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metroweekly.comGen X has gotten. No world wars, thankfully, though we did grow up imagining thermonuclear Armageddon as a genuine possibility, if merely accidental.But the Cold War ended.
We were evolving!Some credit Ronald Reagan for ending that chapter. Well, screw that guy. The Soviet Union may have done itself in with or without Ronny.
That’s a topic somebody else can debate. I’d rather talk about his response to South African Apartheid. That foul institution was a huge part of my generation’s 1980s zeitgeist.
We watched as Congress moved to impose sanctions on the South African regime in 1986. Reagan vetoed that effort. A month later, Congress made a second veto-proof effort.
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