"Sacrifices of the Heart Sacrifices of the Heart (working title Spring Thaw) is a 2007 American made-for-television drama film starring Melissa Gilbert and Ken Howard that aired on Hallmark Channel in 2007. The film is made from a script by Patti Davis, daughter of Ronald Reagan. Katelyn 'Kate' Weston (Melissa Gilbert) is a lawyer who is estranged from her family. Her older brother Ryan (Cyril O'Reilly) asks her to return to the farm he runs with their dad Thane (Ken Howard), who has become increasingly absentminded. By the time he is formally diagnosed with serious Alzheimer's disease, Kate realizes how"
"Patti Davis, and Anita Castelo) Setting: Betsy Bloomingdale's Holmby Hills Home, California. November 1986. Nancy Reagan and her rebellious daughter Patti Davis engage in a tense reunion at the home of socialite Betsy Bloomingdale. The scene depicts the strained relationship between mother and daughter following the release of Patti's fictionalized novel about her family. Throughout the mostly dialogue-driven scene, the reunion is punctuated by Patti's scathing criticisms of her mother. Just as the two seem to reconcile, Patti asks about her father and the Iran-Contra scandal. Nancy insists that he knew nothing of the situation, and that this is all"
"have no idea."" It was also reported that as a result of the allegations, Trump's daughter Ivanka had told her father she would not support Kavanaugh's nomination. On September 21, actress and author Patti Davis, the daughter of Ronald Reagan, wrote a op-ed supporting Ford. Davis writes how she herself was sexually assaulted around 40 years ago by an unnamed famous music executive, and that she ""never told anyone for decades"", not even her husband, due to shame over her own inaction to stop the assault. Davis explained the gaps in Ford's memories with her own experience of ""how memory"
"Father"" (1995). Reviews of the film were generally negative, noting that Gilbert had not proved any of his allegations, and the film was described as a ""pseudo-documentary"" and in ""bad taste"". The film alleges that Frank Marshall Davis, an African-American journalist, poet and labor activist, met Obama's mother Ann Dunham through her father Stanley Dunham. Filmmaker Gilbert claims that the senior Dunham was not a furniture salesman, but rather a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent tasked with monitoring communists in Hawaii. His claim is unsupported. In his memoir, Obama had noted that his grandfather Stanley Dunham and Davis were friends"
"on account of his marriage with the white actress May Britt. Nancy Sinatra revealed in her 1986 book ""Frank Sinatra: My Father"" how Kennedy had planned to snub Davis as plans for his wedding to Britt were unfolding. He went on to become a close friend of President Richard Nixon and publicly endorsed him at the 1972 Republican National Convention. Davis also made a USO tour to South Vietnam at Nixon's request. Nixon invited Davis and his wife, Altovise, to sleep in the White House in 1973, the first time African-Americans were invited to do so. The Davises spent the"
"among others. The crypt of Edith and Loyal Davis is located in the marble mausoleum in Greenwood/Memory Lawn Mortuary & Cemetery in Phoenix. Edith Luckett Davis Edith Prescott Luckett Davis (July 16, 1888 – October 26, 1987) was a film and Broadway stage actress in the 1910s and 1920s. She was the mother of Nancy Reagan, First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989, and mother-in-law of US president Ronald Reagan. Edith Luckett, nicknamed ""Lucky"", was born in Petersburg, Virginia, the ninth and youngest child of Sarah Frances (Whitlock) and Charles Edward Luckett. She grew up in Washington,"
"Edith Luckett Davis Edith Prescott Luckett Davis (July 16, 1888 – October 26, 1987) was a film and Broadway stage actress in the 1910s and 1920s. She was the mother of Nancy Reagan, First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989, and mother-in-law of US president Ronald Reagan. Edith Luckett, nicknamed ""Lucky"", was born in Petersburg, Virginia, the ninth and youngest child of Sarah Frances (Whitlock) and Charles Edward Luckett. She grew up in Washington, D.C., as her father worked for the Adams Express Company. Known for her vivacious and outgoing personality and style. Luckett began acting at"
"and two girls. He was raised a Roman Catholic. Davis and his family were one of the millions of Americans to migrate to the southwest and California as part of the post-World War II sun belt migration. His diverse educational experiences at public, private and Catholic schools allowed him an opportunity to compare all three systems as a lawmaker. Davis graduated from a North Hollywood military academy, the Harvard School for Boys (now part of Harvard-Westlake School). Davis's family was upper middle class and was led by his demanding mother. Davis was nicknamed Gray by his mother. His father, Joseph"
"became president, Anna already wanted to end the marriage, but due to image concerns agreed to allow brother Elliott Roosevelt to get ""the first White House divorce"" in 1933. Afterwards Dall was allowed limited contact with the Roosevelt family and Anna's two children with him. After the war, Dall moved to Texas and gradually became involved with right-wing fringe elements. Curtis Dall is most well known in recent times for his book ""My Exploited Father-in-law"", in which he speaks of his ex-father-in-law, and his relationship with, as he saw them, the corrupt power of the banking elite of the time."
