Nancy Reagan says no to 'Ronald Reagan University,' organizer behind effort a stereotype of *something*

“It sounds strange, but … I see Ronnie. At nighttime, if I wake up, I think Ronnie’s there, and I start to talk to him. It’s not important what I say. But the fact is, I do think he’s there. And I see him.”

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2009/06/nancy-reagan-speaks-out-about-obamas-the-bushes-and-her-husband.html

Aww.

Hudson had been denied permission to enter the hospital because he was not French, but Olson added that they believed “a request from the White House or a high American official would change [the head of the hospital’s] mind”.

It was not a request from a stranger. Hudson had been friendly with the Reagans during the president’s time in Hollywood. But when it landed on the desk of Mark Weinberg, a young Reagan staffer, Hudson’s team did not get the response they were hoping for.

A note written by Weinberg on the same day stated: “I spoke with Mrs Reagan about the attached telegram. She did not feel this was something the White House should get into and agreed to my suggestion that we refer the writer to the US embassy, Paris.”

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/03/nancy-reagan-refused-help-dying-rock-hudson-get-aids-treatment

http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.Nsf/rnames/Reagan+Nancy

still time for her to die of malaria

Because the Reagan White House erected such a wall of impenetrability and hence “deniability,” I couldn’t draw the conclusion that Ron and Nancy left Hudson to rot at the behest of their and their backers’ moral revulsion, and I’m not persuaded by ACT-UP’s Peter Staley’s Bob Hope analogy. By 1984 gays had a part to play in Democratic Party politics yet I find it difficult to believe Walter Mondale would have responded with greater alacrity (I can believe that he would have said the goddamn acronym though). The most heinous bit I don’t remember reading in Lou Cannon’s essential biography: that the Reagan administration’s ’85 budget proposal called for a “$10 million cut in AIDS spending down to $86 million” (italics mine). A cut as the gay cancer turned into an epidemic.

im not going to be getting rid of my extensive collection of nancy reagan memorabilia either but the froideur of that response is evident

http://theempirefurniture.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/10-10-white-house-21.jpg

(room painted in the blood of AIDS victims)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nrk1cA3FmyQ/UMwtDAcZS7I/AAAAAAAAD-0/b3nHQ_Wxq7E/s1600/nancy-reagan-1+copy.jpg

^^ my FB wallpaper shot for months

Can we petition Cool Pope to have Ronnie officially consigned to hell? Is that something he has the power to do?

Q: Larry, does the President have any reaction to the announcement — the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, that AIDS is now an epidemic and have over 600 cases?
MR. SPEAKES: What’s AIDS?
Q: Over a third of them have died. It’s known as “gay plague.” (Laughter.) No, it is. I mean it’s a pretty serious thing that one in every three people that get this have died. And I wondered if the President is aware of it?
MR. SPEAKES: I don’t have it. Do you? (Laughter.)
Q: No, I don’t.
MR. SPEAKES: You didn’t answer my question.
Q: Well, I just wondered, does the President—
MR. SPEAKES: How do you know? (Laughter.)
Q: In other words, the White House looks on this as a great joke?
MR. SPEAKES: No, I don’t know anything about it, Lester.
Q: Does the President, does anybody in the White House know about this epidemic, Larry?
MR. SPEAKES: I don’t think so. I don’t think there’s been any—
Q: Nobody knows?
MR. SPEAKES: There has been no personal experience here, Lester.
Q: No, I mean, I thought you were keeping—
MR. SPEAKES: I checked thoroughly with Dr. Ruge this morning and he’s had no—(laughter)—no patients suffering from AIDS or whatever it is.
Q: The President doesn’t have gay plague, is that what you’re saying or what?
MR. SPEAKES: No, I didn’t say that.
Q: Didn’t say that?
MR. SPEAKES: I thought I heard you on the State Department over there. Why didn’t you stay there? (Laughter.)
Q: Because I love you, Larry, that’s why. (Laughter.)
MR. SPEAKES: Oh, I see. Just don’t put it in those terms, Lester. (Laughter.)
Q: Oh, I retract that.
MR. SPEAKES: I hope so.
Q: It’s too late.