Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150806:04:36:00
The soviet union as an alternative to war with the soviet union. which is basically what everybody thought was inevitable at that time. that the u.s. and the soviets would go to war. in that strategy of speech peace, he did this one radical thing for which this speech is known more than 50 years later. in that speech, he announced new policy and he made news in that speech and it was an important speech. the really shocking thing he did that day was that he broke a rhetorical taboo. he broke the taboo of talking about the soviet union like they were freaking unknowable savages. he decided to s...