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Notes for Monday – March 07, 2016

I was saddened to hear that former First Lady Nancy Reagan passed away on March 6th, at age 94. She was born Anne Frances Robbins, on July 6, 1921. She was a devoted Presbyterian Christian. Although their marriage was Ronald Reagan’s second marriage, they were inseparable. In many ways, she was a much more glamorous First Lady than Jackie Kennedy. I’d recommend avoiding Kitty Kelley’s unauthorized biography on Nancy Reagan, which was a hatchet piece.  Instead, I recommend:
Reagan: The Life [1], by H.W. Brands. That biography includes quite a bit about Nancy Reagan.

March 7, 1707 was the birthday of Stephen Hopkins, (Governor of Rhode Island) one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence [2].

March 7, 1925 was the birthday of Rene Gagnon [3], a US Marine who was seen in the famous photographs of the Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima. (He died in 1979 [4] in his home town, Manchester, New Hampshire.)

And March 7, 1944 was also the birthday of Townes Van Zandt [5], a gifted Texan songwriter. (He died in 1997.)