my friends, henry kissinger, jim schlessinger, said the war was actually won. but the congress by cutting off aid to the south vietnamese doomed what had been a success to failure. this is sort of a -- approach, the term stab in the back that the germans used between the two wars to describe what had happened to german military in world war i. but at the same time, henry kissinger is on record as having said at one point in process, let's at least have a decent interval before we collapse -- before they collapse. so vietnam war in retrospect was unwinnable because of the nature of vietnamese society and south vietnamese government. my own introduction to bob mcnamara happened in february of 1961. i had known packard as department secretary briefly because we had been on a board together. and he offered me the job when i first walked into his office. i said gee, i'm not really ready for that right now. he said, well, you have to take things when they are offered or maybe -- maybe they won't come back to you again. i took that lesson. at the beginning, i think ha

think about henry kissinger.ith that accent he can say anything and you think it's smart and witty. he and i had some of the most amazing conversations, but i'm never sure i understood everything that was being said. but for me, the men and women you saw on the screen have become great friends, whether i knew them well like i did, of course, with dear madeleine albright or knew them from afar or by reputation at events like this. all of them had been extraordinarily helpful to me. i'm very grateful they would come together to be part of this evening. well, i know it's been, for me, a reunion. i had a chance to see so many of a lot of my friends and colleagues over the past evening. i want to make just a few serious points because you've been very, very patient. i think as both jane and christine suggested in their remarks tonight, we are very fortunate to be in the positions we're in in today's world. we are very pleased that in our own ways we can be trying to help chart our path through what is a very difficult

[ laughter ] henry kissinger. i said, henry, i'm sorry, the old man said to give it to him and that was it. and so that speech, though -- what happened in the aftermath, of course, there was an enormous firestorm created. i had sort of an arthritis problem, so i went home. three days later my buddy mort allen who ran the press summary called me up and said four kids were killed and nine wounded at kent state. i said, where is kent state? and the country exploded. i didn't even know where it was. it was a small school. as a consequence of that, i think nixon went down and bud kroge tells the story in his book. he got up one morning. he was tremendously concerned about that. he went down to the lincoln memorial, met with the kids, tried to establish some sort of communion with them. it was an extremely dramatic moment in the nixon presidency. it was at that point he decided we could only be in for 60 days and then he pulled out. >> and the troops did come out of cambodia. >> after that, the american casualties in vie

and i'll tell you a quick story about david kennerly which happens to be true and it involves henry kissinger with whom david worked at the ford white house. and i was hosting a lunch some time back and i mentioned david's name, and dr. kissinger said in the voice, david kennerly is the greatest photojournalist of the 20th century. i said, wow, that's high praise. he said, i know this because david kennerly told me that david kennerly is the greatest -- so, in the words of david kennerly and henry kissinger, let me welcome to the podium the greatest photojournalist of the 20th century, david kennerly. >> that's good. i don't know how to top that one. i'm going to show some pictures. it's great to be here with the bush women, barbara and laura, who i've photographed many times. i'm not taking away from my colleagues, but i did include one each of you in this presentation. excuse me. i was -- i actually have a first lady picture i just took on friday, not in this country and she's not an american, and if i press this, is this going to start? wow. magic. this is sofia bartelli, the first lady of

understand each other better well this is a very positive because you might remember that henry kissinger once said that if a third world war starts it would probably start in kashmir he called it the most dangerous place on earth so today do you think it's something case anymore well i hope mr kissinger will be publicly wrong. in this country into this. peace and stability you know would lead i mean i do not think that. neither. pakistan and india would be a good citizen of to embark upon any such. misadventure so. the indian minister of external affairs spotlight will be back soon after we take a short break so stay with us don't. one . hundred. fifty years. in forty acres and nineteen nineteen three and decided it would be a great place to find the belle the home and retire. there she is. for seven. we have seventy acres and i can convince them that they need to drill somewhere besides two hundred feet from. the needs of our growing economy also means expanding our domestic production of oil and natural gas which are a vital fuel for transportation electricity and manufacturing for any

understand each other better but this is very positive because you might remember that henry kissinger once said that if a third world war starts it would probably start in kashmir he called it the most dangerous place on earth so today do you think it's not the case anymore well i hope mr kissing that will be publicly wrong. in this country into this. peace and stability you know of region and we do not think that. neither. pakistan and india would be at bridges enough to embark on any such. misadventure so. the lie are clear the indian minister of external affairs spotlight will be back soon after we take a short break so stay with us. more news today ballance is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to look for a shelter all day. zits you could leverage surely to mukherjee was the building most sophisticated robots which all included leave the door down anything tunes mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans in green this is why you should care only . for the true science technology innovation a

