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Reagan’s Negotiation with ‘The Evil Empire’

Reagan’s Negotiation with ‘The Evil Empire’

In Reagan’s March 8, 1983 speech before the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, he refereed to the U.S.S.R as the ‘evil empire.’ He castigated the nuclear power ambitions of the Soviet Union. He also justified the NATO deployment of nuclear-tipped missiles in Western Europe as response to the Soviet deployment of its [...]