No so much gave away, as happened to be in the White House when a couple of decades of CIA and oil company mechinations to keep a western puppet in charge in Iran finally came apart.
Who happened to be in while House when seventy years of economic incompetence finally caught up with the Russian communist party.
Regan had the acting skills to look like a president. The people who wrote his scripts gave his tolerably good lines, but they didn't doo too well at running the country.
Coincidence doesn't necessarily imply causation.
-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen