This is becoming the Reagan second term, with increasingly unhinged logic at work. because it’s about beautiful walls. Function follows Form
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) report on President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall shows more than a dozen points were “breached” during tests along the Mexican border.
Prototypes for the barrier between Mexico and the U.S. failed to meet the standards of “non-penetrable,” with the recently released CBP report revealing that several test teams were able to breach sections of the wall.
The heavily redacted report showed how the $20 million Otay Mesa border wall designs will need to undergo significant improvements before any construction plans can be implemented.
In at least one case, test crews were able to make the prototype wall completely “unstable" to the point of collapse.
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In My Father at 100, written by Ron Reagan, he
...describes his growing sense of alarm over his father's mental condition, beginning as early as three years into his first term. He recalls the presidential debate with Walter Mondale on 7 October 1984.
"My heart sank as he floundered his way through his responses, fumbling with his notes, uncharacteristically lost for words. He looked tired and bewildered," Ron Reagan writes.
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The New York Times medical writer Larry Altman even raised the question with Reagan during an interview in 1980 just before he entered the White House. Reagan said he would quit if he developed Alzheimer's while in office.
Altman returned to the subject in 1997, after Reagan had completed his second term. Having talked to many of the president's doctors in the White House, he concluded that there was no evidence that Reagan had suffered any of the symptoms of dementia while in office.
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