What can happen when a First Lady is really looking out for the country.
Via Fox News:
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot. But that victory might never have ever happened without Nancy Reagan.
Throughout Reagan’s first term, he was adamant about one thing. He did not want to just coexist with the USSR, as had all of his predecessors, but to defeat it. He said on many occasions that his plan for the Soviet Union was simple, “We Win, They Lose”. He called the Soviet Union an “evil empire.” Critics seized on those remarks to say, “Ah-ha, Reagan is a war monger. He wants war with the Soviet Union.”
But that was the furthest thing from his mind. Reagan wanted to us to win the Cold War, but not on the battlefield. He wanted to win it through economic pressure and diplomacy. But when he took office in January 1981 those goals were so ambitious they were laughable. So Reagan’s first term was devoted to fixing the U.S. economy, rebuilding our military, and restoring relations with our allies.