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 don't have respect for either one of them because they didn't have respect for their father and just fueled their father's enemies. By speaking at the DNC Ron dissed his dad again not to mention how he must have embarassed her along with disrepecting her as well. Nope. I have no respect for either one of these people.
The Reagan children in my eyes who loved, honored and respected Ronald & Nancy Reagan were Maureen and Michael. They were there for their parents through thick and thin.
Nancy has the grandchildren of Michael. As for Maureen, I'm not sure if she had children or not. She was a nice person and so sad when she died.
I am sorry, however, for the pain and suffering of this family. . .
Given Patti's regrets. . .perhaps in her 'next thirty years' or so. . .she may even get her politics 'Right'. . .
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