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Daddy Dimmest
Ron Reagan, author of My Father at 100, was the baby of the family.
My
Father at 100: A Memoir
By Ron
Reagan
(Viking, 228 pages, $25.95)
Chalk up another awesome insight to the Founding Fathers. When, having drafted the Constitution and seen it through to ratification, they turned their attention to filling the post of president for the first time, they selected the right man for the right reasons. The obvious choice for the job — victorious warrior, national hero, and benevolent presiding officer at the Constitutional Convention — was George Washington. Now for the awesome insight: from the founders’ perspective, Washington brought another important qualification to the table. Although already hailed as the Father of Our Country, he was childless. This headed off any dynastic threat at the pass. It also meant that there would be no Washington offspring around to embarrass the chief executive while he was in office, or to exploit his good name after he was gone. Not all subsequent presidents have been so lucky.
CONSIDER THE CASE Of Ronald Reagan. His adopted son Michael, after years of obscure hustling on the periphery of the business and political worlds, has finally eked out a niche for himself as a second-tier conservative commentator, largely by wrapping himself in the banner of his dead father with whom, for most of his life, he was not on very close terms. Maureen Reagan, the late daughter from Ronald Reagan’s first marriage to actress Jane Wyman, was a likable lightweight, a rather lusty lady whose appetite for political office — among other things — far exceeded her grasp. Her one serious bid for statewide office in California was a humiliating flop and — to the extent anyone noticed — an embarrassment to her father. Daughter Patti, by his second marriage to Nancy Davis Reagan, ended up as an aging, relatively harmless hybrid — half valley girl and half flower child — whose literary career, hanging by the slender thread of her celebrity daughter status, never really flourished. This despite her ostentatiously marketing herself as the “Un-Reagan” by writing under her mother’s maiden name as Patti Davis.
And then there is the baby of the family, Patti’s younger brother. Ron Reagan is now 52 and, as he recently admitted to interviewer Manuel Roig-Franzia, he’s still wondering “what I want to be when I grow up.” Already attempted and abandoned have been abortive careers as a ballet dancer, a television co-host on left-leaning MSNBC, and a radio talk jock on even more left-leaning Air America. In many ways, Ron Reagan is the most interesting of the late president’s children. For all their shortcomings, all four seem to have genuinely loved their affectionate but very self-contained father. But Ron Reagan is both the most articulate and the most conflicted of the Reagan offspring, an obviously intelligent, talented, but sometimes feckless character with an ego as big as it is aggrieved. In My Father at 100 all of these characteristics are on display, making for a memoir that is alternately moving and annoying, insightful and silly, but ultimately worth reading.
Unfortunately, although the book is only 228 pages long, you’ll have to fight your way through a lot of padding to get to the good parts. President Reagan isn’t even born until page 41 and much of the coverage of his illiterate, impoverished, and largely undocumented Irish ancestry is either pure conjecture or generic boilerplate, including a tediously detailed description of the potato blight that caused the “Great Hunger” and drove so many of Ireland’s most unfortunate sons and daughters to our shores. The same padding recurs repeatedly as the scene shifts to rural, horse-and-buggy America, World War I, the Roaring Twenties, and the Depression era, with the author’s father poised to leave small-town flyover country for Hollywood fame, although his son will rather grudgingly dismiss him as a “moderately famous Hollywood actor.” He also flings around a lot of negative adjectives when describing his father’s character and behavior. Words like “bizarre,” “strange,” and “peculiar” abound — words that might more accurately have described the way young Ron himself appeared to his father. Kicked out of prep school as a troublemaker, a boastful atheist, a dropout from Yale to take up ballet dancing — an art form once described by actor-musician Oscar Levant, a contemporary of the senior Reagan’s, as “baseball for fairies” — one can understand why his bewildered father once told him: “You’re my son, so I have to love you. But sometimes you make it very hard to like you.”
