Henry W. Grady, a newspaper editor in Atlanta, Georgia, coined the phrase the New South in 1874. He urged the South to abandon its longstanding agrarian economy for a modern economy grounded in factories, mines, and mills.
In June 1987, Reagan challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down" the Berlin wall. two years later, the wall came down, then the enslaved nations of the Soviet empire gradually broke free, and the Soviet union collapsed.
