There is an infamous discussion from 1982 between Ronald Reagan’s press secretary Larry Speakes and reporter Lester Kinsolving in the White House briefing room approximately the then-oncoming AIDS crisis,in which Speakes cackles derisively when Kinsolving asks if the Reagan administration was taking any steps to address the disease. Now, over at Vanity unprejudiced, or you can listen to that exchange,and several others that highlight the mindset of a president who is widely agreed to gain miserably failed those stricken with the disease.
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