No, he didn’t give up with the Soviets. He also did a lot of non-conservative things like selling them grain, deliberately running deficits to speed up the arms race, making treaties that treated them like equals (supposedly), ran a lot of quite questionable covert operations with the help of a lot of very bad people, and etc. and etc.
He also was very chummy with Tip O’Neill outside the limelight, and worked hand-in-glove with the Democrats to keep the world on an even keel.
36 is still a youth these days.
“No, he didn’t give up with the Soviets. He also did a lot of non-conservative things like selling them grain, deliberately running deficits to speed up the arms race, making treaties that treated them like equals (supposedly), ran a lot of quite questionable covert operations with the help of a lot of very bad people, and etc. and etc.”
None of those are necessarily “non-conservative”. Defense is one of the FEW purposes for the Federal government. Education is not one of those purposes.
“36 is still a youth these days.”
Yep. I’m going to be stuck paying for social security for the rest of my career, yet won’t see a dime. Thanks for adding paying for Medicare Part D to that, by the way. All while my elders sell out our country for a mess of potage.
Age does not beget wisdom.