Time: "The Reagans," From One of Them (Patti)

[kskiska]

Considering all the family secrets she's divulged over the years, I'm surprised she's saying anything.

(snip)

…Anger and vitriol always leak through if you’re a writer with those demons inside you.

I know a bit about that. In my early career as a writer, I was an angry one. In 1992 when I wrote an autobiography, we were still a family in turmoil and while I did write about healing and letting go of the past, I still had a firm grip on those grudges. Throughout the years, there have occasionally been offers to purchase the rights to my autobiography and I have always declined. Foolishly, I believed I had control over my own material. Apparently I don’t. There is a scene in “The Reagans” in which my character steals tranquilizers from my mother’s medicine cabinet. I wrote about having done that and trading those pills for amphetamines — an addiction that ravaged me from the age of fifteen well into my twenties. Many women in the Sixties were prescribed tranquilizers, and my mother never noticed hers missing, so she couldn’t have been using them too often. You won’t get this context in the CBS movie; they just wanted you to know there were drugs on the premises.

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[swinney]

2. 68 on Reagan. Bad news

--------------------------RONALD REAGAN RECORDS AS FIRST---------------------------
(1900-1989)

(Peggy Noonan pay attention)

1.First to turn America into a DEBTOR nation
2. First to increase DEBT faster than growth of national income in eight years
3. First to increase DEBT faster than growth of gdp over eight years
4. First to double the deficit in just eigh t years
5. First to “almost”: triple the national DEBT in just eight years
6. First to increase SPENDING by 80%--over 8 years.
7. First to SPEND more in eight years than was spent in prior 50 years.
8. First to have “real” INTEREST RATES of 8% after averaging 1% over 35 years.
9. First to keep PRIME INTEREST RATES at 20%.
10.First to over value the dollar to the yen at rate of 262 yen to 1 dollar.
11.First to have served as Governor and increase STATE SPENDING by 112%
12.First to have HOME LOAN INTEREST RATES as high as 16%
13. First to CUT TAXES by 60% for his rich pals
14. First to allow the SAVINGS AND LOAN INDUSTRY to be raided after signing a deregulatory bill and proclaiming “I think we have hit the jackpot”. Come and get it the vaults are unguarded.
15. First to deal with TERRORISTS
16. First to send an AUTOGRAPHED BIBLE to a man he called “The Satan of Terrorists”.
17. First to have an ADMIRAL plead the Fifth Amendment.
18. First to have a stealing, lying, gutless wife abusing MARINE LT. COLONEL plead the Fifth Amendment.
19. First to have a “sitting” CABINET MEMBER INDICTED
20. First to have an ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE INDICTED.
21. First to have an ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE SENT TO PRISON.
22. First to have over 100 MEMBERS OF AN ADMINISTRATION CHARGED WITH CRIMES..
23. First to have more members of his administration charged with crimes than CUMULATIVE TOTAL OF ALL OTHER PRESIDENTS in the twentieth century
24. First to set a record for the LARGEST ONE DAY PERCENTAGE DECLINE in the DOW in history. 10-19-87
25. First to have over $10,000,000 INCREASE IN WEALTH from serving for 8 years as president.
26. First to testify ”under oath” 130 times that ”I DON’T REMEMBER” .
27. First to have an Admiral with a photographic memory testify 128 times “ I DON’T REMEMBER”.
28. First to undergo BRAIN SURGERY a few months after leaving office. No pain no gain.
29. First to, repeatedly, FALSIFY HIS WIFE’S AGE. As tho anyone cared.
30. First to promote his religious faith and never have an ACTIVE CHURCH MEMBERSHIP.
31. First to never use the term JESUS CHRIST in speeches.
32. First to seek GUIDANCE FROM THE STARS not from God
33. First to have had a SHOTGUN WEDDING.
34. First to have worked as a SHILL in Las Vegas.
35. First to call a Stealing, Lying, Psychotic, wife abusing Marine a “LIAR.
36. First to have been OPENLY ALIENATED from his children.
37. First To have served with ALZHIMERS
38. First to have UNEMPLOYMENT AT 10.8% since great depression.
39. First to attack a small unprotected nation with 88,000 inhabitants and 10,000 bb guns then PROCLAIM -“America stands tall again”— “we have whipped the Vietnam Syndrome”-we have defeated communism”. Gosh! What if we had whipped Cyprus?.
40. #1-in FARM FORECLOSURES
41. #1-In BANK FAILURES
42. #1-In SAVINGS AND LOAN FAILURES
43. #1-In Percent increase in PERSONAL BANKRUPTCIES
44. #1-In recorded MISSTATEMENTS
45. #1-In never having a single press conference in which he did not make at least one or more INCORRECT STATEMENTS.
46. #1-In needing a staff person standby during press conferences to tell the press “WHAT HE REALLY MEANT”.
47. #1-In having SERVICEMEN KILLED during peacetime.
48. #1-In largest DROP IN POPULARITY in one week.
49. #1-In being first to HONOR NAZI STORM TROOPERS by calling them” Innocent Victims”
50. #1-In being first to be labeled “BRAIN DEAD AFFABLE DUNCE’ by this writer.
51. First to lie-over and over-to reporters “I DO NOT DYE MY HAIR my barber uses a special shampoo”
52. First to have a wife who ”forced” him to WEAR THREE SUITS in one day
53. First to boast “Not bad for a DUMB GUY who worked only 20 hours per week”.
54. First to have his wife sit nearby and WHISPER ANSWERS to questions
55. First to FALL ASLEEP while the Pope spoke
56. First to invite the Pope to visit the White House and “BRING THE WIFE AND KIDS”
57. First to have his press secretary remove him from the microphone because he could not answer questions. Then, as the reporter
yelled out “answer my question” he replied “MY HANDLERS WON’T LET ME SPEAK”. Quick get the white coat.
58. First 20th Century president to have historians RATE HIM BELOW every president of the 20th except for Richard Nixon. 1994 Poll.
59. First to give us a First Lady with a past reputation for giving the BEST BJ in Hollywood.
60. First to suggest his eldest son undergo PSYCHIATRIC examination
61. First to have been voted in British polls (twice) as the ”MOST FEARED LEADER IN THE WORLD” sic em Rambo.


