he did not say this wall is none of our business, he said president's regan's famous exhortation to thesoviet leader to tear down that wall. is it time for president obama to step up and say something parallel to that? guest: i have heard that and i heard some other political comparisons to the uprising in poland, which was rolling the ball toward communism and such. i think one thing that mr. panse and others like him need to bring into this discussion is, you know, the climate of the time. you know, when we talk about the gidans uprising the ship yard unions in 1982, we should go back and remember the spring of the '60's and the uprising in budapest, hungary, 1960's. the united states stood up and supported those protesting. the outcome was the soviet union tax rolling into town. what allowed for the movement to flourish and become this big gigantic movement that led to the fall of communism was the climate of the moment. the other important thing, also is yes, mr. reagan did say that. he did call for ending the evil empires. but at the same time, we were engaged with the soviet union

is also quoted in this book, "regan's secret war".and he says in 1963 in a speech, the only sure way to avoid war is to surrender without fighting. the other way is based on the belief that in an all-out race our system is stronger and eventually the enemy gives up the race as a hopeless cause. and then a noble mission for leaving in peace extends a hand it to friendship and says there is room in the world for both of us. no i then that in 1963 is transit to what happened and what he accomplished. the had the vision of how the world might be way back before he even ran for governor of our president -- governor or president and so i think that is an interesting thing to understand that he was a strategist. these documents have been truly a great resource in addition to his letters and his speeches and his own diary. and as we put them together in this book, we realize that he is the only person who knows. not only what he is saying to the public was not everybody is hearing, and communications with the press are outside of his formal p