he said cat weinberger is accusing george shultz and they are screaming and yelling. reagan was sitting there smiling, looking over powell's shoulder wipeout was talking. so the general said he had to lean in more and he said mr. president, we cannot have the leaders, on and on. reagan finally stopped him and went like this, colin powell told me he stopped immediately because the president does this you stop talking. he said, hey colin. i put some acorns out in the garden last weekend looks like the squirrels are starting to pick them up. [laughter] >> and general powell said there and he turned to me and he said i immediately ran out of the room, picked up the phone, called my wife and said what have i gotten myself into? [laughter] >> what he figured out and what so many other people figured out about reagan was that, you know what, the screaming and yelling and the accusation, that was just a sidebar. in the end for reagan, he believed it was about giving his policies enacted in that respect he was not going to get engaged in sort of the nasty back and forth. i thi

george shultz and military -- i milt perry and others, we have a staff that is in touch with these different efforts. we want to be fully collaborative. i want to emphasize, we don't believe that we have all the answers, but what we are trying to to do in a kind of unique way, is provide a long-term plan, a long-term concept, end to end solution, looking at global zero. if other people's work and analysis and political insights can aid in that process, we welcome that

iowa's george shultz's reihan person and these numbers are big numbers back then, at least we thought they were. i wrote my mom and told my mom and a number that is 49 million or less we barone's to zero. [laughter] 100 million was .1. which gives you a flavor. know what is that? bill safire back then have the greatest phrase. he called it may go numbers which he spelled mego which he claims stood four, my eyes glaze over. i want to make sure that steve and peter both mention this but let me mention it seriously. it is not about personalities, not about people. it is not about any of that stuff. it is very political but it is not partisan what we do. we all love bill clinton has the president. i voted for him twice and i want you to understand that i thought he was a disgusting person but i thought he was a great president. mike was that the had been elected he still probably would have been a disgusting for some but we would have lost all the benefits of its leadership of president of the united states. i mean that seriously. especially in this administration, this man, barack obama

and then he writes in his diary, i am going to go with george on this one or i'm going to go with shultz, weinberger or so-and-so has a good idea. he also talked to richard nixon. ..