Nancy Reagan’s Son On His Mother’s Legacy: ‘She Knew How To Love Somebody’

Ron Reagan was interviewed by Matt Lauer on Today shortly after the passing of his mother Nancy Reagan on Sunday. The former first lady was 94. Ron spoke about the relationship between Nancy and his father, President Ronald Reagan. “I don’t think that they ever spent a day apart where they didn’t call, speak on the phone,” said told Lauer, “He wrote her letters, you know, all her life. All his life. They were in love. They stayed in love for, you know, 52 some odd years.”

Ron also spoke about Nancy’s emotional state after her husband’s death in 2004. “She was lonely without him,” recalled Reagan, “And said as much. She missed him terribly.” Lauer outlined that younger Americans may not be familiar with Nancy’s life, and concluded the interview with Ron poetically describing his mother’s legacy. “I think that she knew how to love somebody,” he said, “That’s what I think of when I think of my mother. I think of her relationship with her husband.”

Check out Nancy and Ronald Reagan’s only film together: Hellcats of the Navy.

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