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Hudson’s publicist sent a plea to the White House asking for help getting the dying actor into a hospital that could treat him. Nancy also abandoned her longtime friend Rock Hudson as he was seeking treatment for the virus. The Reagans were very much a team over the course of the eight years they were in the White House, and though Nancy may have been more attuned to the severity of AIDS than her husband, Ronald’s failure to take it seriously - he didn’t give a speech on the crisis until it had already killed tens of thousands of Americans - falls on the first lady, as well. INBOX: will unveil a new Nancy Reagan stamp on Monday /f8d1szHN9K 'Silence of the Lambs': The Complete Buffalo Bill Story

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