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Reagan daughter details White House haul
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WITH the nation abuzz about gifts that former President Clinton took from the White House, Ronald Reagan's daughter said on Sunday that she had to confess to “straying within those hallowed walls” herself.
In an essay for The Washington Post, Patti Davis admitted to taking “around, oh, 84” matchbooks inscribed with the words “The President's House”, at least half a dozen notebooks, a man's black sock left in the Lincoln Bedroom, one bowling ball and a pillow with a needlepoint picture of an elephant.
She said pilfering from the White House had been difficult since she was not there often and “didn't have the advantage of a moving van, which restricted the size and number of items I could run off with”.
Davis, an actress and screenwriter, has written extensively about her unhappy childhood, posed nude for Playboy and changed her surname in protest against her father's politics.
Repentance was triggered by fear of congressional hearings, she confided.
“I am disclosing this now because, with all the attention on the Clintons and the furniture items in question, Congress might start looking at anyone who's ever spent the night there,” Davis wrote in the Post's Outlook section.
She said her matchbooks and notepads were used up but offered to return the black Ralph Lauren sock, now framed and labelled (“erroneously, you understand”) “Abe Lincoln's sock”, as well as the bowling ball, taken from the White House bowling alley and smuggled out in a suitcase.
“I'm sorry, but I can't give the pillow back. I tried to turn the elephant into a donkey, since I'm not a Republican, and I ruined the whole thing,” Davis wrote.
Appealing to President George W Bush for a pardon, Davis said she was sending him a check for $25 for his future presidential library. (SD-Agencies)
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