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Ronald Reagan’s Daughter Says He Married Nancy Over Pregnancy
thedailybeast ^ | 12/30/2023 | Chaya Tong

Posted on 01/02/2024 9:04:00 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Ronald Reagan’s daughter, Patti Davis, says her mother, Nancy Reagan, convinced the former president to get married by getting pregnant with her in 1952, according to her upcoming book Dear Mom and Dad: A Letter About Family, Memory, and the America We Once Knew. Ronald Regan had been married to actress Jane Wyman before divorcing her, and according to Davis, had “made a pact” with Wyman that he wouldn’t remarry before she did. Davis wrote that her father was happy playing the field and “was not exactly anxious to get married again.” Davis was born six months after the couple married in March of 1952 and writes “Traveling back, you realize that the whole story of your family is bigger, messier, and often more tender than you once believed.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: daugther; married; pattidavis; presgnancy; reagan
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Ronnie and Nancy are gone. Not taking Pattis word.
1 posted on 01/02/2024 9:04:00 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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... Not taking Pattis word.

Wise choice. If ever there was a genuine love story, Ronald and Nancy's is it. Perhaps the date was "hurried along," but it was destiny.

2 posted on 01/02/2024 9:07:11 AM PST by gloryblaze
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Patty was a hippie girl who lived with The Eagles’ guitarist Bernie Leadon. They co-wrote “I Wish You Peace.” Between Patti Davis and Ron Reagan, they raised a couple of nasty, leftist creeps.


3 posted on 01/02/2024 9:08:16 AM PST by Kaiser8408a (z)
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Well if she was born 6 months after they got married, then this is pretty obvious. Back in the day this was the accepted way of doing things.


4 posted on 01/02/2024 9:09:56 AM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Patty was a hippie girl who lived with The Eagles’ guitarist Bernie Leadon. They co-wrote “I Wish You Peace.” Between Patti Davis and Ron Reagan, they raised a couple of nasty, leftist creeps.


5 posted on 01/02/2024 9:10:00 AM PST by Kaiser8408a (z)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Showbiz kids are worse than the stars themselves. I give you Patti...and Ron.


6 posted on 01/02/2024 9:11:06 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s possible. But where President Reagan would have done right by the woman he loved I won’t think any less of him or her.

Patti is correct that a lot of family stories and family legends can be undone upon research. The old legend of having an “Indian Princess” in the family history has been put to the lie by DNA for a lot of families such as Lizzie “Pocahontas” Warren.


7 posted on 01/02/2024 9:11:59 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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The fact remains at Ronnie did The honorable thing in a time before abortion was so commonplace. Either Patty Davis should honor that, or slice her wrists because she was a f****** mistake.


8 posted on 01/02/2024 9:12:22 AM PST by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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Even if their marriage had rough patches, as many many of them do, they worked out those differences and stayed married.

Better love story if you ask me.


9 posted on 01/02/2024 9:12:49 AM PST by Bayard
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What is it? Pick over Reagan day?


10 posted on 01/02/2024 9:12:58 AM PST by dforest
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A scandalous tell-all?

The trust fund must be running low…


11 posted on 01/02/2024 9:13:45 AM PST by IncPen ("Inside of every progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out" ~ David Horowitz)
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“Ronnie and Nancy are gone. Not taking Pattis word.”

“Davis was born six months after the couple married in March of 1952”

The wedding and birth dates are public records


12 posted on 01/02/2024 9:14:05 AM PST by JSM_Liberty
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So what?
That’s something to be proud of.
Or is being a baby momma with a sperm donor better?


13 posted on 01/02/2024 9:14:52 AM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: ChicagoConservative27
ALL MY CHILDREN 1970-89 Opening Sequence
14 posted on 01/02/2024 9:15:12 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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Don’t know how true it is because I never read it myself, although it probably is, my mother always said Jane Wyman, when with Ronald Reagan, said he was so boring. Talking about politics all the time.

Nancy was a good fit :) I’m glad it worked out. There are so many sad marriaged and Hollywood is kind of that group.

Ronnie and Nancy ❤️


15 posted on 01/02/2024 9:15:12 AM PST by Beowulf9
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I feel ya Ron.


16 posted on 01/02/2024 9:15:34 AM PST by Phoenix8
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So nice that she was at the wedding, no?!?


17 posted on 01/02/2024 9:16:35 AM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: Phoenix8

so.....


18 posted on 01/02/2024 9:16:36 AM PST by basalt (qb's)
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To: Bayard

A more interesting tale we could talk about and spread all over the place is why Web Hubble didn’t do the right thing by Hillary? LOL

Why hasn’t Bill acknowledged his black son?


19 posted on 01/02/2024 9:16:56 AM PST by dforest
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I wonder what Patti will talk about next. Maybe she has some dirt on Calvin Coolidge.


20 posted on 01/02/2024 9:17:28 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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