Former first lady Nancy Reagan is dead at the age of 94, and the fine journalists at Washington, D.C.’s Channel 4 had to scramble to get a picture because everyone obviously thought that the former First Lady would live for a few more decades. The picture above is what they managed to finally post on Twitter. And, yes, those are wax figures.
To be fair, it’s notoriously hard to find photographs of former President Ronald Reagan and his wife. They were in the White House between 1980 and 1988, when primitive tintype photography made it difficult to preserve images. Things like Official White House Portraits didn’t exist until 1992, when Bill Clinton was elected and everyone decided that the press corps would really like some nice photographs of the President and First Lady.
In defense of Channel 4, that really is a pretty good likeness of Nancy Reagan. This is also still better than all the idiots on Facebook who think they’re being clever with variations on “Nancy Reagan Just Said No To Life!”