagan has remained active in politics, especially in regard to stem cells. From 2004, she supported what many consider the position of the Democratic Party, and urged President George W. Bush to support research funded by the federal using embryonic stem cells in the hope that science could lead to a cure for Alzheimer's disease. Although she could not change the position of president, she supported her campaign for a second term.

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

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

In 2007, she attended the national service funeral of Gerald Ford at Washington National Cathedral. Nancy Reagan held two debates 2008 Republican candidates Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, the first of May 2007 and the second in January 2008. Although if it did not participate the debates, he was sitting in the front row and listened to men who compete to become the 44th president of the nation claiming to be legitimate successor of her husband. Despite some speculation arises as to whether Reagan could support the New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, in a presidential race, is not the case. She officially approved Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican Party candidate, as president on March 25.

Nancy Reagan, center, receives a diploma from the University Eureka charges March 31, 2009

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

She attended the funeral of Lady Bird Johnson in Austin, Texas, July 14, 2007, and accepted three days after the highest honor of Poland, the Order of the White Eagle, on behalf of Ronald Reagan at the Reagan Library. The Reagan Library opened the exhibition "Nancy Reagan: A Lady's First Style", which shows more than eighty designer dresses belonging to the first lady.

Nancy Reagan, the health and well-being become a major concern in 2008. In February, he suffered a fall at his home in Bel Air and was taken to St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California. The doctors said she does break a hip as feared and he was released the hospital two days later. News commentators noted that the passage of Reagan slowed considerably, and the month after walking slowly with John McCain. NBC Brian Williams, who attended a dinner in mid-2008 Reagan, he has recalled, "Mrs. Reagan's vision which has not always been so it taking steps to arrest a large number of people his age do … [I] is not so important for people in their age group and their support of life to stand and captain your own boat. It is very much the master of your own boat. "In terms of mental capacity, Williams said:" It is as strong as ever and enjoy a stable life with his friends in California, but] [fall is always a danger, of course. She is very stoic person strong full of joy and enthusiasm for life ... It must have views on politics and the types of policies these days ... It is, like most of his friends has describes a firearm. "

In October 2008, Reagan was admitted to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center after a fall at home, physicians decided that the 87-year-old fractured pelvis and sacrum and may recover at home with physiotherapy treatment. Following the accident, medical have been published which contain information on how to prevent falls. In January 2009, Reagan said he was "improving daily and begins to depart and more. "

In March 2009, which praised President Barack Obama to reverse the prohibition of federal funding on embryonic stem cells. She traveled to Washington, DC in June 2009 to unveil a statue of her late husband in the Capitol Rotunda. She also attended President Ronald Reagan signed Obama Act Centennial Commission and lunched privately with Michelle Obama. Nancy has revealed in an interview with Vanity Fair magazine that Michelle Obama had called by phone for advice on life and entertainment the White House. Following the August 2009 death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, she said she was "terribly sad ... Given Our political differences, people often wonder how close to Ronnie and I were at the Kennedy family. ... I will miss him. "

Filmography

The Doctor and the Girl (1949)

East Side, West Side (1949)

Shadow on the Wall (1950)

The next time you hear voice ... (1950)

Morning Night (1951)

It is a great country (1951)

Talk about a Stranger (1952)

Shadow Heaven (1952)

Donovan's Brain (1953)

Rescue at Sea (also known as Crash Landing1955)

Dark Wave (1956)

Hellcats of the Navy (1957)

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