There have been plenty of rumors about Nancy Reagan not being fond of George W. Bush, driven in large part by Bush’s opposition to stem-cell research that may have benefited her late husband. Talk intensified when the former First Lady said she would not attend a tribute to Ronald Reagan at this year’s Republican convention.<\/p>\n
With this in mind, White House aides organized a photo-op at the Reagan’s home in Bel Air yesterday for Nancy, the president, and Laura Bush. Like Ryan Lizza<\/a>, I couldn’t help but be impressed by the obvious warmth the three shared. Here’s the official transcript<\/a> of the event, in its entirety:<\/p>\n THE PRESIDENT: Laura and I are honored to come by and pay our respects to Mrs. Reagan. We really admire Mrs. Reagan’s strength and her love of a great President, and her friendship. We really thank you for the tour of your beautiful backyard. (Laughter.) <\/p>\n MRS. REAGAN: I’m so glad you came — so glad you came. Thanks so much. <\/p>\n PRESIDENT BUSH: Thank you. <\/p>\n MRS. BUSH: Thanks so much. <\/p>\n MRS. REAGAN: I’m always happy to see you. <\/p>\n MRS. BUSH: Thank you very much. <\/p>\n MRS. REAGAN: And you met Duchess. <\/p>\n THE PRESIDENT: And I met Duchess. <\/p>\n MRS. REAGAN: You met Duchess. <\/p>\n MRS. BUSH: That’s right. <\/p>\n THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. <\/p>\n MRS. BUSH: Thanks, everybody.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Inspiring, isn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There have been plenty of rumors about Nancy Reagan not being fond of George W. Bush, driven in large part by Bush’s opposition to stem-cell research that may have benefited her late husband. Talk intensified when the former First Lady said she would not attend a tribute to Ronald Reagan at this year’s Republican convention. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}