Those of you who said Reagan should re-consider.
Reagan had an 8 year career as president... and yes... he like every other president took misteps... the most famous was the Iran Contra scandal.
HOWEVER, he also accomplished more than any other statesman in the last 50 years on this entire planet. he was obsessively against the 'evil empire' and he therefore took aggressive offensive measures that NO OTHER individual would've dare taken. Everything he did in the first few years seemed like political suicide.. but he didnt care... All he wanted was to do was win the cold war.
Gorbachev has admited on several occasions that it was Reagans policies that bankrupted the USSR. He put them in an arms race they couldn't win, and when all US intelligence pointed to the USSR's economy about to collapse, he pulled out the SDI, which frightened Gorbachav to the point that he offered to completely end his countrys nuke program as long as Reagan end the SDI. But he resisted, and the USSR fell into complete economic and political chaos.
Unfortunately... since the end of his career... all of our politicians have been worthless do-nothing traitors. And Im only hoping that in the next few decades, another Reagan comes around to clean up the mess that the world has gotten itself into.
Brian