# Was Nancy Reagan really known as Good-Time Nancy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 7, 2003, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-nancy-reagan-really-known-as-good-time-nancy/180212 "2003-06-07T00:39:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Flying\_Monk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/48db29/32.png) [@Flying\_Monk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flying_Monk)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-nancy-reagan-really-known-as-good-time-nancy/180212/1 "2003-06-07T00:39:56Z")
I’ve heard that back in her college days, she used to go on car trips with guys and give them all oral pleasure. Is this true? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-nancy-reagan-really-known-as-good-time-nancy/180212/2 "2003-06-07T01:12:41Z")
I don’t know if it’s true, but I’ve heard the same stories. Not so much about her college days, but during her career as a actress in Hollywood. ---
**Author:** ![dono](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@dono](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dono)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-nancy-reagan-really-known-as-good-time-nancy/180212/3 "2003-06-07T01:47:07Z")
I don’t know if it’s true or not, but I heard that Hillary Clinton used to felch goats in the back of Buick sedans. Or is this introducing politics into GQ? ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-nancy-reagan-really-known-as-good-time-nancy/180212/4 "2003-06-07T01:59:46Z")
**dono** said > [@](#): > > Or is this introducing politics into GQ? With 257 posts, you should know that you are, indeed, being political in an inappropriate forum. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-nancy-reagan-really-known-as-good-time-nancy/180212/5 "2003-06-07T02:04:20Z")
From my searching in Google groups, Kitty Kelley, in her biography, alleges that about Nancy(Davis) Reagan. I haven’t gone beyong that searching for the truth. ---
**Author:** ![dono](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@dono](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dono)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-nancy-reagan-really-known-as-good-time-nancy/180212/6 "2003-06-07T02:13:50Z")
**samclem** , granted. I’ll shut up now. Buy ya’ a beer? ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-nancy-reagan-really-known-as-good-time-nancy/180212/7 "2003-06-07T02:48:39Z")
Do it exactly one more time and you’ll be able to buy plenty of beers with all the spare time you’ll have by not posting to this message board. Capice? ---
**Author:** ![Extraneous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/0ea827/32.png) [@Extraneous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Extraneous)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-nancy-reagan-really-known-as-good-time-nancy/180212/8 "2003-06-07T05:13:06Z")
I have heard the expression: Nancy “I’ll sleep my way to the top!” Davis Follow up: How long from when Reagan’s divorce became final until his marriage to Davis? Amusing speculation: what kind of a woman would consider RR a catch? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-nancy-reagan-really-known-as-good-time-nancy/180212/9 "2003-06-07T05:25:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Extraneous \* > **How long from when Reagan’s divorce became final until his marriage to Davis?** Reagan divorced Jane Wyman on June 6, 1948. He married Nancy (who was apparently already pregnant with Patti) on March 4, 1952. [Here is a handy timeline](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reagan/timeline/) of the life of “the Gipper”. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-nancy-reagan-really-known-as-good-time-nancy/180212/10 "2003-06-07T07:01:56Z")
From the Orange County Weekly website: > [@](#): > > It got nowhere near the press coverage that I Love You, Ronnie did, but Patricia Seaton Lawford’s memoir of her late husband Peter contains a revealing passage on Mrs. Reagan as single gal Nancy Davis—and on her do’s and don’ts of dating. Published in 1988, The Peter Lawford Story: Life With the Kennedys, Monroe and the Rat Pack chronicles the life of the low-magnitude movie star, Kennedy in-law and sometime Rat Packer. Among his many acquaintances was young Nancy Davis. Just how well they were acquainted Patricia didn’t know until after Reagan was elected president. The Widow Lawford recalls, “Peter was watching the news right after Reagan was elected. He went over to the set, laughing and calling Mrs. Reagan a vulgar name. I was shocked and wanted to know what was bothering him. He laughed again and said that when she was single, Nancy Davis was known for giving the best head in Hollywood. Then Peter told of driving to the Phoenix area with Nancy and Bob Walker [whom Lawford claims was her lover at the time]. Nancy would visit her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Loyal Davis, while Peter and Walker picked up girls at Arizona State University in Tempe, a Phoenix suburb. He claimed that she entertained them orally on those trips, apparently playing with whichever man was not driving at the moment. I have no idea if Peter was telling the truth, though I have to assume he was because Peter was not one to gossip.” ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-nancy-reagan-really-known-as-good-time-nancy/180212/11 "2003-06-07T07:04:38Z")
Kenneth Anger recounts the story of Nancy giving the best “services” in one of his _Hollywood Babylon_ books, but those should be considered fiction and not factual. (For one thing, KA says that it was Justine Bateman that Roman Polanski raped.) ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-nancy-reagan-really-known-as-good-time-nancy/180212/12 "2003-06-07T13:55:20Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally by the Orange County Weekly website_ > **the low-magnitude movie star,** Just had to nitpick this until the Bad Astronomer makes his appearance. The lower a star’s magnitude, the brighter it is. So a “low-magnitude star” is a bright one. If you wanted to talk about a dim star, that would be a “high-magnitude” one. But that might confuse the readers of scandal sheets. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-nancy-reagan-really-known-as-good-time-nancy/180212/13 "2003-06-07T15:47:09Z")
One thing’s for sure. You can’t “just say no” while you’re doing that! 😛 “Mo,” maybe, but not no. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-nancy-reagan-really-known-as-good-time-nancy/180212/14 "2003-06-07T16:36:44Z")
How is that not gossip? Passing on stories and information, true or false, about others is gossip. RE-The OP I believe that as much as I believed the stories of John Denver and Mr Rogers being snipers. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-nancy-reagan-really-known-as-good-time-nancy/180212/15 "2003-06-08T10:23:00Z")
> [@](#): > > How is that not gossip? > > Passing on stories and information, true or false, about others is gossip. Obviously, I’m in no position to verify what happened. But according to the quoted article, Peter Lawford wasn’t going around talking about Nancy Reagan’s supposed exploits. The only person he supposedly told the story to was his wife Patricia and she was the one who published it. And the OP wasn’t whether or not Nancy Reagan actually was a “good time girl” - it was whether she had a reputation for being one. The posts here show she did.