Maybe Nancy will opt for a "private" funeral so as not to help Bush out

[keithyboy]

concerning all the shit that will be flying around in the next two weeks. I wouln't put it past her...the Reagan did not like the Bushes.

[PaDUer]

1. No private funeral...

his body's going to lay in state in DC..the entire process will take about a week according to MSNBC, and, * has been trying to reach Nancy on the phone and Nancy "isn't available".

[hlthe2b]

5. that's telling... even given her grief, which I'm sure is most profound...

Don't you just know Bushie is seething? Having to play second fiddle first to that old Pope and now Ronnie Raygun?

[ronnykmarshall]

9. It's too early to say

Unless the family had made plans in advance. Give how ill Reagan was, they probably had made plans.

[hlthe2b]

12. No, Nancy made plans some time ago. See my post below...

Barbara Walters confirmed details on ABC

[PaDUer]

11. The puke's scheduled

to speak within the hr...this is going to be good!!--ugh!

[madrchsod]

7. Nancy is so frail that i doubt

she would be able to attend any lengthy funeral "festivities"..she should op for a private funeral to save her and us from all the shit we will have to shovel..

[juajen]

13. Come on , already, people

This man served our country for eight long years in the waning years of his life. I believe Nancy will endeavor to give him everything due to a popular, beloved by many, President.

Please think of how we would feel if this was President Carter or Clinton.

[ronnykmarshall]

14. She's a trooper

She's has really rallied in the last few times I've seen her on TV. Poor lady, she's been through a lot. But she's a tough ol' dame (as she might call herself) and she loved her husband so much. They really were a picture of devotion and love.

[shraby]

2. Also didn't she recently nix

Ronnie's likeness on a coin, tell Bush to allow stem-cell research? Give her credit, she won't allow her husband to be "used".

[slinkerwink]

3. well......we'll see what happens

[hlthe2b]

4. Nope... full state funeral, 2 days lying in state in cap rotunda....

funeral in National Cathedral followed by his being schlepped back to California for a more private final funeral with friends/ family. Plans have been in the works for some time now. (Barbara Waa Waa confirmed on ABC).

So, a full week of hand-wringing and memorials infinitum...

[Spazito]

6. Can she not choose the manner in which she would like to

bury her husband? Does she HAVE to go along with a state funeral if she did not want to? I'm not saying she wouldn't want it but does she have no choice?

[Cleita]

8. They are flying his body to Washington to lie in state, it was just

announced on CNN. I don't think a private funeral is in the plans.

[ronnykmarshall]

15. From what I heard

the actual funeral will be for family and friends only and a private matter.

[spotbird]

10. No, she'll do it up right.

But don't be surprised if she becomes a problem for *. She knows what the Bush's are.

Those kids didn't get their ideas from thin air, she must have allowed some free thought.

[catzies]

16. Details per my local paper (he's to be buried here)

"Reagan's body was expected to be taken to his presidential library and museum in Simi Valley, Calif., and then flown to Washington to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda. His funeral was expected to be at the National Cathedral, an event likely to draw world leaders. The body was to be returned to California for a sunset burial at his library."

www.staronline.com (reg. req'd)

[Changenow]

17. Maybe you're right.

Her children know what is really happening in this country, they may influence her.

They also have that ball and chain from an earlier marriage who will want to exploit this for all it's worth, it could be they are sick of his cashing in on the family name in such a vulgar way.

[donhakman]

19. I am sure she knew

that GHWBush's best friend in the Texas oil business was the father of J Hinkley who shot Reagan. In fact a dinner with Neil Bush and the older Hinkley boy was scheduled the same day as the shooting.

Small world isn't it?

The CIA would't really try to murder a president to get one of their own CIA good ol boys in office...would they?

[playahata1]

21. You're talking about MICHAEL REAGAN, are you not?

I guessed right.

I'd also read on another thread that only Junior and Patti were present at their father's deathbed. Also, Michael -- who was ADOPTED, for those who don't know -- has had his problems within and outside the family realm.

[salin]

18. Or in a different view

let folks keep memorializing him... to keep the mental comparison fresh between RR and Bushjr. To those of us who respect neither - this has no effect. But to middle of the roaders who were persuaded by RR... the ongoing mental comparison between the mythic image of Reagan... and the bumbling, inarticulate reality of Bushjr... does junior no favors.

[Wapsie B]

20. That's exactly what I'm thinking.

Love him or hate him, Ronnie could deliver a speech. Fast forward to today where chimpy struggles to put complete sentences together. It's painful to even listen to him on the radio. The repug version of camelot is no more.

[GreenPartyVoter]

22. It'll be a funeral fit for a king.