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Johnson, Susan R. - President
LIKE TO WISH YOU A GOOD MORNING. I'M SUSAN JOHNSON. THE PRESIDENT. AND I WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND A WARM WELCOME TO YOU ALL. AND THANK YOU FOR COMING TO...
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Kalb, Marvin - Professor Emeritus
THE END OF THE COLD WAR. WE DIDN'T E QUITE RECOGNIZE IT AT THAT TIME. BUT FOR ME PERSONALLY I REMEMBER CLEARLY THAT IN THE EARLY 1980s THERE WAS A...
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Burt, Richard - Senior Adviser
AND MILITARY FORCE AGAINST ANY NATO ALLIES. AND THE CARTER ADMINISTRATION HAVING REVERSED THE DECISION ON FAMOUS NEUTRON BOMB DEPLOYMENT REALLY RADDLED...
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| 00:20:23 |
Kalb, Marvin - Professor Emeritus
FROM THEIR PRINTED WITH THE MOST FAVORABLE, WAS NEVER THE LESS SAID THE UNITED STATES, MORE DETERMINED ON IT WERE THE POSTURE AND A PEACEFUL POSTURE....
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Ridgway, Rozanne - Assistant Secretary
NEGOTIATION? IN THE SUMMER OF 85 THROUGH SUCH EVENTS OF THE FINAL ACT AND CONVENING AS USUAL AT THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN NEW YORK,...
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SDI Info
10100. GORBACHEV SET OFF AT THAT POINT AROUND THE CIRCUIT TO TRY TO USE SDI AS THE OBSTACLE TO FURTHER PROGRESS AND SOMEHOW GET US TO ACCEPT A DIFFERENT...
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| 00:31:22 |
Kalb, Marvin - Professor Emeritus
MISSILES STATIONED IN EUROPE, THIS COULD BE A MILITARY ADVANTAGE. HOWEVER, ONCE THE UNITED STATES STATIONS INS MISSILES IN
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| 00:31:32 |
Matlock, Jack F. Jr. - Ambassador
EUROPE, SUDDENLY THEY ARE BETTER OFF WITH ZERO THAN THEY ARE WITH THE AMERICAN VESSELS IN EUROPE. WHY? BECAUSE IF WE ABUSE THEM IN RETALIATION, WE...
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Kalb, Marvin - Professor Emeritus
A WHOLE, YOU COULDN'T HAVE GOT TO TREATY IN MY JUDGMENT. I THINK WE UNDERESTIMATE THE POLITICAL DEFEAT THE RUSSIANS EXPERIENCE WITH THE DEPLOYMENT....
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Burt, Richard - Senior Adviser
AND FINALLY, THIS IS A CRITICAL POINT AND I KNOW YOU WANT TO MAYBE TALK ABOUT IRAN, WHETHER THERE IS A CASE STUDY HERE. I'M NOT SURE THAT THE U.S. ...
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| 00:43:13 |
Matlock, Jack F. Jr. - Ambassador
INSURANCE. THAT TOOK GORBACHEV AND ALSO TO THE VERY IMPROBABLE SOVIET LEADER WHO WOULD RISK HIS OWN POSITION IN ORDER TO TRY TO DO WHAT MACHIAVELLI...
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| 00:45:10 |
Ridgway, Rozanne - Assistant Secretary
RECIPROCAL TO ON-SITE INSPECTION. WAS NOT A ONE-WAY THINK THEY WOULD HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT THE WESTERN MILITARY AND DEFENSE ESTABLISHMENT....
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| 00:49:42 |
Kalb, Marvin - Professor Emeritus
COLD WAR, NOT JUST THE ARMS RACE AND GORBACHEV ENDED IDEOLOGICALLY, DECEMBER 7 COMPANY TO MEDIATE, TODAY IS ALSO THE ANNIVERSARY OF THAT. A YEAR AFTER...
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Matlock, Jack F. Jr. - Ambassador
DID NOT SPEECH, ASIDE FROM ANNOUNCING UNILATERAL REDUCTION IN THEIR MILITARY WAS HE DISCARDED THE CLASS STRUGGLE AS THE RATIONALE FOR SOVIET FOREIGN...
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| 00:51:49 |
Ridgway, Rozanne - Assistant Secretary
YEARS FROM THE 30 YEARS U.S. FOREIGN POLICY IN THE LAST 10 YEARS. I DO CALL IT THE DISCIPLINING IMPACT OF WORKING WITHIN THE ALLIANCE. WE WERE GENUINELY...
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| 00:52:21 |
Kalb, Marvin - Professor Emeritus
AT THE NEGOTIATING TABLE, BUT THERE IS A CONSULTANT GROUP THAT NATO AND
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Burt, Richard - Senior Adviser
THEY MADE PEOPLE GO BACK IN THE GOVERNMENTS IN QUESTION TO SAY WHAT PART OF THIS PROCESS. TRUST US. WE WON'T LET THOSE AMERICANS DO SOME CRAZY EGG. ...
