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Speaker 1: We hold these regular video conference calls so that we

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Speaker 1: So I hope you'll find this episode of Newts World informative.

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Speaker 1: membership today. Let me first say thank you for being

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Speaker 1: a member of the Inner Circle. This is a group

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Speaker 1: that I really like to interact with, to report to,

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Speaker 1: to answer questions, and to get a sense of your thinking.

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Speaker 1: So I appreciate you spending some time with us. We

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Speaker 1: learned that Mikhail Gorbachoff passed away at ninety one years

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Speaker 1: of age. Gormachoff was a very interesting person. He was

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Speaker 1: the rising young star of the Soviet system when they'd

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Speaker 1: had a series of people who, as Ronald Reagan once said,

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Speaker 1: he never got around a meeting with him because they

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Speaker 1: kept dying. It really was a gerontocracy. Started with Breshnev,

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Speaker 1: who had replaced Krushchoff, and then went to Andropoff, who

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Speaker 1: had been the head of the KGB, and to Turnyenko.

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Speaker 1: The three of them all were older. They were very hardline. Frankly,

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Speaker 1: although Nixon had been able to work some with Breshnev

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Speaker 1: During the period that those two were there, Gorvischoff was

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Speaker 1: the fact that Margaret Thatcher had an intuition that Gorbachev

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Speaker 1: they did begin to talk with him. He was much

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Speaker 1: This was a mistake by many people in the West.

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Speaker 1: They should emphasize control of the border, and they should

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Speaker 1: And are we creating a permanent under pless And what

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