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27 Nova L. Rev. 277 (2002-2003)
What If Nancy Reagan's Astrologer Had Sued - An Essay

handle is hein.journals/novalr27 and id is 295 raw text is: What If Nancy Reagan's Astrologer Had Sued? An Essay by Barrett Seaman TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRO DU CTION ............................................................................. 277 HI. FINDING JOAN QUINGLEY ............................................................. 279 III. T HE STO RY ................................................................................... 283 IV. QUIGLEY'S RIGHT TO PRIVACY .................................................... 284 V . C ON CLU SION ................................................................................. 287 I. INTRODUCTION The revelation in the final months of Ronald Reagan's presidency that First Lady Nancy Reagan relied on the prognostications of an astrologer to help determine her husband's schedule-including the timing of his signature on a major arms control treaty with the Soviet Union-was itself hardly the fruit of journalistic enterprise. That essential detail, which titillated the nation in May of 1988, was handed to the press on a platter, as it were. Actually, it was not on a platter, but rather in a plain brown cardboard box containing the manuscript of Donald T. Regan's White House memoir entitled, For The Record.' I can attest to that, as I was the recipient of that box-delivered to me by the book's publisher, Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch. I was to read it, and recommend to my editors at Time Magazine whether Time should purchase the rights to run excerpts in the magazine, prior to the book's publication later that year. Don Regan, who had been President Reagan's Treasury Secretary, then his Chief of Staff, was ousted from this last job in February 1987, in a palace coup that was widely believed to have been engineered by Nancy Reagan herself. Less than a year and a half later, Don Regan's revenge was * Barrett Seaman, a visiting Goodwin Professor in February, 2002, retired in 2001 after a thirty-year career as a correspondent and editor of Time Magazine. In addition to assignments in New York, Chicago, Bonn, Germany, and Detroit, he served as Time's Senior White House Correspondent from 1984-88, covering the second term of Ronald Reagan's presidency. He also served as Time's Special Projects Editor from 1994 to 2001, and was responsible for many of Time's special editions and reports. He is the coauthor, along with Michael Moritz, of Going For Broke: The Chrysler Story, (Doubleday, 1981) about the near- death experience of the nation's third largest auto company. He is currently working on another book. 1. DONALD T. REGAN, For the Record, TIME, May 16, 1988, at 26.

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