former first lady Nancy (Davis) Reagan

First Lady Barbara Bush holds the bible for her husband, George H.W. Bush, as he is sworn into office as the 41st president of the United States, 1989. ... Former First Ladies Rosalynn Carter, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Betty Ford, Barbara Bush, Nancy Reagan, and Lady Bird Johson at the dedication of the ...

“I said, 'It's okay, Mr. President, I'll come back and get that.' He said: 'What makes you think you can carry a chair any better than I can?'” Reagan and former First Lady Nancy Reagan had Grande and her children to their home in Bel Air to swim in their pool, or for holiday visits, or to take them to the zoo, ...

Similarly, in 2016, then-President Obama did not attend the funeral of former first lady Nancy Reagan, while his wife did. Sitting presidents have rarely in recent decades gone to the funerals of former first ladies, according to FactCheck.org, a project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center in Philadelphia.

Barbara Bush could see what Nancy Reagan and Hillary Clinton could not: the unwritten rules governing this extraconstitutional position. Gossamer shackles restrain the woman standing on what Nancy Reagan called the “white glove pulpit”—a recognition of the political delicacy the modern job of first lady ...

In a just released book, “Lady in Red,” Sheila Tate tells how former first lady Nancy Reagan was referred to as The Dragon Lady and was seen as cold, ... Jackie wrote Nancy a letter shortly after Ronald Reagan was elected president, and was one of the first people to call Nancy after the election to give her ...

Sheila Tate served as press secretary to First Lady Nancy Reagan from 1981 to 1985. Tate joins Senior Writer Mary Katharine Ham on this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour to share stories from her new book, “Lady In Read: An Intimate Portrait of Nancy Reagan.” Tate gives a behind the scenes look at ...

Joan Didion, who's best known for her personal essays and memoirs, also wrote widely read narratives about politics, like her scathing profile of Nancy Reagan, then first lady of California, in the Saturday Evening Post. In remembering her career, “the politics essays and the reporting are shuffled indoors, they want to talk ...

We got the comedian Tuesday night at Mastro's where we chatted about a newly released book about President Reagan that claims he'd switch off his hearing aid during dinner to tune out Nancy. The story goes Reagan would have an aide nudge him if she actually said something that required a response ...

Trump, who was mocked by some of her husband's critics after saying she wanted to focus on fighting childhood cyberbullying as first lady, could have success similar to Reagan's by tackling another timely issue, according to Tate. “I think the opioid [abuse crisis] is made for someone like her, to find a way ...

According to a new book about Nancy Reagan's life, former president Ronald Reagan used to turn off his hearing aids during dinner to tune out whatever ... Written by Sheila Tate, who served as the former First Lady's press secretary from 1981–1985, the book is reportedly chock-full of behind-the-scenes ...

Ronald Reagan and his wife, actress Nancy Davis, acknowledge victory for the Republican nomination for governor of California on June 8, 1966 in Los Angeles at The Ambassador Hotel. The 54-year-old actor promised a campaign calculated to win votes from both Democrats and Republicans. Reagan ...

Nancy Reagan's signatures as first lady might be distilled down to a single color (red) and three words (“Just Say No,” the catchphrase of her ... family, and her tendency to chattiness so extreme that her otherwise adoring husband, President Ronald Reagan, sometimes turned off his hearing aids at dinner.

President Trump blamed Democrats and the Mexican government for a “dangerous” flow of unauthorized immigrants and threatened to walk away from the North American Free Trade .... Guests receive souvenir wooden eggs as they leave, a tradition that began when Nancy Reagan was first lady.

Ron Reagan, son of late former President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan speaks during the funeral service for the former First Lady at the Ronald Reagan Presidential ... The late president's second son nails an incontrovertible truth about our current political sinkhole, and I highly recommend it.

Actor Ronald Reagan and his bride, actress Nancy Davis, cut their wedding cake after their marriage at the non-sectarian Little Brown Church of the Valley in North ... On March 4, 1793, George Washington was sworn in for a second term as president of the United States during a ceremony in Philadelphia.

Mark Weinberg, seen here right, as a young press aide to President Ronald Reagan, spent many a weekend night watching movies with the Reagan, left, and First Lady Nancy Reagan, center, at the president retreat Camp David. He's now published a book about those experiences called “Movie Nights ...

FILE - In this June 3, 2009, file photo, former first lady Nancy Reagan speaks in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington during a ceremony to unveil a statue of President Ronald Reagan. In one of Virginia's most liberal jurisdictions, political leaders are saying 'no' to a proposal in Congress to name a popular ...

Billy Graham, the evangelical preacher who died today (Feb. 21) at 99, held an unrivaled role for a religious figure in US public life. His interpretation of the Bible, delivered with signature intensity, earned Graham an audience of hundreds of millions around the world—including in the White House.

In one of Virginia's most liberal jurisdictions, political leaders are just saying 'no' to a proposal in Congress to name a popular park for former first lady Nancy Reagan. Legislation passed a House committee last month to rename Gravelly Point Park, which sits on federal land adjacent to Ronald Reagan ...

Nancy Davis Reagan, the wife of the late President Ronald Reagan, died two years ago at her home in Los Angeles on March 6, 2016. She was 94. The former first lady will perhaps be best remembered for her loyalty to her husband. She became fiercely protective of him after a 1981 assassination attempt ...