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Tonight we are delighted to have stephen knot. A professer of National Security affairs at the u. S. Naval college in nurport, rhode island. Prior to accepting his position, he chaired the president ial Oral History Program at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the university of virginia. His books include the reagan years, and Alexander Hamilton,. And with that, i would now like to welcome stephen to the electric turn. [applause] leckturn. [applause] thank you, jackie. And thank you, everyone for being here. It real sli a privilege to be speaking at such an historic site. This is my first...

Lifetime e a took place a lifetime ago. And its collapse seems so unimaginable. If i can indulge you for a second, the year before the collapse, i had organized a conference. Withe was more associated the cold war. Some of you were there. Of talk aboutt the integration of europe. , knownial the soviet was talking about the reunification of germany. Off desk also the time john and bill had begun their series on sovietamerican relations, the first time sovietamerican scholars got together. Scott armstrong had just come up with the idea of a National Security archive. But the end of the cold war ...