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To: ArchAngel1983

Agree. And I always remember this tidbit when thinking about Colin Powell:

“...President Ronald Reagan stood at the Brandenburg Gate in the divided city of Berlin and urged Mikhail Gorbachev, general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, to “tear down this wall!”
At the time, several members of the President’s staff opposed the remark... Advisor Colin Powell agreed, declaring it was “unpresidential.” Reagan ended the debate by saying, “I think we’ll leave it in.”

http://www.personalliberty.com/this-week-in-history/tear-down-this-wall/


35 posted on 01/23/2011 10:46:17 AM PST by Qbert ("I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air" - Margaret Thatcher)
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To: Qbert
President Ronald Reagan

America has stopped making a lot of things, including leaders. No, we don't make 'em like him anymore

36 posted on 01/23/2011 12:13:38 PM PST by ArchAngel1983 (Arch Angel- on guard / Still Think You're Free?)
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