now the new york times, no surprise, was scoring the westminister speech and an appeal to flower power and said that curiously missing from this plan was any formula to to. 2 to 4 using western economic strength to bring about and promote victory. the. the eureka and westminister speeches prepared the way for perhaps his most consequential public policy address the evil empire speech. speaking an audience of evangelical ministers in march of 1983 march eight, as a matter of fact, exactly 40 years ago today, reagan described the cold war not as a strategic or economic or political conflict, but as a war between good and evil, between those who placed at the center of their existence, and those who believed in a transcendent order enjoined the ministers to pray for the soviets. but men. snow words when referring to their to come in ize the world. let us pray, he said, for the salvation of all those who live in that totalitarian in darkness. pray they will discover the joy of knowing god. but until they do let us be aware that while they preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omni