Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Reagan akafungidzira basa re "mudziviriri" asiri wepamutemo womurume wake pashure pokuedza kumuuraya
muna 1981. Musi waMarch 30 wegore iroro, Mutungamiri Reagan navamwe vatatu vakapfurwa nomuurayi ane makore 25 okukura John Hinckley, Jr. sezvavakanga vachibva muWashington Hilton hotel. Nancy akaudzwa uye akasvika kuGeorge Washington University Hospital, uko Mutungamiriri weNyika akaiswa muchipatara. Akayeuka kuti akanga amboona "dzimba dzokukurumidzira, asi ndakanga ndisati ndamboona imwe yakaita seiyi <unk> nomurume wangu imomo". Akaperekedzwa mukamuri rokumirira, uye paakapiwa mvumo yokuona murume wake, akamuseka achiti, "Mudiwa, ndakakanganwa kudonha", achitora mutambi wenhabvu akarohwa Jack Dempsey achiitira mudzimai wake.