Send the First Lady no flowers

Doris Day dated Ronald Reagan in the early 1950s while working on The Winning Team. She thought him too talkative to be serious husband material--but let's suppose she could have gotten by that, or learned to live with the Gipper's garrulousness, or whatever. Now, assuming all other things are equal, imagine what happens when Ronald Reagan goes into politics...and America's all-grown-up-now Girl Next Door is his wife. How would you imagine Doris Day in the White House?

While we're at it, let's see your riffs on jokes associated with a Hollywood marriage at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: you know, something like, "Oh, yeah? Who's the Secretary of Defense--John Wayne?"
 
She will be the most popular First Lady. And the most famous (after all, but she played the main role in the film Hitchcock - this is already known).
 
Oh Lord, she would have run rings around that claptrap Raisa Gorbachev. That would have been fun. She would have been a great ambassador of American values and her charm would have melted steel. Literally can't think of a single negative thing about this scenario. If someone wants to write this fun TL, I'm reading it.
 
Doris Day dated Ronald Reagan in the early 1950s while working on The Winning Team. She thought him too talkative to be serious husband material--but let's suppose she could have gotten by that, or learned to live with the Gipper's garrulousness, or whatever. Now, assuming all other things are equal, imagine what happens when Ronald Reagan goes into politics...and America's all-grown-up-now Girl Next Door is his wife. How would you imagine Doris Day in the White House?

While we're at it, let's see your riffs on jokes associated with a Hollywood marriage at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: you know, something like, "Oh, yeah? Who's the Secretary of Defense--John Wayne?"

You are obviously posting from an alternate timeline! :p https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/dbwi-former-first-lady-doris-day-is-dead.467564/
 
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