Nancy Reagan: "I don't give a damn about the pro-lifers."

[kskiska]

(snip)

We also know that the president and his wife did not see eye to eye on these issues. Reagan’s chief of staff Donald Regan recounts in his memoirs that Mrs. Reagan called him to ask that anti-abortion comments be removed from a State of the Union address. Regan said that the president had especially wanted to speak about abortion. The First Lady responded, “I don’t give a damn about the right-to-lifers.”


more (the rest of the article is wingnut trash…
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZGNiOGZjM2I2ZjI0MTBjNDFmZTAyNzM5ODcxNWZjMzU=

[diamondsndust]

1. just say "NO" to Nancy.... n/t

[MADem]

2. Nancy was politically astute--she knew where the plumb line was

And she did a helluva job of keeping her husband from straying too far to the right. He owes his second term to her....

[Benhurst]

3. Yeah, especially since he was increasingly losing it to Alzheimer's.

[AndyA]

4. Honestly, I think Nancy Reagan was the first woman President.

She was also likely the first not actually elected by the people, followed by Bush, of course, but at least his name was on the ticket.

[MADem]

5. Mrs. Wilson beat her; she was the second!!!!! NT

[AndyA]

6. HA! That's right - forgot - that was before my time. n/m

[Sequoia]

8. What about Eleanor Roosevelt?

[wicket]

9. Beat me to it

n/t

[MADem]

13. She was a co-prez in many respects, like Hillary was

But FDR had his marbles pretty well to the end. She certainly acted as his legs, and got out there to places he couldn't easily manage.

[charlie]

7. Edith Wilson

served a similar role -- gatekeeper, advisor, and some contend de facto president -- for her incapacitated husband.

[Quakerfriend]

11. Wow! I never knew that but, my grandfather and his

mother corresponded with Edith Wilson and her neice over many years- My aunt donated the letters to a museum and I never got to read them all. There were more than 2200 letters in all.

[charlie]

14. Really? Wow is right.

It's amazing a First Lady would (and could) keep up such a long-running correspondence with a pair of citizens. I couldn't imagine that happening anymore.

[kskiska]

18. And she was trying for a third term for Wilson

in spite of his being bedridden and incapacitated. The Democratic Party refused to nominate him.

[The Deacon]

10. Don't Forget Jerry Ford

He not only wasn't elected, he didn't even run to get his Presidency.

[kenny blankenship]

12. Fuck the pro-lifers--I only care about the millionaires!

and millionaires will become billionaires through stem cell research, and isn't that what this party is about?

[DanCa]

15. Well

Why didn't you or your husband do something about them invading the gop when you had the chance.

[charlie]

17. Because Ronnie was in neck deep with those clowns

Nancy may have not liked them, but she couldn't have lived in the White House without them. Ronnie courted Fundies like they'd never been wooed before. He was the crack in the dam and deserves the blame.

[underpants]

16. Wow she's great!

NOT!

[MissWaverly]

19. Go, Nancy go, support stem cell research

and help people!