"If not for the accomplishments of Reagan's foreign policy in forcing the end of the Cold War....."
Your post started me wondering .... what if Reagan had not won the Cold War and the arms race had continued throughout the 90s ..... I wonder if the exceptional economic expansion that President Clinton took credit for would have materialized to the extent that it did.
My theory is that all of the prosperity we've enjoyed from the mid-80s through the present is in one way or another connected to Reagan's tax cuts AND the end of the Cold War.