Recent Examples on the WebPottinger and Gallagher’s nostalgia for the Cold War and their call for a new generation of cold warriors could be issued only by those who have no memory of how dangerous that war often was.—Rush Doshi, Foreign Affairs, 30 May 2024 Not with his heritage as a cold warrior.—David M. Shribman, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2021 Serving as premier from 1979 to 1990, when she was forced to resign by her own government, Thatcher was a strident cold warrior and a supporter of free markets, and especially close to President Ronald Reagan.—Patrick Smith, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2022 And this first encounter of a lifelong cold warrior and a vigorous business like Russian drew the world's attention.—Fox News, 10 June 2018 But the right, once rife with cold warriors, complained about the move (on Twitter), since the #TwitterLockout appeared to mostly affect the accounts of conservatives.—Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2018 In 1972, when China was desperately poor and largely insular, President Richard Nixon, a staunch cold warrior, traveled to Beijing for historic meetings with Mao Zedong, the father of the Communist revolution there.—Bill Powell, Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2017
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