[Leica] Remembering the Reagan years

[s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)]

It was a war never meant to be ended. But then how could RWR know that!
S. Dimitrov


> From: GREG LORENZO <gregj.lorenzo@shaw.ca>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 20:53:57 -0600
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Remembering the Reagan years
> 
> 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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