Nancy Reagan

Even in death, Ronald Reagan can still pack 'em in. A standing-room-only crowd filled the Capitol Rotunda on Wednesday for the unveiling of a statue of the former president, representing California in Washington's version of a national hall of fame. Nancy Reagan called it a "wonderful likeness of Ronnie," adding, "He would be so proud." The former first lady, her voice choked with emotion, recalled her last visit to the Rotunda, five years ago when Reagan lay in state.

Former First Lady Nancy Reagan was hospitalized in Santa Monica after falling at her Los Angeles home Sunday morning, according to her spokeswoman, Joanne Drake. The cause of the fall was unclear. Reagan's doctor recommended hospitalization as a precaution, and she was admitted while awaiting the results of various tests, Drake said. "She has not broken anything," Drake said. "We don't have anything beyond that." Reagan, 86, was staying in the same room at St.

Outside her Bel-Air home, Nancy Reagan stood arm in arm with John McCain and offered a significant -- but less than exuberant -- endorsement. "Ronnie and I always waited until everything was decided, and then we endorsed," the Republican matriarch said in March. "Well, obviously this is the nominee of the party." They were the only words she would speak during the five-minute photo op. In a written statement, she described McCain as "a good friend for over 30 years."

Former First Lady Nancy Reagan broke her pelvis and has been admitted to the hospital, her spokeswoman said in a statement Wednesday morning. Reagan, 87, fell last week at her home in Los Angeles and went to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center for tests Monday after "experiencing persistent pain," the statement said. Her recovery time is expected to last six to eight weeks, and will include physical therapy and a modified schedule.

Michael K. Deaver, the media maestro who choreographed the look of the Reagan presidency, forever changing the way presidents are presented to the public, died Saturday at home in Bethesda, Md. He was 69. Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer a year ago, Deaver had just returned from a family vacation at Fallen Leaf Lake, Calif., just south of Lake Tahoe, according to friends.

LONG before history would log her as the wife of one of the most influential U.S. presidents and him as one of this country's few true couturiers, she was just an actress under contract with a studio, and he was just a fledgling dressmaker settling into his own atelier. "I was quite young, and I used to deliver a lot of the clothes by myself," James Galanos says of those early days in 1951.

The hulking, gray aircraft swooped by the hangar once and then roared back overhead, just in time for the former first lady's arrival. Hundreds of spectators squinted into the Friday afternoon sun at a March Air Reserve Base hangar in Riverside, gathered for Nancy Reagan's dedication of the base's new C-17 cargo aircraft, named the "Spirit of Ronald Reagan" in honor of the late president.

With the rolling Simi Hills serving as a backdrop worthy of a classic western, Nancy Reagan joined hundreds of well-wishers Friday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library to celebrate her husband's 93rd birthday and to unveil the cornerstone for a new $20-million exhibit hall. More than 600 people, young and old, gathered at the north end of the hilltop complex near Simi Valley for a brief ceremony and a glimpse of the former first lady.

President Bush had decided to place strict limits on research using embryo stem cells, dousing the hopes of patients who believed research using the embryonic cells could help cure Parkinson's disease or mend a severed spinal cord. With Congress about to discuss the issue in 2002, an icon in Republican circles -- former First Lady Nancy Reagan -- began privately lobbying against the president, urging Congress to fund the research. Michael K.

In rare remarks aimed at influencing national public policy, former First Lady Nancy Reagan told a star-studded crowd Saturday night that stem cell research must be pursued "to save families from the pain" of debilitating illnesses, such as Alzheimer's disease, which afflicts her husband, former President Reagan. "I am determined to do whatever I can," she said after receiving a standing ovation at a gala fundraiser in her honor at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.