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By STEVE ERKENBRACK

Like khrushchev, and putin says, you mean, accept a retreat? no. >> what's so important is that there is a sense among american and some european elites that the cuban missile crisis ended peacefully because of statesmanship on both sides. there is no doubt that statesmanship mattered. but the initial move towards an off ramp was from the russian and the soviet side. the russians were scared. the reason they were scared is they were looking for some lack of resolve on the part of john f. kennedy and they didn't see it. when john f. kennedy imposed a blockade and stuck by id, c khrushchev reali...

And putin -- >> he said are you going to be like khrushchev, and putin says, you mean, accept a retreat? no. >> what's so important is that there is a sense among american and some european elites that the cuban missile crisis ended peacefully because of statesmanship on both sides. there is no doubt that statesmanship mattered. but the initial move towards an off-ramp was from the russian, the soviet side. the russians were scared. the reason they were scared is they were looking for some lack of resolve on the part of john f. kennedy and they didn't see it. when john f. kennedy imposed a blo...

Change when we realize that the word compromise is actually an act of statesmanship and not some sort of moral failing or sell out to the other side. because, in a system of checks and balances like ours, the only thing that we do to get anything done is by having principal compromise. >> so, i appreciate an applaud every point that you are making. but i have to turn it and get to the dark reality where we are. 16 billion dollars was just spent on these midterms. largely on negative ads. negative ads run by super pacs. given that the state of things, how do you pull back? right, i just talk a ...

Change has become a constant. managing it has become an expanding discipline. the way we embrace it defines our future. it has sometimes been observed that what leaders do for the people today is government and politics. but what they do for the people of tomorrow, that is statesmanship. while we may have more still to endure, better days will return. we will be with our friends again. we will be with our families again. we will meet again.