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Mr. President?

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Mr. President.

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Mr. President.

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I failed.

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I offered him
the deal of the century,

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of human history,

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and he's walking away
over one word, a single word.

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Never should've trusted him.

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Sir, the car is here,

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ready to take him
to the airport,

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but it's not over, not yet.

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It's over.

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The whole world living on hope.

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Press will know by tonight.

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Sir, when you recruited me,

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you told me
we could make a difference.

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You told me we could

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make America safer
than when we found her.

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It's over.

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Ask him to come to Washington.

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For what? More talk
that leads to nothing?

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Maybe this place is haunted.

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Ask him anyway, sir.
Please, in spite of it all.

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We have maybe a minute left
until he comes out that door,

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gets in that car,
and he is gone.

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Do not let what happened
in that house, in that room,

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over the last 30 hours
destroy our entire future.

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<i>All teams,</i>
<i>Rawhide has arrived.</i>

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<i>He stays with the football.</i>

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<i>- Establish position.</i>
<i>-The Brits gave it up.</i>

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Pictures falling off the walls
in the night,

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the ambassador's wife
refused to stay.

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They sold it back
to the Icelandic government.

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Let me get this straight,
George,

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of all the places on earth
you could pick for a meeting

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about the fate
of the human race,

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you picked a haunted house
in Iceland?

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Not me, sir. Secret Service.

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Perfect for security.

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Nothing around but lava rock
and the North Atlantic.

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Total isolation.

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"Total isolation."

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Can't blame Nancy
for staying home.

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But I am blaming you.

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Yes, sir.

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Ready to begin?

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<i>Copy. All clear.</i>

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Hello, how are you?

49
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-Good to see you.
-Mr. President.

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-Good to see you.
-Welcome, sir.

51
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-This is George Shultz.
-Hello, sir.

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Should be in the same area.

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We'll share this top floor,
Soviets are down the hall,

54
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and here is
our conference room.

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Any update?

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Tight quarters.

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I'm surprised you didn't
shove me in the basement.

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You'll be pleased to know, sir,

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that the basement,
in the spirit of this summit--

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It's not a summit.

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We've been having summits
for 40 years.

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Nothing changes.

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Actions speak louder
than words.

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If this guy Gorbachev
wants to bluster and bullshit,

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then...
...we'll just walk.

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Call it a meeting.
And no press.

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Sir, we can say no press,

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but the leaders
of the two superpowers,

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with 70,000 nuclear-tipped
ICBMs, IRBMs,

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air-launched cruise missiles,

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not to mention,

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five million
active duty conventional troops

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at their fingertips,
are having a... meeting.

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Mr. President,
whatever we call it,

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we have two days.

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Perhaps you'd like to glance
at the briefing binders?

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What, the basement...

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You were saying,
what's in the basement?

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That where you keep the ghosts?

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Well, in a manner
of speaking, sir.

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The CIA.

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Ah, of course.

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-And the KGB.
-Together?

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Oh, well, that's got to set
a world record for awkward.

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Or cooperation?

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Have you met the CIA and KGB?

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George, where's our team?

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Yes, sir.

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Let's be quick, gentlemen.

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Max Kampelman.

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Paul Nitze.

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Richard Perle.

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And Ken Adelman.

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The entire State Department,
entire federal government,

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at your disposal and you could
only find Democrats?

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I'm actually a Republican, sir.

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Well, that makes two of us.

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I'm glad you're all here.

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I-I know you gave up time
at home

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for a weekend in a house
in Iceland.

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But, hey,
I hear there are ghosts,

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so it should be fun.

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Let's talk about
how we open this thing.

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We've agreed to begin
with formal statements, sir.

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This is our basic boilerplate,

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plus a few other ideas.

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Uh-huh.

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I'm going to move up
the human rights stuff.

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I strongly suggest we don't
poke the bear first thing, sir.

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You read the briefing binders?

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The Russians are focused

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on the Strategic Defense
Initiative.

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Think it violates

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the Anti-Ballistic
Missile treaty.

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When, in reality,
SDI does nothing of the kind

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and they're violating
the ABM already

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with the radar installation
at Krasnoyarsk.

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Being underestimated

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is a tactical advantage,
gentlemen.

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Let's not make
that same mistake

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with the new secretary-general.

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Gorbachev is relatively young
for a Sov--

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Considering the last three died
before I could even meet them,

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I guess he must be.

125
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Well, he acted for a while
in high school,

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-then some in college.
-No kidding?

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Not film like you,
just stage plays.

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Explains his bombastic
speeches.

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All those big hand movements.

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At least you have something
in common, sir.

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Yes, except for the fact
that we disagree

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about free enterprise,
freedom of speech,

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and freedom of just about
any kind.

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Gentlemen,
can you trust an enemy?

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Since the founding
of the Soviet Union,

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they have concentrated
their foreign policy

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on the, uh, coercion
of other nations.

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And no nation,
not a single one,

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that has become communist

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has ever turned back
to democracy.

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And because of that,

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we face an enemy
that is ever-growing,

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an octopus stretching tentacles
into even our own hemisphere.

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Some of you,
except for this former Marine,

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are too young to remember
the Second World War.

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I am not.

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A system,
no matter fascist or communist,

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that subjugates every citizen,

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denying them
not just basic rights,

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but their God-given free will,

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is a threat
not just to one nation,

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but eventually to all nations.

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So we have rebuilt
our military,

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we have moved our Pershing
missiles into Germany

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in defense of our NATO allies,

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we have funded those committed

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to the cause
of democracy and freedom

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throughout the world,

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and, now, finally,
we have begun scientific work

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on a missile shield to protect
the American people.

