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Half-True: "In the 1960s, liberals emptied our psych wards." Some of the impetus for moving people with serious mental illness out of institutions in the 1960s came from legislation signed by Democratic presidents and supported by civil rights advocates. But fiscal conservatives, many of them Republicans, also played a crucial role — notably Ronald Reagan, who signed landmark legislation, first as California’s governor and then as president. (Source: PolitiFact)