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gorbachev, tear down this wall. some people seek a causal relationship between reagan's speech in june 1987 and the fall of the wall in november 1989. i don't myself see the subtle. gorbachev at the time said to his aides that reagan was still after eight years not managed to throw off his former profession. he saw this as a piece of acting in berlin and didn't take it especially seriously. i think james mann in his book which i read was interested about ronald reagan was right in saying that reagan's speech was aimed more at his domestic audience and the soviet union. because reagan was under a lot of pressure in 1987. indeed not only did conservative republicans the people who regarded themselves as real as. they were all very critical of reagan's apparent willingness to trust gorbachev, even though his willingness to sign the imf agreement banishing intermediate nuclear missiles in europe. the former american massacre to moscow, and acts of ambassador italy 1987 and 1991, remarked in his book, how the cold war en
gorbachev, tear down this wall. some people seek a causal relationship between reagan's speech in june 1987 and the fall of the wall in november 1989. i don't myself see the subtle. gorbachev at the time said to his aides that reagan was still after eight years not managed to throw off his former profession. he saw this as a piece of acting in berlin and didn't take it especially seriously. i think james mann in his book which i read was interested about ronald reagan was right in saying that...
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it was and gorbachev -- it was sent gorbachev. and i actually, once i had an opportunity to have a brief conversation with george shultz, reagan's secretary of state and put this theory. he completely agreed. he agreed that it was gorbachev overvaluing star wars and not reagan. so, reagan was not responsible for the fall of communism, not by a long shot. but the thing he did do that carter didn't do and that kind of conventional minded people were unwilling to do was precisely what i dismissed at this time when he called the soviet union and evelyn tire. that is he was willing to question the legitimacy of the soviet union. the soviet system which was in fact an illegitimate system. and the sky did not fall. now turned out when freakin' said evil he just meant, he didn't really mean evil. he mends misguided. and he like happy endings. he liked the kind of movie where the villain, the good guy kind of shows that guide, shows him the right way to behave and then the bad guy comes on over to the side of the good guy, and that movie w
it was and gorbachev -- it was sent gorbachev. and i actually, once i had an opportunity to have a brief conversation with george shultz, reagan's secretary of state and put this theory. he completely agreed. he agreed that it was gorbachev overvaluing star wars and not reagan. so, reagan was not responsible for the fall of communism, not by a long shot. but the thing he did do that carter didn't do and that kind of conventional minded people were unwilling to do was precisely what i dismissed...
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gorbachev asked about pushing russia in nato.at was in the realm of fantasy and let's get in the realm of reality. it does come up. it is never taken seriously in the west. baker later says in public that if russia embraces democracy and free markets, we should include it. what comes out in the book on nato expansion is that i concede two of cases for nato expansion but they lead to two different and points. -- two different endpoints. nato helps new democracies. it provides them with security. i find that to be justified. there are calls for people for that to happen. it should have gone further. you could say that nato is a military alliance. in that case, it is expanded. you will take on eastern europe and have new liabilities. the point of an alliance is to create military security for the members. i can see the justification for expanding nato. these have the courage of your convictions and see it all the way through to the end. -- then you should have the courage of your convictions and see at all the way through to the end
gorbachev asked about pushing russia in nato.at was in the realm of fantasy and let's get in the realm of reality. it does come up. it is never taken seriously in the west. baker later says in public that if russia embraces democracy and free markets, we should include it. what comes out in the book on nato expansion is that i concede two of cases for nato expansion but they lead to two different and points. -- two different endpoints. nato helps new democracies. it provides them with security....
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but it might mean that he was a gorbachev in the sense of being a one-time president, if it is perceived that he is the -- that he is to blame for the problems in he did not fix them or that he was the one that said we have got to face up to them and do these are things in the public did not like it. >> i think of the gorbachev phenomenon as someone who did something really good, but his people really hated him for doing them. [laughter] >> were there other questions? >> i was not here yesterday, but we're talking big bucks here. fraud, the last time i remember -- and i may be wrong -- that government tried to investigate was during that jimmy carter's administration when he was investigating the gao, the gsa, what ever it was. i have heard, and please correct me if i am wrong, because it is a frightening number, that our medicare system has fraud in the b, billions of dollars. that would pay for a lot of them are rise. am i correct? -- pay for a law mri -- a lot of mri's. am i correct? and a big hammer investigation, paying $500 for hammers in the military and the sets. what energy and
but it might mean that he was a gorbachev in the sense of being a one-time president, if it is perceived that he is the -- that he is to blame for the problems in he did not fix them or that he was the one that said we have got to face up to them and do these are things in the public did not like it. >> i think of the gorbachev phenomenon as someone who did something really good, but his people really hated him for doing them. [laughter] >> were there other questions? >> i was...
