Nancy Reagan stands with Larry King
It worked out well ~ a good chance to have a nice chat with Mrs. Reagan, [I kind of believed it], just about ~ about. Nancy Reagan’s husband Ronald Reagan was one of the greatest Presidents of our time.
We are definitely going to enjoy an Obama presidency!
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Obama called Nancy Reagan on Friday to apologize for joking that she held seances in the White House.
At a news conference in Chicago, Obama said he had spoken with all the living presidents as he prepares to take office in January. Then he smiled and said, “I didn’t want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about doing any seances.”
The 87-year-old former first lady had consulted with astrologers during her husband’s presidency. But she did not hold conversations with the dead.
Obama spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said the president-elect later called Mrs. Reagan “to apologize for the careless and offhanded remark.” She said Obama “expressed his admiration and affection for Mrs. Reagan that so many Americans share, and they had a warm conversation.”
It actually wasn’t Nancy Reagan who was linked to conversations with the dead; it was Obama’s top Democratic challenger for the presidency, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.
In either case, use of the word “seance” might be overstated.
Nancy Reagan consulted an astrologer to help set her husband’s schedule, wrote former White House chief of staff Donald T. Regan. The revelation created a furor and President Reagan even broke with his policy of not commenting on books by former White House staffers.
“No policy or decision in my mind has ever been influenced by astrology,” Reagan said.
In his book “The Choice,” Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward described how Clinton consulted with a spiritual adviser who led her through imaginary conversations with her personal hero, Eleanor Roosevelt. Newsweek magazine, which was promoting the book, characterized the visits as “seances,” a term that White House officials quickly tried to squelch.
“These were people who were helping her laugh, helping her think,” said Neel Lattimore, Clinton’s spokeswoman. “These were not seances.”
Out Foxing Karl Rove 
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November 8, 2008 at 10:25 am
create money
good blog
November 8, 2008 at 10:42 am
bacalove
Actually, one of Barack’s hero’s wife, Abraham Lincoln, had seances! So, Barack would have been more politically correct if had used the name Mary Todd Lincoln, instead, and as she is not living, he would not have had to Call anyone to apologize, not unless he too uses a seance. Barack was trying to be funny and the joke went a little off skew.
November 8, 2008 at 12:47 pm
cole55
I know I felt that myself –
I remember old footage – when Barack Obama was talking to an audience – near his old University haunts – and just as he was about to say – I know this area – I know all the night spots – then his mic suddenly went dead – then it came back on – his campaign manager had turned it off – just as he was about to name the night spots.
He’ll get it right.
Any way he had a little chat with Nancy Reagan ~ and as it was delivered I am sure she took it all in good humor.
November 8, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Dyslexia
I want to give Obama a chance because he will be the leader of the free world soon. This is not the way to start with sarcastic remarks of President Regan wife, Nancy. During the last twenty year, while attending Rev. Wright church of hate, was there every a sermon, do on to other as you would have them do on to you. Please President elect Obama leave the Chicago thug type politics in Chicago.