short years he was president. i am biased, of course, but i think he was the best one-term president we ever had, and among the most underappreciated of all of our presidents. and i think history is correcting that. when you look at what happened on his watch, the cold war that we had fought for 40 years ended, and it ended peacefully because of the adroit way in which he managed its end. he got criticized strongly for not being more emotional about the berlin wall coming down. he was criticized for not in effect dancing on the wall. he said wait a minute, we re not going to do that. we have a lot of unfinished business with gorbachev. to make sure the cold war ends with a whimper and not with a bang, and it did. it was his adroit management. he promptly set about to unify germany. in peace and freedom as a member of the north atlantic treaty organization, and a narrow
short years that he was president. i am biased, of course, but i think he was the best one-term president we ever had and among the most underappreciated of all of our presidents. and i think history is correcting that. when you look at what happened on his watch, the cold war that we had fought for 40 years ended. and ended peacefully because of the ajoint way he handled it. he was criticized for not in effect dancing on the wall. he said, wait a minute, we re not going to do that. we ve got a lot of unfinished business with gorbachev. to make sure the cold war ends with a whimper and not with a bang. and it did. his adroit management. he promptly set about to unify germany in peace and freedom as a member of the north atlantic treaty organization in a narrow window of opportunity over the
hundreds of years. now, a lot of that is frayed in the last couple of years or so. and putin, you know, the general mattis story you just had on, about the russians continuing to try to spy or influence our elections, is so outrageous, but there was a time when it looked like it would be, at the end of the cold war, whether we would sort of grab up a lot of property, whether we would keep germany divided, the germans wanted to unite but they didn t know whether they would have america s support, he first of all, as colin powell said, insisted that we not dance on the graves of the soviets, but he also worked very hard to integrate and reunite germany, a peaceful germany. that was a huge contribution when you consider that germany had gotten us into two world wars. over the course of the 20th century. and put, and solving the german issue, to ensure that they had a peaceful democratic future, was i think, an underappreciated but
the single largest deployment that we have ever had in the carolinas. these guys are ready to work, they are ready to go at it, but we have to look out for their safety. when it is safe to do so, may be a couple of days. we have to keep them answer family safe as well. neil: thank you. imagine dealing with all of those power related issues in the state. i am reminded of something that i heard from cooper earlier today. it gets underreported, underappreciated. in north carolina alone, there are 22,000 volunteers working in any capacity they can. to help other folks out. they can get out themselves, they have chosen not to. you have heard about the cajun navy. they come up to places like texas and louisiana to see what they can do to help. much is said about the greatest generation being gone, but i always like to you think these are the children or the
musicians, of soul singers, of artists that most people don t know. and to say they re underappreciate d. she kept filling out her life. but i ll never forget her, she stood up sing in that kathy kral when she could, she sat down when she got tired. she went over and played one song on the piano, just to make sure none of us forgot that she was real good at that. so our friends, our family member, our mother, our grandmother, our aunt, our