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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It’s long been known that she was pregnant before they married. No one cares.
When was the engagement announced?
I swear I think “how many months pregnant was Nancy when she got married to Ronald Regan” was a Trivial Pursuit question back in the eighties.
She looked at me, I looked at her. Both of us said, "I am not telling her!"
We skipped that part of the narration.
And that seems to clear that up.
Thank you.
1) Kudos for glossing over that little detail.
2) She probably knew.
3) The term “shotgun wedding” exists for a reason.
4) Not every couple that got “in the family way” before marriage needed that kind of persuasion to do the right thing.
5) In most cases that I’ve heard of from “back then”, the marriage worked out just fine.
We did show her the picture of her when she was just fifteen wearing a flapper dress posing by a car. She earned the money for it working as the cosmetics counter girl at the local drug store. She looked at it, looked at us, smiled and said "Your grandfather was very fond me in that dress!"
We kept that in the narration.
Patti Davis has been slandering her parents for 40 years or more because she perceives that they didn’t pay enough attention to her.
Jane Wyman divorced Ronald Reagan because she thought he was boring. I doubt there was ever any pact. She probably didn’t care what he did.
Patti pity party has cried the blues for years because she says her Mom and Dad were so crazy about each other she and Ron Jr were left out.
90% of the people are caused by accidents it’s a BIG club.
Such a horrid creature… on her way to hell.
I was WAITING for a comment like this!
LOLOL, nicely done!
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