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Ronald Reagan's announcement that he would not be running for re-election in 1984 took most people by surprise, though it turned out to be completely understandable given the dementia that set in a few years later. But what if he had run for a second term? Could the dementia have been covered up?

One wildcard is whether there would be a different reaction to Iran-Contra if the scandal had broken when Reagan was in the White House, assuming he didn't intervene to stop the arms deals.
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