With Father’s Day a week away, the publisher of Michael Reagan’s Lessons My Father Taught Me reminded us of the story of the Reagan children’s sometimes awkward relationship with their father and how it ended with a hug.
In Lessons, from Humanix Books, Michael Reagan first tackled the issue of Ron and Patti's estrangement from their father. He concluded that politics simply got in the way.“The reality is that a political career is all-consuming. Who suffered? Patti and Ron,” said Michael Reagan.
The bottom line, he concluded, was that “it’s understandable that Patti would be liberal -- because in her mind, the conservatives, the Republicans, took her father away from her. The party of ‘family values' robbed her of time with her father. And it’s understandable that Ron would be a liberal and an atheist, because who were Ronald Reagan’s biggest supporters? The Moral Majority — conservative Christians.
Michael Reagan also told of how his father overcame his generation’s awkwardness with public displays of affection by becoming a big hugger. He wrote: “And after an awkward moment or two, he returned my hug. In that moment, something changed. Our relationship was never the same. From then on, whenever my father and I said hello or good-bye, we hugged each other.”
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