Former First Lady Nancy Reagan Dies at Age 94

Former First Lady Nancy Reagan was possibly best known for her anti-drugs crusade "JUST SAY NO" of the 1980s the term it was universalized during their term on the white house.

Nancy Davis proceeded to Hollywood and appeared in 11 movies. She met her husband, Ronald Reagan in 1951, When he was one of the Screen Actors association. a year later, they got married. Her last movie appearance was in "Hellcats of the Navy," 1957 alongside Ronald Reagan.

As first lady of the United States of America from the year 1981 to 1989, she played a crucial role in Ronald Reagan's direction. Her fondness for luxurious spending and astrology has already made the headlines several times, but behind the scenes she had considered herself as her husband's main guardian for his absorption and legacy, a bad cop to his good cop, which frequently put her at the superiority with his senior staff, as the Washington Post puts it.

National First Ladies Library historian, Carl Sferrazza Anthony said that Mrs. Reagan expounded her role as being the protection for the emotional and physical well-being of her husband, And that she will see her legacy as a help forging his husbands legacy.

Michael K. Deaver, a longtime companion and a very close friend of the Reagans who died in 2007, went even by a greater distance about describing the influences that the former first lady had made in her husband's career. "A Governor nor a President Reagan would never have come close to being real without Nancy," Deaver said.

In Less than six years after vacating the White House, Nancy Reagan went on to take care of her husband in an absolutely different way, as he yield to Alzheimer's Disease. She stayed out of the spotlight as she took care of her husband in what she called a "long goodbye."

Mrs. Reagan began to proceed to lobby politicians to encourage stem-cell research, a spot that frequently puts her at superior with other Republicans. She even got into a public argument with President George W. Bush in 2001 for his enmity to the field.

The former first lady expanded her public support of recommendation for stem-cell research after her husband's death on year 2004. She knew that the people doesn't deserve what their family have gone through, That is why she is giving them the greatest legacy that she can leave them with.

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