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Nancy Reagan (1921–2016)
Born New York City
As first lady from 1981 to 1989, Nancy Reagan sought to heighten the style and glamour of White House events, much as Jacqueline Kennedy had done twenty years earlier. Like other first ladies, Reagan also chose worthy causes to endorse. She supported the Foster Grandparent Program and in 1982 launched her "Just Say No" campaign to fight youth drug abuse and support drug rehabilitation programs.
While President Ronald Reagan was in France in 1982 to attend the economic summit conference held at Versailles, the first lady commemorated the thirty-eighth anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy by visiting Omaha Beach Memorial Cemetery. In this photograph, she stoops to place flowers on a grave in remembrance of the thousands of American G.I.s who lost their lives on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
Diana Walker (born 1942)
Inkjet print, 1982 (printed 2011)
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Diana Walker |