Former first lady Nancy Reagan won't be coming to the Republican National Convention next month. GOP convention planners had hoped she would make a cameo after a video tribute to the late President Ronald Reagan. The appearance was also planned as a counter to her son Ron Reagan's appearance at the Democratic convention where he spoke about expanding stem cell research.

"I don't think she could have missed the symbolic significance of her son going to their convention and her not going to ours," a senior GOP official told the Daily News.

Appearing at the GOP event instead will be conservative talk show host Michael Reagan.