but at the same time, henry kissinger is on record as having said at one point in process, let's at least have a decent interval before we collapse -- before they collapse. so vietnam war in retrospect was unwinnable because of the nature of vietnamese society and south vietnamese government. my own introduction to bob mcnamara happened in february of 1961. i had known packard as department secretary briefly because we had been on a board together. and he offered me the job when i first walked into his office. i said gee, i'm not really ready for that right now. he said, well, you have to take things when they are offered or maybe -- maybe they won't come back to you again. i took that lesson. at the beginning, i think hay saw me as an engineer and looked instead to his systems analysis group with whom he felt an empathy because he had been an operations analyst during world war ii. as a consequence of considerations early on of the nike system and the whole issue of mutual deterrence, he -- turned to the office i ran as part of the office of secretary of defense that -- office of directo

at one point henry kissinger came into don rumsfeld's office and proclaimed i am the only secretary of state who ever lost two countries in three weeks. first cambodia, now vietnam. as the second dawn approached in saigon, the helicopter pilots were getting weary, but ambassador graham martin wouldn't leave without a direct order from the president. and so the order was given. and the air lift ended. 1,000 americans and vee aetna piece were lifted out, but thousands left clawing at the gates. it was then time to announce officially the end of the war. and kissinger and i walked across to the old executive office building for a briefing. and i was astounded that the turnout was so small considering the historic moment, but it was late in the afternoon and reporters were close to deadline and many decided to watch the announcement the in their offices. and i thought to myself, this war is not ending where a whimper or a bang, it's ending with a yawn. and i read on behalf of president ford the statement that the evacuation has thousand been completed, this action closes a chapter in the a

. >> i'd like you to preserve an anecdote you told john whittaker about a joke you played on henry kissinger. >> oh, yeah. kissinger had the right, although he abused it, to come out of the office, the oval office, or eob office, without having somebody announce him or take him. kissinger could just walk in when he wanted to. nixon told him that because of the severity of the foreign policy issues to feel free to just come in and interrupt anything. well, henry would do it for trivial things. one day nixon was ticked off at henry for a variety of things, and we were in the executive office building. the door -- the far door swung open. i looked over. it was henry. i caught a glance of him. nixon did not appear to look, but i know he knew it was henry. he immediately said to me, i think you're right, chuck, about that. i think it is time we use nuclear weapon weapons, everythe failed. kissinger stood in the doorway absolutely paralyzed. that's on a tape somewhere. somebody is going to hear that on a tape and think, oh my lord, nixon was a mad man. colson brought out the bad side of nixon, eve

the entire republican foreign policy establishment disagreed with him, starting with secretary henry kissinger, secretary colin powell, senator richard lugar, the most informed person in foreign policy in the senate, national security advisor steven hadley, secretary of state jim baker, secretary of state george schulz, national security advisor brent scowcroft, and president george l.w. bush. all, all supported and strongly supported and helped us get past through some recalcitrant republican senators this critically important treaty. unfortunately, governor romney's apparent determination to take u.s. relations -- u.s./russian relations back to the '50s also causes him to misstate the facts. for example, he charged that, as he calls it, to appease moscow, to appease moscow, "president obama has been pliant on missile defense and abandoned our missile defense sites in poland." here again, he's either woefully misinformed or totally misunderstands. as it happens, president obama asked me to secure allied support for a new and more effective missile defense system in europe, the so-called phase

one of the commentators was henry kissinger who said, if we are standing with the podium with 20,000 nuclear weapons under our feet, it's very difficult to ask another nation not to develop one. if we are going to be serious about a nuclear-free world, do we not have to be serious about disarming ourselves? >> look, i think ultimately the nuclear none proliferation committee has reciprocal commitments. and states like the united states and the soviet union and others that signed the treaty initially as nuclear states, they have an obligation to move towards disarmament. i think actually the obama administration shares the view that there are obligations on both sides, which is why they moved aggressive forward on new start, which was not an insignificant political risk. i think matt thinks some of those cuts go through too deep but i don't know if that's true or not. but in any case, i think the administration believes basically we also have to make good faith efforts to start to shrink our arsenal. but it doesn't excuse iran's commitment under the npt. the fact of the matter is iran

