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Collectively the men in charge were, quote, those inhuman monsters, he wrote in his diary, after hearing of the plight. Individually, however, soviet leaders were adversaries, not enemies. And reagan wanted to negotiate with them. He wanted, from the very start, to negotiate with them. In january of 1983, in discussing some of the arms negotiations with the soviets, he wrote in his diary, found i was wishing i could do the negotiating with the soviets. They cant be any tougher than Frank Freeman and harry cohen, the respective heads of paramount studios and columbia pictures. So, let me briefly summarize three examples of reagan engaging his cold war adversaries. And the first is, you know, still a somewhat surprising story of reagan and pregorbachev soviet leaders. For more than five years, reagan wrote in his memoir, recalling the year 1985, id made little progress with my efforts at quiet diplomacy. For one thing, the soviets, soviet leaders kept dying on me. When he wrote that, a l
Hosted by the Plymouth Center in austin, texas. Im a professor here at the lbj School University of texas. Its a great pleasure to welcome you all here. Its my pleasure to moderate this panel. I will introduce the panelist really because you have their bios. I wont go through their bios in my introduction. Its an interesting time to be talking about europe. Period in which the attention of the world shifted away from europe, we tended to take for granted the achievement of a more united europe. Now that assumption is being called into question. The achievement of a more united europe, including Eastern Europe and western europe, is one of the most monumental achievements of my lifetime. I wouldnt say its under threat, but it is facing numerous challenges from russia, from the greek debt crisis, from immigration, from brexit, and from the president elect of United States. All the things conspired to make europe more interesting. Lets put it this way. The period, the Reagan Administratio
Eastern europe, as well as western europe, is one of the most monumental achievements of my lifetime and i wouldnt say its under threat. Its facing numerous challenges from russia, from the debt crisis, from immigration, from brexit and i would say from the president elect of the United States. So all of these things are conspired to make europe more interesting, lets put it this way. The period this panel will be looking at, that of the Reagan Administration, was particularly pivotal in the evolution of europe, even those areas where nothing might seem to happen, such as Eastern Europe after the questioning solidarity and up until 1989, there was a lot going on beneath the surface. Eastern europe was becoming prerevolutionary and it took a spark to ignite this revolutionary tender. Western europe was more obvious. It was a period in which decisions were made about the creation of a common europe, single european currency, single european market. And ultimately toward Political Union t
Eastern europe, as well as western europe, is one of the most monumental achievements of my lifetime and i wouldnt say its under threat. Its facing numerous challenges from russia, from the debt crisis, from immigration, from brexit and i would say from the president elect of the United States. So all of these things are conspired to make europe more interesting, lets put it this way. The period this panel will be looking at, that of the Reagan Administration, was particularly pivotal in the evolution of europe, even those areas where nothing might seem to happen, such as Eastern Europe after the questioning solidarity and up until 1989, there was a lot going on beneath the surface. Eastern europe was becoming prerevolutionary and it took a spark to ignite this revolutionary tender. Western europe was more obvious. It was a period in which decisions were made about the creation of a common europe, single european currency, single european market. And ultimately toward Political Union t