[Albert R. Hunt] Remembering the formidable Nancy Reagan
Mar 8, 2016
The list of influential modern first ladies always includes Eleanor Roosevelt and Hillary Clinton, but not usually Nancy Reagan. That’s a mistake. Reagan, who died Sunday at 94, had a big influence on her husband, President Ronald Reagan, both in shaping White House operations in his first term and encouraging his breakthrough relations with the Soviet Union in his second. For more than a half century, the Reagans’ love story was so intense that at times it burned at the expense of family, frien