large outside interest in what's happening there right now specifically which we can locate in henry kissinger's comments last year during the initial part of this uprising when he said that there is a chance for this to turn into a type of nationalism a nationalistic movement that would be a secularist in orientation and he compared to what was happening under nasser half a century ago and of course he equated nasserism to terrorism so i think there's a deep western interest in an outside interest in seeing that type of nationalism not come to the fore in egypt right now and there's a lot of history of outside intervention with some of the people who are actually organizing and spearheading these protests really just that just aside from the outside intervention that you talk all fair we had a political analyst in cairo on the program here on our teachers a bit earlier he was saying that people are fed up with the ruling military council they're also fed up with the muslim brotherhood that have only been there for a very very short while the democratically voted in he also said the people would

troops from vietnam in huge numbers, we had the national security staff working for secretary -- henry kissinger. three people in sort of a vietnam war room. drosh and cramer and don brewster and they worked in anonymity. i would be up there once every three days. they would collect vast amounts of information we would use in speeches and communications or whatnot. vietnam just dominated evhi to have watergate dominate >> ou know, you mention 1974. if you're talking january then, that is after the saturday nigh irving committee hearings had been going on, had been concdedr a couple of months and been concluded.hehole impeachment process was under way so i think you see a little more stress and strain in the president of the united states there than you saw earlier. >> you see those contrasts. bill? >> while my friends were solving great geopolitical problems in rhetoric, i was doing what was called rose garden rubbish. rose garden rubbish was the contemptuous name they had for the -- what lee was talking about before. there's just so many things the president is asked to speak on or write someth

part of it is the deficiency in the training, and remember the henry kissinger example, and part is we don't have the leadership from the secretary of state and the president of united states to say, hey, we really need to make this a serious effort of our foreign policy. >> professor farr, any lessons learned from the fall of the soviet union and the opening up of religious freedom there? >> yes. some tough lessons by and large. when the soviet union was overthrown, we were very successful in getting the soviets to pass a law, a religious freedom law, and my friend and colleague, the first ambassador of religious freedom, and the way he tells the story is as soon as this law was passed, opening up russia, all of the christians in the world threw their bibles into their wagons and went off like it was the gold rush in the 1900s or the 1800s in the united states. without regard, in other words, to the culture of russia and particularly the culture of the russian orthodox church which views itself as part of mother russia, and they had been suppressed, many of them, horribly in the perio

muddling through and pretty much as you would expect and when you always think -- along the line of henry kissinger, it's not one telephone for europe. it's a different picture depending on where you look. if you put the 27 countries in one basket and put a minestrone together, we see demand continuing. actually, what we saw in midstream business, demand had been picking up and it was one of the drivers of strong utilization of capacity and off additional profits of europe. >> let me talk about prices, klaus. we're looking at a 10% decline from march 1st. when, from your standpoint and the demand supply situation, when would you expect prices to strengthen, if at all? >> well, we are seeing a very interesting picture here. we're seeing that the physical demand for metal is very, very strong and that's reflected by the premium that if you want to buy a ton of metal here in new york, would you have to buy it for a premium to get it to your doorsteps. same thing is true in europe, same thing is true in asia. that's been driven up by physical demand and that's the people who need the metal for the asse

entire republican foreign policy establishment disagreed with him starting creme -- starting with henry kissinger. secretary state jim baker. secretary of state george shultz, brent scowcroft andin president george h. w. bush. all support it and strongly support and get passed to some recalcitrant republican senators. this critically important treaty. unfortunately,gov. romney's apparent determination to take u.s. relations back to the 50's also causes them optimistic the facts. -- causes him to miss state the facts. for example,he charges it to appease moscow. president obama has been complied a missile defense. -- pliant on missile defense and abandoned our missile defense sites in poland. here again,he's either willfully misinforms are totally and misunderstands. as it happens,president obama >> asked me to secure allied support for a missile defense system. in europe, the phased adaptive approach. the first visit i made. was to polandwho do we asked to host these new component? poland. along with turkey, romania, germany, and spain. they all said yes. they approached our new one. -- they embr

i don't think they are rational actors but henry kissingers in waiting that you can do a deal that won'tsarily stick. as you indicated at the beginning of this ask you, the talks of whatever the status they were, they are not going very well. we don't have a huge amount of time before 2014 and i think it is much more important to be focused on the free and fair election in afghanistan in 2014 a very predictable event f that election is not seen as free and fair and resources are not put into it, make sure that is the case, that could be a sort of instigate other of a greater conflict in afghanistan and i think the u.s. has sort of put this in this binary thing. that somehow solves the afghan problem but a much larger political problem, some degree, a free and fair election in 2014 might begin to solve. >> quit final thought? >> the taliban has a question of a regional dialogue with the neighbors and in fact that regional die loving even further away than before because now the u.s. is at odds with pakistan and iran. these are key neighbors of afghanistan. how are you going to prevent the

