For over 40 years, the United States organized a massive effort to contain an expansive totalitarian

communist government, the Soviet Union. Throughout that time, the world lived under the

specter of nuclear annihilation. But by the end of the 1980s, the world was changing in profound and unexpected ways.

The Soviet Union did not seem to be the same menacing presence it once was.

Its leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, was opening up Soviet society, introducing new freedoms

never known in that country.

Soviet nations in Eastern Europe began asserting their independence.

In China, a growing number of students began demanding a greater respect for their rights.

Many in the West looked around the world with a sense of optimism not known since the end of World War II.

It was in this setting that George

H.W. Bush took the oath of office as the 41st President of the United States. In this speech,

his inaugural address, notice how he articulates his hopes for a new world, one in which freedom

would flourish and tyranny would be a thing of the past.

Some may view Bush's words as signs of naivete, especially when we think of the persistence of

tyranny well past his presidency. While this may be a valid claim, Bush's optimism is a window

into the monumental changes that were occurring as

the 1980s came to a close. Although George Bush was not known for his rhetorical excellence,

he was able to convey a hopeful vision for a world where peace and freedom reigned.

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