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Patti Davis, daughter of former President Ronald Reagan, said he doesn’t think her father would be embraced by today’s Republican Party ― and that the feeling would be mutual. “I don’t think he would... and I don’t see how he would want to be in it,” she told CNN’s Jim Acosta on Sunday. “It’s so diametrically opposed to what he believed and to the dignity that he felt that people in government should have.” She mentioned Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) trying to get into a physical fight with labor union leader Sean O’Brien in the middle of a Senate committee...

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...

Former President Ronald Reagan would be “horrified” and “heartbroken” by America’s current state of affairs under President Donald Trump, the late president’s daughter said in a recent interview. In an interview with Yahoo News that was published Tuesday, Patti Davis sharply criticized the Republican Party and Trump’s presidency, saying the President is endangering American democracy and “assaulting” the Constitution. “What would you think (Reagan) would think about this moment?” Zainab Salbi, the host of Yahoo News’ “Through Her Eyes,” asked Davis. “I think he would be horrified,” Davis replied. “I think he would be heartbroken because he loved this country...

Dear Professor Christine Blasey Ford, Like millions of women, I watched you testify about the worst day of your life. Millions of us identified with your fear and wondered if we would be brave enough to wrestle ourselves past that grip of terror if we were in your shoes. Millions of us watched how you held onto the tears that wanted to come up; we know where that place is in the body — the place that pushes down on the rising tide of remembered pain. We know how hard that is. We’ve been holding onto our tears for a...

The daughter of former President Ronald Regan and First Lady Nancy Davis has come out swinging in defense of Christine Blasey Ford, the woman accusing Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault. In a bombshell op-ed for the Washington Post, Patti Davis detailed her own experience with sexual assault, claiming she had been raped by a music executive nearly 40 years ago. Davis was joined with other high-profile figures, such as Alyssa Milano and Ashley Judd, and journalist Thomas Roberts, in sharing their stories of abuse and explaining why they did not report them or come forward at the time.

Ronald Reagan would be 'horrified' by Donald Trump's America, daughter Patti Davis believes. Davis says the 40th President would hate Trump's anti-immigrant stance, his attacks on the free press and his 'caustic, destructive language'. Reagan would be equally 'appalled' at Congress's failure to stand up to a President 'who seems ignorant of the Constitution', she added. There is a difference between immigration laws and cruelty. He believed in laws; he hated cruelty.'

Reagan’s daughter: My dad would be ‘appalled’ by Trump presidency Ronald Reagan would be “appalled” by the Trump presidency, daughter Patty Davis tells the Washington Post. In a letter written on the occasion of the anniversary her father’s June 5, 2004 death, Davis said Reagan would be “pretty horrified at where we’ve come to.” “He would be appalled and heartbroken,” she wrote, “at a Congress that refuses to stand up to a president who not only seems ignorant of the Constitution but who also attempts at every turn to dismantle and mock our system of checks and balances.” Davis, 65,...

Patti Davis, daughter of late President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan, penned an open letter Thursday to Will Ferrell, criticizing the actor for agreeing to play the 40th president in an upcoming satirical film about his battle with dementia. “I saw the news bulletin — as did everyone — that you intend to portray my father in the throes of Alzheimer’s for a comedy that you are also producing,” Ms. Davis, a former actress, wrote in her blog. “Perhaps you have managed to retain some ignorance about Alzheimer’s and other versions of dementia. Perhaps if you knew more, you would...

Has Al Hunt never having heard of de mortuis nil nisi bonum? On the day she was laid to rest, Hunt has repeatedly said that Nancy Reagan "was not a good mother." Interviewed by John Heilemann on today's With All Due Respect, here was Hunt: "she was a formidable person. Sometimes unpleasant, not a great mother, but she loved her Ronnie and had great political instincts . . . She was not a good mother. I think actually Patti Davis, as moving as she was today, if you really listened to it, all was clear: she was not a good...

Former President Ronald Reagan's liberal activist daughter Patti Davis is asking just what many other people across the United States want to know — why she's losing her insurance. "Could the president please explain why I and others are losing our health ins. plans? Wasn't supposed to happen!" Davis posted on Twitter Friday afternoon.

