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Thread #104667   Message #2146564
Posted By: Genie
11-Sep-07 - 02:11 PM
Thread Name: Obit: Jane Wyman (10 Sept 2007)
Subject: RE: Obit: Jane Wyman
Yeah, Mick, Jane clearly chose not to air Ronnie's dirty laundry very publicly when he was President or in his post-White House years prior to his death.   In fact, it appears that quite a few of the "family values" folks who have bordered on deifying Reagan were unpleasantly surprised when the media's obit notices for Jane Wyman mentioned that she was his first wife.   Apparently, our "liberal media" had done a pretty good job over the past 3 decades of keeping his status - as the first and only divorced President - pretty much out of public notice.