In the 1950s, school children were taught how to crouch under their desks during air raid drills. The Lib-Left of the day ridiculed the drills as Cold War paranoia.
Who knew back then that celebrities would pre-fund $3.5 million for a soft landing to the Gorbachev Foundation for a move into a new, white shingled bay-front house at the historic Presidio overlooking San Francisco’s Golden Bridge? From his scenic, paid-for digs former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev began systematically dismantling America’s military bases.