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it's not that they would obey gorbachev.help from the eastern colleagues, it seems that the violence in the headquarters was instigated by the agents themselves and hoped this would happen. if you have soviets shooting the germans, comment germany in this kind has more weapons per square mile and not under its control and it's the potential for a lot of violence and chaos. and then you get the quadra portion authority has what else are you going to do if your bloodshed. you probably wouldn't have 1945 restored. it doesn't happen thanks largely to the east german protest leaders rush this meeting and keep it peaceful. there is a venue by which this happens. the revivalist model, federation seem to be viable because the generation of german leaders believed it might be. it was the idea behind the two states and the german nation. so that seem to me to be a viable alternative. the heroic model never really crystallizes, so it's harder to judge. do you see similar sentiments throughout the him a threat eastern europe and the sov
it's not that they would obey gorbachev.help from the eastern colleagues, it seems that the violence in the headquarters was instigated by the agents themselves and hoped this would happen. if you have soviets shooting the germans, comment germany in this kind has more weapons per square mile and not under its control and it's the potential for a lot of violence and chaos. and then you get the quadra portion authority has what else are you going to do if your bloodshed. you probably wouldn't...
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the people who bring down the wall, end communism, solidarity, eastern protesters, gorbachev, reagan,they didn't shape the post-war. the e.c. is a big part of this. those should be considered as well, the euro is a big part of this story. s if gorbachev had gotten his act together with a number of east european leaders, who are pacifists, who wanted the lesson of world war ii to be that central europe should be permanent nently demilitarized, forever become a neutral zone, not just a neutral germany, but a neutral zone. the only crickcally elected leader was strongly opposed to east germany going into nato. his foreign minister resigned. if they had ever gotten their act together and come up with some coherent alternative that perhaps could have gelled. as they pointed out in a breakfast session, we were aware that there were all these other things involved that would make our life difficult. our job was to keep the pace moving. one of the great virtues of prefab is that it's already there. you don't waste any time on conceptualizing, and this is the last point. people in the east kne
the people who bring down the wall, end communism, solidarity, eastern protesters, gorbachev, reagan,they didn't shape the post-war. the e.c. is a big part of this. those should be considered as well, the euro is a big part of this story. s if gorbachev had gotten his act together with a number of east european leaders, who are pacifists, who wanted the lesson of world war ii to be that central europe should be permanent nently demilitarized, forever become a neutral zone, not just a neutral...
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gorbachev asked about pushing russia in nato.at was in the realm of fantasy and let's get in the realm of reality. it does come up. it is never taken seriously in the west. baker later says in public that if russia embraces democracy and free markets, we should include it. what comes out in the book on nato expansion is that i concede two of cases for nato expansion but they lead to two different and points. -- two different endpoints. nato helps new democracies. it provides them with security. i find that to be justified. there are calls for people for that to happen. it should have gone further. you could say that nato is a military alliance. in that case, it is expanded. you will take on eastern europe and have new liabilities. the point of an alliance is to create military security for the members. i can see the justification for expanding nato. these have the courage of your convictions and see it all the way through to the end. -- then you should have the courage of your convictions and see at all the way through to the end
gorbachev asked about pushing russia in nato.at was in the realm of fantasy and let's get in the realm of reality. it does come up. it is never taken seriously in the west. baker later says in public that if russia embraces democracy and free markets, we should include it. what comes out in the book on nato expansion is that i concede two of cases for nato expansion but they lead to two different and points. -- two different endpoints. nato helps new democracies. it provides them with security....
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a second way of thinking about learning how we're wrong is to use mikhail gorbachev's phrase, life wills. when he was forging ahead from 1985 when he came to power until 1991, he often would -- people would say, how do you know if this is going to work, and he would say, life will teach us. i think that's a profound judgment because we all, hopefully, live long lives and as time goes by we find out whether our predictions, our theories, our strategies carry any weight or not. but i think the most popular method of finding out we're wrong is to have history prove it to us, and then we don't change one thing in our basic fundamental assumptions or beliefs. all you do is redefine the issue. i think many people on the left did that in 1989 and '91, but i think we all do it all the time. that's the plastic dummy with the sand in the bottom part of our consciousness. i think that history or life in gorbachev's sense can show us we're wrong, and even so we continue with our basic assumptions because our world view, our assumptions our constituent to a world view. they embody our life experienc
a second way of thinking about learning how we're wrong is to use mikhail gorbachev's phrase, life wills. when he was forging ahead from 1985 when he came to power until 1991, he often would -- people would say, how do you know if this is going to work, and he would say, life will teach us. i think that's a profound judgment because we all, hopefully, live long lives and as time goes by we find out whether our predictions, our theories, our strategies carry any weight or not. but i think the...
