204. A Nick in Time: The State Funeral of President Ronald Reagan

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

History, True Crime

4.7 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Today, in A Nick in Time, we travel back to June of 2004, when Dominick Dunne attended and reported on the state funeral of Former President Ronald Reagan. In addition to a veritable ton of name dropping, Dunne also expands a bit on his relationship with Former First Lady Nancy Reagan, widow of the President. All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dun & Dunn. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn.
0:08.4	And today it is to a Nick in time, where I tell you about the time our man Nick
0:14.2	attended the funeral of Ronald Reagan and reported as only he can to Vanity Fair about it.
0:22.7	Thank you for joining me today for this bit of a connected presidential through line.
0:29.2	Former President Jimmy Carter did pass away earlier this month at the age of 100 with a life
0:36.2	well lived. His passing and his funeral got me to thinking about
0:41.6	June of 2004 when Dominic Dunn attended the funeral of Ronald Reagan, who passed away at the age of 93.
0:51.6	Oh my, y'all, this one reads like a who's who of who's that. Dominic Dunn drops all the dish on the attendees and the events of that funeral weekend.
1:04.8	There are a lot of names included from our Dun & Dun journey and ever so many spider webs.
1:11.8	Also included a little bit about Dunn's relationship with Nancy Reagan, and well, so much more.
1:19.5	This is simply some incredible coverage of an event that only our man Nick could get.
1:26.5	Before we begin today's episode, I do want to give some huge thanks
1:30.2	to our most recent supporters on Patreon. Big love, thanks and praise to Simone J, April P, Heather F,
1:39.3	and LHF. Thank you, thank you, new folks. Thank you, sustaining supporters.
1:46.0	Patreon folks, stay tuned for the very end of this episode for a little bit of news about the
1:51.0	very connected Patreon drop coming your way this week on Not Done Yet. As for now, it is to a smidge
2:00.0	more than 20 years ago in the summer of 1994 for the Washington Dity Fair about the events of this June 1994 event
2:39.6	in a piece called The Reagan Touch. Opening at the close here, it is at the end of this piece
2:47.7	that Dominic reveals his personal relationship with Nancy Reagan, the widow of
2:55.5	Ronald Reagan. Dunn writes, one strange truth about my friendship with her is that I never voted for her
3:04.1	for either governor or president. I'm a Democrat by nature, but that never
3:10.8	seemed to get in our way. I had a curious relationship with the Reagan's over the years. Nancy and I
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