Michael Reagan Fires Back At Ron Jr's Claim That President Reagan Had Altzheimer's While in the White House

Reagan's son: Father showed signs of Alzheimer's in White House
(CNN) - Former President Ronald Reagan's youngest son suggests in a new book that his father showed signs of Alzheimer's Disease while he was in the White House. In the book titled "My Father at 100," which is due out next week, Ron Reagan writes, "Three years into his First Term as President … I was feeling the first shivers of concern that something beyond mellowing was affecting my father." He writes about watching his father's first debate with Walter Mondale, the 1984 Democratic pres...

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Reagan Rejects Half-Brother's Charge Their Father Had Alzheimer's While President
USA Today reports...In a new book -- and an interview on ABC's 20/20 -- President Ronald Reagan's son says he saw evidence of his father's Alzheimer's Disease back during his years in the White House. "There was just something that was off, I couldn't quite put my finger on it," Ron Reagan said in 20/20 interview airing Friday night. The younger Reagan said his father often didn't seem sharp during their political debates. At another point, Ron Reagan saw his father read from not cards as he mad...

Ron "Ballerina Boy" Reagan Plays Judas, Sells Lies About His Father
That tutu must have been too tight and hurt the flow of blood to Ron Reagan Jr's head, because he's lost his mind (FoxNation, via Cubachi). USA Today reports...In a new book -- and an interview on ABC's 20/20 -- President Ronald Reagan's son says he saw evidence of his father's Alzheimer's Disease back during his years in the White House. "There was just something that was off, I couldn't quite put my finger on it," Ron Reagan said in 20/20 interview airing Friday night. The younger Reagan said...

Michael Reagan calls brother an 'embarrassment'
Ronald Reagan’s conservative son called his liberal half-brother “an embarrassment” Saturday for speculating in a new memoir that their father suffered from Alzheimer’s disease while president. “Ron, my brother was an embarrassment to his father when he was alive and today he became an embarrassment to his mother,” Michael Reagan posted on Twitter. Continue Reading Text Size - + reset Politico 44 “My brother seems to want [to] sell out his father to s...

Reagan's son says Alzheimer's likely began in White House years
President Reagan's son suggests in a new memoir, "My Father at 100," that commander in chief began suffering from Alzheimer's Disease while still serving in the Oval Office. The title of Ron Reagan's book reflects the centennial celebrations that will be taking place soon to mark what would have been his dad's 100th birthday on Feb. 6. Reagan said on "20/20" Friday night that he noticed changes in his father later into his presidency. "It wasn't like oh my God he doesn't remember he's Presiden...

Son suggests Reagan had Alzheimer's while president
NEW YORK (AP) — Ronald Reagan's son suggests in a new book that his father suffered from the beginning stages of Alzheimer's Disease while he was still in the White House. The memoir quotes excerpts from Ron Reagan's book "My Father at 100," published by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA). Reagan's son writes that he believes his father would have left office before his Second Term ended in 1989 had the disease been diagnosed then. U.S. News & World Report was the first to break th...

Ronald Reagan had Alzheimer's while he was President, son says in new book
Former President Ronald Reagan had Alzheimer's Disease during his Second Term in office, his son claims in a new book. Ron Reagan says that if his father's illness had been diagnosed while he was President, he would have given up control of the country. "I've seen no evidence that my father (or anyone else) was aware of his medical condition while he was in office," Reagan wrote in his book "My Father at 100." In excerpts from the book, first released by U.S. News and World Report Friday, Reag...

Michael Reagan says Ron is an 'embarrassment' to the family with his claims about their father
- Jennifer of Cubachi Michael Reagan responded to Ron Reagan's bogus claims about President Ronald Reagan suffering from Alzheimer's while in the White House. Michael has strong words for his brother. ...

Son suggests Reagan had Alzheimer's as president
NEW YORK — Ronald Reagan's son suggests in a new book that his father suffered from the beginning stages of Alzheimer's Disease while he was still in the White House. The memoir quotes excerpts from Ron Reagan's book "My Father at 100," published by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA). Reagan's son writes that he believes his father would have left office before his Second Term ended in 1989 had the disease been diagnosed then. U.S. News & World Report was the first to break the pu...

Son suggests Reagan had Alzheimers while president
NEW YORK — Ronald Reagan’s son suggests in a new book that his father suffered from the beginning stages of Alzheimer’s disease while he was still in the White House. The memoir quotes excerpts from Ron Reagan’s book “My Father at 100,” published by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA). Reagan’s son writes that he believes his father would have left office before his Second Term ended in 1989 had the disease been diagnosed then. U.S. News & Wor...

Ron Reagan Jr.: Oh Yeah, My Father Had Alzheimers While President
Gee, thanks, Ron. You father would be proud of you. Of course this gives credence to all the loons on the left who cracked funny about President Reagan being senile while in office. Nancy must be thrilled. Oh and how's this odious little twit telling us this? In a book "honoring" his father. Stay classy.2011 is a big year for Ronald Reagan fans, being the centennial of his February 6 birth in Tampico, Ill. But youngest son Ron Reagan is spoiling the good cheer with a new book that suggests the G...

Ron Reagan Jr. Says Father May Have Had Alzheimer's While President
Ron Reagan Jr. kept his silence all these years, letting sister Patti take the spotlight when it came to analyzing their parents. But now he's caught up with a book titled, "My Father at 100," timed to coincide with the centennial next month of President Reagan's birth. I covered the Reagan White House and reported on the First Family's strained relations with their adult Children. Ron Jr. is candid about his conflicted relationship with his father, writing in an excerpt featured in Sunday's iss...

