John, I'm not the one who didn't know about Ronnie's first wife being Jane.   It appears, though, that that little bit of Reagan history managed to be kept surprisingly (and conveniently) hidden from a fairly sizeable segment of the "religious right wing" base of the Republican party.

And you may recall that when Reagan finally passed away (as opposed to just having 'faded away' mentally) and the mainstream US media spent a whole week eulogizing him like he was a freakin' Princess Diana or something, there was hardly a blip about Jane Wyman having been part of his history. The press continued to paint the "storybook romance" picture of Ronnie and Nancy.