Nancy Reagan at National Gallery

J. Carter Brown, director of the National Gallery, shows First Lady Nancy Reagan a Edgar Degas sculpture during teh First Lady's visit to the gallery March 13, 1986 to view "the New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886" exhibition. The scupture, entitled "The Fourteen Year-Old Dancer," is the only sculpture in the exhibit. (UPI PHOTO/Mary Anne Fackelman-Miner/THE WHITE HOUSE)

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