Giving Credit: Michael Reagan, adopted son of...

Giving Credit: Michael Reagan, adopted son of the former President, said his stepmother, Nancy Reagan, deserves more credit for her husband’s success. “A guy like Ronald Reagan needs a woman like Nancy,” Michael, 44, said on a radio talk show in San Diego. “My father sees a glass of water that’s half full. Nancy tries to find out who the hell stole the other half. Unfortunately, most of the time, she’s right.”

Views Exposed: Tammy Faye Bakker, wife of imprisoned evangelist Jim Bakker, said she has no ill will toward Jessica Hahn, whose tryst with Bakker led to his downfall. “I have forgiven her,” Tammy Faye said in the July Ladies Home Journal. “When I finally saw photographs of her in magazines (posing nude), Jessica Hahn was a skinny, very ordinary-looking woman . . . . She did not make me feel dowdy, like I often do.”

Food News: Soviet-born comic Yakov Smirnoff has nothing funny to report from his April visit to his homeland. “It’s a very depressed country,” he said in Las Vegas. “People are in a survival mode. There are still long lines for food . . . . And if there are no lines, it’s because there is no food,” said Smirnoff, who became a U.S. citizen in 1986.

Special Delivery: Kathleen Windsor, author of the 1944 best-selling novel “Forever Amber,” said she is “astonished” the state of Texas was able to track her down to deliver money owed her that had fallen through the cracks. The Texas Treasury Department said Windsor, who lives in New York City, has been notified she has $14,889 waiting for her. The money is from oil land her late ex-husband left in her name.