Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140620:16:50:00
Personal diplomacy. and you remember as well as i do, he was asked at several news conferences after brezhnev died and the soviet leaders why haven't you met with your soviet counterpart. and he said memorably at a news conference, well, they all keep dying on me. and then when, with the help, i think, importantly of nancy reagan and others, he agreed to meet with gorbachev in november of 1985 in geneva. and that was the beginning of this personal diplomacy. >> that was the beginning of the personal diplomacy. reykjavik was the real pinnacle. at reykjavik they met for 10 1/2 hours. it was like...