More low income housing was built during Jimmy Carter's one term than in 8 years of REagan's as well as the first four of Bush senior. I don't know figures since then, but I doubt much more has been built since then, though Carter continues to do it.
I was reading recently (was it in another Mudcat thread?)that Reagan's oft repeated "...tear down that wall" might have hastened the end of the cold war by ten days.
Reagan cut government funding for abortions, but after the onset of his Alzheimers, Nancy R. favored stem-cell research.
I wouldn't wish the terrible and difficult disease on anyone nor on anyones family, but I am not looking forward to the endless praise of the man we are not going to be subjected to. I am sure the end is a blessing for all involved.
And I always thought naming an airport for him was a cruel irony.