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Pool video. She rubbed her hands over the cloth and spoke words no one could hear. Then she bent to kiss the coffin, reached for the arm of her military escort, hesitated and turned back for one final pat. Reagan, her face strained but focused, watched until the coffin slid safely into the hearse, a black umbrella held by a gloved military attendant shielding her from the rain.
He saluted crisply whenever he heard it. The minute service was timed to the second. At , the church fell silent. The coffin passed through the door at precisely After Mrs. Reagan was escorted down the aisle, President Bush stood to meet her and clasp her hand. She was seated beside her children and Michael Reagan, the son of the former president and his first wife, actress Jane Wyman. Around them were the four living ex-presidents and their wives, all nine Supreme Court justices, Cabinet secretaries past and present, virtually the entire U.
I also learned courage, the nation did. The grand scale of the cathedral and the passage of time rendered some larger-than-life figures small and frail. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist shuffled slowly across the cathedral floor. The scene provided a striking tableau of former presidents sitting together, some who admired Reagan, like Gerald R. Ford, others who challenged him.
Ronald and Nancy Reagan were defined by their love for each other. My parents were two halves of a circle. Their son Ron Reagan Jr said his father would never have made it to the White House without his wife.
It takes a great deal of chutzpah to run for president of the United States. Her absolute belief in him gave him that chutzpah to run for office. Nancy Reagan was born Anne Robbins in New York in , and later moved to Chicago and then Hollywood, where she became an actor, starring in several films. It was in Hollywood that she adopted the name Nancy Davis.
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