CSPAN2 Book TV December 23, 2012
The answer was there is no plan. I blew up, not for the first or last time, and said, how can it be the head of the soviet union dies, and we have no contingency plan. It was criminal, said the president. The truth was the United States and the other western nations had very little idea of what was happening behind the iron curtain. Two years later at the first summit meeting of the cold war era at geneva in 1955, the United States still did not know who was running the soviet union. They sent four leaders, one tall white man in a white suit with a white goatee who looked like Colonel Sanders ...
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