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Originally posted by DTF
It's more than a rumor, it was confirmed recently by former Reagan officials.
She was treated with the respect she earned while alive, which is to say very little. The Reagans are directly responsible for the continued proliferation of HIV as well as the millions of deaths that occurred in the US alone due to the disease. They cut funding for AIDS groups and quite literally laughed as a generation of LGBT people were dying. But yeah interesting that you're more interested in how SHE was treated disrespectfully postmortem than how she and her disastrous husband disrespected the very livelihood of millions while alive.
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Yes I'm more interested b/c a. I wasn't alive at the time of her husband's presidency and knew nothing of this information and b. It was an odd headline to see over and over again as former First Ladies and Presidents who pass on are never bad mouthed, get extensively positive news coverage and a grand send off, it's a guarantee. So to see those articles were very surprising and I was curious as to why b/c when Ronald passed in '07 he was given a grand send off, it's unfair to put this all on her, she wasn't President, he was.