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  • It is a good comparison … you just don’t like it because it doesn’t agree with your confirmation bias.

    Yet Reagan’s “Alzheimer’s Controversy” recently resumed, CBS News noted yesterday, after Ron Reagan suggested, in a just-released book, that the former president “may have shown signs of Alzheimer’s disease as early as three years into his first term.”

    In My Father at 100, Ron Reagan writes of a “growing sense of alarm over his father’s mental condition.” He recalls the presidential debate with Walter Mondale, October 1984, in which his father seemed lost and unable to articulate himself. In “Ronald Reagan had Alzheimer’s while president, says son,” a short piece on the fracas by the British Guardian, Ron Reagan is quoted as saying: “My heart sank as he floundered his way through his responses, fumbling with his notes, uncharacteristically lost for words. He looked tired and bewildered.”

    … Lesley Stahl, in another new book on Reagan, 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."
    

    https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/side-effects/201101/when-did-reagans-first-signs-alzheimers-appear