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  Patti Davis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Patti Davis (born Patricia Ann Reagan on October 21, 1952 in Los Angeles, California) is the daughter of Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis and a bestselling author.
In recent years, however, Davis reconciled with her parents, especially as they battled her father's Alzheimer's disease.
Davis also published columns and articles in a number of newspapers and magazines.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patti_Davis   (323 words)

  
 Patti Davis writes a father-daughter love story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Davis talks about her book and her relationship with Reagan at a beach-front hotel that evokes many happy memories of days shared with her father in the early years of his illness.
Davis was living and working as a writer in New York when her father announced in 1994 that he had Alzheimer's.
Davis' editor, Victoria Wilson, said what drew her to the book was her feeling that anyone who had ever watched helplessly as a loved one fought a serious illness could relate to the story it tells.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/11/28/entertainment1328EST0023.DTL&type=printable   (1060 words)

  
 Excite - Page Six
PATTI DAVIS DOES D.C. Davis, the daughter of 40th President Ronald Reagan, is developing a TV show about the rebellious daughter of a U.S. president.
Davis was referring to the tendency of helpless hostages to fall in love with their powerful captors.
Davis - who wrote an eye-opening memoir, "The Way I See It," while Reagan was still president - embarrassed her more prudish relatives in 1994 when she posed nude in Playboy.
entertainment.excite.com /celebgossip/pgsix/id/09_08_2003_1.html   (366 words)

  
 Cancer therapy pained her family...and didn't work   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
When Patti Davis was a child, her mother's car was seldom found in the driveway of their home - the car was always shuttling Davis either to gymnastics practice or cheerleading or swimming or skiing or any of the girl's other activities.
Pat Davis thought her example of being diagnosed with breast cancer at 47 and living 22 years after radiation and chemotherapy would have shown her daughter the way to go.
Davis said that at one point in the last few months she asked if her daughter had regrets about her treatment decision.
www.post-gazette.com /regionstate/19990409davis4.asp   (885 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
DAVIS: Yes, you know, I mean, we've, even -- even we would go through periods of clashes, but then if something dramatic happened to me in my life, I would go right to her.
DAVIS: OK. If you are with someone who has Alzheimer's and you pay close attention, if you open wide your heart and your mind you will see that the disease can never cross the boundaries of the soul.
DAVIS: No, the last part of my eulogy was not a poem, it was a paragraph from an old book that was published in the 40s called "Peace of Mind" by Joshua Loth Liebman.
edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0411/19/lkl.01.html   (5692 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Reagan daughter's new leaf   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Davis still fights political battles — her mother and brother now join her in the battle for stem-cell research because it shows promise in leading to cures for diseases such as Alzheimer's.
Tucked within the pages of Davis' book is the cultural subtext: If Davis once symbolized the rebellious phase in boomer life, perhaps she now stands for a different stage — that of reconciliation, coming home and taking care of parents.
Davis is sparing on the often excruciating details, but she does not ignore the effects either.
www.usatoday.com /life/books/news/2004-11-15-patti-davis_x.htm   (1430 words)

  
 Patti Davis
Patti Davis is the daughter of former President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan.
In later years, though, as Davis moved past 50 and her father's Alzheimer's worsened, she sought to be seen standing with her family, instead of against them.
A few months later, Davis led the fight against a CBS miniseries about The Reagans, accusing the show's producers of "astounding carelessness and cruelty." She later said CBS did the "right thing" in pulling the show from its schedules.
www.nndb.com /people/253/000049106   (500 words)

  
 Patti Davis Ruminates About Childhood in Essay (Happy Fathers Day Ronald Reagan)
NEW YORK - Patti Davis, daughter of former President Ronald Reagan, ruminates on her years as a petulant child — and how she's come to appreciate her father's guidance as she's grown older — in a Father's Day essay for Newsweek.
Davis writes that some people would say her father's footprints are larger than those of other parents because of his political legacy, "But those aren't the footprints I see when I look back down on the years.
Former first lady Nancy Reagan is escorted by her daughter Patti Davis as she arrives at the premiere of the film 'Stuart Little 2' in the Westwood section of Los Angeles, Sunday, July 14, 2002.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/926735/posts   (1100 words)

  
 Reagan's daughter describes reuniting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Patti Davis, daughter of Ronald Reagan, speaks at Hartwick College Thursday night.
Davis has since worked out her feelings with her parents, and shared those experiences with the crowd in the Agora at Dewar Hall.
Davis also had to talk with her mother, and said she felt compelled to apologize to Nancy Reagan for the pain she caused her.
www.thedailystar.com /news/stories/1998/03/06/davis.html   (893 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Nation / Nancy Reagan, Patti Davis write essays   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
To his wife, Reagan was a man of strong beliefs but without ego, a "very sentimental, romantic and tender" husband who wrote her letters when they were apart and sent flowers to Nancy's mother on Nancy's birthday "to thank her for having me," she wrote in an essay for the magazine.
To Davis, Reagan was "a shy man, undemonstrative with his children," but "always more accessible when teaching his children through stories," such as explaining that birds continue to fly in heaven after death.
Davis recalled how, after years of alienation, she made peace with her parents in 1994, just before Alzheimer's disease began to take her father away.
www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/06/06/nancy_reagan_patti_davis_write_essays   (449 words)