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We have done all this,

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even though I have been called
a warmonger

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<i>by The New York Times</i>
<i>and even some of our allies,</i>

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even though
the atomic scientists

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have the Doomsday Clock down to
five minutes 'til annihilation,

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we have done all this...

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because I believed
it would drive the Soviets

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to the negotiating table.

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But...

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if we fail, if I fail...

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well, then I will be
just a warmonger.

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I will have endangered
the American people.

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Which is the absolute opposite
of our goal.

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We must find out
if we can trust this Gorbachev,

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if we can make a deal with him,

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if I can shake his hand
at the end of all this as the...

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photographers click and flash.

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If the capitalist press
finds out

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you brought so many clothes,

180
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they will confuse you
with Nancy Reagan.

181
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Oh...

182
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That doesn't look
like Karl Marx.

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"A nuclear war can never be won
and must never be fought."

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Who?

185
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A quote from the leader
of our main enemy

186
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when he addressed the Japanese
parliament three years ago.

187
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Don't get your hopes up, Miliy.

188
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It looked promising before,
in Geneva, and it fell apart.

189
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"The production
of too many useful things

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results in too many
useless people."

191
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Karl Marx never had to deal
with Paris and Mitterrand.

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Do you not remember?

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I wore the same thing twice

194
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and their press treated me
like a peasant.

195
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In the West, people
are on the streets, begging,

196
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yet I'm mocked
if I repeat a dress.

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The hypocrisy.

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But I will remind them
how sophisticated we are,

199
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how we are strong,

200
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as you will show him
in that room.

201
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We gave Reagan the option
of London or Reykjavik.

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He chose not the capital
of his main ally,

203
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the British,

204
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but this place,
that is equidistant between us.

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This is a good sign, Raisa.

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He chose it

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because the only airport
is at their airbase,

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forcing,
for the first time ever,

209
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a Soviet premier to land
upon NATO military territory.

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Their electronic warfare teams

211
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must have enjoyed
themselves immensely

212
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scanning all our communications.

213
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He is arrogant
and uncompromising.

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We have survived
the bloodletting

215
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of the Revolution,

216
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the onslaught of the Nazis,

217
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and the purges
of that maniac Stalin.

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We will survive electronic
warfare teams, my love.

219
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I know you want
to accomplish great things

220
00:12:01,455 --> 00:12:02,790
for our nation.

221
00:12:02,823 --> 00:12:05,125
I can't accomplish anything
if we continue fighting

222
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this Cold War
with the Americans.

223
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The soil of the Ukraine
is as rich as their Iowa,

224
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yet we continue to import
more and more of their grain.

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Forty million tons
last year alone.

226
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"Be bold and mighty forces
will come to your aid."

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-Tolstoy?-Goethe.

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What a dissident reader
you've become.

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00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:42,896
<i>Well, thanks to you, Miliy,</i>

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we no longer need to be
dissidents about what we read.

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No heavy coat.
Take the light one.

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You'll look like
you can't take the cold.

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And you're Russian.

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Well, I see they made
their own border.

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CIA on one side,
KGB on the other.

236
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That's the spirit
of cooperation?

237
00:13:54,502 --> 00:13:55,869
Lao Tzu tells us

238
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the journey of a thousand miles
begins with a single step.

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Mr. President,
I'm Margaret Clancy.

240
00:14:03,778 --> 00:14:04,679
How can I help you?

241
00:14:04,713 --> 00:14:05,780
That your real name?

242
00:14:05,814 --> 00:14:08,717
It is as far
as they're concerned, sir.

243
00:14:08,750 --> 00:14:11,985
Ah. Well, then, Ms. Clancy,
I'd like to talk to my wife.

244
00:14:12,019 --> 00:14:14,421
Well, sir, the best option
is a scrambler.

245
00:14:14,455 --> 00:14:15,422
Ours isn't set up yet,

246
00:14:15,456 --> 00:14:17,625
but there is one
in the Ambassador's residence.

247
00:14:17,659 --> 00:14:19,460
And if I promise
not to tell Nancy

248
00:14:19,493 --> 00:14:21,295
any classified nuclear secrets?

249
00:14:21,328 --> 00:14:22,429
Well, sir...

250
00:14:23,931 --> 00:14:26,066
Uh, that'll be fine
for the sat relay.

251
00:14:26,100 --> 00:14:27,535
The switchboard at Langley

252
00:14:27,569 --> 00:14:30,204
ought to be able to put you
through to the Lincoln Bedroom.

253
00:14:34,041 --> 00:14:37,211
Ronnie? You look good on TV.

254
00:14:37,244 --> 00:14:40,682
NBC says Air Force One
made a textbook landing

255
00:14:40,715 --> 00:14:41,716
despite the winds.

256
00:14:42,216 --> 00:14:45,052
I wish the Secret Service
would've brought the car.

257
00:14:45,085 --> 00:14:46,420
It's got better armor.

258
00:14:46,453 --> 00:14:47,655
<i>Didn't think</i>
<i>we'd need it.</i>

259
00:14:47,689 --> 00:14:48,989
And the Ambassador's car
is fine.

260
00:14:49,022 --> 00:14:51,826
I mean, we... we, uh, kicked him
out of his residence,

261
00:14:51,860 --> 00:14:53,728
might as well take his car too.

262
00:14:53,762 --> 00:14:54,796
<i>Wonder where we sent him.</i>

263
00:14:54,829 --> 00:14:56,029
You're too trusting.

264
00:14:56,063 --> 00:14:58,198
Well, if they launch
a first strike,

265
00:14:58,232 --> 00:14:59,900
they take out Gorbachev too.

266
00:14:59,933 --> 00:15:01,168
Seems unlikely, Nance.

267
00:15:01,201 --> 00:15:04,338
<i>And, uh, you know</i>
<i>I don't trust the Commies.</i>

268
00:15:06,708 --> 00:15:07,474
Listen...

