Reagan's Alzheimer's A Test of Leadership and Legacy

When U.S. President Ronald Reagan died June 5, 2004, after living a decade with Alzheimer's disease, daughter Patti Davis thought for a brief time that she was ... When surgeons opened the president's skull to relieve pressure they "detected what they took to be probable signs of Alzheimer's disease." But ... In 1994, 9 years after his proclamation of National Alzheimer's Disease Month, President Reagan announced to the world that he had been given ... Ronald Reagan raised taxes on about 95% of the country, and reversed income distribution. Reply reply. u/small_loan_of_1M avatar. very good". Although Ronald Reagan was not diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease until 1994, a full five years after he left the Oval Office ... When Reagan announced his illness in 1994, Alzheimer's advocates were still struggling to convince many families that the fading memory and ... The Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Institute, an affiliate of the National Alzheimer's Association in Chicago, Illinois, is an initiative founded by former ... Ronald Reagan have Alzheimer's while he was president, or before he was elected president, or even when he left office? A new biography about the 40th president, Reagan: An American Journey, by Bob Spitz, reveals how devastating the news was for Reagan and his wife, Nancy. The actor-turned-politician died of pneumonia complicated by Alzheimer's, the brain-wasting illness he fought behind closed doors for a decade.