LIKE AUTHOR, LIKE BOOK; in many passages, My Father at 100 movingly describes Ron Reagan’s genuine if conflicted love for his father — a love many readers will feel and share. But the author also has all too many unlikable moments, sometimes spiteful, sometimes simply misguided. Here, for example, is Ron Reagan’s rather snide take on his ancestors’ collective military record:
Dad was under the impression that Jack [his hard-working but occasionally inebriated shoe salesman father] was first in line to enlist, only to be turned away because the army wasn’t taking fathers with two or more children. Jack, Dad later wrote, rued being born between war generations — too young for the Spanish-American War; too old for World War I. Perhaps. Whether willingly or not, he was part of a long Reagan family pattern of missing combat, a tradition Dad would continue — also regretfully — when World War II broke out.
No mention of the fact that “Dad” suffered from chronic myopia and was assigned by the military authorities to film army documentaries. While he wasn’t shot at, Ronald Reagan spent the war years serving his country in uniform and paying a professional price for it; his postwar civilian career in Hollywood never quite caught up with where he had left off before Pearl Harbor.
And then there’s the “A” word. The media have made much of Ron Reagan’s purely conjectural suggestion that his father was already suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease in the closing years of his presidency. His claim has been roundly refuted by medical experts and those who worked closely and continuously with President Reagan — much more closely and continuously than his son — during the period involved. As many critics have pointed out, what Ron Reagan took for symptoms of Alzheimer’s were probably the occasional bored or fatigued moments of a healthy but very elderly man who had survived an assassination attempt that deprived him of 50 percent of his blood supply and later major intestinal surgery, while occupying the most burdensome office in the modern world…and restoring American prestige and prosperity and making Mr. Gorbachev “tear down that wall.” If Ronald Reagan could accomplish all that in the early stages of Alzheimer’s it’s a damned good thing he didn’t take early retirement on disability, which his son suggests he should have.
ANYONE WITH AN EYE for physical and behavioral traits who attends a large family wedding soon notices the fascinating variations on family themes that several assembled generations of grandparents and grandchildren, aunts, uncles, nieces, and nephews display. Each relative is a distinctly different blend of common family attributes: identical smiles on broad and narrow faces, the same walk in tall and short relatives, a distinctive ancestral complexion or eye color shared by blondes, brunettes, and redheads. Some combinations are more appealing than others, but there is always an underlying resemblance. Looking at the fairly youthful photo of Ronald Reagan that graces the cover of My Father at 100, one catches glimpses of his son Ron. But only glimpses. There is a balance to the father’s features, and an innately sunny, confident good-humored radiance to his smile and bearing that all of us who served him as president felt as well as saw. No Reagan before him combined his physical, emotional, and mental genes in quite so winning a way, nor have any of his offspring.
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an exceptionally good and talented man and an exceptionally good and talented president. Cleverer but less gifted people sometimes feel uncomfortable in the presence of such men. Sometimes they are puzzled; sometimes they are suspicious; sometimes they are envious, the way a brilliant but flawed intellectual like Thomas Jefferson was never quite comfortable in the presence of a man of stronger, purer character and judgment like George Washington. One feels that, much as he undoubtedly loves his father, Ron Reagan, in some ways a cleverer, more sophisticated person, is still discomfited by the very qualities of deep sincerity, conviction, and innate goodness that made his father such a comfort and an inspiration to millions of others.
While no Great Communicator himself, Ron Reagan has inherited some of his father’s way with words and an updated, edgier version of the ancestral Irish wit. Both qualities contribute a number of happy moments to this flawed but interesting work. He is at his best seeing his father through the unspoiled eyes of a small child and, later, sharing personal father-son moments in the pool, at the ranch, or by the sickbed. At such moments he brings to life many of his father’s most endearing qualities and, in so doing, offers us a few glimpses of his own better nature.
About the Author
Aram Bakshian, Jr. served as an aide to Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Reagan and writes frequently on politics, history, gastronomy, and the arts.
