I don't recall Rippa sayin' anything about Reagan "single handly taken down the Soviets", he simply said "Defeat the Soviets" which is true. He accomplished what 7 other presidents before him could not, stopped and reversed the tide of Communism. There were 3 legs in the "US PLAN" to maintain pressure on the Soviet Union. 1) Support the freedom fighters of Afganistan 2) Support the solidarity in Poland 3) SDI, the Soviets were convinced that we could field a strategic defense and made large scale resource shifts to the military industrial sector to remain competitive in that arena. All of which were costing them billions of dollars. Reagan was the visionary, hence "US PLAN", none of that shit could've happen without us. As far as him being the greatest president, not sure, but I know he's responsible for the fall of the Soviet Union.