When a Debate Flop Raised Concerns About Ronald Reagan's Fitness to Run for Re-Election

In 1994, five years after Ronald Reagan left the White House, the former president wrote a letter to the nation, revealing that he was “one of the millions of Americans who will be afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease.” “I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life,” Reagan said. He died at his home in Los Angeles ten years later, at age 93. A decade before Reagan’s public diagnosis,…