re: #45 Rightwingconspirator

Well… From 1997, with no good reason to lie-
While Known for Being Forgetful, Reagan Was Mentally Sound in Office, Doctors Say

“But even with the hindsight of Mr. Reagan’s diagnosis, his four main White House doctors say they never detected any evidence that his forgetfulness was more than just that. His mental competence in office, they said in a series of recent interviews, was never in doubt. Indeed, they pointed out, tests of his mental status did not begin to show evidence of the disease until the summer of 1993, more than four years after he left the White House.”

Seems to me it was after he was out of office.

Ah, OK.
At the time, I just recall thinking in the later years of his last term, the forgetfulness and hesitation while he was speaking was odd.