62. First to serve as Governor on a ”conservative” platform and INCREASE SPENDING BY 112%.
63. First Governor TO INCREASE personal income taxes by 60%, tax increase on cigarettes by 200%, state tax collections by 152%.
64. First to have a Special Assistant say on national TV “sometimes you had to HIT HIM ON THE HEAD with a 2 x 4 to get his attention”
65. First to have his official biographer state on national TV ‘After he was shot in 1981he GOT SLOWER AND SLOWER EACH YEAR. His speech got slower. He deliberated more and he hesitated more when he spoke. He lost his physical quickness and would not make decisions on the spot. It was a very, very slow and steady mental and physical decline”.
66. First to have a POPULARITY RATING OF ONLY 35% after his first two years in office.
67. First president to have been DIVORCED
68. First president to have the Geriatrics Department of a major
university study his behavior and conclude that AFTER THREE YEARS IN OFFICE HE HAD ALZHIMERS.

------------------------------------ THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE-------------------------------------------
Clarence Swinney—Burlington NC.—[e-mail]

[0007]

10. junior was first to sink Japanesse fishing boat with submarine....

junior is the youngest to be eyed by the Geriatrics Department.

I could go on but after all this thread is about Reagan! Sorry

[papau]

3. Patti - tends to tell truth - and I agree with "context" - and below are

some stuff Patti said that was not true that was in Kitty Kelley's bio of Nancy- but then there is a lot that was said to be true - including the Reagan Rape of SELENE WALTERS - that our media keeps hidden - and which I am sure was not in the CBS movie. So the need for censorship just does not seem to be there.

April 29, 1991 -- From the moment that Kitty Kelley's Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biographyhit the bookstores, it has been under attack. Could the figure Kelley portrays really be the former First Lady -- petty, greedy, compassionless, a social climber and manipulator? Or is it caustic Kitty's own methods and standards that aren't so pretty -- the barrage of unattributed assertions, the jabs from some unreliable sources, the absence of context and evaluation?

"You can see that something is right about this book," Kelley maintained last week. "It is disturbing too many powerful people not to be taken seriously." As for the denials that filled the air, Kelley said, "I'm accustomed to this. I am fully prepared for people to step forward and say, 'I didn't talk to her.' "

The Reagans, whose Bel Air house was swamped with calls and flowers from well-wishers, continued on their appointed rounds. Ronald threw out the first ball at Dodgers' stadium. Nancy attended a baby shower at a Beverly Hills restaurant. Both turned up at a dinner party at industrialist Allen Poulson's house, where, according to one friend, they seemed "quite relaxed and normal."

EDITED BY ADMIN: COPYRIGHT

[realFedUp]

6. copyrighted material?

If so, it's needs editing. Do you have a link?

rfu, moderator

[Military Brat]

4. Is it true that the Reagans had their 666 address changed?

I'm serious. Seems like at one time they moved into a home, after he was no longer president *hiccup* and the actual address was 666. I think the home was in California. Sorry, it's been a while. I don't keep up with the Reagans. They had the address number changed, of course.

Anyone else remember this, or know anything about it? I considered it very peculiar at the time, but I'm not that superstitious about 666, even if the chimp does have three sixes in his birthdate. (July 6, 1946 at 7:26 a.m.)

I'm sure those three sixes in bush's birth time are just a coincidence ...

Edited: I found it a moment ago. Reagans moved into a California home at 666 St. Cloud Road. Nancy had it changed to 668. http://www.westword.com/extra/usworst/050996.html

[kskiska]

5. I remember it.

Besides the Kitty Kelley book, there's a wealth of information in the two Reagan kids' books – especially Michael's. I'll bet he regrets writing it, but there was no love lost between him and his father and stepmother. He was on the outs with them while Ronnie was in the White House. His profession then was "speedboat racer," and I remember an incident where his father asked him to stop using his name in promotion letters. Ronnie and Nancy never even saw Michael's first child till he was about 3 . At the same time, Nancy was promoting her cause – "Foster Grandparents."

[kalazh]

7. ok

that is good

[HalJessopJr]

8. This was a work of HOLLYWOOD

I'm so sick of the conservative thought police telling me what to watch and listen to. I don't usually watch showtime, but i'll be sure to cathc this.

[newyawker99]

9. Hi HalJessopJr!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

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