Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/06/09

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Subject: [Leica] Remembering the Reagan years
From: gregj.lorenzo at shaw.ca (GREG LORENZO)
Date: Wed Jun 9 20:08:32 2004
 
There is a period of time in which former world leaders are judged by 
historians. Usually before history becomes legend and then myth. Reagan I 
suspect will do well for a couple of significant reasons:

He restored America's confidence after the debacles of Vietnam and Iran. 
(Vietnam destroyed Johnson's Great Society and his presidency.)

He ended the cold war, destroyed the Warsaw Pact and brought eastern Europe 
back into the western world. In process he never had to fire a shot to do 
so. (Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter couldn't 
do it.)

Too many world leaders are politicians first and statesman never.

Regards,

Greg
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