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All of us kind of grab it, we looked it over and it was a holy cow moment. this guy really wants to reduce nuclear weapons. here was a soviet leader who was not going by the script. here was a guy that wanted to do business. >> the first indication that some progress may have been made at today's talks at reykjavik came at a white house briefing here a few minutes ago. there's no prediction yet on the outcome of these talks, but they give rise to some optimism. >> i was up there as the clock was ticking down. they had worked and worked and worked on an arms control agreement and at the last mi...

Their advisers, mr. reagan invited gorbachev to stroll through the garden to the poolhouse where they sat alone before a fire. mr. reagan talk without notes, not about arms control but about of his personal feelings about reducing the level of fear and misunderstanding between the two nations. >> the main thing is they met each other as human beings, reagan, in particular, had concentrated his attention on gorbachev as a person. he spent more time studying gorbachev than he did the esoteric things having to do with arms control. >> it is understood the president tried to dispel gorbachev's neg...

Looked it over, and it was a holy cow moment. this guy really wants to reduce nuclear weapons. here was a soviet leader who was not going by the script. here was a guy who wanted to do business. >> the first indication that some progress may have been made at today's talks at reykjavik came at a white house briefing a few minutes ago. there's no prediction yet on the outcome of these talks, but they do give rise to some optimism. >> i was up there as the clock was ticking down. they had worked and worked and worked on an arms control agreement and at the last minute, it fell apart. >> mr. pres...

Empire. to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil. >> reagan delegitimized the soviet union. now the trouble is you're both poised with these weapons at each other, which is a terrible way to live. mutually assured destruction. reagan said, why don't we do something and put a protective shield between us so that i can have some other option? and that was the birth of the strategic defense initiative, called sdi, or unkindly called "star wars." >> what if free people could destroy strategic balli...

Language. >> president reagan and secretary gorbachev appeared to have reached tentative agreement on much of a historic breakthrough arms reduction arrangement. but in the end, the soviets insisted that president reagan must drop his star wars program to get the deal. president reagan wouldn't do that. >> the soviets feared that sdi was a lot more real than it was that the strategic defense initiative could protect the united states. it wasn't mutually assured destruction at that point, it was assured destruction of the soviet union but assured protection of the united states. so they went cr...