Donald Regan

…of former staff members, including Donald Regan, the president’s chief of staff, who publicly blamed her for his firing in 1987. Regan also claimed that Nancy Reagan insisted that the president’s schedule take into account her astrologer’s predictions and warnings. In her memoirs, she admitted having access to her husband—“For…

In the 1970s, under Chairman Donald T. Regan (later treasury secretary under President Ronald Reagan), the firm moved aggressively into such other financial services as insurance and established the country’s largest money-market mutual fund. The holding company was created in 1973. Under Merrill Lynch International, it has several international operations,…

… sharing a light moment with Donald Regan, who was chief of staff during Reagan’s second term. But there were few such moments: first lady Nancy Reagan had an ongoing feud with Regan.