They sure did. Poor President Reagan was constantly called senile for forgetting things or so they said. During those contra trials I wanted to kill the media. They made it seem like he was a dingbat. How dare they?
I always thought SNL had the best skits about Reagan--around the press he'd be a dimwitted idiot, but behind the scenes he'd be the sharpest tack in the box. :-)
Sounds a bit like our current CIC, eh?
Louis Gottschalk, a prominent American psychologist and neuroscientist who earned world renown after studying the mental degeneration of the former president Ronald Reagan, has lost millions of dollars to a Nigerian internet scam, according to court papers filed in California by his son.