From: "Mark Hessey" 

"James Adams"  wrote: The cold war
had been going on for quite some time before he came along.

Yes, it was and would have gone on for a lot longer without him. I mean
like, imagine a Jimmy Carter type doing anything to worry them into
submission :-)

"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek
prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek
liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr.
Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
http://www.reaganfoundation.org/reagan/speeches/wall.asp

Yea, yea, I know there were a lot of different factors that all culminated
in the end result - but no one can tell me his actions and those words were
not responsible for pushing the end over the edge. Although, apparently CBS
is going to try to tell me different next month, or perhaps just err on the
side of omission.

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