Patti Davis, Ronald Reagan's daughter, recently speculated on where her father might stand on same-sex marriage. Politico published her thoughts under the headline, "Patti Davis says Reagan wouldn't have opposed gay marriage." The impact of the article was immediate. A quick Google search yielded multiple follow-up articles and blog posts. Liberals nationwide were off and running with a new same-sex marriage endorsement: this one from Reagan, the conservative's conservative. This is not the first time liberals have rushed to recast Reagan according to their policy preferences. Immediately after his death in June 2004, he was trotted out as a poster-boy...

In this month’s issue of More magazine, Ronald Reagan’s daughter strips down for the camera. She is 58. This isn’t the first time Patti Davis has been photographed naked. At 42, she posed for Playboy. And while posing nude isn’t exactly a novel idea, her thoughts on body image — particularly as a recovering addict — are. Her body is beautiful — and not just because wow — but because of what she’s put it through.

Dear Hillary, Where are you? We haven't heard from you since your strong and eloquent speech at the Democratic National Convention. You might be taking a well-deserved vacation--certainly you must need one after all those arduous months campaigning. But we need to hear from you right now. We need your voice to speak for all the women (and there are many of us) who are angry at the assumption that, just because Sarah Palin is female, we will fall in line behind her. We need you to make clear that women do not automatically judge someone because of gender; we...

Tomorrow is the fourth anniversary of my father's death. For anyone who has lost a loved one, those anniversaries are both sad and sweet. The sadness is obvious—you don't stop missing the person who has gone; you don't stop wishing you'd had one more year, one more day. The sweetness sneaks up on you. It comes in the form of memories, some of them long buried. But mostly it comes with the realization that nothing ever dismantled the love between you, even though many things seemed to along the way. At this time of year in California, the jacaranda trees...

Oct. 25, 2006 - When I was a kid, I was once being teased relentlessly by a bully at school, and I faked being sick to stay home and avoid him. My parents knew I was faking (the thermometer under hot water trick didn’t work) but they also knew something was wrong. My father came into my room to talk to me, and I willingly confessed. He patiently explained to me that the best way to deal with a bully was to totally ignore him—treat him as if he is invisible. Because all bullies really want is attention. I got...

May 3, 2006 - I don’t know a single person who isn’t acutely aware of the fact that we’ve become a very rude country. It’s gotten to the point that if we don’t encounter rudeness at least twice a day, we’re shocked. < snip > I understand we have a problem with imigration, but it seems very un-American to suggest that 11 million people who have lived and worked here for years and years should be forced to leave. Particularly since they might be some of the most patriotic among us.

Patti Davis, the daughter of the late President Ronald Reagan, spoke fervently Tuesday night to an audience at Tilson Hall about the ability of stem cell research to save lives. The 2005-2006 Indiana State University Speaker Series wrapped up Tuesday night with Davis, whose father succumbed to Alzheimer’s disease in 2004. Davis, 53, a writer and a vocal advocate for embryonic stem cell research, spoke about the final years of her father’s life, her work promoting stem cell research and her thoughts about the current White House administration. Her most recent book, “The Long Goodbye,” is a chronicle of the...

Patti Davis, Ronald Reagan’s renegade daughter, has an article in the current Newsweek titled “Dirty Footprints” in which she pleads, “We must write letters of outrage to the senators who voted to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). But maybe all there is left to do is weep. When I saw the news today, I sat down and wept.” Davis continues with, “President Bush must be feeling so victorious. The Senate has now said ‘yes’ to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge—the pristine place President Eisenhower took measures to protect in 1960.” She laments, “Environmental groups have...

So, in the clear light of dawn, it made me think of America under the Bush administration, deep into the deadly traffic jam of a war that we got into under false pretenses (let’s please not forget the WMDs that were never there). The stated goal of this president is peace. Yet he began a war. And he has dug us in deeper and deeper. His stated goal is freedom—for everyone, everywhere—but where is the freedom for other people when foreign troops are patrolling their country, turning their cities into rubble, frightening citizens who don’t even speak the same language...

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...