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Ronald Reagan

Everett Kinstler1991

Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery

Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery
Washington, D.C., United States

Ronald Reagan wrote his own speeches before becoming president, and he edited or personally wrote many he gave as president. When in late 1994 he was diagnosed with Alzheimer�s disease, the former president decided to inform the American people of his condition. Nancy Reagan thought it would be too difficult for him to write about the subject, but, as his wife described the scene, he simply sat down and wrote it, with only one small cross-out.

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