So, Republicans weren’t “tough” against the Soviets in this regard, they were just anti-Carter.https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...65b-b593-95b9943ca44e/?utm_term=.ae1a8ba01e35
Senate Votes to End Grain Embargo [but from article, House is unlikely to go along]
Washington Post, Sept. 27, 1980
‘ . . . prompting farm state Democrats to join with most Republicans in voting to end the embargo . . . ’
Per many other sources, Reagan himself spoke against the embargo, but then seemed to have doubts. He didn’t take steps to end the embargo till April 1981.
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