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In reply to the discussion: Lies about Ronald Reagan [View all]Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)35. You are absolutely correct, there was many signs he had Alzheimer's during his second term.
He also cut funds in his first term to Alzheimer's research and as my father was a victim of Alzheimer's I thought how cruel, a condition in which research could not find lifestyles or decisions in the lives of the victims. I suspected his suffering well before he left office and maybe the research would not help my father but the thing Reagan needed most in his latter years was cut by a future victim.
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~ 900 billion debt combined from every administration up through the end of Carter.
Mc Mike
Sep 2013
#49
You are absolutely correct, there was many signs he had Alzheimer's during his second term.
Thinkingabout
Sep 2013
#35
"The only people who like Reagan are the rich who benefited from his policies" - This is not true
Ohio Joe
Sep 2013
#16
The lie that drove me over the edge was the one about him being "the great communicator".
Grammy23
Sep 2013
#32
That anything close to a majority of the American people ever supported his policies...
YoungDemCA
Sep 2013
#44