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The Cold War - Last Man Standing | 6

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The Importance of Strong Leadership

The botched attempt to rescue the American hostages in March 1980 cost Carter re-election Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan made Carter's supposed weakness a central plank of his campaign for the presidency. Reagan suggested that Carter had squandered American power, exposing the country to new threats. And so Reagan won the 1980 presidential election in a landslide incumbent Jimmy Carter took only five states,. including his home state of Georgia The Cold War might have had a very different ending without it.

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