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04-12-2018, 03:42 PM
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/brent-baker/2018/04/11/us-government-official-fxs-americans-reagan-might-be-going-senile

By Brent Baker | April 11, 2018 8:09 PM EDT
Last week’s episode (http://forums.previously.tv/topic/67968-s06e02-tchaikovsky/?do=getLastComment) of FX’s The Americans, set in 1987, imagined a U.S. arms control official telling an undercover Soviet KGB operative that he’d heard from a White House insider that President Ronald Reagan has “been forgetful, not focused, almost a different person lately. The man I talked to said he thinks that the President might be going senile.” In the next scene, the agent’s KGB handler worried: “Weinberger and his cronies are even more hard-line than Reagan.”