If you read up on the history of the Cold War, the Berlin Wall, and the collapse of Soviet Russia and the Warsaw Pact, you will find the man who led the nation to that great moment.
Where one man, with one speech, ended the Cold War.
Thank you for the suggestions and I will certainly do that. It’s interesting this subject is coming up because I recently finished up reading Glenn Beck’s Arguing with Idiots and in the Presidents chapter, he had Polk rated very high as President and didn’t know why, so I did end up doing a little research and enjoyed what I found.
When I got older, I realized that Polk had much more significance to our history but still couldn’t tell you anything about him. I have to say, as a subject of the public school system, we learned very little (if anything) about him. In fact, if you asked many people my age who dealt with the same education, many wouldn’t even be able to tell you he was once a President.