During President Reagan's first term, we watched massive protests from something called "the nuclear freeze movement." As I recall, they wanted to freeze U.S. nuclear weapons numbers and then hoped the USSR would do the same. It was really an attack on President Reagan's decision to rebuild U.S. defenses and place missiles in Europe. Similar to today, President Reagan faced domestic and international protests, as we see in this article from 1983: More recently Mr. Reagan and his aides became concerned with the movement's increased force in Congress, and among Americans and Western Europeans. Today, for example, Mr. Reagan said the United States had ''not been the best in years past at matching our adverseries' propoganda'' on the freeze and other issues. ... He referred at one point to the demonstrations expected in Europe this weekend against the planned deployment of the first of 572 American medium-range missiles...(Read Full Post)