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Originally posted by ktsnake
In 1989, he had ratcheted the AIDS budget up to 2.32 Billion dollars. I think Frank Gifford's CBS special on Reagan is a good example of why we shouldn't believe everything we see on TV.
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That's funny...I've never seen that TV movie. In fact, I don't really watch much network TV, other than the news. I don't base my historical and political views on TV specials--that should be obvious at this point.
If that's what you were trying to insinuate, well, bully on you.
Reagan's administration did as much as they could at that time--and a lot of the major push to even discuss the disease was because of Dr. Koop. Koop, not Reagan, deserves that credit. I'm sure that's true for any Surgeon General, regardless of political position and administration--in the way that he informs the administration on certain health issues that need to be discussed. The question wasn't "how much," it was "why so late." By the time that Reagan delivered his first speech on the AIDS crisis (it was AIDS by that point, not gay cancer or GRID), it was in response to the fact that much of "middle America" was becoming affected more and more.