Ronald Reagan vs. The Evil Empire (Part 4)

By the mid-1980s, Ronald Reagan was riding high. The economy had
bounced back, and his “Morning in America” message carried him to a
landslide re-election. But behind the optimism, crises brewed. At
home, the AIDS epidemic spread while the White House stayed silent.
Abroad, Reagan’s “evil empire” speech, nuclear near-misses, and the
launch of his “Star Wars” missile defense plan pushed the Cold War
to its most dangerous point in decades. Then came a new face in
Moscow, Mikhail Gorbachev, and the first real chance to imagine a
world without nuclear weapons. Was Reagan’s success during these
years a triumph of vision, or of image? In this episode, join Katty
Kay and Anthony Scaramucci as they explore the highs, the crises,
and the contradictions that defined the most pivotal stretch of his
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