How Reagan Administration Ended the Cold War

Analyze the most destructive false of President Ronald Reagan’s era.

In 1983, Democratic Congresswoman Pat Schroeder described Reagan’s presidency as “Teflon-coated” because scandals surrounding his presidency seemed to have no effect on his individual popularity. Is this a valid assessment of Reagan and his presidency? Should Reagan (or the policies of any past presidents) be credited with the collapse of world communism, or was the end of the Cold War more a result of internal developments within the Soviet Union and the nations it dominated?