Posted on 06/10/2004 4:57:40 PM PDT by Nowhere Man
In all that I've seen and heard this week, Maureen and Michael stayed with their mother after the divorce. Michael mentioned he and his sister waiting for their dad to come pick them up on weekends. Also, Maureen is quoted as wondering why Patti did not even know about her (Maureen) and RR is to have said, "Well we just haven't gotten that far yet." (I'm presuming Patti had to be very young at the time.)
Her name is Durie Malcolm.
According to the Smoking Gun, he had it annulled. I didn't read much of the article on their site, but it's there if you're interested.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/jfk/durie1.html
I've seen Bedtime for Bonzo. It's not a bad film but not Shekespeare either. One of the mistakes libs made was play it in colleges etc. hoping it would be a source of ridicule and sink Reagan in his bid for the Presidency. It hardly did that as we know. If anything showing the movie boomeranged on them.
Well according to Mike's eulogy, Reagan picked him and Maureen up on Saturdays, so that can't be right.
I'm not trying to get you. :) Actually, you're ahead of me, as I never even heard of Durie Malcolm until I read your message. I just had heard President Reagan was the only divorcee, and was repeating what I had heard.
That's not necessarily true. There are no hard and fast rules for funerals, families can honor their dearly departed as they see fit.
My sister's husband died in 1996. His ex-wife was an important part of the funeral.
It was ex-wife and widow side-by-side in the recieving line at the calling hours. At the Memorial Service, both spoke.
From here (for what it's worth).
Also:
[November, 1961]
During this month, the rumor of JFK’s 1947 marriage to Florida socialite, Durie Malcolm, reportedly first reaches J. Edgar Hoover at the FBI. Hoover then brings the matter to RFK’s attention. Helen Gandy, Hoover’s secretary says, however, that Hoover had known about the marriage as early as 1960 and discussed it with Richard Nixon in terms of using it for election dirty tricks.
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[March, 1962]
Early this month a small New York magazine, The Realist, runs a story headlined THE STORY BEHIND THE RUMOR ABOUT PRESIDENT KENNEDY’S FIRST MARRIAGE. The rumor is that JFK was briefly married, in 1947, to a Florida socialite named Durie Malcolm. Malcolm has merited an entry in a privately printed history of her family, and it states flatly that among her several husbands is “John F. Kennedy, son of Joseph P. Kennedy, one time Ambassador to England.”
From here
I read that the Chicago Tribune and Charlotte Observer are calling Reagan the first and only divorced president. Interesting-- I'm beginning to believe that most of what we see and read in the media is just plain manufactured...
I loved lewis Grizzard, I have all his books. Cried all day when he died.
Lewis grizzard was a conservative. I'm almost positive.
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