It is surreal to contemplate the possibility that Nancy Reagan effectively ran the White House while Ronald Reagan was starting to become incapacitated by Alzheimer disease.

• Parsing Ronald Reagan’s Words for Early Signs of Alzheimer’s • 2015 Mar 30 • Lawrence K. Altman, M.D. • New York Times
• Reagan’s speeches may have shown early signs of Alzheimer’s • 2015 Apr 1 • AOL News

This is not unprecedented, though. Edith Wilson effectively ran the White House after Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke.

Without trying to be too disrespectful, I’m just going to post this here.

There’s a Petition to Have Fetty Wap Play ‘Trap Queen’ at Nancy Reagan’s Funeral • Beyond being the first lady, Nancy Reagan holds the important legacy as being the most famous trap queen in American history • 2016 Mar 7 • James Grebey • Spin

There’s also this (it’s not The Onion):

Obama to Skip Nancy Reagan’s Funeral to Attend South by Southwest • 2016 Mar 9 • Elizabeth Chuck • NBC News