I am SO happy she was able to do that.
I think that Michael Reagan is the greatest but why was he shunned at the state funeral? Why was he relegated to the back row while Ron Jr and Patty were up front with their Mom? What's up with that?
I don't know if Nancy has excluded Michael, but he has always had good things to say about her.
I have been extremely bothered by the apparent discourteous, and certainly ill advised, treatment of Michael Reagan by Nancy Reagan, Ron Reagan, and Patti Reagan. I noticed at the beginning of the public mourning in Calif, that Michael was not standing with Patti and Ron and altho Michael and his family boarded the plane to DC with the other Reagans, he was not seated with them in the capitol. I have absolutely no use for Ron jr. IMO, Patti came very late to the realization that her parents deserved her respect if not her gratitude. Considering just how messed up her life was when Patti returned to the fold, there is the suspicion that her new found fealty was mercenary. I know too many adoptees not to be greatly offended at the shunting aside of an adopted child. Especially when Michael was the only one of President Reagan's children to support his views and love him in a public manner.This situation needs to be explained. It will be remarked on soon enough in the unfriendly anti-Reagan media. Brit Hume and guest touched on it tonite and neither had an explanation. Perhaps this was Michael's choice but from the look on his face during the ceremony, I think not.
She also said she now realizes she was wrong in her approach, and that she has grown beyond that. She took responsibility for the rift. Highly interesting.
She also said she was angry with the press for describing him as intellectually incurious. She found him to be a thinker, but one who was influenced by deep faith.
"Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, speaking through a translator, said he "told her I felt very privileged to have an opportunity to work with one of the greatest American presidents."
"He said he reminisced with Mrs. Reagan about a visit many years ago to the Reagan presidential library in California and a tour of the grounds conducted by the former president. At one point, Reagan stopped and pointed."
"He told me that would be the spot he would be buried and right next to him would be buried Mrs. Reagan," Nakasone recalled. He asked Mrs. Reagan if that still was the plan and she said it was."
The fact that President Reagan was able to connect with Japanese Prime Minister Nakasone was responsible, according to current Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, for the solid support that Japan has given the US in our present war on terror crisis. The Japanese have proven themselves to be our most trusted and valuable allies, next to the British. The great work that Reagan accomplished transcends the generations and continues to bear fruit even after his death.
The mystery to me is why the Germans, who owed Reagan and the US a great debt of gratitude for ending the Cold War and making their reunification possible, have shown themselves to be unbelievably despicable with their duplicity and treachery.
I will never buy anything from Germany, France, or Russia ever again for as long as I live. I will now buy only Japanese products to repay their steadfastness. These people have to be made to understand that their perfidy has consequences, as well as their graciousness.
why wasn't michael shown during the service? they shoved him in back row in DC, but he was next to Nancy, Ron, and Patti in CA. is this something nancy requested, that he not be shown?