{"id":2325,"date":"2011-07-10T09:10:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T13:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/on_the_front_lines_of_the_culture_wars\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2011-07-10T13:04:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T17:04:53","slug":"former-first-lady-nancy-reagan-turns-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/on_the_front_lines_of_the_culture_wars\/2011\/07\/former-first-lady-nancy-reagan-turns-90.html","title":{"rendered":"Former First Lady Nancy Reagan turns 90"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ronald Reagan’s First Lady Nancy has turned 90. She observed the occasion quietly at home with family.<\/p>\n

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Nancy and Ronald Reagan in the 1970s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An iron-willed woman, she has been credited with pushing Reagan to seek the presidency.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Outspoken, she was one of the first modern conservative women to reap the constant ridicule of the news media \u2014 which aimed unending, weathering criticism at her purchases of new White House china, reports that she had consulted an astrologer, as well as her\u00a0\u201cJust Say No\u201d anti-drug campaign aimed at children and her unwavering support of her husband, who she called \u201cRonnie.\u201d<\/p>\n

As she rushed\u00a0to his side after\u00a0his 1981\u00a0attempted assassination,\u00a0\u00a0Reagan remarked to her, “Honey, I forgot to duck.”<\/p>\n

She was born July 6, 1921.<\/p>\n

“Her Jackie O-esque appeal won both praise and charges of elitism,” noted an editorial on Sunday’s\u00a0The Daily Caller<\/em> website,\u00a0“but her fierce protection of her husband was undoubtably crucial to his success. Through her battle with cancer and his with Alzheimers, she remained steadfast at the side of her husband until his 2004 death.”<\/p>\n

In a written statement, she said Friday she was deeply saddened by former First Lady Betty Ford’s death, calling her “an inspiration to many” and praising\u00a0her efforts to educate women about breast cancer as well as her work at the Betty Ford Center rehabilitation facility.<\/p>\n

Nancy Reagan praised\u00a0Betty\u00a0Ford’s\u00a0courage in facing and sharing\u00a0deeply personal struggles and called Betty\u00a0former President Ford’s “strength through some very difficult days in our country’s history.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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