You didn't have to be a Reagan Republican to admire and respect Nancy Reagan. ... She was a tower of strength alongside her husband, had strong beliefs, and was not afraid to chart her own course politically. She persuaded her husband to support the Brady Law, and their advocacy was instrumental in helping us pass it.

— Bill Clinton on Nancy Reagan

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "You didn't have to be a Reagan Republican to admire and respect Nancy Reagan. ... She was a tower of strength alongside her husband, had strong beliefs, and was not afraid to chart her own course politically. She persuaded her husband to support the Brady Law, and their advocacy was instrumental in helping us pass it." in the context of "Bill Clinton, as quoted in "Nancy Reagan ‘was quiet and mild, but you could tell that she had steel on the inside’" by Peter Holley, in The Washington Post (6 March 2016)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Bill Clinton

About Bill Clinton

William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III ; 19 August 1946) is an American politician and the 42nd president of the United States of America, and the husband of Hillary Rodham Clinton.