Nancy Reagan, the actress turned first lady who many said helped influence her husband President Ronald Reagan's conservative views, died Sunday at age 94. Here's a look back at the lady in red.
Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan waving from the limousine during the Inaugural Parade in Washington, D.C., on Inauguration Day, 1981. (White House Photographic Office/SDSC/UMD/NARA Prototype Persistent Archive)
The Reagans posing on the White House South Lawn on October 10, 1988. (Ronald Reagan Presidential Library/U.S. National Archives)
Former first lady Nancy Reagan waits to greet Republican presidential candidates in a replica of the Oval Office at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, before the Reagan Centennial GOP presidential primary debate in Simi Valley, California September 7, 2011. (Chris Carlson/Pool/Reuters)
A shot from a Nancy Reagan photo session with Chick Harrity of US News and World Report magazine in the map room on February 26, 1987. (Ronald Reagan Presidential Library)
An official Portrait of Nancy Reagan taken February 1, 1983. (Ronald Reagan Presidential Library)
Nancy Reagan at the Council of Fashion Designers of America CFDA Lifetime Achievement Award to Nancy Reagan in New York City, January 9, 1989. (Ronald Reagan Presidential Library)
Nancy Reagan laying flowers at the Omaha Beach Memorial Cemetery, Normandy, France, June 6, 1982. (Ronald Reagan Presidential Library)
Nancy Reagan at the President's Dinner Republican Party fundraising event at the Convention Center in Washington, D.C., May 11, 1988. (Ronald Reagan Presidential Library/U.S. National Archives)
Nancy Davis standing outside her Beverly Glen apartment in Los Angeles, California, in 1949. (Ronald Reagan Presidential Library)
President Ronald Reagan (C) salutes beside his wife Nancy Reagan after being sworn in as 40th President of the United States by Chief Justice Warren Burger during inaugural ceremony, on January 20, 1981 at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. (AFP/Getty Images)
President Ronald Reagan (2nd L) and Vice President George Bush, (2nd R), accompanied by wives Nancy (L) and Barbara, join hands after the president endorses Bush's run for the presidency during the President's Dinner in Washington, D.C., in this May 11, 1988 handout photo obtained by Reuters November 30, 2012. (George Bush Presidential Library and Museum via Reuters)
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger arrives with former first lady Nancy Reagan and California first lady Maria Shriver (R) during the Reagan Retrospective at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, on October 30, 2006, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s Gubernatorial Election. (Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images)
U.S. President Barack Obama escorts former first lady Nancy Reagan to a signing ceremony for the Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission Act in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington June 2, 2009. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
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