they're a group of henry kissingers in waiting with whom you can do a deal, but not necessarily sticks you indicated at the beginning of this discussion, you know, the -- whatever status they were, they're not going very wrl. we don't have a huge amount of time before 2014, and i think it's much more tornt to be focused on the free and fair election in afghanistan in 2014. awe very predictable eth. if that election is not seen as free and fair and, you know, the resources -- that could be sort of an instigator of a greater conflict in afghanistan, and i think that the u.s. government has put this in as a binary thing. if we have a deal with the taliban, somehow that's solving the afghan problem. if we get to a much larger political problem, then to some degree, a free and fair election in 2014 might begin to solve. >> quick final thought, amed. >> there are going to be so many complications that are not necessarily being addressed by the administration or by nato. for example, not only is there a question of the taliban, but there's a question of a regional dialogue with the neighbors

henry. "i think it is time that we use nuclear weapons. everything else has failed." and kissinger stood in the doorway absolutely paralyzed. that is on the tapes somewhere. people are going to look and that and say that colson brought up the dark side. that was pure humor. he did that a lot. >> the pentagon papers. >> mm-hmm. >> you witnessed the president's reaction. tell us about that. >> the pentagon papers came out, and i was at the senior staff meeting in the roosevelt room, and there was a mood of panic and despair, kissinger throwing papers on the table, saying we cannot run government this way. i was with nixon that morning, and he was genuinely alarmed, and i could tell when he was manipulating people. i was enough like him, actually, interestingly enough, when i knew he was doing things for effect, and he was not. he was genuinely concerned that there could be a wholesale breakdown in our security system and we would get cia assets exposed, we would get secret opposition -- operations, like the national security steady number one, which was a contingency plan for vietnam

he hated henry kissinger. he hated mother teresa. and later on he hated bill clinton, you know. and i think those, those, those were vehement but they weren't just emotional, they were highly articulatesed and thought out hatreds. and i think he was very good at that. >> rose: of course we always remind you i have also written about people like thomas invest son that i didn't hate. >> yeah, it's true. >> he was really a member of the anti-totalitarian left. i mean all of us, certainly weeks we can remember during the fall cans war most of the country-- fall cans war most were for it but some were against, except for hitch because his argument was, and it turned out to be absolutely right, that to wage war against the argentinians would be to lead to the fall of the junta. and fall of galitieri. and that was a consistent theme that ran all the way through. his iraq stand was in line with. >> rose: you can say what you just expressed is a direct line to why he took the position he did about iraq? >> yes, well, i think it sorts of is. but on the way, there is-- what christopher had

you look at this the way that henry kissinger rereportedly looked at the iraq-iran war. you can't have them both lose. when you have al gore on one side and keith olbermann at the other, and they're firing intercontinental ballistic missiles at each other, this is something that is creating a great deal of glee on the right. >> andrea cox, clearly al gore and company wanted this to work and wanted olbermann to be the face of this network and reached a point where, you know, they kind of had to get a divorce. >> indeed. and it's true that i don't think there is a phase of keith olbermann's development or career where you can't say he didn't leave someplace acrimoniously. i think we should probably get a thesaurus to start using a different word. he ends his -- he goes out, you know, with a bang at the places that he has worked. i think he probably it's impossible for him to have a quiet departure from someplace. that's just not his personality. which sort of brings me to something that i should say is that he is good theater. he is very good at what he does. he is inheren

henry kissinger. in a few paragraphs decide to leave could describe where did he come from and what was his influence over nixon? >> it was and remains a fascinating figure, a refugee from nazi germany, very bright, extremely ambitious, and there's a story that they kept him out of the kennedy administration and had known him from harvard because he felt he was a self promoter and not enough team player. but he won the post of national security adviser. he would deny this and in fact i have the denial in my book but it's really because he went to paris claiming to be a friend of the democrats, talked at length to ann and daniel davidson uzi anitere -- who is an attorney here and was back from public telephones called the nixon camp and gave them advice on how to deal with the peace going on. >> others had said that he didn't really get much information because he gave the impression of being an insider for the democrats the were willing to try their trust for nixon, and course that ranked high in mix

