So the president resisted Soviet expansion and pressed down on Soviet weakness at every point until the day came when communism began to collapse beneath the combined weight of those pressures and its own failures. And when a man of good will did emerge from the ruins, President Reagan stepped forward to shake his hand and to offer sincere cooperation.
The function of this paragraph is to emphasize Reagan's (3 points)
authoritarian approach to ending the Cold War
patience and triumph in ending the Cold War
strong desire for cooperation with Russia
underhanded skill in managing the Russian empire
