Nancy Reagan: Devoted wife, savvy tactician

WASHINGTON (MEDIA GENERAL) – Nancy Reagan loathed the press, but even Mrs. Reagan realized, with one East Wing kerfuffle after another, that her standing with the press in 1982 was flailing. So, she donned bag-lady clothes and took to the Gridiron Dinner stage in Washington in a skit called Second Hand Clothes, a takeoff of Second Hand Rose. It took down the house. No doubt Mrs. Reagan, the former actress, performed the ditty with clenched teeth, but did so because if her standing with the