Reagan's Daughter: Former President Rarely Awake

NewsMax ^ | 12/4/03 | Limbacher

[kylaka]

God bless Ronald Reagan. May he send Karl Marx to the little leagues of history. Castro too!

[wretchard]

The thing that emhasizes Ronald Reagan's greatness is how much he is like any one of us. Presidents in common with everyone, have felt fear, known suffering and faced disease. Yet like the best of us too, he entered the long tunnel with hope; as if it at its end he saw not the dark, but something he glimpsed within us -- and within himself.

[Paul Atreides]

I don't know. It could have other meanings, such as kept out of the sight of reporters and photographers. I have a feeling that she means that he is kept indoors.

[eleni121]

President Reagan the greatest President of the 20th century.

We love and respect him for what he believed and what he stood for.

[workerbee]

It did not try to gloss over what some would view as his negatives (ex: Michael Reagan stated that his father never told him that he loved him).

This was their big negative? Wow. Yeah, compared to little things like screwing interns with cigars and selling national security secrets to the ChiComs, boy howdy... He was a nasty one, huh? Glad they didn't gloss over it.

(/sarcasm)

[Paul Atreides]

Yeah, but Bubba felt our pain! Doesn't that make you feel better than, say, winning The Cold War? ;-)

[MamaB]

Those pictures of days gone by brought tears to my eyes. God Bless President Reagan, Nancy and the rest of their family and friends. He was one of a kind.

[NYC GOP Chick]

One of my biggest regrets is that I never got to meet him. Fortunately, I did get to meet our current President.

[Paul Atreides]

He was a nasty one, huh?

On the A&E Biography, Nancy was telling about Ronald have a poolside chat with a friend, when he noticed a little girl go under the water, and stay under for a long time. RR was a lifeguard in his youth, so he jumped into the pool and saved the little girl. It showed a photo of RR, standing in the pool and looking attentively at the girl, along with her parents. The little girl was black. Hmmmm....wasn't Ronald Reagan supposed to hate blacks?

[Lazamataz]

It just kills me to read these reports. Just kills me.

Don't mourn the decline -- celebrate the life. His was an exceptional life.

[Howlin]

I'm not mourning his disease; it's the invasion/intrusion of this tragedy in their private life that distresses me. And still I read.

[bluesagewoman]

It's OK. You know the difference.

[lepton]

One of my biggest regrets is that I never got to meet him.

I got to meet him while I was a kid. The reporters thought my sister and I were cute, and Bob Dole brought him over to where we were. :)

[Williams]

Can't say I met him but he addressed my college commencement. First his Marine helicopters overflew the crowd, on the way to landing on a nearby field. Very impressive. When Reagan spoke, there was a poetry to his words, a soothing benevolent presence about him. He was strong but good natured. He appealed, sort of like a wise and eloquent grandfather, to the kids, parents and grandads, acknowledging each in turn. He was like everyone's wise and important grandfather. The school presented him with a fine horse saddle and he returned to the microphone and said "I have always believed that the best thing for the inside of a man is the outside of a horse."

I also remember him saluting a group of graduates who were in their 70's and 80's, and commenting that he and they knew, and that the younger among us someday would know, just how clear the golden memories of our youth come back to us in our later years. There was a magic to him. He was a great performer in the best sense of the word, and I remember thinking how effective he was at wooing diverse groups of people.

[jtill]

If you found "where he is kept out of sight of all but his closest family and helpers" very distasteful, you would have been even more upset by something else Patti said that is not included in this article.

On the radio this morning, during the news, the statements made by Patti Davis were reported and, among those statements, was one to the effect that it was stupid of Nancy to insist on putting up a Christmas tree for RR to enjoy. He wouldn't even know what it was.

That really steamed me.

[mitch5501]

"When he is awake, which is not that often, he can gaze at the trees outside the window"

That paints a very poignant picture.

Hopefully he is having glimpses of his future heavenly home...and hopefully he can smile because of it.

[DoughtyOne]

I've always thought that was a great photo of President Reagan.

[SBprone]

He was indeed a very strange man in his personal life, but no stranger than Lincoln.

Anyway, his personal relationships were his personal business. As the leader of a diverse nation and as the manager of a fractious government he was right up there with Abe.

[COBOL2Java]

...I dread the day when he finally does pass on, when we'll be subjected to a few days of crocodile tears from the sociocommielibs (partying off camera, of course) before they really let loose with the history rewrites.

What I dread will be the sight of the Sinkerator and the Junior Senator from NY defiling the funeral. I just hope that Nancy will have enough strength to fend them off...