“(CNN) - Former President Ronald Reagan's youngest son suggests in a new book that his father showed signs of Alzheimer's disease while he was in the White House.
In the book titled "My Father at 100," which is due out next week, Ron Reagan writes, "Three years into his first term as President … I was feeling the first shivers of concern that something beyond mellowing was affecting my father."
He writes about watching his father's first debate with Walter Mondale, the 1984 Democratic presidential nominee…”
Can I say I told you so please? I said it when he was in office. I said it after he left office. I been saying it for years. I said that one day the truth would come out.
“…After his diagnosis, letters of support from well-wishers poured into his California home,[243] but there was also speculation over how long Reagan had demonstrated symptoms of mental degeneration.[244] Former CBS White House correspondent Lesley Stahl recalls an interview when he was president where "a vacant Reagan barely seemed to realize anyone else was in the room," and that before he "reemerged into alertness" she recalls that "I had come that close to reporting that Reagan was senile."[245] However, Dr. Lawrence K. Altman, a physician employed as a reporter for the New York Times, noted that "the line between mere forgetfulness and the beginning of Alzheimer's can be fuzzy"[246] and all four of Reagan's White House doctors said that they saw no evidence of Alzheimer's while he was president.[246] Dr. John E. Hutton, Reagan's primary physician from 1984 to 1989, said the president "absolutely" did not "show any signs of dementia or Alzheimer's".[246] Reagan did experience occasional memory lapses, though, especially with names.[246] Once, while meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, he repeatedly referred to Vice President Bush as "Prime Minister Bush".[247] Reagan's doctors, however, note that he only began exhibiting overt symptoms of the illness in late 1992[248] or 1993,[246] several years after he had left office. His former Chief of Staff James Baker considered "ludicrous" the idea of Reagan sleeping during cabinet meetings.[249] Other staff members, former aides, and friends said they saw no indication of Alzheimer's while he was President.[246]…” Wikipedia: Ronald Reagan
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