Just got done ploughing through this monster, and I have officially had my fill of all the Nancy Davis one person can be expected to endure over just a single lifetime; but, now that this particular labour of endurance is complete, I can now share with you what I have learnt in the process, along with my observations and inferences we are able to draw by studying what's conspicuously not in the book....
HOWEVER - Kitty only gets good answers on record to those questions that she actually asks.
If she doesn't ask it, it's not in he book.
That's where we come in - asking basic, obvious questions, and listening out for the silence that follows....
Given that most (or more rather, all) of Kelley's subjects lead mutually intertwined and interconnected secret lives, it's important to do a proper side-by-side reading with Kelley's earlier/later writings, to see how consistent the narrative on particular episodes either remains or evolves over the course of many years or decades - most specifically, in this instance....
What I have learnt :
- Nancy Reagan is an totally synthetic creation - she is an absolute complete fiction, an invention.
Everything about her is either fake or not true, or complete fabrication.
The story of the Regan candidacy, as both Mae Brussell and Dr. Emmet Brown both observed years ahead of its ultimate fruition, represents an almost text-book object lesson in political artifice and superficiality, the making of a Californian Candidate - the systematic building to-order of a photogenic, affable, politician possessing of a double-digit IQ, an absence of any form of complex moral compass, lazy, uninquisitive and gullible beyond belief - who is simply able to follow advice, take instruction, say the lines as they are given to him, and above all, to do as he is told....
Ronald Reagan was a creature birthed of Hollywood, the organised crime/organised oppinion-making Hollywood/Las Vegas/Southern Rim Military-Industrial-Entertainment Complex nexus the most literal and absolute sense.
He was just the exact same President Frank Sinatra had always dreamed of... always on call to assist The Syndicate.
And at first glance, Nancy Reagan presents the precise outward appearance, background, habits and character traits that explain her observable behaviour and actions as being those of a classic, near perfect archetype for an MK controller, assigned to supervise and direct the actions of our blank-slate-Man, Mr. Tabula Rasa, and raise him up to where anything and everything the public expects, or desires, or needs to see can be projected onto him and broadcast back.....
But it's actually a situation far more unlikely and unexpected, and by that token, far more human and random, nuanced and fascinating.....
Because Nancy Reagan herself is a completely artificial construct, not a real or genuinely existing persona..... But here, she is instead an entirely self-actualised fabrication...
Nancy Reagan made up just about every aspect about herself in order to become the person that she became, purely through an exercise of will - she decided precisely who it was she wanted to be, and then built that person from scratch, using her existing body, soul and personality as mere raw materials for the task.
She made herself into the woman she dreamed she might one day be like, and her method included navigation through life by way of astrology and a strict adherence to superstition;
Then she decided who she wanted to marry, found him, married him, and set about turning him equally systematically into the man she wanted to have as her husband, to conform to her plan for her life....
In short - Only in California.
- Before losing his mind, Ronald Reagan was a notorious and habitual Date-Rapist and Sex-Pest in the Hollywood of the 40s and 50s; its suggested that his status as President of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) afforded him a free pass to molest starlets;
- Reagan secretly had his prostate removed in 1969, which would explain his lapse into idle indolence from the fire, Blood and Thunder of his stumping for Goldwater, still present in his oratory up until the end of the 60s.
- Frank Sinatra repeatedly demonstrated an uncanny ability to penetrate Reagan's personal security and evade, elude and otherwise negate or slip past his Secret Service protection detail.
Which is somewhat worrying, to say the least...
- Reagan's insistence on visiting a German military cemetery with some SS internees to lay a wreath with Helmut Kohl during the G7 meeting of that year, to mark the 40th Anniversary of VE-Day (the stars told him to go it) in May of 1985, may well have been the final straw from the perspective of certain groups and interested parties who had been extremely supportive of him previously whilst he had been throwing US troops into Beruit, Syria and the Sinai (they are still there in the latter case, incidentally...)
“I think it was an episode — a sad episode.... The Jewish community’s attitude toward Reagan was that he was a friend, and certainly a friend of Israel. He could have been a greater friend, but [the Bitburg visit] did not tarnish him significantly.
It backfired on Germany...We saw that they were impatient to achieve normalcy, without understanding that we can never be normal. We can have relations. We can have understanding. But it can never be normal, certainly not as long as survivors and perpetrators [of the Holocaust] are around.”
Anti-Defamation League National Director,
Abraham Foxman
- It was Nancy who got rid of Helene Von Damme, former personal assistant to Nazi SS Col. Otto Von Bolshwing.
- When Reagan walked into the ER at GWU Hospital, before promptly collapsing, none of the nurses, doctors or EMTs realised that he had been shot and assumed he was simply having a heart attack; even after cutting off his clothes and removing his shirt, none of them were even able to locate a wound of entry, nor any significant bleeding (although, since he was coughing up oxygenated blood, he had clearly been hit with something... They eventually located a tiny inch long slit caked in a few drops of black, scabbed-over blood inside his left armpit, and during surgery, by pure fluke, they managed to find, grab hold of and extract a tiny, flattened disc about the size of a dime, with razor sharp edges lodged around a quarter-inch away from his heart.