"is the decades-long relationship between President Thomas Jefferson and his slave and possible half-sister of his wife, the 3/4 white Sally Hemings. The Jefferson–Hemings controversy, now resolved by DNA testing, shows that all her children were his. In the antebellum period, theirs would have been called a ""shadow family"". Alex Haley's """" (1993) is a historical novel, later a movie, that brought knowledge of the ""children of the plantation"" to public attention. After the Civil War and emancipation, similar relationships continued. For example, Strom Thurmond, who as a senator pursued segregationist policies, fathered a child when he was a young"
"John Vernou Bouvier III John Vernou ""Black Jack"" Bouvier III (May 19, 1891 – August 3, 1957) was an American Wall Street stockbroker and socialite. He was the father of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and of socialite Lee Radziwill, and was the father-in-law of John F. Kennedy. His nickname, ""Black Jack"", referred to his perpetual dark tan and his flamboyant lifestyle. Bouvier was born in East Hampton, New York. He was the eldest of five children born to Major John Vernou Bouvier, Jr., a successful attorney, and Maude Frances Sergeant. Bouvier's great-grandfather, Michel Bouvier, was a French cabinetmaker from"
"classic. The younger Owen Wister was the last of Major Butler's descendants to inherit the plantations. He wrote about the post-Civil War South in his 1906 novel, ""Lady Baltimore"", which romanticized ""the lost aristocrats of antebellum Charleston."" Wister's friend and former Harvard classmate, President Theodore Roosevelt, wrote to him criticizing the novel for making ""nearly all the devils Northerners and the angels Southerners."" Pierce Butler Pierce Butler (July 11, 1744February 15, 1822) was a South Carolina rice planter and politician, an officer in the Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He served as a"
"the satirical cartoon show ""Lil' Bush"", Dick Cheney's father is portrayed as being Darth Vader. At her presidential campaign event on September 19, 2007, Hillary Clinton also referred to Cheney as Darth Vader. At the 2008 Washington Radio and Television Correspondents' Association Dinner, Cheney joked that his wife Lynne told him that the Vader comparison ""humanizes"" him. George Lucas told ""The New York Times"" columnist Maureen Dowd, however, that Cheney is more akin to Emperor Palpatine, and that a better stand-in for Vader would be George W. Bush. An issue of ""Newsweek"" referenced this quote, and compared Bush and Cheney"
"was a property developer, and his mother, Dale (Dennis) Ellis, was a homemaker. They divorced in 1982. Ellis stated, during the initial release of his third novel ""American Psycho,"" that his father was abusive, and he became the basis of that book's best-known character Patrick Bateman. Later, Ellis claimed the character was not in fact based on his father, but on Ellis himself, saying that all of his work came from a specific place of pain he was going through in his life during the writing of each of his books. Ellis claims that while his family life growing up"
"rebelled against her parents by joining the nuclear freeze movement, and authored many anti-Reagan books. The nearly 20 years of family feuding left Patti very much estranged from both her mother and father. Soon after her father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, Patti and her mother reconciled and began to speak on a daily basis. Nancy's disagreements with Michael were also public matters; in 1984, she was quoted as saying that the two were in an ""estrangement right now"". Michael responded that Nancy was trying to cover up for the fact she had not met his daughter, Ashley, who had"
"President Barack Obama lied about being the son of Barack Obama Sr.. The film claims that Obama's real father was Frank Marshall Davis, a communist from Chicago, and that Obama's mother posed for nude photography. ""The Hollywood Reporter"" wrote, ""It's about the lowest thing you can do to accuse, with no evidence, the opposition candidate's mother of being a porn star"". Gilbert's claim that Obama's mother posted nude, allegedly by Davis, was proven false after blogger Loren Collins found that most of the photos Gilbert presented as evidence of his claim came from a magazine that ceased publication two years"
"in private correspondence. President Thomas Jefferson's eldest daughter Martha was known by the nickname ""Patsy"", while his daughter Mary was called ""Polly"". The popularity of the name has waned with the rise of its, chiefly North American, meaning as ""dupe"" or ""scapegoat"". This usage may come from the vaudevillian Billy B. Van, whose 1890s character, Patsy Bolivar, was more often than not an innocent victim of unscrupulous or nefarious characters. Van's character became a broad vaudeville ""type,"" imitated by many comedians including Fred Allen who later wrote, ""Patsy Bolivar was a slang name applied to a bumpkin character; later, it"
