Ex-Sen. Proxmire Has Alzheimer’s
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Former Sen. William Proxmire, the government gadfly who handed out Golden Fleece awards to spotlight what he considered bad uses of taxpayer money, has Alzheimer’s disease, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. Proxmire, 82, a Democrat who retired in 1989 after 31 years in office, told the newspaper his condition “can be called Alzheimer’s disease, although I’m not as bad as that sounds.” He said he reads a lot but can’t go on the lecture circuit or write his newspaper column.
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