The Reagan Lecture

Ronald Reagan was President during a pivotal period in the history of our country, and of our world. But unlike most Presidents who face great crises, Ronald Reagan, in some sense, chose his moment ... That vision and determination with which President Reagan pursued these goals sometimes roiled public opinion at the time. It certainly roiled the foreign policy establishment. And I know that because I came from the foreign policy establishment. As an arms control and Soviet specialist just getting started, I remember those debates well. And I sometimes participated in them. I remember one particular one ... Read on. (The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, 26 February 2004)