Ronald Reagan 'playah' quote?

April 10, 2007 2:48 PM

Can anyone help with a specific Ronald Reagan quote about his own sex life?

I am planning a prank (don't ask) and need access/attribution to a quote by Reagan regarding his Hollywood days. He said he was embarrassed to wake up some mornings and not know the name of the woman sleeping next to him. I remember reading this - can't remember where. Any help you can give would be much appreciated.

posted by tristanshout to Law & Government (2 answers total)

i can't find the actual quote but there is a reference to the story in this review:
Wyman let her boredom with him and his increasingly conservative politics be known all around Hollywood, but Morris delicately hints at a sexual aspect of her complaint -- one that contradicts the Reagan who once bragged to an aide that he got tired of waking up in a strange bed and not remembering the name of the woman he had spent the night with. (It was a common problem: Reagan once forgot the name of his own son.)
posted by meech at 9:48 PM on April 10, 2007

"A series of women passed through Ronald Reagan's bedroom in those years, so many, in fact, that he later told Joe Santley, a publicist, that he once found himself in the Garden of Allah Hotel with a woman he didn't know. "I woke up one morning and I couldn't remember the name of the gal I was in bed with. I said, 'Hey, I gotta get a grip here'"

Page 78 - Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography
By Kitty Kelley

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posted by cashman at 8:55 AM on April 11, 2007