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Ronald Reagan much-beloved in Utah for decades

Utah's love affair with Ronald Reagan goes back many years.

Long before he was the leading light of conservative Republicans, Reagan the actor was a mainstay in the entertainment gossip columns of local newspapers.

But it was Reagan the politician, first as governor of California and later as presidential candidate and then president, who captivated his Utah audience during several visits to the Beehive State, where he energized political conventions and became Utah's most popular president since gaining Ref. Source 2

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The son of Ronald Reagan suggests in a new book that his father suffered from the beginning stages of Alzheimer's disease while he was still in the White House. What do you think?

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It wouldn't surprised me if it was true. Everybody knows he was in pretty bad shape physically so the mind is also connected somehow.

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Ronald Reagan Turns 100

For Republicans, he has become the de facto godfather of the party, a man nearly on par with Lincoln. "If you start ticking off presidents all the way back as far as you can remember, I think he stands out as one of the top three or four that we've had in this country," says former Utah Congressman Jim Hansen. Ref. Source 2?

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Reagan shooter John Hinckley Jr. To be released

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the man who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981 outside a Washington, D.C., hotel will be released no sooner than Aug. 5 from a government psychiatric hospital. Hinckley, 61, will be permitted to live full time in Williamsburg, Va. Ref. USAToday.