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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

RONALD REAGAN PART TEN: First Term Cold War Moves

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

Politics, History, News

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

A TV show affects Reagan deeply. The question is often asked if Reagan won the Cold War. Usually, the only period examined is Reagan's second term. But if one looks at Reagan's first term, we see a perhaps unproductive stance and an unpopular hawkish stance that terrified many Americans and some allies, and was not helping to thaw the cold. Had the Presidency ended in 4 years, no significant progress could have been claimed. Yet one could aslo say Reagan was building a strategy while his adversaries had aging and sometimes ill leadership, and a few light moves were made. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Roger copy. This is not an exercise.

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I picture a split-screen movie.

0:11.7

In one box, say, on the far left, a man races from a smoking car down the highway.

0:18.9

In another, a man scratching words on a piece of note paper.

0:28.5

In the center right, a large group of people holding signs, marching forward in endless columns.

0:36.9

A signs, marching forward in endless columns.

0:42.3

To the far right, a rocket propelled by enormous fire rises, then splits into parts.

0:50.3

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1:47.9

and then there was the boom, the flash of light, the smoke, and his car stops in this

1:54.9

little Kansas town. But he can't just wait there. He's a doctor. And this is an emergency.

2:02.6

He needs to get to the hospital.

2:05.6

There are sick.

2:06.6

They are dying to tend to.

2:08.6

He thinks back.

2:10.6

Just a few days before, the basketball game in the quiet, festive town,

2:16.6

a couple about to be married.

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