People forget - Reagan was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease two years into his second term. His son said he saw it in the '84 debate. There was no 25th Amendment nonsense. We all knew he was an absent-minded conservative jackass and that we were helpless to do anything about it because the Republicans worshipped him like a god. The muthafuckin' king of Spain for 35 goddamn years The people in power will do whatever is necessary to stay in power. Crazy, senile, dangerously stupid, don't matter - this is the horse they've hitched their wagon to and they'll beat it until long past the point of death.Charles did not learn to speak until the age of four nor to walk until eight,[6] and was treated as virtually an infant until he was ten years old. His jaw was so badly deformed (an extreme example of the so-called Habsburg jaw) that he could barely speak or chew. Fearing the frail child would be overtaxed, his caretakers did not force Charles to attend school.