269
00:15:08,142 --> 00:15:10,477
<i>Raisa Gorbachev is here.</i>

270
00:15:12,781 --> 00:15:16,584
<i>Intelligence reported it</i>
<i>as we landed this morning.</i>

271
00:15:17,151 --> 00:15:19,521
<i>Oh, Ronnie,</i>
<i>I should be there.</i>

272
00:15:19,554 --> 00:15:21,556
<i>And you know</i>
<i>what this will look like.</i>

273
00:15:22,022 --> 00:15:24,291
It's fine. We're not doing
anything social.

274
00:15:24,324 --> 00:15:25,627
There will be no pictures
of her

275
00:15:25,660 --> 00:15:28,061
<i>and him and me, and not you,</i>
<i>no loss of face.</i>

276
00:15:28,830 --> 00:15:30,130
I'm sorry, Nance.

277
00:15:33,668 --> 00:15:34,669
Don't worry about it.

278
00:15:34,702 --> 00:15:37,104
I've got lots
of work to do here.

279
00:15:37,705 --> 00:15:38,939
Go be great.

280
00:15:40,207 --> 00:15:42,577
Yes, ma'am. Love you.

281
00:15:42,610 --> 00:15:44,077
Love you.

282
00:15:53,454 --> 00:15:56,390
Yes, would you ask
my chief of staff to come by?

283
00:15:57,491 --> 00:16:00,695
Yes, wake her if need be.
Thank you.

284
00:16:19,346 --> 00:16:21,448
Convoy is on approach.

285
00:16:21,482 --> 00:16:23,518
There it is in the formation.

286
00:16:26,253 --> 00:16:27,087
Cameras?

287
00:16:27,488 --> 00:16:30,357
Just our guy, Pete Souza,
and one for the Soviets.

288
00:16:31,058 --> 00:16:33,728
Last time anyone gets
this close to the summit.

289
00:16:33,761 --> 00:16:34,596
Meeting.

290
00:16:38,999 --> 00:16:41,201
Good to see you, Mr. President.

291
00:16:41,803 --> 00:16:43,370
And you're early, hm?

292
00:16:43,403 --> 00:16:45,540
Always looking
for the advantage.

293
00:16:45,573 --> 00:16:48,408
Well, we are politicians,
Secretary-General.

294
00:16:48,442 --> 00:16:49,978
That we are, yes.

295
00:16:50,010 --> 00:16:52,680
And I hope we can be partners
in peace

296
00:16:52,714 --> 00:16:54,516
and begin the work

297
00:16:54,549 --> 00:16:58,185
that the world and our peoples
expect of us on arms reduction.

298
00:17:00,522 --> 00:17:02,289
I'm sure we will. Yes.

299
00:17:02,724 --> 00:17:05,092
And, uh, did you hear
this place is haunted?

300
00:17:25,780 --> 00:17:28,148
Must be a British joke, hm?

301
00:17:28,181 --> 00:17:29,784
I don't see any ghosts.

302
00:17:31,653 --> 00:17:34,254
I'll, uh, I'll let you get
settled with your staff

303
00:17:34,288 --> 00:17:37,190
and then I'll, uh, I'll meet
you in that room there.

304
00:17:37,224 --> 00:17:39,192
How much time do you need?
Half an hour?

305
00:17:39,226 --> 00:17:40,962
Five minutes?

306
00:17:40,995 --> 00:17:42,329
Unless you need more time

307
00:17:42,362 --> 00:17:44,999
to recover
from your early arrival.

308
00:17:45,033 --> 00:17:46,634
I'll be there.

309
00:17:59,413 --> 00:18:01,616
-Did he say "reduction"?
-He did.

310
00:18:02,249 --> 00:18:04,953
He mistranslated
the English word for "control."

311
00:18:04,986 --> 00:18:06,420
He meant arms control.

312
00:18:06,453 --> 00:18:09,189
Hell of a mistake to make
in the first minute, sir.

313
00:18:09,924 --> 00:18:11,391
Gorbachev has been in the Party

314
00:18:11,425 --> 00:18:14,194
and making moves
since he was a teenager.

315
00:18:14,796 --> 00:18:15,897
He's too good for that.

316
00:18:15,930 --> 00:18:16,698
Yeah.

317
00:18:18,066 --> 00:18:20,568
There have been
countless agreements

318
00:18:20,602 --> 00:18:21,970
about arms control, sir,

319
00:18:22,003 --> 00:18:24,304
but in all of human history,

320
00:18:24,338 --> 00:18:26,074
there has never been
a single pact

321
00:18:26,106 --> 00:18:30,377
between peoples
on the reduction of arms.

322
00:18:31,846 --> 00:18:33,681
This could be historic.

323
00:18:33,715 --> 00:18:34,716
Your legacy.

324
00:18:35,349 --> 00:18:38,285
Or it's a move meant
to throw us off our game

325
00:18:38,318 --> 00:18:40,622
and he's just going to bullshit
for two days.

326
00:18:41,188 --> 00:18:42,991
There's an old Russian saying,
George,

327
00:18:43,024 --> 00:18:46,094
"Trust, but verify."

328
00:18:46,126 --> 00:18:47,260
So...

329
00:18:48,062 --> 00:18:49,429
we need a test

330
00:18:49,463 --> 00:18:51,398
to see if he's serious
about change.

331
00:18:51,431 --> 00:18:52,600
Yes.

332
00:18:52,634 --> 00:18:56,470
I have the Rostropovich letter
in my briefcase upstairs.

333
00:19:14,756 --> 00:19:15,823
Shall we begin?

334
00:19:32,106 --> 00:19:33,875
Minister Shevardnadze.

