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To: Bill who wrote (65729)	12/11/1999 12:04:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

<<Yes, there was certainly concern at the end of his reign. However his medical exams showed no signs of Alzheimer's at the time. He was afflicted in the early 90s, according to medical records and those who were closest to him.>> I am not sure that there is a great deal of difference between being pretty elderly and forgetful, and having Alzheimer's as it is clinically defined, if you are president of the United States, which should require mental alertness as a minimum requirement. The fact that you acknowledge that there was concern at the end of his term seems to indicate that he was not totally on the ball. I am not a rabid Reagan hater, incidentally. I think he saw the world in simplistic terms, but I also think that in some ways he was a decent man, and I value integrity greatly. He definitely exhibited it. But I do think that it is wrong to simply worship anyone, to excuse their major faults and disabilities as insignificant when in fact to many of us they were very scary, with his finger on the nuclear button and everything. I am pretty sure that had he been a hated liberal Democratic president, his mental failings at the end of his term would have been considered HIGHLY significant. Fair is fair!