Watching Nancy Reagan’s funeral last week and the many photos of her famous husband Ronald Reagan, it is interesting to note that a key member of the Reagan Administration currently lives in Reno. Tyrus Cobb, the son of the legendary northern Nevada newspaper icon the late Ty Cobb, is that person. The career referred to above is the six-year stint, from 1983 to 1989, he had … [Read more...]
Remembering the first female U.S. presidents
May the nation’s second woman president rest in peace. Nancy Reagan had a harder job than Edith Bolling Wilson. With Woodrow Wilson’s press secretary Joe Tumulty, Mrs. Wilson limited access to the disabled president from his 1919 stroke until the end of his term in 1921. Historians have long decried Mrs. Wilson’s relaying “decisions” from the stricken president’s sickbed … [Read more...]