335
00:19:34,642 --> 00:19:36,276
Secretary Shultz.

336
00:19:38,178 --> 00:19:40,480
I never imagined
I'd see the controls

337
00:19:40,515 --> 00:19:43,885
for 70,000 nuclear weapons
in the same room...

338
00:19:45,086 --> 00:19:46,621
a few feet apart.

339
00:19:46,654 --> 00:19:49,456
I have always wondered
why you Americans

340
00:19:49,489 --> 00:19:51,726
call it the "nuclear football."

341
00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:56,229
Only a weak people need to be
afraid of their own creation.

342
00:19:59,033 --> 00:20:01,401
Yes, we humans do have a way

343
00:20:01,435 --> 00:20:04,739
of making the horrific
sound innocuous.

344
00:20:06,406 --> 00:20:08,308
For example, "Gulag"...

345
00:20:09,010 --> 00:20:10,377
sounds so much nicer

346
00:20:10,410 --> 00:20:14,414
than "inhumane Siberian
torture prison."

347
00:20:31,264 --> 00:20:33,300
Mr. General Secretary,

348
00:20:34,902 --> 00:20:38,238
I have been impatiently
awaiting this meeting.

349
00:20:39,239 --> 00:20:41,274
In the organizational plan,

350
00:20:41,876 --> 00:20:43,578
it would evidently be expedient

351
00:20:43,611 --> 00:20:47,347
to devote part of the time
to talks held one-on-one,

352
00:20:47,380 --> 00:20:48,850
and part of the time

353
00:20:48,883 --> 00:20:50,585
to the exchange of opinions

354
00:20:50,618 --> 00:20:53,554
in the presence of our
ministers of foreign affairs.

355
00:20:53,588 --> 00:20:55,923
Is this procedure acceptable
to you?

356
00:20:56,858 --> 00:20:58,926
Yes, I agree with this.

357
00:20:59,694 --> 00:21:01,028
As a matter of fact,

358
00:21:01,062 --> 00:21:04,632
that is what we had in mind
when we suggested this meeting.

359
00:21:06,701 --> 00:21:09,537
With what problems
shall we begin our discussions?

360
00:21:10,437 --> 00:21:14,441
It seems to me we have
an entire series of problems.

361
00:21:14,909 --> 00:21:16,476
I am referring to the problems

362
00:21:16,511 --> 00:21:19,647
of intermediate-range weapons,
space,

363
00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:21,549
and agreements
on the ABM defense,

364
00:21:21,582 --> 00:21:24,552
as well as proposals
on strategic weapons.

365
00:21:24,585 --> 00:21:27,354
Mr. President,
I believe it would make sense

366
00:21:27,387 --> 00:21:30,091
to first conduct
a brief exchange of opinions

367
00:21:30,124 --> 00:21:31,526
on the situation in the world

368
00:21:31,559 --> 00:21:34,427
which has prompted me
to appeal to you

369
00:21:34,461 --> 00:21:36,664
with the proposal
of this meeting.

370
00:21:36,697 --> 00:21:39,033
Obviously we would be
willing to discuss

371
00:21:39,066 --> 00:21:40,333
all questions

372
00:21:40,367 --> 00:21:43,671
which the American side
feels necessary to raise.

373
00:21:43,704 --> 00:21:44,572
Thank you, sir.

374
00:21:45,540 --> 00:21:47,875
I would like to add
that, in my opinion,

375
00:21:48,776 --> 00:21:51,746
we really will have to talk
about human rights.

376
00:21:53,346 --> 00:21:55,983
Unlike other questions
which we have cited,

377
00:21:56,017 --> 00:21:59,253
they have great influence
on how far we can go

378
00:21:59,287 --> 00:22:01,989
in cooperation
with the Soviet side

379
00:22:02,023 --> 00:22:04,424
in view of our public opinion.

380
00:22:06,828 --> 00:22:10,698
Please continue
with your thoughts.

381
00:22:12,465 --> 00:22:13,835
Human rights,

382
00:22:14,502 --> 00:22:17,238
specifically questions
of exit from the Soviet Union,

383
00:22:17,939 --> 00:22:20,908
are ever present in appeals
to my office.

384
00:22:20,942 --> 00:22:22,442
Specifically, sir, I...

385
00:22:22,475 --> 00:22:23,878
Well, you may know

386
00:22:23,911 --> 00:22:26,214
that the National Symphony
in Washington,

387
00:22:26,247 --> 00:22:28,816
a wonderful,
cherished orchestra,

388
00:22:28,850 --> 00:22:32,720
has a cellist and conductor,
Mr. Rostropovich,

389
00:22:32,753 --> 00:22:34,622
who hails
from the Soviet Union.

390
00:22:34,655 --> 00:22:39,293
He left in 1974, I believe.

391
00:22:39,327 --> 00:22:41,394
His birthday is coming up

392
00:22:41,428 --> 00:22:45,066
and, uh, he has not seen
his sister, his only family,

393
00:22:45,099 --> 00:22:46,466
in over ten years.

394
00:22:49,036 --> 00:22:53,140
I have his letter here,
Mr. General Secretary,

395
00:22:53,174 --> 00:22:55,943
from him, beseeching you...

396
00:22:57,645 --> 00:22:59,780
to let her travel
to Washington...

397
00:23:01,282 --> 00:23:02,683
for his birthday.

398
00:23:05,686 --> 00:23:06,787
Hmm.

399
00:23:11,592 --> 00:23:14,896
We will talk
about human rights, hm?

