There was an impressive anti-establishment or anti-empire speech (in black and white TV at a college?) he did that touched on many points about the state that are awful. Intimated how the government is compromised by outside forces or something like that. He ran on that theme during his campaign, only to have Rockefeller standing next to him at his inauguration. Been a while, so details fuzzy.

High level people, like Reagan, are targets by certain forces, that can be compromised through sophisticated means. Scopolamine (or other drugs and techniques) is one potential method of gaining control of a person(s). Maybe 'they' captured him.

Someone else pointed out that he was a 'dangerously mediocre' president. Perhaps.