A Senile American President

There is a gap in recent history. Something I never see mentioned in mainstream media is the fact that Ronald Reagan was senile during his second term in office. The Republicans don't mention it. The Democrats don't mention it. Investigative reporters don't mention it. PBS, of course, is too frightened to mention it. The reason I know about it is that on occasion I read the autobiographies of foreign leaders who had to work with Reagan, and they found him gaga. I am currently reading MY LIFE IN POLITICS by Jacques Chirac, former President of France. He writes about a meeting he had with Margaret Thatcher.  "Ronald Reagan did not seem capable to her, either intellectually or physically, of undertaking a long negotiation. For her, the last year of his presidency was going to be very dangerous for the security of the West." That is careful language. Others have just said flatly that Reagan had a young keeper who followed him from room to room in the White House to tell him the names of his cabinet members. It would be interesting to read that keeper's autobiography.