No, Hillary. Nancy Reagan stood by and watched tens of thousands of people die.

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3. Thank you for posting this thread. I share your outrage.

I remember those years. It was horrifying. Reagan's reaction to the HIV/AIDS crisis over the years was to laugh it off. It was only gay people, so no worries, right? Then it was drug users sharing needles, but who cared about that? It wasn't until the realization came that "ordinary" people could get infected that anything began to be done.

Disgusting. I was still in the USAF when we first started hearing about AIDS. I spent my twenties into my early thirties watching as people died horrible deaths, and it seemed no one cared. Years were wasted because our leaders didn't care.

I knew many gay people, and the fear in their eyes made me cry. The Reagans' actions were directly responsible for that, and to see people on this forum post about Nancy as if she were somehow not connected with all of that was sickening. Yeah. They loved each other, but even their own children were on their own.