remarkable parts of the research i did was on the plane to detroit to accept the republican nomination stewart spencer says ron, why are you doing this? why do you want to be president? he said to end the cold war. who in their right mind thought anybody was going to end the cold war? he had an outcome. he said we win and they lose. and his approach of reducing nuclear weapons, having starwars and the sdi expanding military might and delegitimizing them this was going to end up a heap in history. they were all a deliberate six-year attack before reykjavik on that. so he had a strategy. i don't know if he thought about it because you never know what he thought about. but it was thought to be a summit reykjavik that wasn't going to be a summit. the remarks on the south lawn of the whitehouse in fact said this isn't a summit. it is a meeting to prepare a summit. >> host: it came together quickly? >> guest: oh, yeah, ten days time. we spent six months preparing for the geneva summit. this was 12 days. >> host: and huge amount of attention descends on this tiny place. you have got 3,000 journalist i think