- By Winter/Spring of 1985, for a period, Ronald Reagan was absolutely riddled with cancers. Nancy forbid the White House Press Office from ever using the word "Cancer", and many of the statements were just flat-out untrue and dishonest
- Nancy Reagan did not trust the military surgeons and their staff to operate on her husband - on both occasions during his second term (in 1985 and 1987) when he was checked into Bethesda Naval Hospital, Nancy had her own doctors and surgical team (friends of her step-father's) from the Mayo Clinic in New York flown in under tight secrecy to put Ronnie under anesthesia and remove the tumours and polyps he had begun to rapidily accumulate by that stage...
- The Reagans' eldest son Michael was sexually abused by a camp-counsellor during early childhood, but President and Mrs. Reagan, he of the Bohemia Club ("The most faggoty goddamn thing you've ever seen in your life" - Nixon), insist that they had absolutely nothing to do with it, and this was all news to them when they found out.
- Employing a tried and tested practice of Freemasonry, all of the Reagan and Sinatra "good cause" charitable foundations are merely fronts and financial conduits for other things, generally far more sinister; for instance, during the 1988 to 1991 timeframe immediately prior to Operstions Desert Shield and Desert Storm, Nancy's "Just Say No" anti-drug coalition served as a channel down which the Reagans were able to recieve many, many millions in untaxable funds from various Arab Oil interests.
Sinatra actually opened a children's home for "needy kids" in Jerusalem, and was personally honoured for his 60th Birthday gala celebrations in Vegas in 1980 both by Prime Minister Monachem Begin and President Anwar Sadat - so what's that all about....?
Sinatra's work in behalf of The International Variety Club in particular is worthy of special attention and scruitiny, as are any of his various common causes he shared with Bob Hope of MI6...
Observations :
- Some of the people Kitty Kelley appears to go out of her way to protect include George Bush, Barbara Bush, Alexander Haig, Henry Kissinger, David & Nelson Rockefeller, Helene Von Damme and others. Lt. Col. Oliver North and even more so, National Security Adviser John Poindexter are mentioned only in a very perfunctory and neutral manner, and there is no effort or attempt to apportion blame for Iran-Contra.
- The innate Bircher tendencies of the Reagans, specifically they harsh and resentful animosity towards Trilateralism, The House of Rockefeller in general and Kissinger and the policies of détenté specifically are conspicuously absent, as are all but a handful of Rockefeller Men, who make little more than walk-on cameos. This is especially crucial, since Reagan ran on an anti-Trilateral, anti-CFR platform in 1980, and Reagan was scheduled to deliver an address to the Trilateral Commission when he was shot in March of '81 - Haig stepped in for him to deliver the address instead.
Haig and Donald Regan were "victims" of Nancy Reagan, notice.
- Kelley notes at one stage, towards the end of the narrative, that the Reagan Whitehouse produced a record number of instant tell-all biographies from its ex-members, almost all of which made the Administration look criminal and/or incompetent at best, all of which hit the shelves (and became bestsellers) before the end of Reagan's term of office, mostly whilst Iran-Contra was subject to ongoing investigations, which is not usual or normal - not to say probably not legal.
- Having earlier noted that Nancy exercised (from the very first) hiring and firing power of administration officials and staff, Kelley lists the most notable, high-profile "victims" of this pervasive, hen-pecked work environment to include Al Haig, Terrel Bell, James Watt, David Stockman, Anne Gorusch, Larry Speakes, Helene Von Damme, James Rosebush, Cap Weinberger, Peggy Noonan and Selwa Roosevelt - all of whom wrote shitty books accusing Nancy Reagan of being a scheming, derranged puppet-mistress, with Ronnie as her amiable, toothless sock puppet who either got them each fired, or made their jobs impossible and their position untenable, resulting in their having to quit. Further, though not explicitly stated, the firm inference is made that Reagan only fired Ollie North because Nancy told him he had to, and wouldn't have otherwise.
- The underlying thesis in play here is that Nancy Reagan was running Reagan's White House in such a toxic and corrosive manner, firing anyone she took a dislike to, being completely irrational and unreasonable and as a result, all of the fubars, dysfunctionalism and scandals of the Reagan Adminsitration were to a greater or lesser degree all ultimately attributable to being held hostage to the derranged and paranoiac whims and delusions of The Mad Old Witch-hag-Queen-Bitch of the West Wing, firing anyone she imagines might mean to do her poor little Ronnie harm, solely on the strength of advice and dire warnings issued her scrying and soothsaying coven of Southern Californian witch doctors banshee women.
- Well, that clearly wasn't true - and what's more, it's clearly and demonstrably not true.
- Notably absent from the list of tell-all books by ex-Administration officials is October Surprise by Barbara Honnegar (and also, come to think of it, October Surprise by Gary Sick, who also served (albeit briefly) on the first Reagan National Security Council at the beginning of 1981, not-quite overlapping with Lt.Col. Oliver North, in that regard) - "October Surprise" is mentioned, briefly, but largely in reference to the original formulation used internally by the Reagan-Bush Campaign, meaning the fear and risk presented by a possible early negotiated release of the Tehran Embassy personnel brokered by the Carter Administration - which did actually happen.... It had all been agreed. Warren Christopher and others had successfully negotiated a deal mutually satisfactory to both camps in Germany by mid-October 1980, details were tentatively released to the press agencies, but without warning and with no explanation, having agreed terms, the Iranians unilaterally broke off contact, stonewalled all attempts to reopen communication channels and just went dead silent, completely out of the blue.
Because they were still holding all the cards and we're just about to be approached with a much better offer....
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