former secretary of state henry kissinger, his newest book that some of you have copies of it he will be discussing this morning. this compilation of essays dating from the weeks when he accompanied the of the many shuttles in the early 1870's to his commentaries on the air swearing will mark kimberly as one of the significant journalists of our era. so it is a great pleasure for me to welcome. i want to take him for the service he has a guitar kutcher in some news reporting. mr. vermont is commentaries. thank you for coming. [applause] >> they key very much. now that i ever a retiree i don't usually give up this early. this is an opporunity or is presented as an uppity for me to talk about my book. pretty hard to talk about because it is about almost everything. it is a compilation of columns will covered cherries, book reviews, as beaches, and other such things, all of which i have written in might retirement years and which i am pretty proud. in in making a speech about my book is tied it difficult. i am focusing today on the section which is a subsection of the book which is on th

it's not one of these large, henry kissinger thousand pages, but probably 80 pages, and so it's accessible to anybody interested in the subject, and i invite anyone who is interested to come to the corchtion. go to the witherspoon's institute website or the berkley center university, google that, and you'll find a march 1st event here on the campus of georgetown university, and we invite all of your viewers to come and join with us. we're going to have a keynote address by robert george, who is a professor of political science and political theory at princeton university, one of the preimminent public intellectuals in the united states on the subject, many subjects, but especially on the subject of religious liberty. we're going to have a number of panels including one of american muslims who are going to talk about this as it impacts american islam and islam around the world. .. gal encore booknotes from 2002. off their samantha power talked talk about her book, "a problem from hell" america and the age of genocide, published by basic hooks. she criticizes the u.s.'s failure to stop genoc

was about six years older and deng and became weak foreign minister and was the man who created henry kissinger and nixon when they went to china in 1971, 72. the third experience i think was very critical in shaping deng scared kerry and his point of view. within the wartime from 1937 to 1949. he was in the army for 12 years and it was inactive for time. so his job as political commissar in one of the leading units a major is different commander for the largest military battle in the history, his role was to try to rally the troops. a lot of other leaders in the man was much more protected from outsiders and it went to talk about theory and philosophy and train new generations. deng is on the frontlines for 12 years. his job is to get ready for the next battle. he had to be pragmatic. he didn't have time to talk about theory and philosophy. he had learned. moscow after france, where he was for a year, but he didn't have the time really to engage in the battle. if you engage in theoretical discussion, he was so busy with the battles. another important influence i should have mentioned about a y

[applause] [applause] >> i am about to tell you something henry kissinger wouldn't. where to begin. the trajectory of hillary clinton's career is stunning, and i'm pleased to have known her and work with her throughout much of it. this is no retirement dinner. you hear that hillary? tonight we honor you for the entire arc of your remarkable career. from pioneering attorney and chair of the legal services committee during the carter administration, a white house where geminis served, to first lady of arkansas and first lady of the united states, the u.s. senator from new york, and of course, the secretary of state. i was in beijing in 1995, as part of the small congressional delegation for the u.n. conference on women when first lady hillary clinton uttered the iconic rallying cry for female quality. you just heard it in our film. that same year, saw the formation of the council of women world leaders. the only organization for women who had countries. now has 47 members, and just last year, relocated, where else? to the wilson center. strong support from secretary clinton and her ma

i talk to dick cheney and henry kissinger. eney was working on his book and then had a heart ailment issue. kissinger never really nailed down. by then i was arty pretty far along on the film. c-span: the most label new thing in your film? >> guest: i would say honestly -- honesty is really the shell of my father's forthcoming testimony before congress was really revealing to me. it shows push and pull that all these secret operations are now under the [inaudible] c-span: the name of the documentary is "the man nobody knew", who is william colby, we are out of time. thank you very much. >> guest: thank you very much, brian. for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at q. and a..org. q&a programs are also available at c-span podcast. upcoming guests on q&a include general marsha anderson, discussing her life in h