  
 Patti
Patti has appeared on the Nashville Network (she was a weekly winner on the "Be a Star Show"), The Nashville Connection, syndicated radio show, and performed at Nashville's Blue Bird Cafe.
In 1996 Patti Davis and Bandit were signed to an indie label called "Ramblin Records", which released their debut album in June of 1997 called "Stuck on Love's Highway".
Patti has a distinguished voice that smoothly executes the well written melodies perfected for her own vocal range.
www.realcountry.net /patti.htm   (240 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Nation / Patti Davis sues Salvation Army over talk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Patti Davis, daughter of the late President Ronald Reagan, has filed a lawsuit charging that the Salvation Army canceled her speech planned for one of their events because she supports stem cell research.
NEW YORK --Patti Davis, daughter of the late President Ronald Reagan, has filed a lawsuit charging that the Salvation Army canceled her speech planned for one of their events because she supports stem cell research.
Davis was scheduled through her booking agent, Greater Talent Network, to speak at a Salvation Army event in Santa Rosa, Calif., on Nov. 19 for a fee of $15,000, said her lawyer, Lawrence Fabian.
www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/10/18/patti_davis_sues_salvation_army_over_talk?mode=PF   (338 words)

  
 The Long Goodbye
In The Long Goodbye, Patti Davis describes losing her father to Alzheimer’s disease, saying goodbye in stages, helpless against the onslaught of a disease that steals what is most precious–a person’s memory.
Davis takes the reader along with her, and at times the rest of her family, on their very personal journey of pain and acceptance through the years of Ronald Reagan's struggle with the disease of Alzheimers.
Davis was often estranged from her parents for long periods of time, an angry and rebellious daughter.
www.iyares.com /amazon/details.aspx?id=0679450920   (1421 words)

  
 Reagan daughter turns journal into 'Long Goodbye' to dad
Davis still fights political battles - her mother and brother now join her in the battle for stem-cell research because it shows promise in leading to cures for diseases such as Alzheimer's.
Tucked within the pages of Davis' book is the cultural subtext: If Davis once symbolized the rebellious phase in boomer life, perhaps she now stands for a different stage - that of reconciliation, coming home and taking care of parents.
Reconciliation is always complex, says Laura Davis, author of "I Thought We'd Never Speak Again: The Road From Estrangement to Reconciliation." It requires the maturity to hold onto a duel reality where "the hurtful things that happened in the past (coexist with) the fact that you want to move on," she says.
www.azcentral.com /ent/arts/articles/1118reagan18.html   (1354 words)

  
 Final chapter: Lasting love - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
There was a time when Patti Davis couldn't get far enough away from her parents — and seemed to cause them an endless stream of grief.
Patti Davis, daughter of Nancy and Ronald Reagan, in Santa Monica, Calif., where she often stayed on her visits home to spend time with her father as he suffered through the final decade of his life with Alzheimer's disease.
Patti Davis escorts her mother, Nancy Reagan, aided by Army Maj. Gen.
the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2004/Nov/22/il/il01a.html   (1297 words)

  
 Hidden Wounds by Patti Davis - iBLOGthere4iM
Patti Davis is the daughter of former President Ronald Reagan.
Most of the video is Patti's fantasies, like the time she was a topless dancer in a totalitarian state who had to be rescued by an independent young woman who looks exactly like her (Patti in a dual role).
We also see Patti's fantasy of "the human body as a piece of sculpture," wherein a guy chisels a marble sculpture of her while two nekkid bodybuilders put their hands all over her, opera music plays, and she does a sexy dance with chiffon veils.
www.kbcafe.com /iBLOGthere4iM?guid=20031012071917   (2934 words)

  
 Tavis Smiley . Archive . Tuesday December 28th . Transcript | PBS
Davis: I'll tell what did happen often during the years is there would just be--These rumors would flare up that my father was--that was it, he was dying, or sometimes that he was already dead.
Davis: Well, this whole book, “The Long Goodbye,” is about learning to miss my father in the stages of Alzheimer's and also learning that past that disease is his soul, which I don't think can have Alzheimer's.
Tavis: The book is “The Long Goodbye,” by Patti Davis, the story of her life and relationship and the process of dealing with the loss of her father, the former President of this country, out of California, Ronald Wilson Reagan.
www.pbs.org /kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200412/20041228_transcript.html   (3398 words)

  
 Celebrity Sightings - D
Miss Davis omitted her occupation on the marriage license leading the local paper to omit mention of the celebrity marriage.
First Lady Nancy Davis Reagan was adopted by Dr. Loyal Davis after he married her mother, Edith.
The rebellious daughter of former President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis (and sister of Ron Reagan and half-sister of Michael and Maureen Reagan) was attending boarding school at The Orme School in Mayer when her father was governor of California.
doney.net /aroundaz/celebrity/celebrity_d.htm   (1574 words)

