nancy reagan

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  4/19/2021
  

  What Do We Want in a First Lady?

  Books by historian Julia Sweig and journalist Karen Tumulty examine the stated and unstated expecations of the role of First Lady through the stories of Lady Bird Johnson and Nancy Reagan. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  

  Nancy Reagan’s Real Role in the AIDS Crisis

  Washington journalist Karen Tumulty writes that Nancy Reagan worked against the demands of social conservatives to ask her husband's administration to pay attention to the AIDS crisis, but her efforts weren't enough. 

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• 1-13-16
  

  Hillary's Misinformed Comment About AIDS Shows that LGBT History Still Remains in the Closet

  by Jim Downs

  It's often either forgotten or distorted.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  3-7-16
  

  Nancy Reagan's Role in the Disastrous War on Drugs

  by Tony Newman

  President Reagan's drug war began the mass incarceration of blacks.  It was a disaster. 

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• SOURCE: Slate
  3-6-16
  

  Ronald Reagan’s Protector

  by Jacob Weisberg

  Nancy Reagan was the greatest guardian of her husband’s reputation.