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Column: For years, the Reagans’ daughter regretted some things she wrote. Now she’s at peace
latimes ^ | 02/06/2024 | MARY MCNAMARA

Posted on 02/08/2024 10:41:20 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Being the child of our parents is, on an existential level, everyone’s life‘s work. We are all shaped by the people who gave us life, their presence or their absence, their loving support or pathological abuse and all the myriad types of influence in between.

For Patti Davis, however, that life’s work has been quite literal.

She began chronicling her singular life as the only daughter and oldest child of Ronald and Nancy Reagan in 1986 with the roman a clef “Home Front.” She followed it in 1992 with the tell-all “The Way I See It: An Autobiography,” a book that was, depending on the politics of the reader, both wildly praised and viciously criticized and for which she has spent the last two decades expressing regret.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: daughter; peace; reagan; wrote
Patti was always trashing her dad.
1 posted on 02/08/2024 10:41:20 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So does little Ronnie the athiest ballerina


2 posted on 02/08/2024 10:47:16 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Former screech, Patti Davis, seems to have turned a corner. Thank the Lord.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6.
3 posted on 02/08/2024 10:51:07 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I guess trashing your dad isn’t so lucrative anymore.


4 posted on 02/08/2024 10:53:54 AM PST by circlecity
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Amy Carter makes all other presidential children look bad.


5 posted on 02/08/2024 10:56:27 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Reagan was good overall. However, signing the 1983 act that increased the retirement age blackened everything else he did as we suffer through that right now. To everyone involved, both Democrats and Republicans and any of their descendants, absolutely unforgivable.


6 posted on 02/08/2024 11:07:42 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I made the mistake of reading Patti Davis’ book years ago - she’s a bit full of herself.


7 posted on 02/08/2024 11:20:40 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: billorites

Amy Carter was a spoiled brat, who thought she was above the law. She had tons of parking tickets in Washington. Look her up.


8 posted on 02/08/2024 11:43:38 AM PST by suekas
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To: circlecity
Dems are more civil to the memory of Reagan in order to trash Trump. Patty's just reading the room.
9 posted on 02/08/2024 11:46:03 AM PST by CaptainK ("If life's really hard, at least its short")
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Huh? You determine when you don’t want to keep working.

Do you want to stop working at 30? Make that work for you.


10 posted on 02/08/2024 11:49:04 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: suekas

I looked it up because she wasn’t old enough to drive when Carter was president.

I did find this, she got them in Rhode Island.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/03/18/Amy-Carter-back-behind-the-wheel/7326543042000/


11 posted on 02/08/2024 12:05:12 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I had thankfully forgotten Patti Davis. And Ron Jr too.


12 posted on 02/08/2024 1:25:45 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: CaptainK

Oh hell yes. I remember the Reagan Presidency very well. The RATs were century vile. I laugh every time these lunatics say nice things about Reagan.


13 posted on 02/08/2024 1:44:34 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Seruzawa

Entirely vile. Effing autocorrect.


14 posted on 02/08/2024 1:45:32 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Seruzawa

Actually I kind of like the expression “ century vile”.
Dems are timelessly vile.


15 posted on 02/08/2024 2:46:02 PM PST by CaptainK ("If life's really hard, at least its short")
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To: billorites

Chelsea Clinton makes all other presidential children look good


16 posted on 02/09/2024 6:54:46 AM PST by al baby (I know sarcasm )
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