USA: LOS ANGELES: FORMER PRESIDENT REAGAN STILL GOES TO THE OFFICE
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- (14 Nov 1997) English/Nat
APTV has exclusive pictures of former U-S President Ronald Reagan.
Nearly three years after disclosing that he had Alzheimer's disease, the 86-year-old Reagan is still driven to his office every day in Los Angeles.
In a glass and chrome office building on the Avenue of the Stars, one fading star still lights up the lobby.
Looking fit, but older America's 40th president shows up for "work" as he does almost every day.
Office staffers say the former President is in good shape though media reports indicate that he is now in the middle stages of the memory-destroying neurological disease.
Although Reagan has slipped increasingly from public view as his Alzheimer's disease has advanced he glides through the Fox Plaza building in Century City, Los Angeles.
He holds court for four hours everyday and still plays golf on weekends.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"He's a wonderful man. Comes in every day - comes in at ten leaves at two. Always waves, always says hello, always looks fabulous. Always has a smile on his face- he's just great.
SUPER CAPTION: Kathleen Kurowski, Concierge
What does he do all day?
Staffers say his activities include photo-opportunities with fans, meetings with friends from his hometown of Dixon, Illinois, and those from his days in the White House.
Ronald Reagan also signs autographs here, allows school groups to visit, and sees Republican campaign managers.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"My understanding is that I have a few minutes to meet with him in his office; express my appreciation for everything he's done for freedom around the world,. Hopeful I get my photo taken with him. That'll probably be the end of it. I will be happy for the rest of my life and I'll die a happy man."
SUPER CAPTION: Steven Thomlison, Campaign Manager for John Breslow for Republican candidate for Governor of Nebraska
Reagan has maintained an office on the 34th floor of this building since 1989, soon after vacating the oval office.
Nancy Reagan is said to visit him often at the office and once had her own office here as well.
Fans meanwhile, still seem elated to see him in the lobby or get a smile and a wave from him on occasion.
And he seems to enjoy the attention.
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Sad. Reagan was gone at this point. He wasnt Reagan anymore. Only in body. His smile is gone, his eyes look vacant, he was confused by the escalator of all things. He reminded me of my grandpa that had alzheimers before he passed. When he had it in the late stages, he walked around like Reagan here confused-looking and blank
Dude, there's some major Monday morning quarterbacking in your comments. If he looked like that as president on his way to meet Gorbachev, you wouldn't be making those comments. He wasn't "confused" by the escalator. He just wanted to make sure he didn't trip. Plus, the woman being interviewed after the footage of Reagan describes Reagan in a way diametrically opposed to your "analysis."
@@Pharoset No monday morning qbing required. Ive been around enough alzheimer patients to know. This was 3 years after he announced his diagnosis. He was reaching the middle to late stages at this time. Even his wife and kids confirmed so. Of course they are saying he acts normal and fine, they r saying the same about Biden now when in reality, he is reaching the end.
@@Pharosetno hindsight or Monday morning qbing required. I've been around enough alzheimer patients to know. He was in the middle to late stages at this point. This was 3 years after his official diagnosis. His family, doctors and aides were doing this as a routine to keep his mind on a routine, of course he could still talk some, no one said that, but at this point he didn't remember being pres. Nancy and his kids confirmed in 96 that he was slipping quick. Of course ppl in the interview are going to talk nice about him, but he was gone at this point.
This was filmed in 1997. So weird just seeing him at this point in history. When you think Ronald Reagan, you think of the 80s and boxy cars. Not the late 90s and grunge lol.
Yeah it is. When I think of Reagan it's the 80s and NES. Not the late 90s and PS1
Yeah.
Grunge was mid-late 80’s / Early 90’s. It was completely dead by 1997
Reagan was alive to witness the Mean Girls premiere
Didn't know he worked in the Nakotomi building. I guess they knew nobody would fuck around with Ronald in town.
For movie trivia fans, Ronald Reagan's office at Fox Plaza would have been the top floor of the Nakatomi Plaza building in the movie Die Hard. It's the one still under construction where Bruce Willis hides from the terrorists/robbers.
Shot on location??
Wow. That's sad.
He doesn't look like his old-self anymore.
You can really see his age here. With all due respect though, you have to wonder how much of these visits were for appearance sake. Still, kudos to him for putting on the "brave front".
they weren't for appearances sake. The former President lived 15 minutes away in Bel Air, and this gave Reagan an opportunity to get out of the house every day. Routine is important for those with Alzheimers, and this was for him, not for anyone else. He'd just putter around that office, sitting at his desk, looking at picture books....he wasn't doing any work. But it was good for him.
@@Yobbie72 We did the same with my father he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2001. By 2006 he got real bad. The doctor told us to make sure he does daily activities (easy relaxed one) in 2008 we put him in a home very hard to do.
In 2009 he totally forgot about us had no clue who we were. Completely sad and heartbreaking he didn't know who his sons were.
Rip dad
March 23,1919-January 11,2011.
@@joshbates9934 Thats very sad. But Reagan's daughter Patti believed that while his mind couldn't remember, his soul was still present, and knew and understood everything. I think thats true, and that your father also always knew and loved his sons. And still does!
@@Yobbie72 That's very true , He was in hospices when i headed over to visit him , the pastor was there and our whole family. I asked him the last question before he died i said "Remember when you and i went on a fishing trip for 2 weeks up in the mountains of California, remember how much time we had?" He shook his head and looked at me and raised his hand a little. Shortly after He had a breakthrew moment he passed away.
