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Nancy Reagan's Astrologer, 'Closely Guarded Secret,' Died. Read The Obit. noting Joan Quigley, Astrologer to a First Lady, Is Dead at 87 - NYTimes.com
In 1990, JQ wrote a book about her experiences, "What Does Joan Say".
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DTR also claimed that Nancy Reagan paid her $3000/month.In his 1988 memoir, Donald T. Regan, a former chief of staff for President Ronald Reagan, revealed what he called the administration’s “most closely guarded secret.”
He said an astrologer had set the time for summit meetings, presidential debates, Reagan’s 1985 cancer surgery, State of the Union addresses and much more. Without an O.K. from the astrologer, he said, Air Force One did not take off.
In an interview with “CBS Evening News” in 1989, after Reagan left office, Miss Quigley said that after reading the horoscope of the Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, she concluded that he was intelligent and open to new ideas and persuaded Mrs. Reagan to press her husband to abandon his view of the Soviet Union as an “evil empire.” Arms control treaties followed.
In 1990, JQ wrote a book about her experiences, "What Does Joan Say".
But,
After Mr. Regan divulged Miss Quigley’s astrological role, Mrs. Reagan never spoke to her again, Miss Quigley said. She likened the slight to “buying a Picasso and putting it in your living room and putting adhesive tape over the signature.”