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Ridgway, Rozanne - Assistant Secretary
AGO, THANK YOU. BIG MEN WRITE HISTORY. IS THERE ANY HOPE TODAY THAT WE STILL HAVE PEOPLE, MEN OR WOMEN ON THE SCENE WHO CAN WRITE FROM HISTORY? BECAUSE...
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Q&A
NEED THEM. WE HAVE NOT GIVEN CREDIT TO HISTORY BRING IN AN ISSUE TO A POINT WHERE IT'S READY TO BE RESOLVED. YOU CANNOT MARCH IN AND BE A BIG PERSON...
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| 00:55:51 |
Ridgway, Rozanne - Assistant Secretary
TODAY AS WE LOOK AHEAD TO THE IRAN NEGOTIATIONS? RICK, YOU CAN START AND THEN JACK. >> FROM ONE PERSPECTIVE YOU CAN SAY YES, THAT THERE IS A KIND OF...
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Kalb, Marvin - Professor Emeritus
A SANCTIONED POLICY THAT IS PUTTING EVERY PRESSURE ON THE IRANIAN REGIME IN THE SAME WAY THE THREAT OF THE U.S. DEPLOYMENT OF MISSILES AND PERSHING...
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Burt, Richard - Senior Adviser
THE DIPLOMATIC TRACK IS ACTUALLY DONE. I AM STRUCK BY, FOR INSTANCE, THE FACT THAT THE EUROPEANS WHO'D BEEN INVOLVED IN THIS PROCESS ALL ABOUT IS OF...
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| 00:59:07 |
Matlock, Jack F. Jr. - Ambassador
DO THEM A GREAT FAVOR BY TAKING OUT THEIR MAIN ENEMY WITHOUT APPARENTLY ANY NEGOTIATION WHATSOEVER. NOW I THINK WE COULD HAVE MADE A VERY USEFUL DEAL...
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Burt, Richard - Senior Adviser
BELIEVE THIS WAS STOLEN IN LOVE WITH THIS PROCESS OF GORBACHEV THAT THEY WERE KIND OF CLEAR MINDED ENOUGH ABOUT THE RUSSIANS. BOB GATES ALSO WHO HAD...
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| 01:04:46 |
Ridgway, Rozanne - Assistant Secretary
INTERAGENCY STUDIES. WE TURNED IT ONE THAT CONTINUED THE SAME PATH. WE WERE SORT OF LAUGHED OUT OF TOWN. I THINK WE LOST TWO YEARS. >> ON THIS POINT,...
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Kalb, Marvin - Professor Emeritus
RUSSIANS AND AMERICANS MET WITH SOMEBODY IF NOT LAPAROSCOPY WITH SOMEBODY. IS IT POSSIBLE SOME DAY MAY BE HAPPENING IN TERMS OF RUSSIAN POLICY TOWARD...
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Ridgway, Rozanne - Assistant Secretary
HE MIGHT'VE HAD GREAT RELATIONS WITH THE ALLIES, BUT SHE DIDN'T LET THE AMERICAN PUBLIC. >> I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE AMERICAN PUBLIC. >> THE AMERICAN...
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| 01:09:58 |
Kalb, Marvin - Professor Emeritus
WITHOUT A CLEAR SENSE OF DIRECTION. MAYBE YOU ALL HAD A CLEAR SENSE OF DIRECTION. >> WE HAD A CLEAR SENSE OF WE TOLD YOU. YOU JUST DIDN'T BELIEVE IT....
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Matlock, Jack F. Jr. - Ambassador
PLAYING POLITICS. HE SET FORTH IN THAT SPEECH WHAT HE WANTED TO DO. I THINK WE WERE VERY OPEN. IT WAS SIMPLY THE PRESS WAS EXTRAORDINARILY -- I WOULD...
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| 01:12:55 |
Kalb, Marvin - Professor Emeritus
SOME LESSON LEARNED, PERHAPS JUST PROFESSIONALLY. I'M GOING TO START BY ASKING MYSELF THIS QUESTION. HOW GOOD THE ANCHORS IN 1985 HAVE BEEN SO FOOLISH...
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| 01:14:05 |
Ridgway, Rozanne - Assistant Secretary
TO AVOID NEGOTIATIONS. IF YOU WANT NEGOTIATIONS, YOU MUST MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR YOUR NEGOTIATING PARTNER TO GET TO THE TABLE. >> THANK YOU RAIN MUCH....
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Matlock, Jack F. Jr. - Ambassador
IN VERIFYING THAT. IT'S MUCH EASIER TO VERIFY THIS YEAR THAN ANY CONCRETE NUMBER. AND THEREFORE, I THINK WE REALLY HAVE TO GET OUR MINDS OFF WE PUTTING...
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Burt, Richard - Senior Adviser
ON THAT. YOU KNOW, THERE WAS NO WAY WHEN I WAS DEEPLY INVOLVED IN THE ISSUE IN THE EARLY 80s THAT I COULD'VE FORESEEN GORBACHEV. NOR COULD I FORESEEN...
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Kalb, Marvin - Professor Emeritus
MUCH. CAN'T KNOCK [INAUDIBLE
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