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In reply to the discussion: Wanna Know Who Made Racism ''Acceptable Again'' in the good ol' USA? [View all]shadowmayor
(1,325 posts)Calimary,
You are not only incredibly informative, but quite kind to me. I remember the era too well. My first presidential vote was for Jimmy Carter in 1980. The decade of the 80's was an American nightmare. Giant deficits, racial and economic apartheid policies, a sick ground war in Central America and an AIDS crisis completely ignored. Trees cause pollution and the rest of the nonsense.
My neighbor is a professor of communications. He studied speech patterns and facial movements of the president as part of a class project. He said it was well known in the medical community and by communication people that Reagan suffered a series of small strokes after his shooting. Alzheimer's or dementia is the convenient explanation for his addled brain that never really worked very well to begin with, but in truth Reagan was probably a stroke victim. That would hardly fit with his rugged image, would it.
I enjoy your posts and keep 'em coming.