I was about to post the same thing. Why is Michael, who was so close to his father, relegated to the back row? My first guess, is that maybe he and Nancy don't get along, and Patti and the Worm are with her b/c they her natural born kids.
I have never, never, heard Ron Jr. say one good thing about his father, what he stood for, or what he accomplished.
Is there a known friction b/w Michael and Patti and Ron?
I will say that it kind of bothers me for Michael, b/c no one embraces his father, or his ideals, or his faith, any more than Michael does. And Michael seems to be such a kind, sincere and gentle person.
I was sure disappointed to hear of Ron Jr.'s comments recently about Bush. I could not understand it but I wonder if it is purely jealousy. Bush is the son of a president that has himself become president. Ron Jr. has probably had a hard go trying to live up to his father's image.
It has been bothering me as well. I thought may be I was imagining things. When they all got out of the car, Nancy, Ron, his wife, and Patty blocked Michael from standing next to them; he had to proceed to the end and stand separate from them with his family. The apparent childishness was annoying me.
Frankly, it seems like Michael was the only child who was comfortable in his father's shadow. But that's just gossip on my part.
Maybe too much is being read into where Michael sat yesterday. Naturally, Ron and Patti sat close to their mother. In the second row were Maureen's former husband and his fiance and some kids and Michael and his family were in the row behind. How do you decide whether Michael sits directly behind Nancy and Maureen's, in essence, representative sits in the back row? Does it really matter? There are only so many seats in a row.
Not everyone could fit into the family limo which follows the hearse. Naturally, Patti and Ron would be deferred to in this case because it is their mother who is the widow.
Cripes, there's enough in life to surmise about, why take up an offense when you don't know there even is one?
PBS played part one of a two-parter on Reagan tonight and in it, in some old footage, Ronald P. Reagan did speak well of his father a number of times. He presented him as a deeply caring man who would never suspect anyone of wanting to stab him in the back, and he DID say his mom would be the one to think that could happen.