UK Drug Reform – A May Day Alert
James Graham Wilson’s brilliant history of how Reagan and Gorbachev engaged to end the Cold War, The Triumph of Improvisation, begins with this story.
Late at night Reagan and his campaign manager Lee Atwater were descending into Chicago’s O’Hare Airport near the end of his ultimately triumphant 1980 Presidential campaign. The following exchange took place. (It is worth remembering that Reagan was 69 at the time).
Atwater: “Ron — why exactly are you doing this?”
Reagan: “I want to bring an end to the Cold War.”
Atwater: “How are you going to to that?”
Reagan: “I don’t know, but there has got to be a way.”
Wilson’s book goes on to explore how, in the absence of a grand strategy, and through a combination of prudence, adaptability and innovation, Reagan and Gorbachev created the conditions to bring the Cold War to an end. His conclusion? It was not so much the policy...
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