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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REAGAN AND SOVIET LEADER MIKHAIL GORBACHEV. THE KANSAS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY HOSTS THE EVENT. >> I DO WANT TO THANK YOU. A REAL PRIVILEGE...
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| 00:00:46 |
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MANY OF YOU REMEMBER THAT RONALD REAGAN GAVE A SPEECH 33 YEARS AGO THAT IN MANY WAYS I THINK HELPED CATAPULT HIM TO THE WHITE HOUSE. AS YOU RECALL,...
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HERE TONIGHT. WHAT I WANT TO DO TONIGHT IS BRIEFLY, IF I CAN, TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTED TO THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL, THE END...
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WITH A LOT OF DIFFERENT RIDERS EVERYDAY. OVER THE YEARS I'VE FOUND THAT THE BEST ONES ARE THOSE WHO NEVER QUITE FEEL SATISFIED WITH THEIR STORIES....
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| 00:04:49 |
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THE LEFT, RONALD REAGAN IS OFTEN REDUCED TO A KIND OF DOING CARICATURE. CONSERVATIVES REMEMBER HIM AS THE TOUGH TALKING FIGHTER WHO CONQUERED THE GOVERNMENT,...
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| 00:22:02 |
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PLEASURE. [LAUGHTER] >> BUT REAGAN COULD STILL RISE TO THE OCCASION. AND WHEN HE GOT TO THE BRANDENBURG GATE, THERE WERE ANYWHERE FROM 20000, THE 40000...
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| 00:22:24 |
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WHITE HOUSE ADVANCE TEAM WHICH WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE STAGING OF THE SPEECH AND PUTTING BACKDROP TOGETHER, PROTEST IF YOU PUT THE WALL UP, VIEWERS WATCHING...
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| 00:28:59 |
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AGAINST COMMUNISM AND HE WAS ALSO DECHLDTERMINED TO NEGOTIATE WITH THEM AND HE BELIEVED YOU HAD TO TALK ENEMIES, AND RONALD REAGAN'S CONVICTIONS NEVER...
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| 00:32:59 |
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FUTURE FOR HIS COUNTRY? >> THE QUESTION IS, ABOUT WHAT GORBACHEV WAS TRYING TO ACHIEVE AND WHAT HIS VISION FOR HIS COUNTRY WAS, AT THE TIME. YOU KNOW,...
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| 00:33:24 |
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COUNTRY INTO THE MODERN AGE. AND HE BELIEVED THAT THE SOVIET UNION AND SOCIALIST EXPERIMENT SHOULD BE SAVED AND THAT IS WHAT HE WAS TRYING TO DO AND...
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| 00:35:23 |
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GERMANS AND TRAVEL TO THE
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| 00:35:25 |
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WEST, AND SPY ON NATO. THAT WAS THE MAIN MISSION THAT PUTIN AND HIS FELLOW KGB AGENTS WERE TASKED WITH AND HE DIDN'T DO A LOT. HE WAS LIVING AT...
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| 00:37:12 |
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OF THE PEOPLE WHO SERVED WITH HIM. AND, YOU KNOW, GORBACHEV, I THINK FEELS THAT HIS ROLE HAS BEEN OVERLOOKED, TO SOME EXTENT. I THINK HE FEELS CERTAINLY
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| 00:37:26 |
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IN RUSSIA, THAT HE IS A FORGOTTEN MAN, I MEAN, HE'S NOT A POPULAR FIGURE THERE. WHICH IS UNFORTUNATE. BECAUSE I THINK WHAT HE WAS TRYING TO DO, AS...
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| 00:38:49 |
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THE YOUNGEST MEMBER OF THE POLITBUREAU WHEN HE BECAME THE GENERAL SECRETARY AND SO HE HAD A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE AND WHAT MADE HIM DIFFERENT? I THINK...
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| 00:39:01 |
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EARLIER THAN OTHERS THAT THE SYSTEM ITSELF WAS CORRUPT. AND THAT IT COULD NOT GO ON AS IT WAS AND MAINTAIN THE SUPPORT OF THE PEOPLE, IF HE DIDN'T --...
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| 00:40:46 |
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DIFFERENT VIEW OF -- ABOUT GORBACHEV THAN REAGAN
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| 00:40:50 |
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DID, BUSH BELIEVED REAGAN HAD GONE TOO FAR IN DEVELOPING THIS PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GORBACHEV. AND SO THE BUSH PEOPLE ACTUALLY WHEN THEY CAME INTO...
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| 00:42:32 |
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TRAVELED TO TEMPLEHOFF AND HAD A HUGE PARTY FOR PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN AND WAS THERE ANY INTERPLAY BETWEEN... HET MUTT COLE AND PRESIDENT REAGAN...
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| 00:43:10 |
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DEMONSTRATION AGAINST REAGAN, WHEN HE CAME AND THERE WAS A HUGE POLICE MROEBLOBILIZATION AND MORE POLICE WERE CALLED UP THAT DAY THAN AT ANY TIME...
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| 00:45:32 |
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SORT OF BRIEF HISTORY OF BERLIN AND THE DISPUTE OVER BERLIN THAT UNFOLDS, AFTER
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| 00:45:42 |
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WORLD WAR II, AND YES, IF YOU REMEMBER THE CITY HAD BEEN DIVIDED INTO FOUR SECTORS, THE WESTERN POWERS ENDED UP FUSING THEIR SECTORS, AND INTRODUCING...
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| 00:47:57 |
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POPE HAD WITH RESPECT TO THE -- THAT IDEA THAT HE IMPLANTED IN POLAND ABOUT NINE OR TEN YEARS EARLIER? >> RIGHT. THE QUESTION IS ABOUT THE IMPACT OF...
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| 00:48:24 |
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AFTER THE CRACKDOWN ON THE SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT IN POLAND, THE POPE ESTABLISHED TIES TO THE LABOR MOVEMENT IN POLAND AND SECRETLY WAS LENDING HIS SUPPORT...
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| 00:50:16 |
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THE PROSPECTS THAT YOU COULD ACTUALLY END THE CONFLICT. BUT, I THINK WHAT SHE DID WAS FACED DOWN A LOT OF OPPOSITION THAT WAS GROWING THROUGHOUT...
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| 00:52:39 |
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THE YOU KNOW -- ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MOMENTS I THINK FOR GERMANS SINCE THE SECOND WORLD
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WAR. IT WAS A MUCH DIFFERENT MOMENT. THE WALL HAD ONLY RECENTLY GONE UP. IT WAS INCREDIBLY EMOTIONAL MOMENT WHEN KENNEDY SAID THAT HE WAS ACTUALLY...
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| 00:54:43 |
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STORY, THIS STORY OF THE COLD WAR AND THE PEACEFUL END TO THE COLD WAR IS ONE THAT IS NOT JUST ABOUT
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| 00:54:53 |
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REAGAN. IT IS ABOUT A WHOLE SET OF POLICIES THAT WERE PUT INTO PLACE IN THE IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH OF WORLD WAR II. ALL OF WHICH I THINK FORM THE FOUNDATION...
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| 00:56:54 |
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WHETHER THE REAGAN WHITE HOUSE HAD A PLAN TO BANKRUPT THE SOVIET UNION. THEY CERTAINLY DID HAVE A STRATEGY, I MEAN, THEY DID BELIEVE THAT THE SOVIET...
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