European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 31, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 o  j fee of column the stars and stripes monday March 31, 1986 Paff s sf/7/ in her father s Shadow by Ellen Goodman when Patti Davis Book goes into paperback she ought to add another chapter about what happens to the Daugh Ter of a president when she writes a novel about her family and goes on a Book tour. The past few weeks have provided a perfect epilogue for Home front the tale of Beth Canfield a girl who would rather not be the daughter of a governor on his Way to the White House. In the novel Beth keeps trying to be the leading character in her own life and keeps ending up As a subplot in her father s. It was like that in Patti s real life. It s like that in the Book Patti has written about her life. And it s like that in the Book tour about the Book about her life. The escapades of Beth s youth Are fairly tame one Lover a marijuana joint or two a stint As an anti Vietnam War activist. So for that matter were the rebellions of Patti s youth. In her own words i mean i considered myself fairly Normal. 1 did to like Burn out on acid or  but in and out of print As Patti or Beth her behaviour and beliefs were judged by one Standard. As Harriet can Field in the role of Nancy says i Don t know How you can do this to your  the author now 33 years old is Clear sighted enough to know this and to know precisely what she was getting into when she got into print. The novel she has written is not illiterate and not literature. It is interesting Only inter Esting when she is writing about her parents. The image of a daughter struggling to make Contact with a Teflon coated father has touching moments i Felt that nothing i said made an impression on him that my efforts were wasted. Each time my Hopes were raised that i might be Able to reach him that he might understand what was in my heart but each time i came away deflated feeling More Distant from him than  the troubles her character has with a Mother who can Only Sec her daughter s quest As a threat Are sadly believable All i m asking says this Mother is that you keep your father in mind when you choose your friends and your activities. Think of How it reflects on him. Is that too much to ask there must have been a catharsis in writing these lines out of her life. But she could t write the dilemma away. Indeed in some ways publication proved her Point. Friends of her father criticized the Book. Enemies of her father revealed in its Pri Kliest moments. A slew of talk shows invited Patti because of her parents. At least two Merv Griffin and Joan Rivers Dis invited Patti because of her parents. She was always seen As a daughter rather than an author. Even her parents reacted to the novel in character her father behaved with Chipper benign denial inter Esting fiction and her Mother with Hurt at a hostile act. But this is not a poor Patti column. There Are Chil Dren who handle reflected Fame with More ease and More Grace than Patti. Even Ron or. There is however a partic ular problem for the son or daughter who both love and disagree with a very Public Parent. You can Trace the struggle and the yearning in Beth Canfield s relationship with her father i was doing what i Felt was right. So was he. And Between those two Reali ties was Only  Patti Davis is anti nuclear while her parents Are pro she is pro Choice while her parents Are anti she is jeans while they Are couture and non traditional while they Are highly traditional. She will not even say whether she voted for her father. It must have been must still be difficult for such a daughter to know when she is following her conscience and when she is just rebelling to speak her mind when it will be used against someone she clearly loves to find her  once in the real life of this Patti Davis she finished speaking at an anti nuclear rally Only to be asked what her father thought of her position. That was the Point i realized i was in a no win situation she says. Maybe that was also the Point when she decided that if you can t beat it join it. If she was going to be seen As Ronnie s girl she might As Well write her own View. This was an attempt to write her own Story to control it but it did t work. Even Patti s prime time in the Media spotlight is played out in her father s Shadow. I Don t know when Patti Davis will shake free of being the president s daughter but i have a Good guess. It s january 1989. C Boston Globe Washington Post exhausted elks and other animals by James Kilpatrick the item appeared in a Wisconsin paper Well Over a year ago but Robert Herreid of Madison delights in Sav ing clippings. This was an obituary on a 73-year-old native of West Bend wis., who had died in Sarasota Fla. There his principal interest evidently had been in an elks Lodge of Jupiter Fla. Indeed the writer noted he was the first exhausted ruler of that  another clipping comes from or. Arthur n. Huttner of Youngstown Ohio. This was a Legal notice having to do with a baby born to Sharon Hall. It began the punitive father of said child whose name and address Are unknown will hereby take notice Yocks How does an exalted ruler become an exhausted ruler and a putative father a punitive father the most charitable explanation is that sometimes our minds do tend to wander As we sit at our typewriters but Charity will not always suffice. Thus it is hard to explain How the Walt Disney people said in an annual report that memorial Day became Walt Disney world s biggest event of the year As presi Dent Ronald Reagan and the first lady attended a reprisal of his inaugural Parade could the writer possible have meant reprise a feature writer for Knight Ridder newspapers turned put an authoritative piece on pasta authoritative that is until the writer got to american varieties most of the pasta we eat comes from Seminola and the Best Seminola comes from durum  it in t Seminola for gosh Sakes it s Semolina. In a Catalon from sharper image we learn about the Wurlitzer Empire and the role of Homer Capehart in developing the Jukebox. Capehart the Man who virtually revived the company also delivered its death  i May be wrong about this but i Don t believe toll can be used As a noun in this sense. You can toll a death Knell but Youcan t very Well deliver a toll. 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