"'In the end, we stopped the Communists cold,' Reagan later said. It was a brag, but few those days would have argued with his right to it.
And I would add, simply, that it was in this drama that Reagan's character was fully revealed. In a time of malice he was not malicious; in a time of lies he did not falsify; in a time of great pressure he didn't bend or break; in a time of disingenuousness he was clear and candid about where he stood and why. And in a time when people just gave up after a while and changed the subject, he remained on the field through all the long haul."
— Peggy Noonan, When Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan (2001)
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