Nancy Reagan
Nancy Davis Reagan was an American actress who was First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989. She was the second wife of Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Manhattan
- Educated at
- Smith CollegeSidwell Friends SchoolFeinberg School of MedicineLatin School of Chicago
- Awards
- 🏆 Presidential Medal of Freedom🏆 Congressional Gold Medal🏆 Los Angeles Times Women of the Year Silver Cup🏆 James Cardinal Gibbons Medal
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Trending topics shown first"Our young people are helping us lead the way. Not long ago, in Oakland, California, I was asked by a group of children what to do if they were offered drugs, and I answered, "Just say no." Soon after …"
"I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us."
"Our job is never easy because drug criminals are ingenious. They work everyday to plot a new and better way to steal our children's lives, just as they've done by developing this new drug, crack. For …"
"Drugs steal away so much. They take and take, until finally every time a drug goes into a child, something else is forced out — like love and hope and trust and confidence. Drugs take away the dream f…"
"As a mother, I've always thought of September as a special month, a time when we bundled our children off to school, to the warmth of an environment in which they could fulfill the promise and hope in…"
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Timeline
1921
Born
Birth2016
Died
Death
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