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had been open for only a brief amount of time in the 1990's, were closed down in the sort of mid-yeltsin years, and have now been opened back up. i certainly made use of some of that in this book. i'm working in those materials now for another project. so, where that led me was, indeed -- i want to talk about the reversal and then i want to talk about imf, which i think is the other thing mary has charged me with. the reagan reversal story makes a lot of sense, right? because if we focus, as a lot of the key works which put forward this argument did, if we focus on the public elements of this, that's absolutely what you see. you get evil empire speech, mid-1983. late-1982, you have the westminster speech. communism, history. there's a lot of harsh rhetoric. and then it really does change quickly. where i sort of deal with the reagan reversal thesis is by saying, ok, what else is going on here, what else is actually happening under the hood, if you will, of american policy. that's where, to me, the picture becomes a lot more complicated. on the one hand, some of the catalysts that have be

from the clinton presidential library, most notably transcripts of conversations between clinton and yeltsin. i'm finishing a book manuscript are need expansion -- manuscript on nato expansion. it's great to have simon's book. wonderful to see documentation of this dual track approach, this idea that there was no reagan reversal, because obviously that's a persistent theme, that there was some this complete about-face by president reagan between the first and second term. i will be interested to hear more about that. i was particularly interested to read where you wrote there was no reagan reversal because i know ambassador matlock, and he has consistently said that, and it's good to see it. i have only the highest regard for ambassador matlock, and it's good to see it confirmed independently by scholars. it's important that the history of these events be written, not just by participants, but also by historians. ahn gaddis has written, participant in events doesn't necessarily have the best you, because your perceptions extend no farther than your own senses. you are down on the ground leve

occasions and his power is waning and then to see the burgeoning perhaps of the democratic -- under yeltsin of the soviet union and then the very important role that he understands about nuclear weapons and who has control of the nuclear weapons during the coup in which torbert chopped is -- for a few days. these are important questions because he's working at three different levels. babe -- being able to begin that dialogue. in my estimation and he may press on this but i would suggest there was a sense of trying to get this done and it's often difficult at that time when the national defense authorization act is ready to be finalized. but i think there's also recognition that he works across lines and senator lugar is an internationalist. they knew each other but i think what's really trying is how nunn lugar puts together convergence of other republicans and democrats others who are also convinced that senator nunn intelligence community and others that the soviet union is starting to unravel. there's concerned about dealing with this issue now. i think what we see in that is the way to

declassified from the clinton presidential library, most notably, conversations between clinton and yeltsin. whenwriting about you u.n. expansion. it is great to have documentation of this dual track approach, this idea that there was no reagan reversal, there was no complete about-face between the first and second term. i was particularly interested to read that there was no reagan reversal because matlock has always consistently said that and it is -- i only have the highest regard for matlock ended is good to see it confirmed is goodently -- and it to see it confirmed independently by scholars. . gaddis has written, a participant in events does not necessarily have the best of you because your perceptions extend no further than your own senses. a participant is by definition artist painting. you're surrounded by people. you do not have perspective -- .s by definition participating you are surrounded by people. do not have perspective. at a distant height, you lose detail but you have perspective. both good to have perspectives. want to zero in on because it is of interest to me -- at one

and one who died in 1983 under boris yeltsin. they don't have satellites in north korea what if they see a b-52 circling and they say that's it. my fear is having a safe nuclear arsenal is so difficult, and i say if, if we don't denuclearize them and it has been a core goal of all administrations, but if we don't denuclearize them, if we live in a world with north korean nuclear weapons, how do we keep them safe. that's the key thing. deterrents is part of it, i get it. they will go if they make us do it, i get that, but what about the accident where a missile can launch and blow up in a plane? crazily, do we try to help, if they have them, i don't think they'll let us help. i don't think that they'll let the chinese help. but if our kids are going to live under a shadow to some degree, it's a provocative chapter, but the cold war history how it's hard to keep them safe and we've done a great job with incredible work at it, but none of us know in the north koreans would do the same. i'll go to mike gallagher for pa minute and the

. >> both president clinton and president yeltsin proposed that chernomyrdin and i co-chair a binationalandpoint of the united states had the purpose of organizing everything we could possibly do to help them make a transition in the post-soviet union era to an open democracy, what we hoped would be the new russia now. the history since then has taken russia under vladimir putin back to more of an authoritarian, neostalinist kind of nation. >> harry s. truman, president of the united states. distinguished senator from the state of missouri for ten years, and vice president since the last national election, mr. truman brings to his new high office an understanding of the gigantic american war effort, second only to that of the late president roosevelt. >> a short time ago, an american airplane dropped one bomb on hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy. that bomb has more power than 20,000 tons of tnt. >> i remember being very surprised upon learning that vice president truman did not even know about the manhattan project and the building of the first two atomic bombs when he

secretary of state blinken, supervised the transition and the american relationship with russia between yeltsinew >> mike mcfaul, your turn. is this where putin's domination over russia finally comes to an end? >> we all know the great stories, two of them, fantastic stories of poland and the czechoslovakia. mandela, gandhi. we can think of those. we forget about the failed ones. anybody rather ganghi. in prison in iran. we called him the lew walensa of that movement. we're not good at predicting these things. neither is the cia, i can tell you. having said that, i think this is an inflection point. it is a break through in that it's a national movement. it is about corruption. putin does not have a way to regain his legitimacy. i don't know how it ends, but it is a pretty important turning point. >> ed, jump in. >> as both you know, a lot of the protesters are yelling putin is a thief. and there are rumors he built a luxury palace on the black sea at one of many residences he's alleged to have on ill-gotten gains. the estimates of what those gains are runs into the billions. one of the things