U.S president who suffered from dementia while in office.
“ A 1987 article in the New Republic posed the troubling question outright: “Is Reagan Senile?”
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.
“Reagan didn’t seem to know who I was,” she wrote. “He gave me a distant look with those milky eyes and shook my hand weakly. Oh, my, he’s gonzo, I thought.” But a few minutes later, he snapped out of it and from that point on seemed perfectly fine. When asked, White House aides admitted to Stahl that they had witnessed similar episodes.” - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ronald-reagan-alzheimers-disease/
In early 1987 his domestic advisors looked into invoking the Twenty-Fifth amendment to replace him with vice president Bush. Source: The Great Rift by James Mann
“ A 1987 article in the New Republic posed the troubling question outright: “Is Reagan Senile?”
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.
“Reagan didn’t seem to know who I was,” she wrote. “He gave me a distant look with those milky eyes and shook my hand weakly. Oh, my, he’s gonzo, I thought.” But a few minutes later, he snapped out of it and from that point on seemed perfectly fine. When asked, White House aides admitted to Stahl that they had witnessed similar episodes.” - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ronald-reagan-alzheimers-disease/
In early 1987 his domestic advisors looked into invoking the Twenty-Fifth amendment to replace him with vice president Bush. Source: The Great Rift by James Mann