Nancy Reagan, former First Lady, dies at 94

[mvcg66b3r]

Former First Lady Nancy Reagan has died of congestive heart failure, Fox News is reporting. She was 94 years old.

Reagan was the wife of President Ronald Reagan, and starred in films such as Night Into Morning (1951) and Hellcats of the Navy (1957) and founded the “Just Say No” anti-drug campaign of the 1980s.

http://www.thewrap.com/nancy-reagan-former-first-lady-dies-at-94/

 

[crainbebo]

What a loss to America. Nancy was a sweetheart and devoted her two terms as First Lady to keep drugs out of America's children. And she did a good job with that. She's now up in the sky, reunited with her husband. RIP Nancy.

 

[Silkie]

I took a picture of some children in an inner city many years ago, wearing their blue "Just Say No" tee shirts. They were very proud of themselves for being a part of that. I gave them as promised the negatives and the pictures of themselves, maybe a reminder years later, to help them stay away from drugs.

 

[vchimpanzee]

We don't know how much she influenced her husband's policies. But if he really was in the early stages of Alzheimer's when he was still in office, we can be grateful she did such a good job helping him out. Not quite the way Edith Wilson actually ran the country since her husband really was incapacitated, but from what I've heard, it sounds like she was quite intelligent at helping run the country.

Regardless, they made a great couple and she stood by his side as he took down Communism and brought the country back to greatness.

 

[Silkie]

One of the better articles for people who cannot remember or were not yet on the planet: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ur-former-Lady-Nancy-Reagan-died-aged-94.html

Definitely and truly a great American love story there...and a story that shows the kind of people they were and with whom they surrounded themselves.

 

[landtuna]

Regardless, they made a great couple and she stood by his side as he took down Communism and brought the country back to greatness.

"HE" took down communism? What about all those people, in our government and others, that had worked in earnest for the proceeding 50 years to "take down communism"? There were many cracks in the USSR's economics and policies for decades prior to Reagan's election. The fact that he talked tough to the Soviets might have made some difference but it was the determined efforts of several democracies, as well as the "iron curtain" countries that happened to occur on his watch. If Nancy was, in fact, the brains behind his presidency then she deserves both the credit and criticism for the not-so-great things that happened on his watch.

 

[vchimpanzee]

"HE" took down communism? What about all those people, in our government and others, that had worked in earnest for the proceeding 50 years to "take down communism"? There were many cracks in the USSR's economics and policies for decades prior to Reagan's election. The fact that he talked tough to the Soviets might have made some difference but it was the determined efforts of several democracies, as well as the "iron curtain" countries that happened to occur on his watch. If Nancy was, in fact, the brains behind his presidency then she deserves both the credit and criticism for the not-so-great things that happened on his watch.

I debated about whether to raise the points you did and decided against it.