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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 1583791" data-attributes="member: 5100">After surviving Hinkley's bullet, Reagan decided that he was living on borrowed time.  He felt that God had spared him for the express purpose of facing down the Soviet Union and tearing down the Iron Curtain.  Given the timing of various events, including him developing Alzheimer's after his role had been played out and the wall coming down was a foregone conclusion, I'm not inclined to disagree with him.  The fact that he lived roughly as long after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's as he lived after being shot before the diagnosis only makes it seem like he was repaying his time. That makes him sound a bit megalomaniacal, but it really wasn't, from what I've read. Anyway, the point is that he was a leader driven to a goal.  He lasted long enough to see that goal come to fruition before he began to fade.  What more can you really ask for?</blockquote>