Readers of this happy Corner one and all, be sure to go to the NRO homepage today to click on Deroy Murdock’s piece about Reagan and AIDS.

It has become an established “fact” on the left that Reagan did nothing about AIDS. Reviewing the HBO production of Angels in America in the Times a couple of weeks ago, for example, Frank Rich spent at least half his time assailing Ronald Reagan. (And when I was touring for my book on Reagan, I could count on someone’s asking me at nearly every stop why the Gipper merely stood by while HIV spread.) Yet as Deroy demonstrates in marvelous detail, the fact that Reagan did nothing about AIDS is no fact at all. An actual fact? That Reagan spent more than five billion on AIDS.