i notice the president of france, president mitterand spoke out. i heard what chancellor kohl had to say about it. but i don't know if the development of today speeds up the day or not. >> thank you. >> [ inaudible ]. >> we will be discussing a wide array of those subjects with the soviets, i'm sure, including i know of their interest in talking about that, so we will be prepared to talk about it. i'd like to talk to him soon but he is off in poland. i may try to get him there, but i talked to him quite recently. we confer quite regularly. >> [ inaudible ] >> not yet. no. >> [ inaudible ] >> well, personally, i don't know, we are gonna talk to him very recently, but he might, might want to talk about it. >> the berlin wall had separated east and west since august 13, 1961. as the wall came down on november 9, 1989, senate minority leader bob dole, republican from kansas, and senate majority leader george mitchell, democrat from maine, took to the senate floor to voice their thoughts. >> according to news reports, the east german government just ann

you touched on the reservations that mitterand had, thatcher had, clearly that gorbachev had. how did you handle those? >> well, we -- we have always been the leader of the alliance and the president, even as a new president, was the leader of the alliance. and we were able to bring both france and the united kingdom over. the toughest nut was the soviet union. we came up with a concept of a two-plus-four negotiation, that is the two germanys would negotiate the internal aspects of unification and the four occupying powers would negotiate the external aspects. and it worked. it worked pretty darn well. you know, in the final analysis, i think that the soviet union acquiesced because they really didn't have a whole lot of other alternatives. and i'm conscious of the fact, and history will attest to this, that the german -- the federal republic of germany gave the soviets 55 billion deutsche marks, which didn't hurt, helping get their acquiescence in german unification. but there were a lot of other -- there were a lot of obstacles along the way to get there, and it was intensiv

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