A New York auction house is selling a 1967 letter Ronald Reagan wrote to daughter Patti, counseling her about the dangers of smoking and the weaknesses of the fair sex.
The handwritten four-page letter, signed "Love, Dad," is expected to bring between $40,000 and $45,000 when it is sold next month.The letter is a response to one a 14-year-old Patti wrote Reagan from boarding school to tell him that she had admitted to smoking cigarettes and was being punished. Reagan warned her against "compromising the truth no matter how trivial" and managed to put a sexist twist on smoking.
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"Unfortunately, women are more susceptible to habits than men and find them much harder to break or change," he wrote.