Posted on 01/18/2011 11:24:47 AM PST by Kaslin
Despite the family feud that has unfolded over the past few days between Ron Reagan and his half-brother Michael, Nancy Reagan said she is very proud of her son for writing his new book "My Father at 100."
“She was worried about me. She said ‘Are you alright?’ I said ‘Yeah mom, I’m fine... but they are going to ask me what you think of the book. So what should I say to them,’” Ron Reagan said on “GMA.” “And she said, ‘You tell them that I’ve read it, I loved it, it made me cry and I’m very proud of you.’”
In Reagan’s book he notes moments during his father’s presidency which he found troubling and said could have been early signs of Alzheimer’s, such as during one of the 1984 presidential debates with Walter Mondale or when his father could not remember the name of canyons he knew well in California.
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Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me.
And somehow I don’t think Nancy is proud of a book that claims her husband had Alzheimers while he was in the White House.
Ron, Jr. and his sister, Patty, are both getting long in the tooth. Ron did say that his perception of there being some forerunner of memory loss in President Reagan at that time should no more affect his place in American history than other great Presidents’ afflictions. (Notice I say “his (Ron’s) PERCEPTION”.) Even IF half his brain were tied behind his back, President Reagan excelled magnificently; so Ron, Jr. and Patty both just have to accept that President Reagan was a GREAT President even if down deep it rankles their liberal souls. Nancy and President Reagan LOVED their kids to a fault.
I’d rather have President Reagan on his worst day than any of the clowns we’ve had since on their best days.
I do too. I doubt that she has read the book too.
Ron Reagan, Jr. is a real POS.
The story behind that second photo:
Nancy Reagan, radiant in a red pantsuit, rested her hand on President Barack Obama’s shoulder as he signed a bill to honor her late husband and icon of the right Ronald Reagan.
Obama, as is usual, signed with his left hand.
“Oh, you’re a lefty,” Reagan said, to scattered chuckles in the room.
“I am a lefty,” Obama replied evenly, adding: “Well, I think that President Reagan’s signature was more legible than mine.”
The bill creates a panel to plan and carry out events to honor Reagan’s 100th birthday in 2011
Hence my addition the the title. I don’t buy it either
She was instrumental in killing Ollie North's bid for the Senate. Not to mention, her dabbling with the occult.
I think the daughter finally toned down the rhetoric, but Ron is a total disgrace. I guess Nancy's genes were dominate.
Sheese! What's with these FReepers - give Nancy a break.
I dare say, if it was not for Nancy, we would not have had Ronald W. Reagan as our 39th president. Conservatives need support, liberals need criminals. Nancy was very supportive.
I only had the great honor of meeting her (and her husband) once, but she was really beautiful and very petite. I was fearful of crushing her hand when I shook it.
Now she's nearly 90...
BUMP!
“As great a President as he was I don’t believe that the Reagans were very good parents. “
I have always said that. I think they were so in love with each other that the children felt excluded. I knew a couple like that once, so wrapped up in each other and little time or emotional connection with their daughter. She did all kinds of negative things to get their attention. I see her in Patty and Ron.
I have the same impression you do. Ronald Reagan was a distant, aloof father; he just wasn’t into it. He and Nancy were much more into each other. The children were on their own. It’s nice of Nancy to say this about Ron though; very Mom-like.
Okay, that makes three of us who learned this about the Reagans.
Momma’s proud of her little boy, he stayed inside the lines when he colored...
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