Did Reagan have Alzheimer's while President?

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Presidential Illnesses Kept from the American Public
Wilson’s incapacitation was never revealed to the public, the Congress, reporters, and even certain members of his Cabinet. In much the same way, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s polio was never published and no photographs of him in a wheelchair were ever disseminated. Critics have postulated that FDR’s illness hastened his frailty, contributing to hand-shake decisions made at the 1945 Yalta Conference that ultimately benefited Soviet Russia.

Writer and columnist Richard Reeves wrote in 2003 about John F. Kennedy: “…few people knew or suspected that the man entrusted with the fate of nations was always accompanied by doctors and aides carrying an array of steroids, amphetamines, painkillers and other pills and potions that kept him alive and going day after day.”

Biographers of Abraham Lincoln, perhaps the greatest U.S. president, suggest that he suffered from bouts of melancholy. Lincoln left evidence of periods of depression and a mild case of smallpox in 1863. His illness was kept from the public.

President James Garfield was incapacitated from July through September 1881 after being shot in an assassination attempt. The executive branch functioned through Garfield’s secretary. In this case, however, the public knew the facts and when Garfield died Chester Arthur became the next president.

Ronald Reagan and Alzheimer’s Disease
If Ron Reagan’s observations about his father ever prove to be true, they will never match the realities of the Wilson White House of 1919 or other celebrated cases of presidential ailments and disabilities. Lincoln, Wilson, Kennedy, and Reagan are considered great presidents, “larger than life” and served at crucial periods in American History. Like other great men and women in history, they refused to succumb to personal disabilities in order to achieve their perceptions of a greater good.
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The Wilson White House never had to deal with nuclear weapons.

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Rooseveltthe same way, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s polio was never published and no photographs of him in a wheelchair were ever disseminated. Critics have postulated that FDR’s illness hastened his frailty, contributing to hand-shake decisions made at the 1945 Yalta Conference that ultimately benefited Soviet Russia."
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This has been mentioned many times by Historians and those who write about the what have beens..however . I have never seen it mentionedd, suggested, that even if Roosevelt had been sharp, on the marks , say of five years earlier , or if Harry Truman, healthy and bright had been the President at the Yalta Conference, the two , Truman, Roosevelt , being the leader of a Democracy, would have been at a disadvantage against Stalin.

Stalin was dictatorr, fully in control oftthe Soviet Union at that time, answering to no one. The only way to be removed was by being over thrown,assassinated, answering to know one.

The Presidents were answerable to the electorate and after all those years under one man,one party even in war time, five years of total war, the war was winding down, to expect to be able to keep the military forces at their war time highs , stationed in Europe as a bulwark against the Soviets expansion, holding them at bay, , was just not feasible.
See what happened in Britain right after the war.

Winston, the great war leader, the one political who led them to victory, a giant of a man, when thepoliticals get going.....thrown out, {Not even sure they gave him a "thanks for the service" till years later , then the honors due him were bestowed , but not right after.. Do believe he was knighted however.]