Well past time to set the record straight on the Carter presidency

[Tarzanrock]

26. Jimmy Carter is the President who won the Cold War.

Jimmy Carter is the President who won the Cold War. Reagan falsely took the credit, but it was Carter's "tough" policies which defeated the Soviet Union. It was President Carter who imposed the hard economic sanctions and the even harder grain embargo on the Soviet Union. It was Carter who imposed the Olympic boycott. It was President Carter who sought and actually implemented the even much sturdier defense posture by stationing medium range nuclear missiles in Europe aimed at the Soviet Union. It was the four years of hard economic sanctions and the Carter Administration's foreign policy of the stationing of the Pershing I and Pershing II class nuclear missiles with the new advanced MIRV warheads [A multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) is an exoatmospheric ballistic missile payload containing several nuclear warheads, each capable of being aimed to hit a different target in the Soviet Union] in Europe which brought Brezhnev and the Russians to the bargaining table which Reagan falsely took the credit. The actual and all too real threat of a first strike nuclear annihilation from European based American Pershing missiles with MIRV nuclear warheads imposed by President Carter which is what won the Cold War and defeated the Soviet Union.