Regan is Dead (for Real)

CBS is reporting it now... get ready for one week of fucked up tv.

May he rest in peace

It was just on CNN, too.

R.I.P. Gipper

great...

another reason for a sad weekend

Reagan's health 'deteriorating'

Former US President Ronald Reagan's health has deteriorated in recent days, according to unconfirmed reports.
"Time is getting close. It could be weeks, it could be months," the US media quoted a source as saying.

But Mr Reagan's spokeswoman denied the reports. "When there is something significant to report, I will do so," Joanne Drake told AFP news agency.

Mr Reagan, who is 93 and suffers from Alzheimer's disease, has not been seen in public for several years.

He was US president from 1981 to 1989 and has lived longer than any other holder of the post.

Mr Reagan revealed in November 1994 that he was suffering from Alzheimer's disease, which destroys brain cells and causes memory loss.

Since then, he has retreated to his home in Los Angeles, where he is nursed by close members of his family.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3779583.stm

yup..and on D-day weekend

Really?...poor ole Ronny...RIP

wow.... and just yesterday we heard he was very sick

i wish the best to his family and those who cared...

He was a good president and actor.

WASHINGTON - Ronald Reagan, the cheerful crusader who devoted his presidency to winning the Cold War, trying to scale back government and making people believe it was ?morning again in America,? died Saturday after a long twilight struggle with Alzheimer?s disease, a family friend said. He was 93.

He died at his home in California, according to the friend, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The White House was told his health had taken a turn for the worse in the last several days.

Five years after leaving office, the nation?s 40th president told the world in November 1994 that he had been diagnosed with the early stages of Alzheimer?s, an incurable illness that destroys brain cells. He said he had begun ?the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life.?

Reagan body was expected to be taken to his presidential library and museum in Simi Valley, Calif., and then flown to Washington to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda. His funeral was expected to be at the National Cathedral, an event likely to draw world leaders. The body was to be returned to California for a sunset burial at his library.

Reagan lived longer than any U.S. president, spending his last decade in the shrouded seclusion wrought by his disease, tended by his wife, Nancy, whom he called Mommy, and the select few closest to him. Now, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton are the surviving ex-presidents.

Although fiercely protective of Reagan?s privacy, the former first lady let people know his mental condition had deteriorated terribly. Last month, she said: ?Ronnie?s long journey has finally taken him to a distant place where I can no longer reach him.?

Reagan?s oldest daughter, Maureen, from his first marriage, died in August 2001 at age 60 from cancer. Three other children survive: Michael, from his first marriage, and Patti Davis and Ron from his second.

Over two terms, from 1981 to 1989, Reagan reshaped the Republican Party in his conservative image, fixed his eye on the demise of the Soviet Union and Eastern European communism and tripled the national debt to $3 trillion in his singleminded competition with the other superpower.

Taking office at age 69, Reagan had already lived a career outside Washington, one that spanned work as a radio sports announcer, an actor, a television performer, a spokesman for the General Electric Co., and a two-term governor of California.

R.I.P Reagan

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/...lth/index.html

cat in the roof method. Then when they said his family was around him and the media was outside it was always going to happen today or tomorrow.

RIP

93 - that's not too bad.

so sad.. RIP

Ex-President Ronald Reagan dies

Former US President Ronald Reagan's health has died, aged 93, after reports in recent days that his health had taken a turn for the worse.
He had suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and had not been seen in public for several years.

He died at his home in California, according to a friend quoted anonymously by Reuters news agency.

He was US president from 1981 to 1989 and had lived longer than any other holder of the post.


Mr Reagan revealed in November 1994 that he was suffering from Alzheimer's disease, which destroys brain cells and causes memory loss.

Since then, he retreated to his home in Los Angeles, where he had been nursed by close members of his family.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3779583.stm

the dude was 93 years old!

he lived longer and had a fuller life than many people on this board will!

RIP... Too Bad we didn't have a pres like him today. Instead we get stuck with a moron.

Good president in many respects but he ushered in teh anti-porn crusaders led by Ed Meese, his Attorney General and cost me money.