......at least, it was Nancy that ran the whole show. Have we forgotten he had alzheimer's disease? Nancy helped him with all his speeches. They had a hearing device on his ears & she often even finished his sentences. She took care of every little detail & made all the decisions for him. Nancy successfully hid all this from the public until almost the end of his presidency. Yet she got no credit, go figure!
I'm not saying he was or wasn't great....that is for others to decide. I'm only pointing out that Nancy got no credit for her part in "keeping it all together" in the last 2 or 3 yrs & that the GOP kept his condition hidden until the end of his term
I asked this question yesterday & people with short memories asked for my source. Here it is:
“Alzheimer's disease overtakes a person very gradually, and for a while can be indistinguishable from such mild memory loss. But eventually the forgetting reaches the stage where it is quite distinct from an absentminded loss of one's glasses or keys. Fleeting moments of almost total confusion seize a person who is otherwise entirely healthy and lucid.
By 1992, the signs of Reagan's illness were impossible to ignore. At the conclusion of a medical exam in September, as the New York Times would later report, Reagan looked up at his doctor of many years with an utterly blank face and said, "What am I supposed to do next?" This time, the doctor knew that something was very wrong.
Sixteen months later, in February 1994, Reagan flew back to Washington, D.C., from his retirement home in Bel Air, California, for what would turn out to be his final visit. The occasion was a dinner celebrating his own eighty-third birthday, attended by Margaret Thatcher and twenty-five hundred other friends and supporters.
Before the gala began, the former President had trouble recognizing a former Secret Service agent whom he had know well in the White House. This didn't come as a total shock to his wife, Nancy, and other close friends, but it did cause them to worry that Reagan might have problems with his speech that night.
The show went on as planned. After an introduction by Thatcher, Reagan strolled to the podium. He began to speak, then stumbled, and paused. His doctor, John Hutton, feared that Reagan was about to humiliate himself. "I was holding my breath, wondering how he would get started," Hutton later recalled, "Then suddenly something switched on, his voice resounded, he paused at the right places, and he was his old self.
Back at his hotel after the dinner, Reagan again slipped into his unsettling new self, turning to Nancy and saying, "Well, I've got to wait a minute. I'm not quite sure where I am." Though the diagnosis and public announcement were both months away, Reagan was already well along the sad path already trod by his mother [and] his brother.”
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/147/story_14713_1.html
2007-03-26 02:52:43 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
behind every great man is a great woman. this is fact. many of the day to day things were handled by his wife. but they were before the Alzheimers as well. he was proud of nancy and as well he should have been. she was a great woman and he was a great man. he ran the country. she often picked his clothes and helped with the details; that they had decided while he was in california; were not important for a man of his position to trouble himself with. they were a great team. i think the only team greater was that of JFK and Jackie. ah Camelot.
2007-03-26 04:05:45 · answer #1 · answered by big_john_719 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stephen Hawking has a device say and do each little thing for him yet that doesnt make him any much less sensible. you will extra ideal take a closer look at your "info" and contemplate whether they seem to be a sensational conspiracy concept or basically an exaggeration of the actual fact. fact is, Regan is popularized among presidents frequently for his unconventional yet tremendously valuable innovations-set to Economics, consumer-friendly as "Reganomics". in spite of if his unique thought grew to become into drawn upon from his spouse, because of fact all of us comprehend that at the back of a great guy is a huge lady, he remains responsible for cultivating the belief and molding the consensus with the help of which his plan grew to become into positioned via congress. whilst he actual wasn't the main profund, and in line with possibility extra credit is via Nancy, you cant average the actual incontrovertible fact that the guy who chosen to run for presidency grew to become into actually Mr. Regan and not Mrs.Regan as a effect what occured as a effect throughout his presidency, good or undesirable, is credited to him.
2016-10-20 11:45:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually scholors reviewing Reagan era papers and letters have deternined that Reagan wasn't suffering any effects from alzheimer's during the last years of his Presidency.
They now have access to personaly written letters Reagan wrote to various heads of state, where his logic and train of thought show no signs of alzheimer's at all.
Like everything else connected to politics, the myth that Reagan was out of it during the last years of his presidency are just political mudslinging by his opponets.
2007-03-26 03:56:25 · answer #3 · answered by jeeper_peeper321 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Reagan was a horrible president, he had little to do with the end of the cold war and tanked the entire FSLIC and Savings and loans. Worst ever.
2007-03-26 11:55:15 · answer #4 · answered by Mark P. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was a great president because he brought optimism to the country. This was especially important after Jimmy Carter had screwed everything up.
2007-04-01 09:34:14 · answer #5 · answered by alltv 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure what your point is. Yes, he had Alzheimer's. Yes, his wife took care of him. That's what you do. What has this got to do with his days in office?
I don't think it was necessarly "hidden"; wouldn't YOU do anything to preserve the dignity of the one you love?
What kind of credit are you referring to? She is very well-respected. One of the many reasons she is regarded in this manner is her devotion to her husand. It is clear she doesn't NEED credit; meaning she knows she did the right thing and isn't looking for reward or recognition. That's not what she as a person seems to be about.
2007-03-26 03:02:37 · answer #6 · answered by Maudie 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Presidents are considered great by the magnitude of their accomplishments. That is why Reagan is considered great.
He won the cold war and brought down the Soviet Union.
Contrast this with Bill Clinton, for example. He was in good health for his whole administration and was a very bright man. What are his accomplishments?
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2007-03-26 03:17:53 · answer #7 · answered by Jacob W 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
It is absolutely delusional to believe that Ronald Reagan was such a great president...from labor strife to deregulation to funding a war out of the basement of the white house, his administration is where most of the problems that this country faces today started in, if you were to take an honest assessment of things, trace it back...
2007-03-26 03:06:17 · answer #8 · answered by conx-the-dots 5 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Hc You are a fool
2007-03-30 17:21:34 · answer #9 · answered by followme 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your assertions are factually incorrect.
2007-03-26 03:11:44 · answer #10 · answered by American citizen and taxpayer 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