Obama credits Nancy Reagan with spurring medical research

During a Mass punctuated by emotion and some touches of humor, each witness made mention of the singular love story of Nancy and Ronald Reagan.

Hillary Clinton apologized Friday after gay-rights and AIDS activists assailed her for saying Nancy Reagan helped start a “national conversation” about AIDS in the 1980s, when protesters were struggling to get more federal help in fighting the disease.

Four of the five living first ladies – Michelle Obama, Laura Bush, Hillary Clinton and Rosalynn Carter – sat front row during the ceremony, according to USA Today.

Steven W. Thrasher with The Guardian believes Clinton needs to make more than an apology for her comments. And because of both President and Mrs. Reagan, in particular Mrs. Reagan, we started a national conversation, when before nobody would talk about it”, she said”.

The first few years after the library opened and before President Reagan’s Alzheimer’s set in motion his long goodbye, was a heady time, recalled Davis, who worked as the public affairs director at the library until 1995.

Almost a thousand guests have farewelled Nancy Reagan, at her late husband’s presidential library in California. “Since then, I’ve heard from countless people who were devastated by the loss of friends and loved ones, and hurt and disappointed by what I said. I tried her patience and she intimidated me.” . “For that, I’m sorry”, Clinton said in a statement.

For the first time over the course of her campaign, Clinton in the op-ed comes out against HIV criminalization laws, calling on states to “to reform outdated and stigmatizing” statutes that institute penalties for the perceived transfer of HIV.

“Their love for each other was the only sustenance they needed”, said Patti Davis in remarks as graceful as the mother she was bidding farewell.

That’s why, last year, my administration announced the Precision Medicine Initiative to advance our ability to tailor health care and treat diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s by accounting for individual differences in people’s genes, environments, and lifestyles.

In his eulogy, Reagan’s former White House chief of staff James Baker remembered Nancy Reagan as the “consummate political wife and first lady” and a woman whose devotion to her husband was critical to his political success. “And people began to say, ‘Hey, we have to do something about this too'”. And I can think of no better way to honor our former First Lady’s legacy than by working together, as one nation, toward that goal. Will they hold their own, in this time, to as high a standard as they do the deceased leader of their opposition party – especially given her own pathetic past opposition on gay rights? As someone who has also lost friends and loved ones to AIDS, I understand why.

“Hellcats Of the Navy” in 1957 was the only movie they appeared together in, but she continued to act in TV and minor movie roles.