Evil Empire, 40 Years Ago

Published: March 21, 2023, 7 a.m.

Let\u2019s look back some 40 years ago when President Reagan spoke to a convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in\xa0Florida\xa0on March 8, 1983. In that historic speech, he publicly referred to the\xa0Soviet Union\xa0as an evil empire\u2026actually, for the second time in his career. Do you recall the first time he used the phrase?\xa0Answer: the word \u201cevil\u201d in relation to the Soviet Union was first used in a 1982 speech at the British House of Commons.