400
00:23:14,929 --> 00:23:17,598
But now I would like
to express in principle

401
00:23:17,632 --> 00:23:20,067
what problems concern
the Soviet Union

402
00:23:20,101 --> 00:23:21,569
such as arms control,

403
00:23:21,602 --> 00:23:25,106
including strategic arms,
medium-range missiles,

404
00:23:25,139 --> 00:23:26,207
the ABM Treaty,

405
00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:29,610
and the cessation
of nuclear testing.

406
00:23:29,644 --> 00:23:31,178
Yes, I agree
with your approach.

407
00:23:31,212 --> 00:23:32,947
However, it is important
that you know

408
00:23:32,980 --> 00:23:35,816
the force of public opinion
in the USA.

409
00:23:37,785 --> 00:23:39,887
We are a nation of immigrants.

410
00:23:40,855 --> 00:23:42,523
One out
of every eight Americans

411
00:23:42,556 --> 00:23:43,824
has some relations

412
00:23:43,858 --> 00:23:47,460
with your vast Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics.

413
00:23:47,494 --> 00:23:50,331
And, of course, I...

414
00:23:50,364 --> 00:23:52,667
...I understand
this national spiritual tie

415
00:23:52,700 --> 00:23:54,635
since I, as an Irishman,

416
00:23:54,669 --> 00:23:56,771
feel these ties myself
with Ireland.

417
00:23:57,571 --> 00:24:00,841
Therefore, I see that
all Americans are concerned

418
00:24:00,875 --> 00:24:03,277
about what is going on
in your country

419
00:24:03,311 --> 00:24:05,478
because we are all immigrants.

420
00:24:06,547 --> 00:24:09,083
And it will be easier
to conclude agreements

421
00:24:09,116 --> 00:24:10,751
on various arms questions

422
00:24:10,785 --> 00:24:12,620
when public opinion
is not angered

423
00:24:12,653 --> 00:24:16,223
by some events in the countries
of their cultural heritage.

424
00:24:20,261 --> 00:24:23,931
However, I agree that these
problems are secondary

425
00:24:23,965 --> 00:24:27,034
as compared with the problems
of nuclear arms.

426
00:24:27,835 --> 00:24:31,105
Our situation is unique
in human history.

427
00:24:32,506 --> 00:24:35,042
Here we are, the two of us,

428
00:24:35,743 --> 00:24:37,445
sitting together in a room,

429
00:24:38,312 --> 00:24:42,482
deciding whether there will be
peace or war in the world.

430
00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:47,521
We both want peace,

431
00:24:48,723 --> 00:24:50,324
but how will we achieve it?

432
00:24:51,225 --> 00:24:56,364
How do we strengthen trust
and reduce suspicion

433
00:24:56,397 --> 00:24:57,932
between our two peoples?

434
00:25:08,809 --> 00:25:09,610
Hmm.

435
00:25:11,178 --> 00:25:13,514
I will consider your request.

436
00:25:17,585 --> 00:25:20,388
Thank you,
Mr. General Secretary.

437
00:25:20,421 --> 00:25:21,789
I may continue?

438
00:25:30,831 --> 00:25:32,867
<i>-We're on channel two.</i>
<i>-Copy that.</i>

439
00:25:35,036 --> 00:25:36,103
For Pete's sake, Austin,

440
00:25:36,137 --> 00:25:38,507
how many waffles did you have
for breakfast?

441
00:25:38,539 --> 00:25:39,974
I gotta take a leak!

442
00:25:42,643 --> 00:25:44,478
Oh, yeah,
as if this is the first time

443
00:25:44,513 --> 00:25:45,946
you've seen
someone waiting in line.

444
00:25:45,980 --> 00:25:49,016
You guys, you have to wait
in line for a loaf of bread.

445
00:25:50,684 --> 00:25:53,454
KGB doesn't wait for bread.

446
00:25:53,487 --> 00:25:55,356
Oh, yeah, no class warfare

447
00:25:55,389 --> 00:25:56,490
when you have the only guns

448
00:25:56,525 --> 00:25:58,092
and they're aimed
at the proletariat.

449
00:26:24,218 --> 00:26:26,854
The water is very
pure and very clean.

450
00:26:26,887 --> 00:26:29,957
It has a really high
mineral content

451
00:26:29,990 --> 00:26:34,161
that is especially.

452
00:26:34,195 --> 00:26:35,996
-Bravo!
-Who are you with?

453
00:26:36,531 --> 00:26:38,632
NPR. I'm-I'm Cleo.

454
00:26:38,666 --> 00:26:40,901
<i>You're The Times? London?</i>

455
00:26:40,935 --> 00:26:44,839
Yeah. Alexander.
How'd you... Uh, right.

456
00:26:45,272 --> 00:26:46,941
Just, uh... I knew that.

457
00:26:49,143 --> 00:26:51,078
It is so beautiful.

458
00:26:51,112 --> 00:26:54,248
The water
is so beautiful. So blue.

459
00:26:54,281 --> 00:26:55,850
Good morning.

460
00:26:58,385 --> 00:27:00,589
Well, this is crazy. Right?

461
00:27:00,654 --> 00:27:01,989
What?

462
00:27:02,022 --> 00:27:04,024
The entire world's press
corps descends

463
00:27:04,058 --> 00:27:06,360
on the tiny, freezing
strategic cornerstone

464
00:27:06,393 --> 00:27:07,562
of the North Atlantic,

465
00:27:07,596 --> 00:27:09,930
only to discover
a whole island with no hotels,

466
00:27:09,964 --> 00:27:13,167
no motels,
no bed and breakfasts,

467
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:14,569
not even cars to rent.

468
00:27:14,603 --> 00:27:16,270
Just an old church
with cots to sleep in,

469
00:27:16,303 --> 00:27:19,140
and a complete media blackout
of the actual summit?

