I don't know what to think about this fellow. He cosied up to Thatcher and Reagan, but he seemed to know where things were going and he embraced that. He knew that the USSR was doomed and he wanted a soft landing. My view is that, as a man of peace who could see that the nuclear arms race was futile, he was good for the world. Of course, once he was out of power the future was out of his hands, and it hasn't gone well. But I think, overall, that I'd rather applaud him than excoriate him.