@@joshbates9934 my grandfather had Alzheimer’s to. We put him in a nursing home and he completey forgot about my family outside of me and my uncle. Near his final days he sadly forgot how to eat and he was starving to death. His bones were weak like a skeletons. I went to see him on his last day and he looked bad. Rest in piece.
August 1997, in place.
Fox Plaza, beautiful and iconic building.
Ronald Reagan, great U.S. President.
I'm Italian, but I think Reagan is one of the best presidents of all time.
SPAGHETTI
Thank you
He's not
@@liberalbias4462 Username check out.
He's not
Poor man looked half forgetful
Many of us will probably end up that way if we get to be 90+
This is the first time I've ever seen Reagan that late in his life.
A great man.
Rare footage of President Reagan after leaving office...
If your talking about after diagnosis on only then yes however he was very active in public life until his diagnosis, after he left office.
@@philliesnickcastellanos2024 this is probably the last public footage ever made of him too.
Yes, I should think so.
I am a child of the 1980s and remember seeing him on tv in the late 80s before he left office i didn't care for his politics and yes im a jfk Democrat but i think over all he was a good man and had good intentions for the country this is a rare clip and he looks dam good for a 86 year old former President with Alzheimer's i think in this video he still knew who he was and was someone important at one time just looks tired and looks like the disease was taking its toll on him alittle in this video but still looks like president reagan
If you were a child of the 80's you weren't alive for JFK, making you in fact not a JFK Democrat
@@zachzeurcher6450 don't have to be born in the 60s the admire and stand for president Kennedy both parties are dead
@@zachzeurcher6450 I am a Lincoln Republican. I obviously wasn’t alive in the 1860s. Then I liked some of what JFK did. I wasn’t around in the 1960s.
@@nickshannon7309 Thing is though, JFK's brand of Democrat was far closer to Reagan than the current crop of Democrat you see nowadays. I think JFK would much rather sit with the likes of Reagan than, say, Biden or Kamala Harris.
Hes not smiling anymore like his smile in his presidency
without alzheimers he would have been so healthy at his age. even with it he walks pretty good!
He worked in the Nakatomi building?
I wonder if this is the last video footage of President Reagan
I think I've seen a few photos of him sitting in a park in 2000, but as far as actual footage, yeah, I believe this is it.
@@zufgh Where did u find those photos?
I think so, if you do a Google search you will find a photo of President Reagan kissing his wife Nancy, and I think it is one of the last photos because you can see that he was much older.
Then I couldn't find this photo in the park that the other user was talking about.
@@Potus1789-chanelits a photo of him sitting with a boy in the park. However, im not entirely sure which one is older.
It you type “Ronald Reagan last photo in the park” it should show up.
I love this.
What year?
95
It says he is 86 here so it must be 1997. It sure looks like late 90s, not like 95.
August 1997
November 14th. 1997
It literally says in the description lol
At 0:22 he looks distracted. Hes watching the elevating stairs.. :( He looks really bad here. Ive read all the comments before placing my own. But, in my opinion, Reagan looks really almost out of it.. Still there enough to comprehend whats going on around him, but, you can tell that Alzheimers is taking its toll on him. Hes very quiet and his eyes are distanced.
I'm pretty sure everyone looks at the elevator stairs. Well, at least I do even at 23 years old.
I hope he didn’t go to the 30th floor!
Who is the girl next to Raegan accompanying him?
Probably an aide
He looked remarkably well at 86
i'm pretty sure this was around Oct 2019 or so
Pretty sure Reagan has been dead since 2004.
@@JacobWaller nah he died 2 days ago to covid
@@JacobWaller yes he died january 27 to covid
@Joseph MALLOUHI reagan died of covid obviously!
@@mcveigh1579 you don’t joke about someone’s death and no the facts allegedly stated that he died June 5, 2004
If Reagan never got Alzheiners here, I would like to imagine he returned to the big screen... playing President James Marshall in Air Force One. Considering he was the closest real life James Marshall, him or his grandson Gerorge W.
Nakatomi plazaaa!
Hes never lost his hair or receded his hairline
Holy cow he hasn't aged a bit
hadn't...this was the late 1990s.
@@Yobbie72 Pretty sure this was just a few years ago
@@dylnjshua4256 Reagan died in 2004
@@dylnjshua4256 1997 is a lot more than a few years ago, I think it's 1997 because the caption says Reagan was 86 here and he was born in 1911.
@@dylnjshua4256 my guy?😂
Damn disease. Poor Ronald, by the way I think this was one of his last appearances. It was 1997, and 3 years earlier he announced in a letter that he had Alzheimer's.
Even in this condition he seems healthier/stronger than Biden.
Ni
Shut up
@@rodney5969 ?
Not so sure about that. Biden looks good for 80, but he may have some form of dementia too, they just won’t reveal it yet because he’s still president
Lol, Biden actually rides a bicycle. Reagan looks at the escalator like it's some new strange invention.
Still, sharper than Biden.
surprisingly, with Alzheimer's disease at 86, Reagan has such a fast gait, and does not even stumble, and Biden at 80 already falls and loses his memory on the move, while Biden does not have any diseases
0:48 COCAINA
What?
@dmitriysoloviev2749 I think he's referring to her eyes, she looks wild. I think she's just high on gossip more than anything
@@nicholasr39 all people have different facial expressions and facial features, besides everything else, this girl is pretty decent
fools
YOU stand alone my friend.
Ronnie going to read the comics they cut and placed in books for him. Brains gone. Gone since 1982
1994 I think I was. 1982 he was still in his first term
@@samuelblackwell5990 Yeah, but there's an idiotic conspiracy theory peddled by people who hate Reagan that he had severe dementia during the 1980s.