Narrator: The little boy who could not form attachments simply let his old friends go. Reagan (archival): It is time for us to realize that we are too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams. He said, "Why you are repeating the same and the same thing to me? This great, gleaming, black Zil comes whispering around the corner on the gravel, crunches to a halt. "This presidency is over," columnist Charles Krauthammer wrote. We begin bombing in five minutes. But it heightened Reagan's concern for seven other Americans held hostage in Beirut. He was known to have a rich imagination. But I think he regarded it as an interim step in the progression he was making toward his real goal, which was the elimination of totalitarianism from the surface of the earth. It was time to improve relations with Iran by courting moderates who might succeed the Ayatollah Khomeini. Lyn Nofziger, Press Secretary: We were down at the University of California campus, in Santa Barbara and all of the students were all mad at him. Narrator: When the police failed to break the strike, Reagan sent in the California Highway Patrol. They hadn't been from California. We started building fences. After eight years on the GE circuit Reagan emerged as a recognized conservative spokesman. Alexander Bessmertnykh, Foreign Ministry USSR: There was a time out asked by the American side. Shooting Star The model was presented to President Ronald Reagan in May 1996. Reagan (archival): Thank you. And we had this discussion, and the consensus was, certainly you have to... you have to quit. Robert Dallek, Historian: This was the rhetoric of the 1950s that you cannot have compromise with evil. People were getting worried. Nancy Reagan: When I got there, everybody's still telling me, "He hasn't been shot, he hasn't been hit." He hated what he saw. Edmund Morris, Official Biographer: He happened to read a novel which his mother had picked up somewhere called That Printer of Udell's. He said, "I think you should." Reagan (archival): A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. ". He wanted to see the Wall come down. On the other hand, we paid a terrible price for that, and we are continuing to pay it, and our children are going to pay it, because we ran up budget deficits cumulatively larger than everything from the beginning of this country to that date which makes the ability of the national government in this country to govern very limited. Somebody goofed. Ronald Prescott Reagan, Son: The fact that it was this horse. You are all asking the same question and you are all gonna get the same answer. Reagan also called for a 30 percent tax cut across the board. He showed me a Politburo paper informing us that the United States have plans all prepared and in place for first strike against the Soviet Union with first priority to destroying all command center and structures of the country. And he would go out, you know, for hours at a time. Narrator: Gorbachev, Secretary Shultz wrote, laid "gifts at our feet." One of his greatest assets was the trust of the public. Narrator: With Nancy as his partner, Reagan resumed his life. Tonight we pledge ourselves to each other and to the cause of human freedom, the cause that has given light to this land and hope to the world. And he pointed. That was the culmination of the quintessence of all his speeches honed on the GE circuit. Narrator: The Soviets sought to exploit legitimate European anxieties of a nuclear war fought on the soil of Europe, already bristling with nuclear weapons on both sides. Narrator: To ease the tension, Reagan suggested they talk in private. He just couldn't. 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