Radcliffe Emerson

Here's an interesting link that says Reagan thought Bush Sr was behind his shooting.


http://freedom.orlingrabbe.com/lfeti...n_location.htm

Kinross

Might need one of these.

Totalitarianist

Just hearsay.

Radcliffe Emerson

Yes it is, but I wouldn't be surprised at anything the Bush family did.
Even my dad, who is a staunch Republican, was telling me how shady the CIA was when Bush Sr ran it.
He supports GW 1000%, but he even said it wouldn't surprise him if Bush Sr had been involved.
And of course, it doesn't say Bush was involved, it just says Reagan at the time thought he might be.

Gurdur

Given that Reagan while in office was already showing induitable symptoms of the Alzheimer's with which he would later be completely bed-ridden, then I wouldn't bother giving much creedence at all to whatever paranoid delusions he came out with.

leonarde

I think there's a great deal of.....er forgetfulness here: Reagan was shot in the first half (April?) of 1981. He wasn't particularly sharp in the Presidential debate of 1984 (with Walter Mondale) but made a comeback in a second or third debate in that year. I don't think anyone thought of Reagan as having any medical problem like Alzheimer's until after he was out of office (early 1989).
If you check, you'll find that Bush was DCIA for about a year: hardly a blink in the history of any Washington bureaucracy. He probably left little permanent imprint on the CIA. When the Church committee examined abuses of the CIA the biggest concentrations seemed to have been in the 1960s (before Bush's tenure).

Cheers!

Gurdur

So what ?

As I said, symptoms were already noticable while he was in office --- and in fact there was some speculation at the time, given his syntactical difficulties when not reading autocues, and his facial expressions.

leonarde

But that's my point: "in office" covers an eight year period .
The assasination attempt occurred in his first 6 months in office.
To my knowledge, a sneaky suspicion that one's deputy/ subordinate is trying to do one in is not one of the symptoms of Alzheimer's. If Reagan ever said anything about Bush Sr. trying to do him in, it was undoubtedly in the context of a joke (and Reagan was joking with his doctors/nurses in the hospital in April of 1981). Reagan's syntax was, overall, much better than that of his successor (Bush Sr.) but it is the deterioration in same which might (again MIGHT MIGHT) indicate an underlying pathology.

Cheers!

Gurdur

Wrong !

Paranoid delusions are sometimes found in Alzheimers, and lack of control is of course a major feature.

Suuuuuure...... and on what basis do you make this claim ?
You have any medical or associated qualifications ?
Or instead did you know Reagan intimately ?
ROFL !!!
Since his Alzheimer's was officially acknowledged long ago, and since the deteriotion while even in office is clear in hindsight, there seems to be no "might" about it.

echidna

:notworthy