Reagan

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You would be good to. With the old guard gone, the smartest people in the room are me and a slightly effeminate Parisian.

I beg to differ, but whatever. I will give you that every president does commit borderline crimes in some way and that many (not all) of Reagan's foreign policy had been implemented in some way since the 1940s. However, he was not what America needed. You are the best example of someone who has been force fed a big lie so many times you believe it. Now you are just regurgitating phrases from the PR machine. Reagan did nothing. Absolutely nothing. He talked big, but every single president from Truman to Bush Sr. talked big about beating the USSR. The man who ended the Cold War was Gorbachev plain and simple, the USSR was doomed anyway since the economy and their momentum were broken in Afghanistan and a centrally planned economy isn't feasible at all any way.

1. The USSR economic model was flawed from the beginning.
2. Charlie Wilson exacerbated it by funding the Mujahideen in Afghanistan.
3. Gorbachev took advantage of the now broken economy by implementing political and economic reforms which broke apart the Soviet Union.

No Reagan at all in that sequence. This is why I am saying he is not terrible but below average. He did not end the Cold War, and the US foreign policy under his administration was a continuation of decades past even up to today. However he still implemented a failed economic model (Reaganomics) and created the debt problem we find ourselves in by adding billions upon billions dollars to it with embarrassing "show off" programs like Star Wars.

EDIT: Like it or not, the President that contributed the most towards winning the Cold War was Nixon with his policy of detente and brilliant pitting of Communist China against Communist USSR, breaking up a powerful alliance.