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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (55089)	5/31/2009 4:00:44 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

I see no evidence there was much push on Gorbachev from the Russian masses. Gorbachev did want to reform Communism so it would be stronger, more economically successful. That reform effort was known as glasnost, later known as perestroika. And he did respond to a combination of pressure and cajoling from Reagan. I saw a CSpan program recently where an author was discussing a recent work that showed that Reagan, in addition to putting pressure on Russia from SDI, missiles in Europe, rhetorical challenged, was also writing each Russian leader - Brezhnev, Andropov, Gorbachev - and inviting them to peace and arms control talks. His letters were written by hand to underscore his personal interest. The carrot and the stick. gwu.edu time.com books.google.com While recuperating from an assassination attempt in 1981, President Reagan wrote a heartfelt four-page letter to Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, asking if they could work together to reduce the tensions between their nations, according to a new book about Reagan's letters. The book, produced with the cooperation of Nancy Reagan and excerpted in Time magazine, suggests Reagan was more involved in the day-to-day responsibilities of the presidency than some of his critics and former aides have suggested. The Reagan in the letters seems a modest, plainspoken man driven by idealism. .. highbeam.com -------------- Who tore down the wall? history.ucsb.edu