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spending time talking about a new biography. I highly recommend Ronald Reagan, his life and legend by Max Boot, all these years later.

It's good to review what we live through, we boomers.

And you, Gen Xers, you were children, and you, Gen Ziers, you weren't here yet.

But this is the man that everybody rolls their eyes and goes, Ronald Reagan, the great communicator.

Well, he was.

He knew how to tell stories.

But when you meet foreign policy, the stories only go as far as what happens later.

It's surprising to me, Max, how many of these challenges in the two terms of Ronald Reagan are still with us.

Iran, still with us. Afghanistan are still with us iran still with us afghanistan

still with us the the troubles in the in the caribbean havana uh nicaragua al salvador seems to be solved

but central america is not still with us it's only 40 years. Poland is somewhat solved. That was a major

challenge because it was under the Soviet boot. Let's talk about the Soviets. Ronald Reagan had

no patience whatsoever with communism. And yet, he became a person who wanted, it's not

Dayton. It's not Richard Nixon's

detan.

He goes back and forth between being confrontational and looking to do business about treaties.

How should we think about him in the Soviet Union?

Well, I would say that in his first term, he had a somewhat modeled and unsuccessful policy towards the Soviet Union.

The most high profile elements were his confrontational tactics and rhetoric.

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