by Will Dunham
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nancy Reagan, wife of former US President Ronald Reagan that she was the advisor and protector, died Sunday at the age of 94 years, confirmed the Ronald Reagan presidential Library
the former First Lady (1981-1989) was living in Los Angeles. She died in the morning at his home following a heart attack.
“It is again with the man she loved,” responded on Twitter Michael Reagan, the adopted son Ronald and his first wife, Jane Wyman.
Elected in 1980 to the white House with the nomination of the Republican Party, re-elected four years later, Ronald Reagan died in June 2004 after a long battle against Alzheimer’s disease.
Born Anne Frances Robbins in July 1921 in New York of a car salesman father, who was soon to desert the family home, and an actress mother it was as the actress Nancy Davis in Hollywood from 1949 to 1957.
After marrying Ronald Reagan, also actor in 1952 and shared with him the poster of the film “Hellcats of the Navy “(” Commando in the sea of Japan “), she supports and advises him in his political career, first in California, where he was governor from 1967 to 1975 and in the white House after his victory over the incumbent Democratic president, Jimmy Carter.
the couple had two children, Patti Davis, also an actress, and Ron Jr., who had a career in television and in the dance.
Nancy Reagan is considered one of the most influential First ladies in history of the country, like Eleanor Roosevelt and Hillary Clinton, although the exact influence it once had her husband is debatable.
At the White House, she had invested in particular against drug addiction, head of the campaign “Just Say No” and had carried his fight all the way to the United Nations General Assembly, in 1988 where she directs her country no longer content to accuse narcotics producers and poor countries to do more on its territory law enforcement and prevention.
“We n ‘get nowhere if we bear the heaviest burden to foreign governments, rather than our own mayors, judges and parliamentarians of America. You know, cocaine cartel did not begin in Medellin, Colombia, but in the streets of New York, Miami, Los Angeles and every American city where we buy and where we sell crack, “she said.
When her husband was diagnosed affected by the disease Alzheimer’s, she put her name and image services to medical research.
One of the darkest periods of the couple followed the assassination attempt “Ronnie” was the target on 30 March 1981.
WOMEN OF INFLUENCE OR PROTECTIVE WIFE
“I see the role of first lady as a way to avoid isolation of the president,” she said in 1985. “I talk to people. They tell me things (… ) I am a woman who loves her husband and I do not have to apologize to seek his well-being and political. “
” my turn “(” my turn “for French edition), his memoirs published in 1989, she added. “in most solid marriages that I know, the woman is the closest friend and adviser to her husband”
Nancy Reagan s’ was frequently opposed to the general secretary of the white House, Donald Regan, who had blasted his influence in a confession-book published in 1988, a year after being sacked in the scandal of arms sales to Iran to fund ” contras “in Nicaragua.
former Secretary General in particular claimed that Nancy Reagan used astrology to determine the timing of speech movements and the President and even the date of his surgery for cancer 1985.
“Virtually all initiatives and decisions that Reagan spouses have taken during my service as Secretary General of the white House were approved in advance by a San Francisco woman who relied on horoscopes to ensure that the planets were in favorable alignment, “he writes in this book.
James Baker, who was secretary general of the white House under Reagan’s first term, was delivered to share another version, saying in 2011 at PBS: “If there is a person who has been essential to political success of Ronald Reagan, this is Nancy Reagan.”
Ronald Reagan him -even had twisted his neck to speculation about his political role. “The idea that it is involved in government decisions, and all those sorts of things, this so-called ‘dragon lady’, none of this is true,” he said in 1987.
She will be buried next to him on the site of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California
(with Doina Chiacu; Henri-Pierre Andre for the French service)
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