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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1224125)	4/24/2020 2:04:34 PM
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Ron Reagan describes his growing sense of alarm over his father's mental condition, beginning as early as three years into his first term. He recalls the presidential debate with Walter Mondale on 7 October 1984. "My heart sank as he floundered his way through his responses, fumbling with his notes, uncharacteristically lost for words. He looked tired and bewildered," Ron Reagan writes. 60 Minutescorrespondent Lesley Stahl describes a visit with her family to the White House in 1986, ending her time as a White House correspondent. She writes, "Reagan didn't seem to know who I was. He gave me a distant look with those milky eyes and shook my hand weakly. Oh, my, he's gonzo, I thought. I have to go out on the lawn tonight and tell my countrymen that the president of the United States is a doddering space cadet." Other observers and commentators have noted how often Reagan confused films he'd made with political reality, including telling witnesses about concentration camps he'd helped to liberate in World War II, when the humbler truth was rather that he had made a movie or two about the topic. Then there's the incident at a photoshoot at the president's beloved ranch in Santa Barbara, also in 1984, when a reporter called out a question about arms control and received this response from the leader of the free world: R.R: "Well, we uh, well... I guess, uh, well, we uh ..." Nancy Reagan: (sotto voce): "We're doing the best we can." R.R.: (with a big smile): "We're doing the best we can!"