mr. shultz leadership was quite abrasive at times with its attitude to the cia reporters. direct negotiating experience and observation of the other country by the leaders was very important to how things turned out her callable sides there was a recognition as well that the u.s.s.r. was really changing so the soviet leadership constantly said can't you see we are changing as fast as we can? the americans did not let up of the pressure if the soviet union wanted to bargain to give their breathing space to conduct its own internal transformation, and that was the whole point of the rapprochement of america fell whole point was to get to a breathing space in order to renovate communism to preserve and conserve communism. that was their objective. they didn't understand they're actually introducing the solvent of communism by boosting the system culturally and politically in and economically they didn't understand the architecture and chemistry of communism but it played into the american position very nicely with this judgment to be the consequence to bad for the soviets did