"fail"" (when a foster home turns into a ""furever"" home), the book touts the benefits of pet adoption and rescue. As of July 2018, she is in a relationship with actor Chris Pratt. Schwarzenegger is an ASPCA Ambassador and supports the Best Friends Animal Society. Katherine Schwarzenegger Katherine Eunice Schwarzenegger (born December 13, 1989) is an American author and the elder daughter of actor and politician Arnold Schwarzenegger and broadcast journalist Maria Shriver. A relative of the Kennedy family, Schwarzenegger is a grandniece of John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States. Katherine was born and raised in"
"for work after the war; they were nicknamed ""Confederate carpetbaggers"". Among them were the couple Roger Atkinson Pryor and Sara Agnes Rice Pryor, who became active in Democratic political and social circles in New York City. After working as an attorney, Roger Pryor was appointed as a judge. Sara Pryor became a writer, known for her histories, memoirs and novels published in the early 1900s. In the postwar years of reconciliation, Davis became friends with Julia Dent Grant, the widow of former general and president Ulysses S. Grant, who had been among the most hated men in the South. She"
"of his maternal grandfather Stanley Dunham; Obama later identified the man as Davis. Obama said Davis recounted that he and Stanley Dunham had grown up 50 miles apart in Kansas, near Wichita, although they did not meet until living in Hawaii. Davis described the way Kansas race relations were back then, including Jim Crow restrictions, and his belief that there had been little progress since then. As Obama remembered, ""It made me smile, thinking back on Frank and his old Black Power, dashiki self. In some ways he was as incurable as my mother, as certain in his faith, living"
"novel ""America's First Daughter"" by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie, published in March 2016. The novel draws heavily upon Jefferson's letters. In the 1995 film ""Jefferson in Paris"", Martha Jefferson was portrayed by actress Gwyneth Paltrow. Notes Sources Martha Jefferson Randolph Martha Jefferson ""Patsy"" Randolph (September 27, 1772 – October 10, 1836) was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States, and his wife Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson. She was born at Monticello, near Charlottesville, Virginia. She married Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., who served as a politician at the federal and state levels and was elected"
"Varina Anne Davis Varina Anne ""Winnie"" Davis (June 27, 1864 – September 18, 1898) was an American author who was most known as the youngest daughter of President Jefferson Davis of the Confederate States of America and Varina (Howell) Davis. Born in the last year of the war, by the late 1880s she became known as the ""Daughter of the Confederacy"". Images of her were widely circulated when she was young, helping morale. Later in the 1880s, she appeared with her father on behalf of Confederate veterans' groups. After his death, she and her mother moved in 1891 to New"
"president's father, Joseph Kennedy. He added: ""I think if the ""Guinness Book of World Records"" had a category for people who were at the wrong place at the wrong time, doing the wrong thing, I would be No. 1 in that position, without even a close runner-up."" Some researchers have noted a number of inconsistencies with Witt's story, however, and do not believe him to be the true ""umbrella man"". The ""umbrella man"" is the subject of a 2011 documentary short by Errol Morris, for ""The New York Times"". An unidentified individual who is referred to by some conspiracy theorists"
"""The New York Times"" music critic Robert Palmer. Davis was born Mary Frances Penick on December 30, 1931, the first of seven children born to farmer William Lee and Sarah Rachel Penick (née Roberts), in Dry Ridge, Kentucky. Because her grandfather thought she had a lot of energy for a young child, he nicknamed Mary Frances ""Skeeter"" (slang for mosquito). When Davis was a toddler, her great-uncle was convicted of murdering her maternal grandfather in Indiana. After this incident, Davis recalled that her mother became a ""bitterly depressed woman."" Throughout her childhood, Davis's mother attempted suicide multiple times, several of"
"the Presidential mansion; in 1864, several of the Davises' domestic slaves escaped. James Dennison and his wife, Betsey, who had served as Varina's maid, used saved back pay of 80 gold dollars to finance their escape. Henry, a butler, left one night after allegedly building a fire in the mansion's basement to divert attention. In spring 1864, 5-year-old Joseph Davis died in a fall from the porch at the Presidential mansion in Richmond. A few weeks later, Varina gave birth to their last child, a girl named Varina Anne Davis, who was called ""Winnie"". The girl became known to the"
