Truth will out!... Someday?

What will history really say about Ron Reagan? That he dumped the legacy of Lincoln and brought the Dixie-crats over by making crypto-racism a plank in the Republican platform? That he dumped the Trust-busting legacy of Teddy Roosevelt and made crony-capitalism a Republican goal?

Gorby certainly doesn't think Ronnie won the cold-war.

[It's nice to see that some editors have found their guts. Note that this article is in the "Politics > Special Reports > Ronald Reagan 1911-2004" section. ]
Gorbachev: 'We All Lost Cold War'

By Robert G. Kaiser
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 11, 2004; Page A01
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...The changes he wrought in the Soviet Union, from ending much of the official censorship to sweeping political and economic reforms, were undertaken not because of any foreign pressure or concern, Gorbachev said, but because Russia was dying under the weight of the Stalinist system. "The country was being stifled by the lack of freedom," he said. "We were increasingly behind the West, which . . . was achieving a new technological era, a new kind of productivity. . . . And I was ashamed for my country -- perhaps the country with the richest resources on Earth, and we couldn't provide toothpaste for our people." ...