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figusja| 3.2.11 @ 6:54AM
Why is it that the most talented in business and politics....like Hilton and Reagan have the most stupidest children that are the opposite of their fathers. Those men changed the world. They showed that hard work and determination can over come ANYTHING. Well I guess it is just down to bad parenting or....maybe they are the milkmans kids...LOL. Paris Hilton and Ron Reagan are just trying to be the opposite of their fathers so they will be liked by their friends in California.
PJ| 3.2.11 @ 8:27AM
I remember during or right after Reagan's presidency, there were a few people who wondered how can a good, ethical, & focused leader breed such wacky children as Patti & Ron.
The answer is great leaders need to work very hard at being great. There's only a limited number of hours in a day to get things done. Something has to give & unfortunately Reagan's children may have been sacrificed.
JP| 3.2.11 @ 9:52AM
US business history abounds with stories of how one generation builds up a business only to have the next 1 or 2 generations destroy it. I think the old Lemp Brewery of St Louis is a great example. Founded in the late 1850s, it became the largest brewery in the US by the 1870s. (Anheuser Busch's time would come later). But by 1900, the son lost interest in it, and the brewery was in decline. It was sold off a decade later.
It is rare for a successful business to outlast two generations.
Alan Brooks| 3.2.11 @ 5:24PM
At least the Reagan brood aren't dynasticists hiding behind religion, as the Bushes are. Remember, they are still fair game, Rich Lowry is promoting Jeb-- and Lowry isn't merely a lower echelon hired hand at NR.
The question has to be asked over and over: why with all the good conservatives in America, you want to continue running mediocrities? even Jack Kemp was too lib'ral for the GOP?
Alan Brooks| 3.2.11 @ 8:23PM
Please answer me! It's so lonely here in the basement with mom at work. It's really bad today because my sock puppet Baracky isn't speaking to me.
Alan Brooks| 3.2.11 @ 10:49PM
Clint, forget about my mother,
you're the one whose father treated you as a tin soldier...
BTW if what you write is true, wouldn't I be the "sock puppet", not the other way around?
axbucxdu| 3.5.11 @ 12:22PM
The Codevilla theorem states:
GOP, NR, etc., etc. != Conservative.
It can't be rigorously proved, but it can be easily demonstrated. You just did.
Richard Baker| 3.2.11 @ 7:47AM
Ron, Jr. needs to stop validating the idea that he's a mental lightweight and find out what he's going to be when he grows up, if ever. Sad.
InLineFour| 3.2.11 @ 11:37AM
Mark Twain: "When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
Ron Jr. hasn't reached 21 yet.
Alan Brooks| 3.2.11 @ 8:17PM
You all keep forgetting that all Reagan did was help facilitate the end of the Cold War- nothing more. Ending a war is positive, but where do you go from there? since Reagan left office, nowhere.
Which means Reaganism was somewhat more superficial that you want to know.
James Solbakken | 9.25.11 @ 3:24PM
Dear Troll (Alan Brooks, that is):
Reagan's other achievement was supporting Volker's tight money policies which saved the dollar and wrecked the gold market by hiking interest rates up to 21%. That took courage as well as deep understanding of economics which yet today most people including presidents do not possess. BTW that is the exact same medicine we need today.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 3.2.11 @ 7:57AM
I wouldn't disgrace my devalued dollars by purchasing the book.
roadmaster| 3.5.11 @ 9:34AM
Thanks to Mr. Bakshian for reading the book, so I don't have to. Oh, you're paid to read such drivel? How sad for you...
P.Smith| 3.2.11 @ 8:05AM
I would rather have Reagan as president with Alzheimer’s, than the current office holder with his full faculties.
JimP| 3.2.11 @ 9:00AM
Someone please remind the Bush family about the unAmerican tradition of a family dynasty in the chief executive's office. Reliable sources indicate that the Bushes are pressing Jeb to run. Maybe 100 years from now we can have another Bush in the White House. Until then, proper respect for our nation's traditions and a proper sense of decorum should guide the Bush family's aspirations for further political power. They should note that it was their family's governance that lead directly to Clinton and Obama (to mention only two of their failures). The majority of the country does not want any more Bushes in office- ever. Please go away.