470
00:27:19,173 --> 00:27:21,008
So instead of covering
the leader of the free world

471
00:27:21,041 --> 00:27:22,710
and the leader
of the communist empire

472
00:27:22,743 --> 00:27:24,979
alone in a room together
for the first time in 40 years

473
00:27:25,012 --> 00:27:27,181
debating whether we're all
gonna die in a mushroom cloud,

474
00:27:27,214 --> 00:27:30,751
we're left here
at a natural hot springs

475
00:27:30,784 --> 00:27:32,786
watching water aerobics?

476
00:27:36,724 --> 00:27:38,593
Madam Soviet First Lady?

477
00:27:38,627 --> 00:27:40,728
<i>Uh, The Times.</i>
<i>I have a question.</i>

478
00:27:40,761 --> 00:27:42,163
-Uh, no--
-Of course.

479
00:27:42,196 --> 00:27:45,232
I would be happy
to answer any questions.

480
00:27:45,266 --> 00:27:47,768
But I am not First Lady.

481
00:27:47,801 --> 00:27:50,605
I'm sure Nancy Reagan
appreciates the title,

482
00:27:50,639 --> 00:27:55,242
but in the Soviet Union,
we are all truly equal.

483
00:27:55,743 --> 00:27:58,513
I am simply Raisa Gorbacheva.

484
00:27:58,547 --> 00:28:00,681
Ah, yeah. Right.

485
00:28:01,348 --> 00:28:04,586
Um, Mrs. Gorbacheva, how are
you enjoying your time here?

486
00:28:04,619 --> 00:28:06,453
On behalf of the Soviet people,

487
00:28:06,487 --> 00:28:10,925
I am very grateful and, uh,
hope we will become friends.

488
00:28:11,526 --> 00:28:13,460
As Chekhov once said,

489
00:28:13,494 --> 00:28:16,263
"We must trust
and believe in people

490
00:28:16,297 --> 00:28:18,699
or life becomes impossible."

491
00:28:20,669 --> 00:28:22,736
Oh, thank you, darling.

492
00:28:22,770 --> 00:28:26,307
Where is your, uh, counterpart,
Mrs. Reagan?

493
00:28:26,340 --> 00:28:27,474
I don't know.

494
00:28:28,510 --> 00:28:30,612
I can't imagine leaving
my husband

495
00:28:30,645 --> 00:28:34,315
at such a critical time
in our world's history.

496
00:28:34,348 --> 00:28:36,217
Perhaps she doesn't feel well?

497
00:28:36,884 --> 00:28:38,419
-Mrs. Gorbacheva!
-Mrs. Gorbacheva!

498
00:28:38,452 --> 00:28:40,454
Any word from your husband?

499
00:28:42,056 --> 00:28:43,324
For too many years,

500
00:28:43,357 --> 00:28:46,661
there has been
an overly complex mechanism

501
00:28:46,695 --> 00:28:48,495
of Soviet-American dialogue.

502
00:28:48,963 --> 00:28:52,132
In this time,
this mechanism of dialogue

503
00:28:52,166 --> 00:28:55,035
has been disrupted
several times,

504
00:28:55,069 --> 00:28:58,272
and still we are not resolved
on the main questions

505
00:28:58,772 --> 00:29:01,275
even though many, many words
have been said

506
00:29:01,308 --> 00:29:02,443
regarding these questions.

507
00:29:02,476 --> 00:29:05,513
I have been frustrated
for many years myself

508
00:29:05,547 --> 00:29:07,348
with this lack of progress.

509
00:29:08,415 --> 00:29:11,885
So now we find ourselves

510
00:29:11,919 --> 00:29:15,055
in an increasingly
urgent situation,

511
00:29:15,889 --> 00:29:17,858
and that is why
I have suggested

512
00:29:17,891 --> 00:29:19,226
this meeting with you.

513
00:29:21,462 --> 00:29:23,864
I was very struck

514
00:29:23,897 --> 00:29:26,267
by your first campaign
for the presidency,

515
00:29:26,300 --> 00:29:30,204
when you suggested
a Nuclear Zero option.

516
00:29:31,706 --> 00:29:35,543
I wonder now
if this was merely rhetoric.

517
00:29:36,777 --> 00:29:38,312
I wonder, Mr. President,

518
00:29:38,345 --> 00:29:42,449
because despite
the millions of protestors

519
00:29:42,483 --> 00:29:44,184
for peace in Western Europe,

520
00:29:44,719 --> 00:29:47,821
despite the condemnation
of many allies

521
00:29:47,855 --> 00:29:50,558
and the political costs
to Chancellor Kohl

522
00:29:50,592 --> 00:29:52,226
and Prime Minister Thatcher,

523
00:29:52,259 --> 00:29:55,697
you have moved intermediate
ballistic missiles

524
00:29:55,730 --> 00:29:56,997
into Germany.

525
00:29:57,498 --> 00:29:58,566
If launched,

526
00:29:59,199 --> 00:30:03,037
these missiles are five
or six minutes from Moscow.

527
00:30:05,005 --> 00:30:07,975
You would give me
five or six minutes

528
00:30:08,008 --> 00:30:09,943
to respond to an attack?

529
00:30:10,679 --> 00:30:12,112
What do you think would happen?

530
00:30:12,146 --> 00:30:15,249
How am I to respond
to such aggression?

531
00:30:15,983 --> 00:30:19,521
Are these the actions of peace?

532
00:30:35,537 --> 00:30:37,371
Hm.

533
00:30:37,404 --> 00:30:38,640
Thank you, Mr. Gorbachev,

534
00:30:38,673 --> 00:30:41,141
for your sincere
and clear remarks.

