President Reagan’s courage as a leader, skill as a diplomat, and his willingness to confront communism around the world played a major role in ending the domination of the Soviet Union. He developed and applied with constant purpose a strategy not simply to contain communism, but to end it, and he achieved this goal across much of the globe. Ronald Reagan entered the White House determined to restore the strength of the U.S. military. He insisted on military might not for its own sake, but to discourage threats to American interests, defend freedom around the world, and bring the Soviet Union to the bargaining table. So in January 1983, 40 years ago this month, he faced the press, holding a news conference to clarify his position on Strategic Arms Reduction. In this podcast, we’ll focus on his resolve to clearly define, in his words, what his intentions were. To provide context, the leader of the Soviet Union at the time was Yuri Andropov…Gorbachev would not enter the scene for over two years. Also, this News Conference preceded his Evil Empire Speech AND his speech on SDI – his Strategic Defense Initiative – by two months.
Words To Live By – Pointe du Hoc
A Reagan Forum – Memorial Day 2024
Words To Live By – Eulogies in Honor of President Reagan
A Reagan Forum – Ed O'Keefe
Words To Live By – The Olympic Torch
A Reagan Forum – Anita McBride, Diana Carlin, and Nancy Kegan Smith
Words To Live By – Central America
A Reagan Forum – GOP Foreign Policy
Words To Live By – Truman and Reagan
A Reagan Forum – AI, Autonomy, and Defense
Words To Live By – The United Nations
A Reagan Forum – Behind the Scenes at the Reagan Library
Words To Live By – Star Wars and SDI
A Reagan Forum – The Honorable Kathleen Hicks
Words To Live By – The Dominican Republic
A Reagan Forum – Active vs. Activist Citizenship
Words To Live By – Basketball at the White House
A Reagan Forum – The Best of President Reagan's Humor
Words To Live By – Trip to China
Words To Live By – Denouncing Anti-Semitism
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