{"id":1613,"date":"2019-10-09T10:40:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T15:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2019-10-29T13:04:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T18:04:27","slug":"white-house-hostess-first-lady-nancy-reagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/white-house-hostess-first-lady-nancy-reagan\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Hostess First Lady Nancy Reagan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"396\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/51.left_.C927-11-600x396.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/51.left_.C927-11-600x396.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/51.left_.C927-11-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/51.left_.C927-11.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>President Reagan and Nancy Reagan talking with Bob Hope during the State Dinner for Prime Minister Thatcher at the White House. 2\/26\/1981 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>First Lady Nancy Reagan was one of the greatest White House hostesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/58.C42900-13-600x395.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/58.C42900-13-600x395.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/58.C42900-13-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/58.C42900-13.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>President Reagan Nancy Reagan Crown Prince Akihito and Crown Princess Michiko listen to Yo-Yo Ma perform in the Yellow Oval Room during a private dinner for Crown Prince Akihito of Japan. 10\/6\/1987 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEvery first lady makes her own choices, and mine was to&nbsp;become very involved in planning White House events, right down to the details: the menu, table settings, flowers, and entertainment,\u201d she wrote in her memoir,&nbsp;<em>My Turn<\/em>.  She was dedicated to helping her husband succeed in domestic and foreign policy and did so by way of entertaining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/56.C44192-21-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/56.C44192-21-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/56.C44192-21-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/56.C44192-21.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Nancy Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev toasting at the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C. 12\/9\/1987 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Lady Nancy Reagan was one of the greatest White House hostesses. \u201cEvery first lady makes her own choices, and mine was to&nbsp;become very involved in planning White House events, right down to the details: the menu, table settings, flowers, and entertainment,\u201d she wrote in her memoir,&nbsp;My Turn. She was dedicated to helping her husband&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/white-house-hostess-first-lady-nancy-reagan\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[49,1],"tags":[47,31,48,25,32,33,20,22],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertaining","category-white-house-wednesdays","tag-entertainingatthewhitehouse","tag-firstlady","tag-presidentialtraditions","tag-whitehouse","tag-whitehousehistoricalassociation","tag-whitehousehistory","tag-whitehousetraditions","tag-whitehousewednesdays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1621,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions\/1621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jenniferpickens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}