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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...
Patricia (Patti) Reagan, Reagan's first child by Nancy, is tall, slender, graceful and very shy. When an interview was scheduled, a Reagan campaign publicity aide insisted on sitting in (apparently Nancy Reagan wanted it that way). Her boarding school, the Orme School near Phoenix, was a place where students rode horses and tended cattle, but Patti also wrote poetry. "Serious poetry," she says. "I was a very serious person." Out of school, she devoted a lot of effort to writing rock songs. One of them, I Wish You Peace, was recorded by the Eagles. For the past year...
During the 1976 campaign, Patti was seriously estranged from her parents, but now she is living at their home in Pacific Palisades, and the differences that centered on the unmarried Patti's freewheeling life-style seem to have been settled...
...know any family where the children's life-styles are the same as the parents'," she says. "I mean, generations are different, and times change." Patti remains totally uninterested in politics. When asked which party she has registered in, she pauses, gives a nervous laugh, glances at the nearby Reagan aide. "Uh-independent," she says. "That means I can vote either way, right...
Ronald Prescott Reagan (not Junior, since his father's middle name is Wilson) was "Skipper" as a boy and grew up in more settled circumstances than the other children. "I was sort of an only child," he recalls. "Patti was away at school, and I had the place to myself. Dad was home for dinner almost every night, and the three of us were together." Ron joined his father's 1976 campaign and performed routine chores for a few months, but quit when he found the work "tiring and boring." At Harvard High School in North Hollywood...