Almost like a red cape in front of a ball with. Absolutely. I look back at Reagan, right? And he was the right person for the right time. When Ronald Reagan took office in 1980, the idea, the notion that the Soviet Union would collapse and disappear, people thought was, that's just not possible. I mean, we have to figure out how to coexist and accept it, because Soviet Union's not going anywhere. (32:21–32:30)
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Asserts that the collapse of the Soviet Union was considered impossible when Reagan became president.
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