>Throughout the 70's we had Breznev (sp) in the Kremlin who was about as scary as you could get (he could get drunk, forget who he was, and hit the ATTACK US button thinking it was the doorbell, and he had plenty of military strength to make the US a sea of glass.
That was the image many had of Reagan too. Heck there was even a music video from Genesis about that, him (a puppet) waking up and pressing the wrong button.
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