Posted on 11/28/2004 10:38:44 AM PST by SmithL
SANTA MONICA -- If she'd been just another wild child of a baby boom generation that produced so many, Patti Davis muses, none of it would have mattered so much.
Sure, she did her share of recreational drugs, but in the 1960s and 1970s, what young person didn't? There was more, of course: posing naked in Playboy magazine, a string of bad love affairs, speeches at anti-war rallies.
There was a difference, though. While Davis the protester denounced war at those rallies in the 1980s, other demonstrators denounced her father, President Reagan.
"I regret all of it," says Davis, who has just published "The Long Goodbye," a poignant, heartfelt memoir about watching the father she adored fight a 10-year battle with Alzheimer's.
Well, she regrets almost all of it.
The Playboy shoot was pretty cool, she says with a twinkle in her eye.
"If you stripped it right down, I didn't do things that much differently than many, many other people did," Davis reflects over a tall glass of iced tea. "I mean I was never arrested or something."
And then, with a giggle: "I wasn't THAT BAD!"
She was both Patti Davis, angry young liberal, and Patricia Ann Davis Reagan, Daddy's little girl.
She is older now and less angry, but still just as liberal and still Daddy's little girl -- so much so that everything she said or did to hurt her father still pains her greatly.
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I've always kind of liked her, she has always struck me as a nice person, despite her idiot views. Good luck, Patti.
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She's a strange girl.
Dozens. Hundreds. Thousands, millions didn't.
Most of the people I had daily contact with didn't. I can't remember a single case of co-workers coming to work stoned.
This seemingly innocuous throwaway line just builds a foundation for the sophistry that follows.
I ain't buying it.
I didn't use drugs.
My sons and daughter don't use drugs.
Sensing a pattern here, perhaps?
Give me a break. When she changes her name to Patti Reagan I'll listen to her.
I'll never understand how a good, normal person like Ronald Regean could have such stupid, oddball kids.
Thank God they'll both be forgotten in a couple years.
Wonder if she feels guilty now for the enormous amount of crap she spewed against her father before he died
Patti may be a kook...but I did like the fish story at the final service.
Agree.
And she's still ugly.
I agree. I have never done drugs, either...no desire and no need. I was not in that kind of environment. Perhaps Patti was influenced by the California lifestyle. I have always felt that Maureen and Michael seemed to be more like their Dad, Ronald Reagan, than Patti and Ron, Jr. The latter two are just strange.
"Wonder if she feels guilty now for the enormous amount of crap she spewed against her father before he died"
She certainly should feel guilty. Ronald Reagan didn't deserve to be embarrassed by all that she did and said. As she grows older she will be haunted with regret.
Yeah! That ignorant, thoughtless display of vainity took 5 or more years off her fathers life.
jane fonda, patti davis...all the same to me.
She is someone who is trying to cash in on her dad's name, because her dad was greatly, greatly loved, and she wants some of that to be bestowed upon her. It is sad, but this happens far too many times in this day and age, when people wait too late to get things right with their parents. These children say things and do things to hurt their parents, and then before you know it, they are gone. It is so ironic, that Michael Reagan, the adopted son, has turned out to be the most loyal child to his father, and also the most level-headed of them all. God bless President Reagan!
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