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March 7, 2016

Former First Lady Nancy Reagan Dies at 94
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Former first lady Nancy Reagan, widow of President Ronald Reagan, has
died from congestive heart failure at the age of 94. Reagan is perhaps
best known for her ad campaign urging people to "just say no" to drugs,
part of a wider escalation of the war on drugs under her husband's
presidency. Later in life, Nancy Reagan split with conservatives to
become an advocate for stem cell research, after caring for her husband
as he suffered from Alzheimer's.


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