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"who didn't mention the word AIDS for seven years of his administration."

Does someone have the link from the article that refutes this claim? I thought I saw it yesterday, and it clearly showed that Reagan talked about the AIDS crisis early in his first term....meaning this is another blatant lie. Thanks

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The thing that keeps amazing me about talk concerning President Reagan and AIDS is that they claim that he didn't act quickly enough, spend enough, or talk about it enough so more people died. Well, they didn't know what AIDS was for a while (it was originally "GRID" -- guess what the "G" stands for), we've since spent plenty and there is still not cure on the horizon, and just because the President wasn't talking about it didn't mean that it was a secret and no one had ever heard of it. Indeed, now that they have drugs that can treat but not cure it, the rate seems to be going up again. So what, exactly, was Ronald Reagan supposed to have done that would have made any real difference?