Italy had come within a hairs breadth of voting in a communist government. Troops were in angola. The soviets in every measurable way are winning. Nine years later, gorbachev is suing for peace. They have not taken one inch of territory, which from 1970 through 1980, the soviets took eric tori under every president. They stopped dead in their tracks. It was not just military. It was using the bully pulpit to call them the evil empire. It was using Radio Free Europe to boost the signal into the warsaw pact countries and the baltic countries. Stopping the subsidy of their economy he used every available method, quite frankly. The soviets never knew what hit them. He hit them at many different levels. He basically brought them to their needs. You could sum all of that up in a simple phrase, which he used. That is peace through strength. He was willing to negotiate with the soviets once we had achieved military superiority, which we did not have when he came into office in 1980. A great wa