J.C.Eaton| 3.2.11 @ 9:13AM
Try imagining ANY Bush in a Washington cabinet. Can't be done.
Anastasia Mather| 3.2.11 @ 9:33AM
Dynasty? If, by the use of arms and intimidation, the Bushes were to take over the government I could see your point. But Jeb would still have to be elected. Methinks you need to reconsider the definition of words you're throwing around.
albert constantine, jr.| 3.2.11 @ 9:37AM
I think perhaps a case can be made that support your assertion, but I propose any of three scenarios that would not necessarily have prevented, and would likely have significantly worsened our current predicament: President Dukakis, President Gore, President Kerry.
JimP| 3.2.11 @ 10:24AM
Albert and Anastasia:
You both missed the point. Of course it could have been worse. It also could have been better and to the extent that it wasn't better was a direct result of the Bush family's political philosophy. They've had their time. Their philosophy is not what the country needs. And, pushing another of their family to run for office smacks of a family with dynastic ambitions. Of course it is not literally a dynasty. Duh. Come on. Get with it. The country does not need- or want- any more Bushes. Except of course those GOP types who agree with the philosophy of the Bush family.
Cpm| 3.2.11 @ 12:32PM
Sez you. Jeb is widely accepted as the "smart" Bush.
axbucxdu| 3.5.11 @ 12:33PM
You're not too confident either in your opposition to the prior post. Had to quote the word "smart" eh? Or just sarcasm? Lord knows, the Bush clan deserves heaps of it. The whole entourage are corrupt globalists. I say be gone to their pestilence and that particularly malignant pest, 41.
canuckistani| 3.2.11 @ 10:25AM
Really?
Doctor Right| 3.2.11 @ 12:32PM
I'm forced to agree with Jesse Jackson on this one:
"Stay out 'da Bushes!"
Brian Mc| 3.2.11 @ 9:31AM
We are a product of our own perceptions. I have six siblings who would attest to this since none of us are alike in character, demeanor or intelligence. Our upbringing created reactions that were quite unique due to our placements inherent with our age differences. My father's drunken idiocies were witnessed differently by the two oldest, well into their teens at the time while I suffered those same, formative years without remembrances like theirs due to the fact that he was gone by the time I got there. Impacted by our individual pilgrimages, as we are each unique so goes the battle.
Last night, while watching the documentary, "American Experience", which chronicled Reagan's presidency, I was taken aback by several quandaries. I tuned in just before his second inaugural this time through and noted that there was no mention of Mike during the whole of that second part. Ron was whining and Pattie was scary. Chris Matthews was the voice of reason spitting vile as he attempted to write history as he had seen it-given free reign and no voice of rebuttal as one would expect from PBS. And the biggest shocker was the remark towards the end when they were discussing legacies and the fact that Ronnie had increased deficit three-fold. This was mentioned with alarm and repugnancy and vilified. I wonder what that individual who voiced this concern thinks currently of the situation with the National debt.
The perceptions that were allowed to vent were humiliating and fraught with double standards that should make those who voiced them cringe with embarassment. The increase in the homeless for instance was laid at Reagan's feet but there was no mention of the relaxing of laws of the institutionalized that made it so. But, pay no never-mind to that man behind the curtain...it was all Reagan's fault.
Your father had no 'time' for you while you were in your formative years? Tough...get over it and be grateful you had one, Ron. That goes for you, too Patti...now, go grow up...kids...whaddya gonna do?
JP| 3.2.11 @ 9:57AM
I also think long lasting political families are rare. The Tafts, Kennedys, and Dailys are usually rare. The children of Presidents are mostly average people put in unusual circumstances. As for the Bush's, the apple hasn't fallen very far from the truth. I think we're passed the stage of Progressive Republicans, despite a nation that is filled with them. We are just now ending the Progressive Era of politics in this nation. The problem is no one has gotten the memo. But, they will shortly.
canuckistani| 3.2.11 @ 10:30AM
Political families today are a rather loathsome sort. The level of scrutiny, acquiescence and the rewuired base exploitation of one's family can only lead to disfunctional legacies.
