NANCY REAGAN WORKS TO REVERSE BUSH STEM CELL POLICY
"A lot of time is being wasted. A lot of people who could be helped are not being helped."
The words of former first lady Nancy Reagan on the issue of Bush's policy of limited stem cell research.
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Reagan's secret campaign to reverse the Bush decision on the matter is outlined publicly for the first time in Sunday runs of the NEW YORK TIMES, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
Mrs. Reagan believes that embryonic stem cell research could uncover a cure for Alzheimer's, the disease that has wiped out her husband's memory. She was dismayed, friends say, when the White House took issue on Monday with a new California law that encourages embryonic stem cell research.
And now she is set to go public.
TIMES star Alessandra Stanley develops her break in a Page One exclusive, a newsroom source says.
Stanley, who is back on the domestic beat after spending time in Europe for the paper, reports how Reagan is a stealth lobbyist, working her old network to once again wield influence in Washington.
"She has personally contacted 20 members of Congress, button-holed administration officials and conferred with leading scientists," Stanley reports.
Mrs. Reagan's dispute with Bush is complicated by the long, rather strained history between their families. The Reagans had a famously civil but cool relationship with Vice President George Bush and his wife, Barbara.
And now the stem cell split.
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