Those of us who listen to Nancy Reagan know that, for most of Ron's Presidency, he was suffering significantly from Alzheimer's Disease. There are books full of situations where he confused what had happened in movies with reality--still, if you were wealthy on the day he was elected, you were three times as wealthy when he left office--if you weren't wealthy when he was elected, you lost a lot of the value of your pension, your taxes had went up, and, in many cases, your job had disappeared in a leveraged buyout--can you imagine what he would have done if he'd had all his faculties?