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Reagan Nearing the End
NewsMax ^ | 8/12/02 | Limbacher

Posted on 08/12/2002 11:26:44 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection

Ronald Reagan's condition is worsening and his friends have told the New York Daily News that he "is steadily slipping in his terminal battle with Alzheimer's disease."

"He's bedridden and helpless," his son, famed radio talk show host Michael told NewsMax.com recently. According to the News, the 91-year-old beloved former president's mental deterioration has increased over the past months. "He no longer knows who Nancy is," one source, referring to Reagan's wife of 50 years, told the News. "Some days he seems to recognize her as someone who's familiar, but most of the time she's just a blank to him." "He's becoming more difficult to deal with," a source close to the family confided to the News. "Both his physical and his mental problems have gotten worse."

The News said that a former Reagan aide confirmed the sad news which was revealed even as an old Reagan friend, Charlton Heston was revealing that he too suffers from the early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.

"Our family knows all too well the cruelty of this disease, and we pray that God will give the Heston family, especially [Heston's wife] Lydia, . . . the strength to face each day that lies ahead," Nancy Reagan said in a statement released to the media.


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To: alisasny
...and frankly I hope the end comes quick. To see an elder linger like that for a long time is just a painful horror.

Before anyone calls me names

No name calling here. Having been in your shoes I can say that you're exactly right.

42 posted on 08/12/2002 12:14:53 PM PDT by oldvike
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Godspeed to the Gipper, and with all due compassion, I pray he is taken from this earth soon. Godbless Nancy too, I have never had more respect for her than I do now, she is a gracious lady who shows a courage and strength that I believe the majority of Americans never knew she had.
43 posted on 08/12/2002 12:15:26 PM PDT by Paradox
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To: steve-b
I thought it was more or less a tradition that the former Presidents all attended a funeral of one of the other former Presidents. Therefore, Clintoon and the witch will be there. Do not despair though. You know those two will go out of their way to make the usual a$$es of themselves, and in the process, just show what a great and classy man Ronald Reagan was, and what sleazy little people the Clintons themselves are.
45 posted on 08/12/2002 12:18:39 PM PDT by Corporate Law
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To: Poohbah

My, how witty...

46 posted on 08/12/2002 12:19:39 PM PDT by RoughDobermann
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To: Frank_Discussion
To inject a little humor, regarding deserved or undeserved ends: Didn't Genesis (the rock band) have a video back in the 80's that showed Ronald Reagan as Rambo, bandolier and all? I'm sure they didn't mean it to be so, but I always thought that to be a positive image!

Yeah, I remember that one - anti-Reagan cliches acted out by a hand puppet to some mediocre tune, including accidentally hitting the button labeled 'nuke' instead of 'nurse'. Har-har.

A few pipsqueek entertainers with undergrad level intellects nipping at the august heels of one of history's great men.

47 posted on 08/12/2002 12:21:02 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Poohbah
When he dies, no doubt the liberals will party like the Palestians did on 9-11.
48 posted on 08/12/2002 12:21:45 PM PDT by Cogadh na Sith
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I can't believe that I was alive when he was President. Sometimes it seems like a dream.

God bless President Reagan and Nancy who has endured so much.

49 posted on 08/12/2002 12:23:10 PM PDT by Aquinasfan
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To: Paradox
I stand with you on your comments, Paradox. God Bless President Reagan. What a good, good man.

I remember when he got kinda ill during klinton's last year as president (such as it was-oh puke) and the news was that Reagan was not doing well. I feared he would pass with klinton still sitting in our Oval Office-defiling it daily.

Should he pass into the arms of God within the next few months-I am glad it is President Bush who will preside over the memorial service of this wonderful leader. And I hope the klintons are unable to attend. I really do.

50 posted on 08/12/2002 12:24:11 PM PDT by Republic
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To: skeeter
Call me callous, whatever, but if he is definitely going to go soon, in the next month or so, I hope he hangs on til 9/11. Then, the rememberance day for that, could also be for RR.
51 posted on 08/12/2002 12:24:36 PM PDT by parsifal
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To: skeeter
Now, Now, they may be liberals in most respects, but they were a pretty good rock band. Even good 'ol Phil Collins is pretty good on his own, I just don't agree with his politics and handwringing nature.

That said, I hope I made it clear that I like the idea of "Ronbo". Sort of a heroic thought, IMHO.
52 posted on 08/12/2002 12:25:25 PM PDT by Frank_Discussion
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To: Poohbah
With this news, I have recall where Jesus said "The rain falls on the just and unjust alike."

I admit to knowing very little about the day-to-day thought patterns and feelings of those with late-stage Alzheimer's, but I've always thought (and hoped) that in large part they just regress almost like moving backwards from age 10 to birth. Their memory fails, their feelings fail, and they just slowly slip into a sort of pseudoconsciousness where they're not just outwardly mentally incapacitated, but within themselves as well. In other words, that they no longer possess the mental faculties to know that their situation is abnormal or to be able to be upset about it, that in their own minds, almost everything is as it should be. I hope I'm right about this, especially in Reagan's case. (Of course, none of this changes the agony that his family is going through, especially Nancy.)

Also: At the same time we grieve over his condition, we should also remember that the President lived a far more exciting, vibrant life than most of us will, accomplished far more than most of us ever will, and also has lived longer than most of us ever will, even if you assume his life sort of ended in a way around 1995-96 or so. To live as he lived, to be able to do as much as he did to save this country - and the world - from a permanent "malaise" ... it almost seems worth the tradeoff of having to live your final years with Alzheimer's.

Almost.

53 posted on 08/12/2002 12:25:29 PM PDT by Timesink
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To: Huck
Not to pee in your corn flakes, but dollar coins have a pretty bad track record.

You have a point but consider who was on them. Susan B. Anthony. Sacagawea. If Ronald Reagan was on a dollar coin, I would go out of my way to use them and so would many others. In fact, I would get them by the roll and make a point to use them whenever I frequent a shop where liberals tend to hang out - like Starbucks or Tower Records.

54 posted on 08/12/2002 12:30:37 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Wyatt's Torch
Howdy Wyatt!

Can't wait for the season to start. I think there are going to be many surprises this year.. One prediction of mine is that Cadillac is going to play like a man possessed. I expect him to have a HUGE year.

As for us, I'm we'll be pretty good. Oklahoma scares me. Might be a rout.

GOOD LUCK & ROLL TIDE!

55 posted on 08/12/2002 12:37:41 PM PDT by Pokey78
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To: SamAdams76
I'd would love to use dollar coins if they looked something like this:
56 posted on 08/12/2002 12:44:24 PM PDT by Plutarch
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Prayers for all in the Reagan family as they go through the trauma of a pending death.
57 posted on 08/12/2002 12:46:10 PM PDT by Salvation
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To: CJ Wolf
>> What, hey now just hold on a moment, you want to get rid of that Indian indian woman?<<

Sasquatch, I believe her name is.

:-)

58 posted on 08/12/2002 12:49:38 PM PDT by SerpentDove
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To: vin-one
>>My first election to vote in, and I picked RWR all on my own. <<

You and me both.

59 posted on 08/12/2002 12:50:23 PM PDT by SerpentDove
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To: SamAdams76
Or this:


60 posted on 08/12/2002 12:50:26 PM PDT by Plutarch
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