04-08-2013, 02:31 PM
While I'm no fan of her economic policies (which have been followed by all of her successors and of course we know where she found her inspiration, in part...) she was instrumental in her encouragement to Pres. Reagan that he reach out to Gorbachev before and during the fall of the Soviet Union and she was convinced that east and west could work together as partners and end the Cold War - she was right about that.