[cross-posted to Kossacks_for_Sanders]

So I've been seeing a lot of Hillary apologists try and pass off her words supporting Nancy Reagan's "support" for AIDS research as a simple misspeak, that when she said, "The other point that I wanted to make too," she was still talking about Alzheimer's, so everyone needs to chill.

The full quote:

"The other point that I wanted to make too is, it may be hard for your viewers to remember how difficult it was for people to talk about HIV/AIDS back in the 1980s. And because of both President and Mrs. Reagan — in particular Mrs. Reagan — we started a national conversation when before nobody would talk about it, nobody wanted to do anything about it."

Nobody would talk about Alzheimer's? Nobody wanted to do anything about it? Really? What does history say, from the Alzheimer's Association website:

1974 Founding of National Institute on Aging An act of Congress establishes the National Institute on Aging (NIA) as one of our National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIA is our primary federal agency supporting Alzheimer's research.

1976 Alzheimer's recognized as most common form of dementia. Neurologist Robert Katzman identifies Alzheimer's disease as the most common cause of dementia and a major public health challenge in his editorial published in Archives of Neurology.

In 1979, Jerome H. Stone and representatives from several family support groups met with the National Institute on Aging to explore the value of a national, independent, nonprofit organization to complement and stimulate federal efforts on Alzheimer's disease. That meeting resulted in the 1980 formation of the Alzheimer's Association with Mr. Stone as founding president.

1983 Declaration of National Alzheimer's Disease Month Awareness of Alzheimer's disease increases, leading Congress to designate November 1983 as the first National Alzheimer's Disease Month.