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LIVING LARGE: Ronald Reagan's Former Pacific Palisades Home

images via WSJ With the passing of the former First Lady Nancy Reagan earlier this week, there has been a renewed interest in the life and times of the wife, mother, actress and style icon, born Anne Frances Robbins. A lover of refinement and haute couture, she was the driving force behind the return of 'Kennedy-style' glamour and charm to the White House after years of casual informality ( this book gives you a birds-eye view at how she kicked it up a few notches on the entertaining level at the White House during the Reagan years).  I was eager to take a peek at the home she once shared with her beloved Ronnie before they left the Pacific shores for Capitol Hill in 1981. I always thought she was kind of like the west coast version of Lee Radziwill's sister (yes I am talking about Jackie Kennedy but Lee has never gotten enough credit for just being 'Lee' in my opinion so I refuse to call Jackie anything other than 'Lee's sister') The f...