As her state's National Republican Committee woman, Slocum has hosted many fund-raisers, including a dinner with Vice President Dick Cheney at her castle of pink stone, with its marble ballroom . " We raised $ 198, 000 for the Republican Party in two hours, and I was sitting next to a man who looked at me pityingly and said, " We raised over $ 1 million at our fund-raiser in Connecticut . " She has photos of herself and her family with Ronald Reagan ( " a dear man " ) and the elder George Bush at Bailey's Beach ( " handsomer than his son, but his son's doing very well, I think " ).
