S1E1: Not All Fun and WarGames
SNAFU with Ed Helms
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The Reagan Reversal
Beth Fisher is an historian and author of a book called The Reagan Reversal where she writes about a drastic shift in Ronald Reagan's attitude towards the Soviet Union. Beth says that Reagan's speeches were pretty consistent from 1981 to about October 31st 1983 just before Abel Archer. In his first major speech on January 16th 1984 he said: "There's no reason why we ever should let us begin now"
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