Nancy Reagan | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-05

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Nancy Reagan


00:02:31 1 Early life and education
00:04:31 2 Acting career
00:09:42 3 Marriage and family
00:14:02 4 First Lady of California
00:16:08 5 Role in 1976 and 1980 presidential campaigns
00:18:06 6 First Lady of the United States
00:18:17 6.1 White House glamour
00:18:25 6.1.1 Renovation
00:20:36 6.1.2 Fashion
00:23:45 6.1.3 Elegance and formality
00:28:27 6.2 Just Say No
00:31:03 6.3 Her husband's protector
00:32:47 6.4 Influence in the White House
00:37:23 6.5 Breast cancer
00:38:05 7 Subsequent life
00:39:14 7.1 Early post-White House activities
00:41:53 7.2 Funeral for President Reagan
00:43:52 7.3 Widowhood
00:49:58 8 Death and funeral
00:51:43 9 Awards and honors
00:52:24 10 Filmography



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Nancy Davis Reagan (born Anne Frances Robbins; July 6, 1921 – March 6, 2016) was an American film actress and the wife of Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States. She was the First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
She was born in New York City. After her parents separated, she lived in Maryland with an aunt and uncle for several years. When her mother remarried in 1929, she moved to Chicago and later took the name Davis from her stepfather. As Nancy Davis, she was a Hollywood actress in the 1940s and 1950s, starring in films such as The Next Voice You Hear..., Night into Morning, and Donovan's Brain. In 1952, she married Ronald Reagan, who was then president of the Screen Actors Guild. They had two children together. Reagan was the First Lady of California when her husband was Governor from 1967 to 1975, and she began to work with the Foster Grandparents Program.
Reagan became First Lady of the United States in January 1981, following her husband's victory in the 1980 presidential election. Early in his first term, she was criticized largely due to her decision to replace the White House china, which had been paid for by private donations. Following years of lax formality, she decided to restore a Kennedyesque glamour to the White House, and her interest in high-end fashion garnered much attention as well as criticism. She championed recreational drug prevention causes when she founded the "Just Say No" drug awareness campaign, which was considered her major initiative as First Lady. More discussion of her role ensued following a 1988 revelation that she had consulted an astrologer to assist in planning the president's schedule after the attempted assassination of her husband in 1981. She generally had a strong influence on her husband and played a role in a few of his personnel and diplomatic decisions.
After Ronald Reagan left the White House in 1989, the couple retired to their home in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California. Nancy devoted most of her time to caring for her husband, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1994, until his death at the age of 93 on June 5, 2004. Reagan remained active within the Reagan Library and in politics, particularly in support of embryonic stem cell research, until her death from congestive heart failure at age 94 on March 6, 2016.