Michael Reagan, the late president's oldest son, stepped to the podium, retrieved a folded page from his breast pocket, and after a few obligatory remarks in which he described the deep love and affection he felt for his departed father, he launched into a vicious attack on those in the Democratic Party and the liberal media who'd made his father's life a living hell during his days in the Oval Office. Michael was followed to the microphone by his step-sister, Patty Davis, who questioned why liberals and Democrats had found it so easy to hate her father, a man who...