Good morning, this is Steve Allen, with a look back at some of the highlights of my early breakfast show of the past week.

You can hear me every weekday morning from 4 on LBC.

Really very interesting, because once Nancy got into the White House, she had an official astrologer,

she had an official photographer, and they went through pictures. There must have been thousands of pictures taken of Nancy Reagan. How you could ever make a stick insect look interesting, I have no idea. Ronald, of course, used to make jokes about AIDS sufferers. Oh yes, he was well known for it. Wasn't exactly the most tactile old buffoon we've ever had. But at least he made some films.

She made a few films, about 11, I think, and never achieved anything at all. But she managed to

sort of pretend that, you know, this really was America's most wonderful couple. It was almost

sick-making. It really was. So anyway, I didn't even know she was still alive. They kept that one

pretty quiet. I think she was possibly embalmed in the corner of some undertaker, that she was 90, whatever she was, and so she's moved on and they've all said nice, they do that in America, though. The Americans are very good at doing nice things about people, which is quite sweet. We don't have to say anything nice about her. We didn't vote for her. She was nothing to do with us. It comes from another country. You know, might have been, uh, might have been just about anybody. But the Kitty Kelly book was the one you have to read. It's, it's well worth it. It really lays out. I think she's set up the Nancy Reagan Foundation and she used to raise money for it. This is a woman. this is a woman who was against pre-marital sex. Disgusting,

she called it. And yet she herself was bonking away. In fact, was three months pregnant,

I believe, when she married Reagan with a child. So never quite practiced what she preached.

But it was when she refused to curtsy to the Queen that everybody,

in fact, every single paper lambasted her. You know, she thought she was a bit grand. She was just

a third-rate, very, very average actress. As I say, the only acting you saw was when she was in the

White House gazing up at Ronald Reagan. And we all knew all about Ronald Reagan. Not a clue of what was going.

Nancy with the dancing eyes. And they made this sick-making film to sort of, you know, ingratiate themselves to Middle America.

Most of America kind of saw through her and realized she was just there for as much money grabbing as she could, and she did.

And so now you've got the Ronald Reagan Memorial Library, which I believe is where she'll... They all say she's going to be buried with him. Well, there can't be much left of him by now. It was buried in 2004. So when they say, you know, they're going to be buried together. And they always say that, don't they say, they're going to be together at last. You think, I bet he's dreading it.

I bet he's dreading it.

Anyway, nice to be company.

How did yesterday go? Good, good. Cold. I should cocoa. My God, it didn't get any colder than it was yesterday. But they say winter shows no signs of going away. It's not going to disappear, I'm afraid. You can have to suffer with it.

It's going to get colder. There might be a bit of ice and a bit of snow and a bit of sleet. In fact, I keep promising you snow. I'm ever so sorry down here in the south. I can't seem to get it right at all, but I'm just going on somebody else's words. I can't get it right. I really can't. I keep saying snow today because they keep saying snow today.

And so I repeat it. And then I go home and I look out and I think, oh, perhaps it will snow today. And it never does. Never does. Very disappointing. A stripper claims she's psychic and she can read the minds of her audience. Perhaps they'll be telling her she's got really badly bleached hair and looks a little bit ancient, but there you go. We've really found a chocolate teapot, and it works.

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