This is how hollywood rewrites history, with credit for the fall of the Soviet Union shared between Gorbachev and a Democrat congressman. Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II are much more responsible for the fall of the USSR than Gorbachev and a democrat from Houston. Be sure to tell the children this, because they will not get this info from school or hollywood.
Dramas aren’t supposed to be slavishly faithful to historical fact. Never have been. Never will be.
Mercury Rising starred Willis and Baldwin.