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Surrounded by Wife Nancy, Sons Michael, 35, and Ron, 22, and Daughters Patricia, 27, and Maureen, a broadly grinning Reagan watched the proceedings on TV from his 69th-floor suite in the Detroit Plaza Hotel. He gave his wife a victory kiss and then drove the short distance to the Joe Louis Arena to acknowledge the cheers of his supporters and to clear up the confusion over his running mate...
With dissent stifled on the floor Reagan cound afford to spend the second day of the convention soothing hurt feelings. He met in the morning with 17 women, including his daughter Maureen, 39, who describes herself as a feminist. He promised to seek out women for high appointive office and work to repeal state and federal laws that discriminate against women. Said former G.O.P. National Chairman Mary Louise Smith, an ERA supporter: "We came away feeling good...
There have occasionally been stories about the younger Reagans, and occasionally embarrassments. Oldest Daughter Maureen, 39, sometimes gets headlines for her ardent support of the Equal Rights Amendment, which Reagan just as ardently opposes. Second Daughter Patti, 27, attracted attention by going around with Bernie Leadon, former banjo player with the Eagles. And when Younger Son Ronald, 22, became a dancer with Manhattan's Jeffrey II Company, the training troupe for the Jeffrey Ballet, gossip columnists began raising eyebrows and talking of family hostilities. "How embarrassed is Ronald Reagan [really] about his ballet-dancing son?" leered the New York...
...Maureen, now a tall, sturdy, handsome woman, ebullient but more than a touch wary, was seven when her parents were divorced. She lived with her mother, but remembers going riding on her fa ther's ranch and hearing him recite The Shooting of Dan McGrew. She jocularly refers to him as "Dear Old Dad." Like all the other Reagan children, she spent much of her youth in private boarding schools; like all of them, she dropped out of college (Marymount College of Virginia). She went to work as a Republican volunteer in Nixon's Washington campaign headquarters...
Mike Reagan was adopted when he was just a few days old, because, according to family legend, Maureen wanted a brother (Jane Wyman had been advised by her doctor to have no more children). Mike too has pleasant memories of his father's ranch. "He sure can talk," says Mike. "You ask him what time it is, and he tells you how to make a watch." But, he adds, "we always felt that we were sharing him with a lot of others. We were basically raised by nannies and maids...