Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20181201:11:18:00
Communism, and the soviet union fell apart, george h.w. bush was president of the united states. >> the cold war didn't have to end peacefully. it could have ended with a bang instead of a whimper, but he made sure that it ended peacefully and took a lot of heat in the process for not being willing to be -- to emote more about winning the cold war. >> reporter: only months into president bush's term, china's government brutally crashed a pro-democracy uprising in tiananmen square in beijing. the president who had been the top u.s. diplomat in china under president ford, condemned the bloody re...