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Connections to be able to negotiate that and win the trust of gorbachev because he didnt brag. what about his domestic record? >> his domestic purchase order was a little more mixed -- domestic record was a little more mixed. it was attached to his campaign pledge, no new taxes, one of the most famous phrases in american political history, famous partly because he violated it. you have to remember he had george mitchell as majority leader then, fighting him every step of the way. paul: i became ...

Pushy. a style which was -- had a great component of listening to it. he developed relationships over the years. but he had a great capacity to put himself in the shoes of the person he was trying to deal with. he put himself in gorbachevs shoes when he was trying to work out the collapse of the soviet union and he nursed it along magnificently. he put himself in the shoes of his opponents when he was trying to do the budget deal. and he certainly was a man who understood there was a lot of valu...

Pushy. a style which was -- had a great component of listening to it. he developed relationships over the years. but he had a great capacity to put himself in the shoes of the person he was trying to deal with. he put himself in gorbachevs shoes when he was trying to work out the collapse of the soviet union and he nursed it along magnificently. he put himself in the shoes of his opponents when he was trying to do the budget deal. and he certainly was a man who understood there was a lot of valu...

Pushy. a style which was -- had a great component of listening to it. he developed relationships over the years, and he had a great capacity to put himself in the shoes of person he was trying to deal with. with gorbachev of the soviet union, he pushed but not too hard not to get things done. he understood there was a lot of value in getting agreements that were win-win. judge jeanine: the fact that he very often had an opposing party in the legislative branch with 275 republic chance in the hou...

Urgency. and also the old great screen actor guilds negotiator that he was. and then, having george herbert walker bush being able to bring, as the greeks would say, character is destiny, george bushs character was, lets balance this, we used to mock this, but god knows we live in a better world because of it. he believed in prudence. he did not believe -- he believed america was the indispensable nation, but he also believed that every country had its right to shine th. that he shouldnt stick h...

President and i did it the way they wanted it done. on the one hand there was great temptation to move aggressively to make sure we controlled and maintained the enormous success of the collapse of the old soviet empire. on the other hand, and the president led the charge, obviously, it was his call, but he did it in such a way and insisted that we do it in such a way that we were not unsympathetic to the political problems, if you will, of mr. gorbachev and we could operate in a way that would ...

The relationships that were established then with gorbachev, for example, and the way that we operated, we had the military capacity, we generated significant success in the desert when we went to the gulf war, and at the same time that sort of backed up everything anybody ever thought about us, including our adversaries. there wasnt anybody that wanted to mess with the united states. over time, that ultimately, obviously, led to the decision by the soviets to shut down their operation. >> what ...

Sitting in the other fellas shoes. he sat in gorbachevs shoes and tried to make it a win-bin for gorbachev as he negotiated the collapse of the soviet union. he sat in the shoes when he negotiated while we were trying to put the budget together, the five-year budget package that created all the surpluses at the end of the five years. so it was empathy. it was understanding. and frankly the fact is that people really like george herbert walker bush. >> he certainly did. what should his legacy be,...

People there were dissidents for democracy, the fact that you had the berlin wall come down in 89 and what that meant, the wall being the symbol of the cold war, ronald reagan had said gorbachev, tear it down. now it was chiseled away, young people ripping away at it. the breakup of the soviet union and what that meant. all the countries that had been trying to join nato like poland and romania and the czech respect and slovakia. there was this moment in the bush presidency that it seemed like t...

Wanted to be president for another four years, but when i looked over the decisions hed make, i realized that though he was very bad at explaining what he was doing, he was one of the poorest communicators, he followed one of the greatest communicators in american history, ronald reagan, and he preceded another great communicator, bill clinton. but he was very bad in explaining what he was doing. but in his quiet humble way, he made some of the toughest decisions that any american president in t...