"He gave me a distant look with those milky eyes and shook my hand weakly. "Reagan didn't seem to know who I was," she wrote. That was precisely what CBS News reporter Lesley Stahl was asking herself during a 1986 visit with a president she would later describe in her 2000 memoir, Reporting Live, as "shriveled" and verging on catatonic.
A 1987 article in the New Republic posed the troubling question outright: "Is Reagan Senile?" Incidents such as these led to speculation that he was undergoing a gradual mental decline that those around him didn't want to admit. Reagan's doctors said much the same thing while he was in office despite the former president's memory lapses and bouts of confusion in public, most visibly during the 1984 presidential debates and his 1990 Iran-Contra testimony. Ronny Jackson, who had tested him for cognitive impairment and said he had no concerns about the president's mental fitness. Trump was given a clean bill of cognitive health in January 2018 by White House physician Dr.
Trump was 70, making him the oldest person to be elected to the presidency (excluding Reagan's re-election at 73). Reagan was 69 when he won his first presidential election. He was diagnosed with the condition, but not until 1994, five years after leaving office. The publication in 2018 of a tell-all book about the Trump White House in which aides are reported to have questioned President Trump's mental stability has revived longstanding rumors holding that Ronald Reagan suffered from Alzheimer's Disease during his presidency.
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