Reagan daughter calls father's newly-surfaced comments about 'monkeys' in Africa an aberration

The daughter of former President Ronald Reagan has written an op-ed in the Washington Post denouncing her father's recently uncovered racist remarks as "ugliness" but asking for forgiveness.

“There is no defense, no rationalization, no suitable explanation for what my father said on that taped phone conversation,” Patti Davis said in the op-ed posted Thursday.

The recording was released by the National Archives and published Tuesday by The Atlantic.