535
00:30:43,844 --> 00:30:47,114
I would remind you
that the United States

536
00:30:47,147 --> 00:30:49,983
has placed its Pershing
missiles, our IRBMs,

537
00:30:50,017 --> 00:30:52,821
in West Germany at the request

538
00:30:53,420 --> 00:30:55,623
of a democratically
elected government,

539
00:30:55,657 --> 00:30:58,560
and that our number, 108,

540
00:30:58,593 --> 00:31:01,128
is less than half of the 279

541
00:31:01,161 --> 00:31:03,130
that you have stationed
in Eastern Europe.

542
00:31:03,163 --> 00:31:04,532
Yet we have nothing similar

543
00:31:04,566 --> 00:31:06,967
threatening Washington
in five or six minutes.

544
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:08,168
Threatening the free peoples

545
00:31:08,202 --> 00:31:09,870
of Brussels, Paris,
Rome, and London

546
00:31:09,903 --> 00:31:12,172
is threatening Washington,
Mr. Gorbachev.

547
00:31:12,206 --> 00:31:14,274
Such is the nuclear
umbrella policy

548
00:31:14,308 --> 00:31:16,877
of our security agreements
with our allies.

549
00:31:16,910 --> 00:31:19,446
An attack on one
is an attack on all.

550
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:21,982
Yes, I am familiar
with NATO Article 5.

551
00:31:22,015 --> 00:31:24,985
However, we have discussed

552
00:31:25,018 --> 00:31:28,389
many times the subject
of arms control.

553
00:31:29,123 --> 00:31:31,492
We have many agreements.

554
00:31:32,326 --> 00:31:33,695
Yes.

555
00:31:33,728 --> 00:31:37,799
Are you suggesting such a thing
in Europe with the IRBMs?

556
00:31:37,832 --> 00:31:39,834
To limit them, to control them?

557
00:31:39,868 --> 00:31:40,668
No.

558
00:31:41,402 --> 00:31:43,772
I am suggesting
that the Soviet Union

559
00:31:43,805 --> 00:31:48,275
would be willing
to remove our IRBMs.

560
00:31:48,843 --> 00:31:51,345
I am suggesting that we develop

561
00:31:51,979 --> 00:31:55,583
an agreement
on arms reduction...

562
00:31:57,050 --> 00:32:00,622
and that nuclear intermediate-
range ballistic missiles

563
00:32:00,655 --> 00:32:01,723
in Europe

564
00:32:01,756 --> 00:32:03,658
can be reduced...

565
00:32:04,491 --> 00:32:05,492
to zero.

566
00:32:22,109 --> 00:32:25,613
We would be open...

567
00:32:29,784 --> 00:32:31,619
to discussing
such an agreement.

568
00:32:42,229 --> 00:32:43,865
<i>As the press blackout continues</i>

569
00:32:43,898 --> 00:32:45,098
<i>here in Iceland,</i>

570
00:32:45,132 --> 00:32:47,702
<i>the Soviet premier's wife,</i>
<i>Raisa Gorbachev,</i>

571
00:32:47,735 --> 00:32:49,470
<i>was available for questions.</i>

572
00:32:49,504 --> 00:32:52,272
<i>When asked why the First Lady</i>
<i>was not also available,</i>

573
00:32:52,306 --> 00:32:54,308
<i>she suggested that perhaps</i>
<i>health concerns</i>

574
00:32:54,341 --> 00:32:57,144
<i>had prevented Mrs. Reagan</i>
<i>from making the trip.</i>

575
00:32:57,846 --> 00:32:59,213
<i>Mrs. Gorbachev...</i>

576
00:32:59,246 --> 00:33:01,549
Samantha, I'll need
my press secretary as well.

577
00:33:01,583 --> 00:33:03,016
<i>-Thank you.</i>
<i>-...as she uses her time</i>

578
00:33:03,050 --> 00:33:05,252
<i>to draw attention</i>
<i>to the cultural treasures</i>

579
00:33:05,285 --> 00:33:07,087
<i>of this island country.</i>

580
00:33:09,456 --> 00:33:11,458
And what about
the missiles in Asia?

581
00:33:11,492 --> 00:33:14,829
The IRBMs that have a range
of 1000 kilometers or less?

582
00:33:14,863 --> 00:33:18,666
Our proposal
only concerns Europe.

583
00:33:19,901 --> 00:33:22,069
There is a small problem.

584
00:33:22,102 --> 00:33:23,470
I am not authorized
to negotiate

585
00:33:23,505 --> 00:33:26,373
the nuclear forces of Britain
and France, Mr. Gorbachev.

586
00:33:26,406 --> 00:33:27,241
I am aware

587
00:33:27,274 --> 00:33:29,476
that you are neither
Mrs. Thatcher

588
00:33:29,511 --> 00:33:30,477
nor Mr. Mitterrand.

589
00:33:30,512 --> 00:33:34,014
So you are saying
that your proposal

590
00:33:34,047 --> 00:33:36,985
would include only US
and Soviet Union weapons?

591
00:33:37,017 --> 00:33:38,252
I am.

592
00:33:38,285 --> 00:33:40,320
Britain and France
have the right to keep theirs

593
00:33:40,354 --> 00:33:43,257
as a part of their own
defensive posture?

594
00:33:44,324 --> 00:33:46,026
I would hope
you'd encourage them

595
00:33:46,059 --> 00:33:48,095
to see that by withdrawing
our weapons,

596
00:33:48,128 --> 00:33:51,465
we leave our Warsaw Pact
allies vulnerable.

597
00:33:51,498 --> 00:33:55,102
That their NATO weapons
are an unaligned threat

598
00:33:55,670 --> 00:33:58,438
and that there is then
no deterrence for us.

599
00:33:59,072 --> 00:34:01,776
I would hope you would help
your NATO allies

600
00:34:01,809 --> 00:34:05,713
to see that their weapons
were no longer necessary.