Ron Reagan hits rock bottom
Pathetic.2011 is a big year for Ronald Reagan fans, being the centennial of his February 6 birth in Tampico, Ill. But youngest son Ron Reagan is spoiling the good cheer with a new book that suggests the Gipper suffered from Alzheimer's Disease while in the White House, a claim dismissed by Reagan's doctors and outside experts. "Had the diagnosis been made in, say, 1987, would he have stepped down?" Ron asks, regarding the disease confirmed in 1994. "I believe he would have," he writes in My Fat...

New Ron Reagan book: My dad had Alzheimers while in office
Reagan’s doctors and Alzheimer’s specialists have been debunking this myth for years, but no matter how many times they try to explain that occasional memory lapses in an elderly person does not an Alzheimer’s diagnosis make, the narrative rolls on. And it’ll keep rolling, thanks to Ron Jr and the explosive never-before-revealed details in his new book which, per Paul Bedard of U.S. News, … seem not to add up. Besides playing amateur doctor, Ron Reagan reveals, if...

Ronald Reagan may have had Alzheimer's disease while serving Video
"It wasn't like  - oh my God! - he doesn't remember he's President ," Reagan said. "You know, it was just -- I had an inkling something was going on, "said Ron Reagan, President Ronald Reagan's son, in an interview speaking to Elizabeth Vargas on 20/20.  This was Ron Reagan, youngest son, suggesting that his dad was already showing disturbing symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease   while still serving in the office of the President of the United State. This  information is  in...

Son suggests Reagan had Alzheimer's as president (AP)
NEW YORK – Ronald Reagan's son suggests in a new book that his father suffered from the beginning stages of Alzheimer's Disease while he was still in the White House. The memoir quotes excerpts from Ron Reagan's book "My Father at 100," published by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA). Reagan's son writes that he believes his father would have left office before his Second Term ended in 1989 had the disease been diagnosed then. U.S. News & World Report was the first to break th...

Son suggests Reagan had Alzheimers as president
NEW YORK (AP) — Ronald Reagan’s son suggests in a new book that his father suffered from the beginning stages of Alzheimer’s disease while he was still in the White House. The U.S. News & World Report quotes excerpts from Ron Reagan’s book “My Father at 100″ in which Reagan’s son says he believes his father would have left office had the disease been diagnosed then. The younger Reagan recalls how his father became uncharacteristically lost for words ...

Son suggests Reagan had Alzheimer's as president
FILE - In this July 27, 2004 file photo, Ron Reagan, son former President Ronald Reagan, talks about Stem Cell research to the delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. Ronald Reagan's son suggests in a new book that his father suffered from the beginning stages of Alzheimer's Disease while he was still in the White House, Friday, Jan. 14, 2011. Ronald Reagan's son suggests in a new book that his father suffered from the beginning stages of Alzheimer's Disease while he was stil...

Reagan Had Alzheimer's As President, Says Son
NEW YORK — Ronald Reagan's son suggests in a new book that his father suffered from the beginning stages of Alzheimer's Disease while he was still in the White House. The memoir quotes excerpts from Ron Reagan's book "My Father at 100," published by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA). Reagan's son writes that he believes his father would have left office before his Second Term ended in 1989 had the disease been diagnosed then. U.S. News & World Report was the first to break the publis...

Ron Reagan Suggests Dad's Alzheimer's Began While In White House
President Reagan addresses the Republican National Convention in Dallas on Aug. 23, 1984. In a book due out next week the younger son of former President Reagan "suggests [that his father] suffered from Alzheimer's Disease while in the White House," U.S. News & World Reports' Washington Whispers blog says. — "Watching the first of his two debates with 1984 Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale, I began to experience the nausea of a bad dream coming true. ... My heart sank as ...

Ron Reagan Suggests Dad's Alzheimer's Began While In White House
President Reagan addresses the Republican National Convention in Dallas on Aug. 23, 1984. In a book due out next week the younger son of former President Reagan "suggests [that his father] suffered from Alzheimer's Disease while in the White House," U.S. News & World Reports' Washington Whispers blog says. — "Watching the first of his two debates with 1984 Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale, I began to experience the nausea of a bad dream coming true. ... My heart sank as ...

Ron Reagan Suggests Dad's Alzheimer's Began While In White House
President Reagan addresses the Republican National Convention in Dallas on Aug. 23, 1984. In a book due out next week the younger son of former President Reagan "suggests [that his father] suffered from Alzheimer's Disease while in the White House," U.S. News & World Reports' Washington Whispers blog says. — "Watching the first of his two debates with 1984 Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale, I began to experience the nausea of a bad dream coming true. ... My heart sank as ...

Reagan had signs of Alzheimer's during first term, says son
Former US president Ronald Reagan in 1992, three years after he left office. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's two years later, but is now said to have shown signs as early as 1984 Ronald Reagan, whose alleged lack of mental agility was the basis for scores of jokes, especially outside the US, was suffering from the early effects of Alzheimer's in his First Term as president, according to his son. In a new book, My Father at 100: A Memoir, Ron Reagan cites two examples. He recalls watching his f...

Did Reagan have Alzheimer's while he was president?
The Washington Post's Stephen Lowman has an early look at Ron Reagan's new book about his father, which will soon be released to coincide with what would have been the former president's 100th birthday. Specifically, Lowman highlights passages dealing with Reagan's struggle with Alzheimer's Disease, which was formally diagnosed in 1994 (and disclosed to the public in a dramatic handwritten letter by Reagan in November of that year). The most startling revelation may be this: [I]n 1989, doct...

Surprise: Ronald Reagan Had Lots of Alzheimers In White House
Ron Reagan claims in his new book, My Father at 100, that former President Ronald Reagan had signs of Alzheimer’s disease as early as his 1984 re-election campaign, Washington Whispers reports. BREAKING! (Not breaking.) And now Margaret Thatcher has dementia. Those two must have been doing some crazy shit together. [Political Wire]...