The Russian people were just like us. They were victims of their own government. Ronald Reagan
Shared history was the coin of the realm.
Anecdotes came with his DNA.
The author deduces the best way James Baker serve Reagan as Chief of Staff was to continually remind him why he wanted to be president.
In politics there is a large difference between loosing and being defeated.
He'd made a name for himself out there in the world beyond not just in spite of the distinctly unfashionable persona he presented, but, perhaps, BECAUSE of it.
The author attributes part of the Carter-Reagan divide to their respective attitudes toward the city from which they governed. Carter was deeply suspicious of its coziness. Reagan intended to enjoy his temporary home even while delivering it from its reigning ideology.
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