[applause] so i'm about to tell you something henry kissinger wouldn't. where to begin with? trajectory of hillary clinton's career stunned and i am pleased to have known her and i worked with her throughout much of it. while this isn't a retirement dinner, here that hillary? or retirement dinner. tonight we honor you for the entire arch of your career from sure of the legal services corporation during the carter administration, a white house were hillary and i served to first lady of arkansas and first lady of the united states to u.s. senator from new york and of course secretary of state. i was in beijing in 1995 and part of this small delegation on when and when first lady hillary clinton had erred the iconic rally cry for eval quality. you just heard it in our film. that same year, the formation of the council and the only organization for women who had countries and that has 47 members and just last year we located where else? to the wilson center. with strong support and her magic our magical ambassador at large for women's issues, who is senior. [applause] we are buil

and he interviewed all the guests, what struck me, no matter if it was a person like -- i mean, henry kissingere dashgs the biggest star, or the lead singer of the trashmen, you know, singing ba, ba, ba bert is the word, he treated everybody with the utmost respect and he had done his homework. i remember he had run dmc very early in the history of rap. people didn't know what rap was. he knew exactly who run, dmc, and jam master j. nice to see you, sir. he knew -- you know, he treated these -- and it made me think, you know, even the tresh men in south philly or the oralons, you know, don't hang up and where are you going to be christmas, you know -- >> paul, you do a good imitation. when did you start doing that? >> well, when harry showed me how to do it. i did it for dick clark. he immediately said when guys like harry sheerer do me, they're actually doing arthur godfrey. that was a key to me. he said, i grew up on arthur godfr godfrey. >> he leaves us with what, do you think? >> he opened music up. he started music on television. he exploded as a producer. he did everything he wanted to do

interviewed all the guests, what struck me is that no matter if it was a person, i mean like henry kissingernda or lead singer of trashman singing ba-ba-ba, he treated everybody with the utmost respect and he had done his homework. i remember he had run very early in the history of rap. people didn't know what rap was. he knew exactly who was who. nice so tee you, sir. he treated -- it made me think even the trashman in south philly or the orleans and where you guys going to be christmas. >> when did you start doing imitation? >> when harry showed me how to do it. i did it for dick clark and he immediately said when guys do me they are really doing arthur godfrey. that was a key to me. he said i grew up on arthur good fry. i loved the class he projected. >> he leaves us with what, do you think? a legacy of dick clark will be what? >> he opened music up. he started music on television. he exploded as a producer. he did everything he wanted to do. he brought, you know, dance music of all kinds and all races to america from his little local dance party show in south philly, p.a. he showed you w

donny i'll let you weigh in in a second, it's hard to imagine condoleezza rice, colin powell, or henry kissingeran antics are an embarrassment for a high level cabinet member on official duty and lowered the office of the secretary of state. >> to hoda's point, makes her more likable. this is a woman who has earned her sometimes as far as her gravitas goes. when you look back at the old pictures of jfk, you look at the pictures of him sailing and being a human being. i think it's wonderful. >> and her husband actually played the saxophone, and it's cool. he can do anything. >> i'm going to skip ahead here. let's take a look at this one. after some scandals recently involving teachers and their students, where teachers were caught sending sexually explicit messages to students, some school districts and states are considering a ban, where they will no longer allow a teacher to text or e-mail an individual student. is that a good idea? >> they can call them on the phone and say something lewd. are you going to ban telephones? it's not the technology that's the problem, it's the personalities that

one of the commentators was henry kissinger, who said, if we are standing at the podium with 20,000 nuclear weapons under our feet, it is very difficult to ask another nation not to develop one. about a nuclear-free world, do we not have to be serious about disarming ourselves? >> i think, ultimately, the nuclear non-proliferation treaty has commitments. we're committed -- places like iran are committed not to develop nuclear weapons. the united states and others, initially nuclear states, have an obligation to move toward disarmament. the obama administration shares the view that their obligations on both sides. the move forward on new start. not an insignificant political risk. it is thought that some of those cuts go too deep. i don't know if that is true or not. the administration believes that we also have to make good- faith efforts to shrink our arsenal. it does not excuse iran pose a commitment. sometimes, people ask, doesn't iran have the ability -- the fact of the mattress, iran gave up that right when they signed it. i must want to pull out, that right is ironclad, regardless of

that sort of morphed over with henry kissinger to coexistence.ucated. gorbachev was an educated man. it did not start off well, and reagan got a lot of flak when he came back from iceland where he was supposed to have a big arms talk to get rid of these missiles. gorbachev flat would not do it. but reagan had from the beginning of his presidency, he went off in may to visit the first year -- he went to visit someplace in idaho or colorado -- and he asked his guide, the colonel general, what are our defenses against this? he says, we don't have any. we can't do it. he said what do you mean? if the soviets decide on a first strike, they would not hit -- the first strike was going to hit everybody. reagan went back to berkeley where he had good connections for being governor, and he said that we have to get something going here. it could have worked. it terrified the russians and the soviets because they did not have the money to do that. this was an anonymously expensive proposition to set up all these huge space stations and satellite when they en