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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 5775443" data-attributes="member: 54375">After years of railing against SALT, Reagan announced in 1982 that the U.S. would voluntarily observe the SALT II limits on strategic arms. He also continued to seek behind-the-scenes contact with the Soviet leadership, often in defiance of his closest allies, aghast at his secret pacifist streak. Reagan’s U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, for example, grumbled after the president’s reelection in 1984 that “the second Reagan administration threatens to be more Carter-like than the first.” In 1985, The Wall Street Journal labeled the president (in response to a hostage crisis in the Middle East) “Jimmy Reagan.”</blockquote>