Editing Mary Lou Retton (section)

===Political views===
[[Image:President Ronald Reagan with Mary Lou Retton and the 1984 United States Olympic team.jpg|thumb|upright|President [[Ronald Reagan]] and Retton with the U.S. Olympic Team in Los Angeles, 1984]]

Retton was an outspoken supporter of the [[Presidency of Ronald Reagan|Reagan administration]] and appeared in a variety of television ads supporting [[Ronald Reagan]] as well as appearing at a rally for his reelection campaign just a month after the Olympics in her home state of [[West Virginia]]. Retton delivered the [[Pledge of Allegiance (United States)|Pledge of Allegiance]] with fellow former gymnast and 1996 Olympic gold medalist [[Kerri Strug]] on the second night of the [[2004 Republican National Convention]].<ref name="pledge">
{{cite news |title = Election 2004: Republican Convention Schedule and Viewer's Guide |newspaper = [[New York Times]] | date = September 1, 2004 | url = http://www.slate.com/id/2151608 |access-date = August 18, 2008 }}</ref>