What really gets the Irony meter pegging is when his son and others talk about how it appeared that near the end of he second term the man whose finger was on the nuclear war button was exhibiting early signs of Dementia while 30+ years later those same people sing the praises of someone who shows far more advanced signs and now they think he will make a wonderful POTUS.
Peggy Noonan, a Reagan speech writer and a person who should know, denies that Reagan was showing any signs of senility in his last months in office. For doubters one can read her “When Character Was King.”