Ronald Reagan, Homosexuality, and AIDS

fwiw, my own shallow research from 2011 Feb 7:

Ronald Reagan, Homosexuality, and AIDS
Was Reagan slow on addressing this new, mysterious disease?
http://bit.ly/RRnAIDS

Pull quotes to give gist:

"'You could have poured half the national budget into AIDS in 1983, and it would have gone down a rat hole....'"

...Seems to me, these positions of Reagan's were not based on religious dogma or social prejudice but on the same simple American principles he always espoused....