  
 The Dawn Patrol
Which brings us to Reagan daughter Patti Davis's latest column for (that bastion of responsible journalism) Newsweek online "Humanity Before Politics," in which she repeats the call that she and her mother have made for federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research.
It is the face of death—which the embryonic stem-cell researchers and their supporters such as Patti Davis are trying their hardest to hide.
Just as sick is the way Davis phrases her pitch for nipping lives in the bud.
www.dawneden.com /2005/05/patti-davis-cells-out.html   (945 words)

  
 Patti Davis Favors Hope Against Alzheimer’s
It is important not to lose hope in the face of Alzheimer’s disease, said Patti Davis, daughter of the late President Ronald Reagan, at a gathering of health-care professionals and researchers attending a conference at USC titled “The Many Faces of Dementia: From Prevention to Treatment.”
The third biannual meeting was hosted by a consortium that included the USC Andrus Gerontology Center, the USC Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and the Alzheimer’s Association in an effort to discover and share new strategies and perspectives on fighting Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.
Although “you feel tiny in the presence of a huge disease,” it is important not to lose hope, Davis said, noting that “interactions may be smaller, but you can still communicate” with a loved one who has Alzheimer’s.
www.usc.edu /uscnews/stories/11196.html   (1043 words)

  
 Text Of Remarks By Patti Davis At Friday's Burial Service For Former President Reagan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
There's a singular triumph in Patti Davis' life, that she is able to stand with her mother, enfold her, grieve with her.
You'll never hear Patti Davis called a heroine, but she has defeated a monster.
I noticed that Patti was a stalwart (along with her mother) all during the funeral process this past week....she too held up well....it'd be nice to see her Ronald Reagan-like convictions translated into a positive conduit: perhaps running against a Democrat in a much-needed Republican Senate/House seat.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1152921/posts   (1281 words)

  
 'The Long Goodbye' to an Alzheimer's Patient - Associated Content
Patti Davis, daughter of Ronald Reagan, tells a bit...only a bit...
Patti Davis, Reagan’s daughter by his second wife, Nancy Davis, had a rocky relationship with her parents.
She was a peace activist and disagreed with her father’s policies...and also grew estranged from her mother.
www.associatedcontent.com /content.cfm?content_type=article&content_type_id=4121   (531 words)

  
 baldilocks: Hurricane Patti
Please tell me that Patti Davis, daughter of Nancy Reagan and the late President Ronald Reagan, is trying her hand at satire:
Baldilocks wondered if Patti Davis was trying her hand at satire...
Davis is just another irrational lefty arguing for a one party state.
baldilocks.typepad.com /baldilocks/2004/09/hurricane_patti.html   (1019 words)

  
 The Salvation Army Del Oro: The Salvation Army responds to Patti Davis Lawsuit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Davis to speak at a Salvation Army event in Santa Rosa, California.
Davis believe they are due a portion of the quoted speaking fee.
Davis' support for stem cell research, inferring that The Salvation Army is opposed to stem cell research.
www.tsatoday.org /www_dodhq.nsf/vw-news/69F4C843C584F91788256F3F006A2F74?opendocument   (465 words)

  
 ipedia.com: The Reagans Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The miniseries featured James Brolin as Ronald Reagan, Judy Davis as Nancy Reagan and covers the period in time from 1949 when Reagan was still in Hollywood, through his governorship of California until Reagan's last day in office as President in 1989.
However, according to Patti Davis, one of Reagan's daughters, no family members, or close friends of the Reagan's, were consulted by the filmmakers throughout the production.
Critics further claimed that scriptwriters were attempting to smear Reagan, perhaps for espousing the belief held widely by Christians and conservatives that homosexual sex is against the Ten Commandments.
www.ipedia.com /the_reagans.html   (691 words)

  
 Alibris: Patti Davis
Now in paperback, the bestselling novel of which Patti Davis said, "emotionally, I told the truth", is the story of a young woman coming of age in a highly dysfunctional family.
A tribute to Ronald Reagan--as a father, not as a president--by his daughter Patti Davis who writes of the assassination attempt, her father's faith, and his near-death experience.
In 12 short chapters, each delightfully illustrated by Ward Schumaker, Patti Davis, daughter of the late Ronald Reagan, recounts how her life has been changed for the better by living with and learning from her cat companions, Aretha and Skeeter.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Davis,Patti   (557 words)

  
 CNN.com - Growing up Reagan - Nov 23, 2004
(CNN) -- Patti Davis spent much of her life avoiding the shadow of her famous father, Ronald Reagan, only later to move closer to the former president as he fought a losing battle with Alzheimer's disease.
In 1986, Davis chose a pen as her political sword and published "Home Front," a novel that told a familiar-sounding story of a daughter who grows up within a powerful political family dominated by a strong-willed matriarch.
Davis has written that, not long before that acknowledgment, her relationship with her parents began to improve.
edition.cnn.com /2004/US/11/18/patti.davis   (396 words)

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