"then-girlfriend Patti Davis, daughter of Republican then-Governor of California Ronald Reagan. Nancy Reagan had already disowned Patti during this period, ostensibly because of her choice to live together with Leadon as an ""unmarried couple"". Years later Don Henley would disparage this song as an Eagles release, describing it as “smarmy cocktail music and certainly not something the Eagles are proud of”. Henley was also annoyed that Davis was given cowriting credit, and told a reporter: ""Nobody else wanted [the song]. We didn't feel it was up to the band's standards, but we put it on anyway as a gesture to"
"Davis' daughter Tracey Davis also revealed in her 2014 book ""Sammy Davis Jr.: A Personal History With My Father"" that this marriage also resulted in President Kennedy refusing to allow Davis to perform at his Inauguration. This snub by President Kennedy was also backed by Director Sam Pollard, who revealed in his 2017 American Masters documentary ""Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me"" that Davis' invitation to perform at his inauguration was abruptly canceled on the night of his inaugural party. Davis and Britt had one daughter, Tracey, and adopted two sons. Davis performed almost continuously and spent little time"
"father is president, the parents of the other kids are members of the elder Bush's cabinet (all depicted as their real life adult counterparts, with the exception of the elder Cheney, who is depicted as Cheney with a Darth Vader helmet). The show pokes fun at George W. Bush's policies in an indirect manner, and provides a criticism of his administration. The series antagonists (also called Li'l Dems). The show has received negative reviews from critics, with an aggregate metascore of 31/100. A common complaint is that the show comes too late in Bush's presidency to remain topical. Other complaints"
"(1841–1917) was from Baltimore, Maryland. His maternal grandparents were ""William"" Wilson Kennedy and his wife Catherine Esdale Martin. Kennedy was a lumber merchant. Catherine was the daughter of Tobias Martin, dairy farmer and amateur poet, and his wife, a member of the Esdale family. The Esdales were members of the Religious Society of Friends, settled near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. They had reportedly helped provide for the Continental Army under George Washington which had camped there in the winter of 1777–1778. Davis's Sunday school teacher recalled ""John W. Davis had a noble face even when small."" His biographer went on to"
"Curtis Roosevelt Curtis Roosevelt Dall (April 19, 1930–September 26, 2016) was an American writer. Roosevelt was the son of Anna Roosevelt and her first husband, Curtis Bean Dall. He was the eldest grandson of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Dall was born on April 19, 1930, in New York City. When he was three, Curtis, his sister Eleanor, and his mother moved into the White House, where they lived until his mother remarried in 1935. Curtis was often referred to as ""Buzzie"" in 1930s newspapers. After his parents' 1934 divorce, his mother married journalist Clarence John"
"Curtis Roosevelt Curtis Roosevelt Dall (April 19, 1930–September 26, 2016) was an American writer. Roosevelt was the son of Anna Roosevelt and her first husband, Curtis Bean Dall. He was the eldest grandson of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Dall was born on April 19, 1930, in New York City. When he was three, Curtis, his sister Eleanor, and his mother moved into the White House, where they lived until his mother remarried in 1935. Curtis was often referred to as ""Buzzie"" in 1930s newspapers. After his parents' 1934 divorce, his mother married journalist Clarence John"
"their friendship created a scandal, but both ignored it, and his second wife, Varina Davis, also came to stay. In 1878, Dorsey realized she was terminally ill, rewrote her will, and bequeathed her property to Jefferson Davis. He wrote his history of the Civil War there and began his autobiography. Sarah Anne Ellis was born to Mary Malvina Routh and Thomas George Percy Ellis. Sarah Anne Ellis was the niece of Catherine Anne Warfield and Eleanor Percy Lee, the ""Two Sisters of the West,"" who while young published two volumes of poetry together. Catherine Anne Warfield went on to publish"
"Bruce Paltrow Bruce Weigert Paltrow (November 26, 1943 – October 3, 2002) was an American television and film director and producer. He was the husband of actress Blythe Danner, and the father of actress Gwyneth Paltrow and screenwriter/director Jake Paltrow. Paltrow was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Dorothy (née Weigert) and Arnold Paltrow (né Paltrowitz). He was a first cousin of Spencer J. Giffords, father of Gabrielle Giffords, who became an American politician and member of the United States House of Representatives. His family was of Eastern European Jewish descent with roots in Minsk. His paternal great-grandfather,"