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...main characteristics that Reagan displays ?good humor, modesty, patience???are the attributes of fatherhood at its best. And from all appearances Reagan would seem to have been the compassionate father, the father to turn to in times of grief and disarray; the father of rich stories and silly jokes. Instead, his relationship with all four children?Maureen and Mike, his children with Jane Wyman, and Patti and Ron, his children with Nancy?seems to be that of deliberately created distances. The physical distances, the fact that the children were shipped off to boarding schools at young ages, seem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of the Past, Fresh Choices for The Future | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

...poor are brought into society's mainstream, there is not a great deal courts and cops can do to cut down on crime. He finds a few examples of the poor taking a stake in improving their own communities, but more thoroughgoing solutions will take more money?and patience???than the country has so far been willing to give. "It's a gloomy book," admits Silberman. But an enlightening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: As American as Jesse James | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

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