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970 points homarp | 1 comments | 30 Aug 22 20:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.216s | source

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I was taught that Ronald Reagan ended the cold war and gave us the longest lasting economic boom.

1. sbaiddn ◴[31 Aug 22 03:56 UTC] No.32658202[source]▶

Reagan did a lot of things wrong, but he understood one thing better than anyone in DC - nuclear war cannot be won.

With this conviction he was able to defuse tensions. He was a great, if flawed, president (and as a Latino, Im on the receiving end of his mistakes)

Mikhail Gorbachev has died