Mike Wallace was great friends with Nancy Reagan's mother, Edie. Edie liked dirty jokes and was a minor star actress married for the second time to a well known doctor. Edie knew everyone in show business, especially her friend, Spencer Tracy.Nancy was particularly kind to Mr. Tracy's deaf son
Mike Wallace and Nancy Reagan deserved each other. Nancy disliked her two step children from Ronald Reagan's marriage to Jane Wyman.
Understandable, because Ronnie Reagan was her whole life. And Nancy's dad deserted her mom when Nancy was quite young.