he developed a personal kinship with the foreign minister of the soviet union, shevardnadze took him to jackson hole for several days where his own retreat was and broke the ice so that shevardnadze could take positions which were at odds with his own foreign ministry on reunifying germany. but doing so with nato. that was a huge accomplishment by. both jim baker and by president george h.w. bush. and it's one of the reasons why that is one of the 12 chapters that i highlight and why his preface to my book is so important as you can guess, we're talking about diplomacy and foreign policy. the numbers are up on the screen. go ahead and dial in if you would like to talk was to eizenstat, former ambassador to the european union, former chief domestic policy adviser to president jimmy carter, and in fact, when you were in the white house, the camp david accords were signed. but you were working on domestic policy at that time. well, yes, i was. but i had a significant role in that because i was the official back channel between the president and the israeli embassy transmitting, in effec

unlike gromyk, eduard shevardnadze was considered democratic, that is , flexible and accommodating ineverything that concerned the fundamental interests of the soviet union. was a traitor, but his past as a party functionary explains his moral flexibility and ability to adapt to any wishes of his superiors. gorbachev himself, even before assuming the post of general secretary, had already taken his first steps in the international arena, and the steps are quite confident, but ambiguous. in 1984, while the head of the soviet state konstantin chernenko is in hospital, mikhail gorbachev makes his first visit to great britain as the head of the official soviet delegation. on december 15, a government plane with gorbachev landed at heathrow airport. the next day, gorbachev and his wife raisa maksimovna arrived at the country house of british prime minister margaret thatcher in chequers. after a cocktail party, the guests joined the dinner, and gorbachev and thatcher began to talk so animatedly that they barely touched their food. then. gorbachev and thatcher went into the main living room.

he developed a personal kinship with the foreign minister of the soviet union, shevardnadze took him to jackson hole for several days where his own retreat was and broke the ice so that shevardnadze could take positions which were at odds with his own foreign ministry on reunifying germany. but doing so with nato. that was a huge accomplishment by. both jim baker and by president george h.w. bush. and it's one of the reasons why that is one of the 12 chapters that i highlight and why his preface to my book is so important as you can guess, we're talking about diplomacy and foreign policy. the numbers are up on the screen. go ahead and dial in if you would like to talk was to eizenstat, former ambassador to the european union, former chief domestic policy adviser to president jimmy carter, and in fact, when you were in the white house, the camp david accords were signed. but you were working on domestic policy at that time. well, yes, i was. but i had a significant role in that because i was the official back channel between the president and the israeli embassy transmitting, in effec