Like the priesthood, perhaps a single celibate candidate is the way to go, but I am afraid the narcissistic and self-promoting "family" man will continue to be the darling of voters across the spectrum.
The president usually is the reflection of the country on voting day.
CalMark| 3.2.11 @ 11:40AM
What a nasty, gratuitous swipe at Michael Reagan.
Amspec editors, why did you let this get through?
This article, and the book, are both garbage. Did you folks owe Mr. Bakshian a huge favor, or something?
JimmyMac| 3.3.11 @ 5:51PM
I too have to object to the swipe at Michael Reagan. God bless him for his appreciation of his father and his defense of him when his siblings dishonor him. As soon as I came across that dig, you lost me.
Grzmlyk| 3.2.11 @ 11:45AM
Ron Jr. is "obviously intelligent?"
I haven't had the dubious pleasure of reading his doubtless ghost-written attempt to cash in on the father he resents so childishly, but I've had the distinctly jejune experience of seeing him interviewed several times over the years .
His "intelligence" ain't so obvious to me.
In fact, one could peel the inconsequential onion that is this non-entity until there's nothing left and find not a single original thought or any opinion that isn't entirely dictated by what he thinks will make the cool kids (finally) accept him.
Well, I guess he's intelligent in the same way Barack the Destroyer is intelligent - that is to say, not so much.
Penny| 3.2.11 @ 7:26PM
Thanks for saying what I was thinking! Plain fact is that Ron Jr. is jealous of his father and of the closeness of his parents. Worthless twit.
Kingofthenet| 3.2.11 @ 8:40PM
Is closeness good if it's to the detriment of the children?
Penny| 3.2.11 @ 9:35PM
Sure beats the opposite. And neither were what might be called uninvolved parents.
Grzmlyk| 3.2.11 @ 10:21PM
Hi Penny:
Thas, I think Ron Jr. never had a core to him - is that the fault of one or both of his parents? I don't know - he has always seemed innately small to me. Petty, weak, myopic and small.
He's never acknowledged the larger world outside of himself and his needs, and, IMHO, he is unintelligent. Or else his intelligence has an incredibly unserious quality to it.
I don't know why people confuse intelligence with facility, but even many conservatives think our adolescent in chief is super-intelligent; I beg to differ on that too - ditto Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, John Kerry - ugh.
Well, you can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time!
Seek| 3.3.11 @ 1:07PM
I doubt that jealousy was his motive. Sometimes you have to get things off your chest.
Ron Reagan Jr. is a likable man -- I've seen him interviewed many times on TV -- and he has a legitimate perspective. Sound in judgment or not, the book is worth reading. Ronald Reagan Sr. was one of our finest presidents, but I don't worship the man. He, like the rest of us, was fallible.
Derek Leaberry| 3.2.11 @ 12:36PM
That Ronald Reagan was an outstanding president can't be seriously denied. Even liberals in control of their emotions agree that Reagan defined his era and was a game-changing president. And he seems to have been a genuinely nice gentleman. Yet he was self-contained to a great degree, almost Garbo-like. Father of four and hero to tens of millions of American conservatives, the only person he seems to have been close to is Nancy.
Grace| 3.2.11 @ 2:51PM
"Even Liberals in control of their emotions agree.."
Wow. You've actually seen that?
Lisa| 3.2.11 @ 8:39PM
I remember how Ronnie pulled a retreat (and surrendar) after the Marine barracks were bombed. What cred we had in the Middle East went down the tubes as a result. A real leader would never have allowed our enemies to intimidate and get the better of us.
Mike| 3.3.11 @ 8:55AM
Lisa,
I too was disappointed in Regan's response to the Marine barracks bombing. However, I don't think this one incident can be used to disparage his leadership. A leader learns from his mistakes and I think that Regan did just that as evidenced by Libya in 1988.
Two questions for you:
What was you opinion of our "cred" in the Middle East after the Libyan bombing?
And
Regarding your comment about a real leader allowing our enemies to intimidate us what is you view of the current president's leadership ability?
