She was America’s First Lady for eight years. As the 100th anniversary of her birth is being celebrated, a new Nancy Reagan statue was unveiled at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley Tuesday.
"She was witty, she was warm, but took her role as First Lady very seriously," said John Heubush, the Executive Director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation.
Artist Chas Fagan created the bronze work. "She seated, she's inviting you to join her on the open space on the bench...but, there's more. Tucked under the corner of the basket is a folded, bronze newspaper," said Fagan. "Inside, you can see and you can touch an actual piece of the Berlin Wall."
The celebration of the former First Lady’s life will wrap up next week with the unveiling of a new Nancy Reagan postage stamp. She died in 2016, and is buried next to President Reagan on the Library’s grounds.
