re: #87 The Ghost of a Flea

The Cold War and the sense of America as a true superpower throwing its weight around the world, governed by an actor doing a sweet-but-stern dad role as our Leader/Surrogate Father.

Yep.
Remember those ABC special reports about MAD and Star Wars (not the good one)?
Reagan would save us from those evil commies, and the Japanese. And Arabs, and Crack.