First Ladies Red Dress Collection:
Health Story

Aired on Lifetime Television
Sunday, May 6 and June 17, 2007
Show 412

For a limited time the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, CA, is seeing red—red dresses that is. Nancy Reagan opened the exhibit of designer gowns and red dresses worn by every living first lady. "I wore this when Ronnie was knighted in London," she said. However, the gowns are more than historical displays; they're part of the Red Dress Movement to bring attention to heart disease and women. Larry King said, "If I were to tell you someone's having a heart attack right outside this door, you're going to expect to see a man. And that's wrong." In fact, heart disease is the number one killer of women. "I think we all need to just take care of ourselves and get the word out there because there are still women, many millions of women who have no clue that heart disease kills more women than men," says Mary Hart.