Theoddbird Although Reagan's dementia took over his health news, his biggest hurdle was he got a face-lift AND he was divorced!
Rhinestone Kennedy's Addison's was also cited as the reason he was a sexually over-active idiot. I am an expat American and cannot believe how taken all the US was with his glamorous family (I was a teen when he was assassinated). The press today is criticised for being so intrusive into a candidate's life that now no one but the most persistent obnoxious people will run for US office, but on the other hand, you can't hide anything anymore. Two extremes at work. Ed Muskie should never have been persecuted by the press as he was in 1972. And if Bernie had been 15 years younger, he could have walked this!