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gorbachev, tear down that wall. >> yeah. it seems to me that the american people now respect only one institution in this country, and that's our military. i mean, they despise the congress and the white house an everybody else, but they revere the military with very good reason. >> that's true. the media -- not congress, the military. but thank god for that because those guys have laid it on the line. they bet their lives on the fact that they can help protect us, keep our rights and so on. >> yes. >> but if i may on the cultural side the biggest shock then and increasing now is this country was founded as one nation under god. one nation indivisible and under god indivisible, and the most revolutionary event in international politics was when we wrote our deck -- declaration of independence with a sort of letter of apology for why we were breaking off with great britain. and one of the key elements there that we are forgetting today, the basis of our whole government, we hold these truths to be self-evident. that all men
gorbachev, tear down that wall. >> yeah. it seems to me that the american people now respect only one institution in this country, and that's our military. i mean, they despise the congress and the white house an everybody else, but they revere the military with very good reason. >> that's true. the media -- not congress, the military. but thank god for that because those guys have laid it on the line. they bet their lives on the fact that they can help protect us, keep our rights...
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a man named gorbachev not a very good answer to your question. it's a tough question. i think we need to subject our own assumptions to examination all the time i don't mean to say the mixed moment. the article in the book is a mixed response. . at some point, it had some potential to succeed. the slow boat. struggling to the team. he changes his mind. the first emersion everywhere but east germany, he realizes he can have a better option it's a massive shift. before then, it's so terrible. once you get this quickening of the teem poe, then you have to do thepre fab. i see the papers beg exchanged. it's hard to offer a differenting opinion i'm trying to look at the alternative patterns and why they would be viable. i try to be very careful we'd be better off asking would we be more free in taking russia to nate owe. i tried limitity to the more specific forecast on that front, if you want to look at apre policy criticism they were not talking about several things. i'm trying to see how unbalanced they seem to be. they look more impressive in hind sooith. that said, man
a man named gorbachev not a very good answer to your question. it's a tough question. i think we need to subject our own assumptions to examination all the time i don't mean to say the mixed moment. the article in the book is a mixed response. . at some point, it had some potential to succeed. the slow boat. struggling to the team. he changes his mind. the first emersion everywhere but east germany, he realizes he can have a better option it's a massive shift. before then, it's so terrible....
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based on the evidence review and explicit methodology the work gorbachev's a recommendation statement and at an in person meeting the evidence of the draft statement are presented and discussed and the task force votes on the recommendation. there is careful attention to conflict of interest such members with the interest recused from discussion and vote or otherwise restricted and participation. representatives of 24 partner organizations including all primary-care specialty is the key federal agencies and other key stakeholders specified in written testimony and on the website are invited to participate in the discussion. at three key points in the process work products are sent for review and comment by the partner organizations, buy sub specialty expert consultants from the relevant deceased areas such as oncologist and by other stakeholders such as sub specialty professional organizations and advocacy groups. these products include and of the framework and key questions, draft systematic evidence review and draft recommendation statement as voted on. all comments are considered i
based on the evidence review and explicit methodology the work gorbachev's a recommendation statement and at an in person meeting the evidence of the draft statement are presented and discussed and the task force votes on the recommendation. there is careful attention to conflict of interest such members with the interest recused from discussion and vote or otherwise restricted and participation. representatives of 24 partner organizations including all primary-care specialty is the key federal...
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to that was in "the new york times," december 3, by nicholas chris to have, it's called "johnson, gorbachev and obama." it's about the vietnam war, it's about the russians involved in afghanistan and now mr. obama's decision. i'm not trying to second guess the ps, -- the president he is oorks got a very difficult job, i wish him well, in fact i was one of the few republicans who thanked him for taking his time before he decided what the solution should be or what the strategy should be for afghanistan. but, madam speaker, i think that we as a congress should debate the policy. i said this just a moment ago and i'd like to say it again, i join barbara lee in a letter to the speaker of the house asking the speaker of the house to please let us debate the policy of what we should be doing in afghanistan before we pass any type of supplemental to financially support the troops. so therefore it's my hope that maybe in january or february of 2010 that we will be granted debate on the floor, whether you be for sending more troops to afghanistan or fewer troops to afghanistan, we'll come closer to
to that was in "the new york times," december 3, by nicholas chris to have, it's called "johnson, gorbachev and obama." it's about the vietnam war, it's about the russians involved in afghanistan and now mr. obama's decision. i'm not trying to second guess the ps, -- the president he is oorks got a very difficult job, i wish him well, in fact i was one of the few republicans who thanked him for taking his time before he decided what the solution should be or what the...