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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-11 05:54 PM
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So Reagan's RW staffers know more about his mental
state than his son. These fuckers are priceless. Ron I'll take your word for it over those LIARS every day of the week.
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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-11 05:56 PM
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1. Info would be helpful.
Never mind if you're just shouting at the moon.
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-11 06:01 PM
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2. Most be an American TV thing she's watching
I'm listening to the Freedom Sessions by Sarah.

I did not expect to find Ron's statement on his Dad's
problems would cause a media reaction

I thought we all knew that, maybe not then,
I did but I don't count.

it was explored years after by historians
and even Ron's wife Nancy.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-11 06:27 PM
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4. Reagan aides have attacked Ron for this
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/01/14/reagan_alzheimer_s/index.html
<snip>
War Room
Friday, Jan 14, 2011 18:24 ET
Did Reagan have Alzheimer's while he was president?
The former president's son now says that surgeons saw signs of it back in 1989
By Steve Kornacki
The Washington Post's Stephen Lowman has an early look at Ron Reagan's new book about his father, which will soon be released to coincide with what would have been the former president's 100th birthday. Specifically, Lowman highlights passages dealing with Reagan's struggle with Alzheimer's disease, which was formally diagnosed in 1994 (and disclosed to the public in a dramatic handwritten letter by Reagan in November of that year). The most startling revelation may be this:

n 1989, doctors operating on Reagan expressed their belief he was suffering from the degenerative disease.

Ron Reagan writes that in July 1989, his father was thrown off a horse while visiting friends in Mexico. He received medical attention at a hospital in San Diego. When surgeons opened the president’s skull to relieve pressure they "detected what they took to be probable signs of Alzheimer’s disease." But no formal diagnosis was given.

By the time of that '89 accident, Reagan had been out of office for six months. But if his brain was showing evidence of the disease then, it seems logical that the disease actually would have started years earlier, back when he was in the White House.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-11 09:00 PM
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11. they are protecting the franchise.....a son knows his father.
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-11 06:03 PM
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3. S'funny, this revisionist spinning
Edited on Sat Jan-15-11 06:04 PM by charlie
Plenty of the original staffers didn't try to hide addled state.

Mike Deaver used to laugh about strictly controlling access to Ronnie because he could be convinced by the last guy he talked to.

Larry Speakes wrote that he was disengaged and uninterested in his presidential duties.

Don Regan wrote a whole book characterizing him as an out-of-it galoot under the iron thumb of his missus.
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snagglepuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-11 06:29 PM
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5. LOL It's been decades since I've come across 'galoot'. I didn't think anyone used the
Edited on Sat Jan-15-11 06:31 PM by snagglepuss
word anymore, that it went the way of 'druthers':)

I've also noted the staffers you mention and will hunt for their books. Thanks for posting. :hi:
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-11 06:35 PM
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7. You can watch
Don Regan lean into Reagan's space while he was addressing Congress and tell him to "speed it up":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTcL6Xc_eMM

No one would think he could get away with that, unless his president was a dependent puppet.
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-11 06:31 PM
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6. Geez, most people paying attention knew SOMETHING was wrong.
Even a Republican wondered out loud in a Conservative rag of the day whether Reagan might not have been suffering from the big A. Maybe I'll go google.
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live love laugh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-11 06:36 PM
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8. I knew. Surely the movie Dave was inspired by him. nt
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SharonAnn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-11 08:16 PM
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9. Criminently! I knew something was wrong and suspected the big A.
And at that time I didn't have much experience with Alzheimer's patients.

But there was something "off" about his thinking and speaking and responding.

No apparent thought, just repeating cliches. No remembering the previous/day/week/etc.

It was really noticeable in his second term. Really noticeable.

If someone working with him didn't notice it, then it's because they didn't want to.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-11 09:01 PM
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12. Or covering it up
which is more likely
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NecklyTyler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-11 08:58 PM
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10. K&R
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JanetLovesObama Donating Member (78 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-15-11 09:03 PM
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13. I don't understand
why Ron's revelation is so shocking to anyone. As soon as President Reagan was diagnosed, I knew he had to have had this during his second term. My Mom died from Alzheimer's and I know that the symptoms present only when the disease is well on its way. President Reagan was most likely in the mid-stages of Alzheimer's during his second term as President. Not an earth-shattering revelation.
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