Quote (Thor123422 @ Mar 30 2020 02:03pm)
I'm going to need you to post a study that says it's well-documented
Weird to want a "study" on that. Not sure which journals accept archival "studies", considering it's just history.
We really started to see HIV ramp up in the US starting in 1981, and Reagan didn't publicly say the word "AIDS" until 1985, and didn't give a speech on it until 1987.
Reagan's Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop, even shared that he was prevented by the administration from addressing the AIDS crisis in the early years of the administration. He wasn't authorized to release a Surgeon General's Report on AIDS until 1986, and had been excluded from the Executive Task Force on AIDS for the first 2 years after it was created.
Much of what one would find online would also include the recording between reporter Lester Kinsolving and Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes: