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SpartanDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 02:26 PM
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Michelle Obama and Nancy Reagan to lunch on Wednesday
WASHINGTON--Former First Lady Nancy Reagan will lunch with First Lady Michelle Obama on Wednesday, the East Wing just confirmed. Mrs. Reagan will be at the White House on Tuesday afternoon when President Obama signs the Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission Act in the Diplomatic Reception Room. June 5 marks the fifth anniversary of his death.

Mrs. Reagan tells Vanity Fair in the July issuethat she advised Mrs. Obama to entertain in the White House. Mrs. Reagan also told Vanity Fair she was disappointed not to be invited to the White House when President Obama ended the Bush era ban on embryonic stem cell research. Mrs. Reagan is a stem cell research supporter

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2009/06/michelle_obama_and_nancy_reaga.html
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 02:30 PM
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1. Good..Stem
Cells should come up, too.
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DURHAM D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 02:31 PM
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2. What is the Centennial Commission Act? n/t
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SpartanDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 02:42 PM
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8. It'll create a commission to plan events
Edited on Tue Jun-02-09 02:46 PM by SpartanDem
to celebrate the centennial of his birth. Like last weekends rededicating of the Lincoln Memorial which is partof a year long plan to celebrate Lincoln's bicentennial.
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Sanity Claws Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 02:32 PM
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3. Did Nancy visit Laura Bush?
I just don't remember.
I don't think of the Bushes as being particularly sociable. They just hang around with their own.
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Drunken Irishman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 02:36 PM
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5. I don't think Nancy liked the Bushes.
And it goes back to the 70s.
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Drunken Irishman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 02:35 PM
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4. I actually have really warmed to Nancy Reagan over the years.
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Staph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 02:40 PM
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7. She has a very impressive son.
She must have done something right in raising Ron Jr.

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Drunken Irishman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 02:44 PM
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9. Her daughter isn't bad, either.
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monmouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 02:39 PM
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6. I adore her son Ron. Wish we saw more of him on the talk shows...n/t
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 03:02 PM
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10. Do you listen to his radio show? It's on Air America every
weekday from 6:00 to 9:00 pm eastern time.

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monmouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 03:20 PM
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11. Bad time for me but I will try. He's very smart and funny....n/t
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Clio the Leo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 09:35 PM
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12. Prepare your eyes...........
.... Nancy is gonna look TEENY TINY TEENY TINY TEENY next to Michelle.

Or vice versa.

However you look at it.
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