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that s the only president s election where i left the line blank. if i had been the swing vote i would have had to vote for reagan sthrks it was a turning point in his transition from the political left to the political right. just a few months after the election i wrote the reagan doctrine. reporter: it was a time magazine column. it was provocative. for a while krauthammer praised reagan on a number of foreign policy issues. he was now crediting him with a breakthrough insight that changed the calculus of the cold war. i realized what reagan had done without a grand master plan was to channel what at the time was called the breshnev doctrine that when we take over a country, that s ours. reagan said, no, you don t get to keep it. we re going to challenge your
that s the only president s election where i left the line blank. if i had been the swing vote i would have had to vote for reagan sthrks it was a turning point in his transition from the political left to the political right. just a few months after the election i wrote the reagan doctrine. reporter: it was a time magazine column. it was provocative. for a while krauthammer praised reagan on a number of foreign policy issues. he was now crediting him with a breakthrough insight that changed the calculus of the cold war. i realized what reagan had done without a grand master plan was to channel what at the time was called the breshnev doctrine that when we take over a country, that s ours. reagan said, no, you don t get to keep it. we re going to challenge your
that s the only president s election where i left the line blank. if i had been the swing vote i would have had to vote for reagan sthrks it was a turning point in his transition from the political left to the political right. just a few months after the election i wrote the reagan doctrine. reporter: it was a time magazine column. it was provocative. for a while krauthammer praised reagan on a number of foreign policy issues. he was now crediting him with a breakthrough insight that changed the calculus of the cold war. i realized what reagan had done without a grand master plan was to channel what at the time was called the breshnev doctrine that when we take over a country, that s ours. reagan said, no, you don t get to keep it. we re going to challenge your