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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: CC27 on May 19, 2025, 10:24:41 AM
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milestogo (20,567 posts)
Didn't Reagan have dementia during his presidency?
I am pretty sure he was totally incoherent, but nobody said a thing about it until a diagnosis was announced, after his presidency.
surfered (6,759 posts)
2. Yes, Nancy was the real President, kind of like Stephen Miller is now.
milestogo (20,567 posts)
15. That's a great example.
Unlike TSF, Reagan just wasn't there. But he was never hostile.
Ocelot II (124,749 posts)
5. He was showing signs in his second term.
He sometimes stumbled over his words and his memory was unreliable. He wasn't totally incoherent; it hadn't progressed that far by the time he left office. His son Ron thought he was starting to lose it but it wasn't as obvious as Trump's incoherence.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220327551
I just knew they would bring up Reagan to cover for Biden. Typical DUmmies.
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I just knew they would bring up Reagan to cover for Biden. Typical DUmmies.
So their most relevant comparison to Biden is the POTUS they regard with complete, utter, unabashed, and unrelenting contempt?
OK.
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So their most relevant comparison to Biden is the POTUS they regard with complete, utter, unabashed, and unrelenting contempt?
OK.
Unreal isn't it
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2. Yes, Nancy was the real President, kind of like Stephen Miller is now.
They just can’t make up their minds.
“Trump is a dictator!”
“No, Elon is President.”
“Wait! Stephen Miller is President!”
“No, Putin is!”
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From reliably liberal Snopes, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ronald-reagan-alzheimers-disease/ :
However, the physicians who directly attended Ronald Reagan while he was president agreed unanimously that he never displayed signs or symptoms of dementia the whole time he was in office, the New York Times reported in 1997:
...even with the hindsight of Mr. Reagan's [Alzheimer's] diagnosis, his four main White House doctors say they never detected any evidence that his forgetfulness was more than just that. His mental competence in office, they said in a series of recent interviews, was never in doubt. Indeed, they pointed out, tests of his mental status did not begin to show evidence of the disease until the summer of 1993, more than four years after he left the White House.
"There was never anything that would raise a question about his ability to function as President," said Dr. Lawrence C. Mohr, one of Mr. Reagan's physicians in his second term. "Ronald Reagan's cognitive function, belief structure, judgment, ability to choose between options, behavior and ability to communicate were totally and completely intact."
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He "never forgot appointments, misplaced or lost things, where he put his glasses, never forgot to put his hearing aids in, never forgot to put his contact lenses in, and these are things he did for himself," Dr. Mohr said. "I saw him saddle and bridle horses at the ranch and later put things back exactly where they belonged." And Mr. Reagan, the doctors stressed, was punctual, never depressed and had no difficulty with language or understanding what was going on around him.
Although no cognitive tests were administered to Reagan during his time in office (his doctors saw no need for them), he did begin receiving annual mental and psychological assessments in 1990, after undergoing surgery to remove a blood clot in his brain. The four-hour battery of tests, which would have detected signs of dementia, found nothing amiss for the first three years they were administered. "All parameters for his age absolutely were within the normal range," one of Reagan's doctors said. It was Reagan himself who announced the diagnosis of Alzheimer's in 1994.
Of course, when facts contradict what DU-Denizens want to be true, facts are Reich-Wing.