Nancy Reagan

Nancy Reagan once said, “I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.” As the former First Lady of the U.S. from 1981 to 1989, Nancy Reagan was a “model First Lady” who helped and inspired many. She is known for her undying love for her husband, Ronald Reagan and her role to protect him. She founded the “Just Say No” drug awareness campaign which educated people on drug abuse. Even though many people saw her in a negative way, she changed America

Nancy Davis Reagan, 40th First Lady of the United States had a monumental impact on the 21st Century by her prodigious influence on President Reagan’s presidency, passion to educate the youth of our country on drugs, and her advocacy for Alzheimer’s and Stem Cell Research. On domestic policy, Nancy Reagan encouraged compromises on budget policies to preserve some programs for the poor in return for cuts in other programs that did not target those most in need. (parenthetical citation article usa

people have been asked to try drugs, People often are curious and want to try something new. Nancy Reagan wanted to help show the youth a way to say no. Some children even peer pressured by friends telling them to try it and encouraging it. The “Just Say No” campaign began in 1982 and ended in 1989. 1967, after her husband's election for the California governorship, Nancy became the state's first lady. Shortly after she was criticized for expressing concerns about

Nancy Reagan made an impact on our society, so large that the impact is still lasting today. She is a very special person because of her determination not to give up however hard life may get. She is an example of a hard worker and a very caring person. Nancy was born July 6, 1921. Born as Anne Frances “Nancy” Robbins Davis Reagan, at Sloane Hospital Flushing Queens, New York. Nancy was born to Kenneth Seymour Robbins and Edith P. Luckett. Her parents got divorced shortly after marriage. Her

Nancy Davis Reagan By Klaire Ladehoff Nancy Reagan was born in New York City on July 6, 1921. Nancy’s name isn’t even Nancy at all, it’s Anne Frances Robbins. She was the only child of Kenneth Robbins and Edith Luckett Robins. Kenneth was a salesman and Edith was an actress. Kenneth left the marriage while Anne was still an infant. Since Kenneth left, Edith sent Anne to be raised by her aunt and uncle, Virginia and C. Audley Galbraith in Bethesda, Maryland. Edith sent Anne to them because she wanted

Just Say No.” This phrase was uttered in 1982 by Nancy Reagan, the first lady of the United States, in response to a schoolgirl’s question of what she should do if offered drugs (Weinraub A5). These words became the slogan for a nationwide substance abuse prevention program that followed the then recently enacted drug policies intended to discourage the manufacture, sale, and use of illicit drugs in the United States. These zero tolerance policies carried harsh penalties and strict enforcement for

recently read and analyzed a speech given by Nancy Reagan entitled “Just Say No”. In the late 1980s, around the time that Nancy Reagan gave her speech the U.S was facing a major drug problem. During that time a new drug, cocaine, was recently introduced. Because this new drug was cheap and addictive, youth drug addictions became a major problem. As a result of the drug problems many people spoke out against it, one of these individuals was Nancy Reagan in her Just Say No Speech (Decades of Drug

the name Nancy. When Nancy was born her father left her and her mother. Nancy’s mother Edith, who was a young actress, sent Nancy to go live with her aunt and uncle in Maryland. Here she attended a community school titled Sidwell Friends School. Nancy would regularly travel with her aunt to see her mother in New York City. Nancy’s mother would go on to marry a very prominent neurosurgeon from Chicago. Nancy would then move back in with her mother and her new stepfather who adopted her. Nancy now went

“Tomorrow 's future is in the hands of the youth of today” is not a particularly new sentiment. But what is new, what has become a pressing question, is what is to become of the future if our youth are behind bars instead of in schools? Youth today are being pushed into the criminal justice system at an alarming rate. This issue is known as the school to prison pipeline ─ the rapid rate at which children are pushed out of schools and into the criminal justice system. The school to prison pipeline

January 3. In Florida, “Noriega was convicted of smuggling cocaine and sentence to forty years imprisonment” (Operation Just Cause Pamphlet) in April 1992. Within American borders, directly before and after the Panama Invasion, President Ronald Reagan started and pushed for a “Drug-Free America”, initiating the “War on Drugs”. Created in 1973, the Drug Enforcement Administration, or DEA, was facing an uphill battle in its beginning because “at no time before or since has drug use as socially acceptable