NANCY REAGAN
Nancy Reagan (born Anne Frances Robbins, July 6, 1921) is the widow of the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989. As Nancy Davis, she was an actress in Hollywood in the 1940’s and 1950’s, starring in films such as The Next Voice You Hear . . ., Night Into Morning, and Donovan’s Brain. In 1952, she married Ronald Reagan who was then president of the Screen Actors Guild. Reagan was the First Lady of California when her husband was Governor from 1967 to 1975, and she began to work with the Foster Grandparents Program. Nancy Reagan became First Lady of the United States in January 1981 following her husband’s election. (More from Wikipedia)
Comedian Bill Hicks had a long rant in his act that was on HBO and elsewhere that started out: “Drugs”. This was in the wake of Nancy Reagan’s surprisingly successful “Just Say No” campaign that had just about driven even marijuana back into the deep underground.
(January 2013)
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Tommy Afterbirth has surprising connections to the Republican Party and actually served as an official delegate to the 1976 and 1980 Republican National Conventions. Although he and his family were on the receiving end of some of his band’s songs – such as “Ron and Nancy”, “Young Ron” and “Nancy Reagan on Crack” – Tommy Afterbirth boasted of having shaken hands with future President Ronald Reagan on two occasions; and, while at the 1976 Republican National Convention, he bought a beer for future President George H. W. Bush. The name of their third release, Kinder, Gentler Nation (1989) is taken from Bush’s acceptance speech at the 1988 Republican National Convention. For one album cover, they even went so far as to paste Nancy Reagan’s head on . . . oh, never mind. Then again, their feelings about the other party are apparent in their song, “Democrats Suck Donkey Dicks”.
(June 2016)