Mike Johnston
SFC USA (RET)
Interested Conservative| 3.2.11 @ 2:16PM
Jr. has some intelligence, more charm in a certain sense, and considerable sophistication.
The POTUS had great goodness, and continually increasing and ultimately great wisdom.
It's rare the two sets of traits combine, but obvious which set makes for great leadership.
PCP Smoker| 3.2.11 @ 6:49PM
"...much as he undoubtedly loves his father, Ron Reagan, in some ways a cleverer, more sophisticated person,.."
loved his father? Undoubtedly. That love has only been expressed by his earning a living bashing Reagan.
Cleverer and more sophisticated? Clark Clifford said it a long time ago. Reagan is an "amiable dunce" (i.e., not sophisticated and not clever).
Poor RR. His biographer (Cannon) hated and looked down on him, and now we learn his Com Director trashes him too. Good this crap is free.
Penny| 3.2.11 @ 7:30PM
Agree, PCP. But I recently ordered, and today received, my copy of 'Ronald Reagan, An American Life', just to hear what the man himself has to say, rather than the words of those who will never measure up to him.
skedaddle| 3.2.11 @ 7:47PM
I've seen absolutely no hint of cleverness or sophistication from Ron Jr. He and his sister both seem like brats and always did. I wouldn't read the book if it was given to me.
firebrand| 3.3.11 @ 1:09AM
One more time - - Anyone able to spell Alzheimer's and willing to google it or even by calling 1-800-ALZHEIMERS and asking the pointed question, "Is Alzheimer's Disease diagnosable other than on autopsy?" will be told, "No, it is not." They can rule out some things and be left with the grab-bag guess that it is Alzheimer's, but they will never know until
they crack the skull and pick around in the brain tissue.
Alzheimer's is undiagnosable on a living human being.
And yet, hey keep testing drugs to treat a disease they cannot diagnose! Amazing. Eli Lilly recently withdrew a drug they were using on dementia patients in test trials, because not only were patients not getting better, they were getting worse and some died from the drug. Articles in every newspaper a few months back - mostly about drop in Eli Lilly stock.
It may sell books for Ron, Jr., but you will find no Mayo Clinic doctor who peered inside Ronald Reagan's skull and saw "signs of Alzheimer's"
Calling every dementia, mild or severe, Alzheimer's is like calling psoriasis leprosy.
I called the 800# and asked them, flatly, if Alzheimer's is diagnosable on a living patient - and they told me no. And I asked them why they say what they do and imply it is the fate of every elderly person. She said,"Because our research money would dry up if we didn't."
You hear frightening estimates of how many folks over 65 have Alzheimer's. Have you ever heard a figure for how many folks in their 80s and 90s have an autopsy? The nursing home just called. Gramps died while blowing out 97 birthday candles. Who is going to pop an extra $500 for a post mortem? Let me guess. Let's try zero.
Jon B| 3.4.11 @ 11:26AM
Reagan was astounding! He actively participated in raised taxes 13 times, mostly on the low and middle classes. Then he rescinded laws that prevented monopolies thereby allowing multi-National corporations to buy out family orientated businesses, close them down, and ship jobs overseas. A large chunk of the new hires in the 80's were a family's second wage earners, mostly women. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, he deregulating the financial industry that caused the S&L caused and was a precursor for W's looking the other way when they saw the bank crisis coming in 2005. Reagan was perhaps the biggest wealth redistributor this Nation has ever witnessed.
James Solbakken | 9.25.11 @ 3:32PM
Dear Troll:
Funny how stupid liberals blame the consequences of THEIR stupid policies on the people who can't stop them.
Richard Baker| 3.6.11 @ 12:24PM
Jon B:
I suppose that the Community Reinvestment Act, FannieMae/Freddie Mac, and Democrat demands for "affordable" housing had nothing to do with the recent debacle? Sounds to me as if you believe that MORE government is the way to go. Sad.
العاب بنات | 4.11.12 @ 6:09PM
thank you ..is good