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Lectures in History

Ronald Reagan and the End of the Cold War

Lectures in History

C-SPAN

History, Politics, News

4.1696 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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University of Texas at Austin professor Jeremi Suri teaches an online class about President Ronald Reagan and the end of the Cold War. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is American History TV's Lectures in History podcast.

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This week, a class about President Ronald Reagan and the end of the Cold War,

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taught by University of Texas at Austin professor Jeremy Surrey.

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Some listeners may find language in this program offensive.

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Okay, let's go to our first slide, if we could. Here we have Ronald Reagan. We talked in our last lecture about the disruptions of the 1960s, the changes in the 1970s, the social changes in the 1970s towards suburbanization

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following the disruptions of the 1960s. We talked about Nixon and Carter and the desire

1:35.9

so many Americans had for quiet, for silence, to escape, to escape the disruptions, to escape the conflict. Ronald Reagan coming into

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office in the early 1980s, elected in November 1980, represented just what I think Time

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magazine is saying here. A fresh start for so many people. A sunny positive disposition. Ronald

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Reagan's hero was Franklin Roosevelt. Ronald Reagan was of a different

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