[From a piece on Nancy Reagan]
The Arizona Republic
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/...agan/81411040/
A cub reporter from Mesa's brush with Nancy Reagan
John D'Anna, The Republic | azcentral.com 4:24 p.m. MST March 6, 2016
Nancy Reagan was my first big “get” in journalism. I’d interviewed
Stevie Nicks, briefly, for my college paper at an American Heart Association event she was headlining on behalf of her father, but she was pretty dismissive and wasn’t much interested in being there, much less talking to a student.
My brush with the first lady was at a similar kind of event, in Mesa in the summer of 1983. I was the weekend reporter and was assigned to cover a Marc Center dinner at the Dobson Ranch Inn, where Reagan was to be the keynote speaker and accept an award on behalf of her mother.