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Nancy Lammerding Ruwe White House Social Secretary

Nancy Lammerding Ruwe, 76, a White House social secretary during the
Ford administration, died June 23 [2008] at her home in Washington
[DC] after a stroke.

Mrs. Ruwe began working in the White House at the start of the Nixon
administration, as an aide to press secretary Ronald Ziegler, and was
responsible for television scheduling and research for press
briefings.

In 1971, she was named foreign service reserve officer for the State
Department's chief of protocol, where she planned and executed
functions for visiting heads of state. Those events included a large
dinner given by then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger for the U.N.
General Assembly at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York [New
York].

She returned to the White House in 1974, when President Gerald R. Ford
succeeded Nixon. When Mrs. Ruwe married the following year, first lady
Betty Ford served as her matron of honor.

Nancy Lammerding was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and graduated from
what is now Trinity Washington University in the District [Washingotn
DC]. She later received a master's degree from Columbia University.
She worked as a television producer in New York before moving to
Washington [DC] in 1969.

Frequently mentioned in the society columns, Mrs. Ruwe accompanied her
husband, L. Nicholas Ruwe, to Iceland when he was appointed ambassador
to the republic in 1985. She played host to President Ronald Reagan at
the embassy residence the next year during historic Reagan-Gorbachev
summit.

She was a member of the board of the Foundation for Art and
Preservation in Embassies, the Faberge Arts Foundation and the Ronald
Reagan Institute of Emergency Medicine of George Washington University
Medical Center. She also was membership chairman of the Council of the
American Ambassadors.

Her husband died in 1990.

She had no immediate family survivors.

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Patricia Sullivan


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071602880.html

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