Hillary Clinton, Nancy Reagan, and AIDSNancy Reagan, pictured at the 1. Republican National Convention, chose not to help her old friend Rock Hudson as he was dying of AIDS. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY PHILIP JONES GRIFFITHS / MAGNUMIt will take somebody with more psychiatric sophistication than me to figure out how Hillary Clinton could have come to praise Ronald and Nancy Reagan, as she initially did earlier today, for having started the American conversation about AIDS . By then, more than twenty- five thousand people, the majority of them gay men, had died in the United States. His Administration ridiculed people with AIDS. But her correction, while not nearly as offensive as her earlier comments, was also misguided. See, e.g., John Patrick Diggins, Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History (New York: Norton, 2007); James Mann, The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A. As Reagan's deification by the media and the right reaches epic proportions, three of his less-than-endearing legacies deserve to be highlighted. Ronald Wilson Reagan was born in an apartment on the second floor of a commercial building in Tampico, Illinois on February 6, 1911, the son of Nelle Clyde (Wilson. Reagan UFO Story Written by Grant Cameron Sunday, 02 August 2009 05:13 Ronald Reagan 40th President January 20, 1981 - January 20, 1989. In the nineteen- eighties, I covered the AIDS epidemic and the stem- cell wars for the Washington Post. I do not recall any occasion on which Ronald Reagan said or did anything that could be considered as . One son, Ron, Jr., was in favor of the research and said so at the Democratic National Convention in 2. That same year, Michael, Reagan’s other son. Reagan was outraged in 1. Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop, one of the great heroes of the AIDS epidemic, issued a report that, as I wrote when Koop died, recommended a program of compulsory sex education in schools and argued that, by the time they reached third grade, children should be taught how to use condoms. In 1. 99. 0, when Ryan White died of AIDS, Reagan wrote a letter that ended with the words, . Ryan White was an absolutely delightful Indiana schoolboy who, in the early nineteen- eighties, received a transfusion of H. I. V.- infected blood. It is no coincidence that Reagan would feel comfortable singling White out to honor, nor is it by chance that the single biggest piece of H. I. V. He was a wonderful person. Her conversion came when her husband plunged into the darkness of the disease. She was desperate, and would have done anything for him. It was a deeply admirable stance, and rare in her conservative world. Millions of other people, however, would surely have benefitted from that kind of support. Former first lady Nancy Reagan's funeral will be held Friday at 2 p.m. ET, according to Melissa Giller, spokesperson for the Ronald Reagan Presidential. Reagan’s record on raising taxes began almost the moment he entered politics. Elected governor of California in 1966, he inherited a large budget deficit from his. Ronald Reagan's Legacy: Eight Years of CIA Covert Action by William Blum Covert Action Quarterly, Winter 1990 Ronald Reagan was not the most interventionist American. With the 2008 presidential race in fifth gear, two Leftist commentators are trying to sideswipe the Right by running over the late, great Ronald Wilson Reagan.
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