601
00:34:06,246 --> 00:34:09,149
And you won't simply
paint over the Soviet flag

602
00:34:09,182 --> 00:34:10,217
with an East German flag,

603
00:34:10,250 --> 00:34:11,953
thereby, magically,

604
00:34:11,986 --> 00:34:15,222
a Soviet missile
becomes an East German one?

605
00:34:16,791 --> 00:34:17,926
I will not.

606
00:34:17,959 --> 00:34:21,094
What assurances do we have?

607
00:34:21,829 --> 00:34:25,098
My word
and that of the Soviet Union.

608
00:34:26,266 --> 00:34:28,736
You'll forgive me,
Mr. General Secretary,

609
00:34:29,604 --> 00:34:32,272
but we have a long history
of finding the USSR

610
00:34:32,306 --> 00:34:35,208
to be cheating on
its international obligations,

611
00:34:35,242 --> 00:34:37,845
including those
to the United States.

612
00:34:37,879 --> 00:34:40,380
You have a long
history of suspicion of us

613
00:34:40,414 --> 00:34:43,518
and a history
of covert activities

614
00:34:43,551 --> 00:34:46,219
in sovereign nations
hostile to you.

615
00:34:47,722 --> 00:34:48,790
I was sorry to hear

616
00:34:48,823 --> 00:34:52,259
of your recent misfortunes
with the Contras.

617
00:34:56,430 --> 00:34:59,834
I hope you will see
this proposal

618
00:34:59,867 --> 00:35:03,103
as a bold new initiative
for peace.

619
00:35:12,013 --> 00:35:14,481
There is a very old
Russian saying.

620
00:35:15,148 --> 00:35:16,350
A proverb.

621
00:35:17,351 --> 00:35:19,687
<i>"Doveryai, no proveryai."</i>

622
00:35:21,321 --> 00:35:23,024
"Trust, but verify." Yes.

623
00:35:23,057 --> 00:35:24,324
Yes.

624
00:35:24,826 --> 00:35:26,326
How do you propose we do that?

625
00:35:29,496 --> 00:35:32,399
Well, perhaps it's as simple
as letting American personnel

626
00:35:32,432 --> 00:35:34,936
observe the removal
of your missiles from Europe.

627
00:35:34,969 --> 00:35:37,237
This is not possible.

628
00:35:37,739 --> 00:35:40,273
My military
will never allow an enemy

629
00:35:40,307 --> 00:35:42,810
to observe our most closely
guarded technology.

630
00:35:42,844 --> 00:35:45,178
How would it be different
if you were to observe us?

631
00:35:45,212 --> 00:35:47,115
We would have the same problem.

632
00:35:47,682 --> 00:35:52,620
But our military still reports
to our civilian leadership.

633
00:35:53,420 --> 00:35:54,354
To me.

634
00:35:55,723 --> 00:35:56,924
Does yours?

635
00:35:59,192 --> 00:36:02,329
-"Trust, but verify"?
-Yes.

636
00:36:04,632 --> 00:36:05,833
How did you say it?

637
00:36:05,867 --> 00:36:10,404
We would be willing to discuss
such an agreement.

638
00:36:12,573 --> 00:36:13,574
Now...

639
00:36:15,943 --> 00:36:18,478
what about those IRBMs in Asia?

640
00:36:47,207 --> 00:36:49,610
What happened to solidarity,
comrade?

641
00:36:49,644 --> 00:36:52,180
"From each according
to their ability,

642
00:36:52,212 --> 00:36:54,214
to each according
to their need."

643
00:36:54,716 --> 00:36:56,684
You do not need
to quote Marx to me.

644
00:36:56,718 --> 00:37:00,220
How about, "life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness"?

645
00:37:00,253 --> 00:37:01,488
You've heard of that one?

646
00:37:01,522 --> 00:37:03,825
Yes, written by a slaveholder.

647
00:37:03,858 --> 00:37:04,992
How conveniently capitalist.

648
00:37:05,026 --> 00:37:06,460
Yeah, well,

649
00:37:06,493 --> 00:37:10,497
at least he didn't massacre
20 million farmers like Stalin.

650
00:37:11,165 --> 00:37:12,667
That's enough.

651
00:37:13,167 --> 00:37:15,302
Go upstairs
and get me a coffee.

652
00:37:28,783 --> 00:37:31,719
But you expect me
to abandon my Asian allies?

653
00:37:31,753 --> 00:37:34,722
We have no intermediate
ballistic missiles in Asia,

654
00:37:34,756 --> 00:37:36,991
at least not ones
that are nuclear-tipped.

655
00:37:37,024 --> 00:37:39,426
What do you expect me
to withdraw?

656
00:37:39,459 --> 00:37:42,530
I expect the United States
to have the same regard

657
00:37:42,563 --> 00:37:44,832
for Soviet concerns
as you have for your own.

658
00:37:45,700 --> 00:37:49,837
Are we not mutually assured
partners in destruction?

659
00:37:50,505 --> 00:37:54,307
Shall we not be mutually
assured partners in reduction?

660
00:37:55,042 --> 00:37:56,577
That's a great turn of phrase.

661
00:37:58,345 --> 00:37:59,580
You mock me?

662
00:37:59,614 --> 00:38:02,183
No, on the contrary,
Mr. Gorbachev, I salute you.

663
00:38:02,683 --> 00:38:04,152
You have a better command
of English

664
00:38:04,185 --> 00:38:05,418
than I ever could of Russian.

665
00:38:05,452 --> 00:38:06,888
Let me ask you this.

666
00:38:06,921 --> 00:38:10,357
What is the difference
between Brussels and Tokyo?

667
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:14,729
The sushi is better in Tokyo.

668
00:38:14,762 --> 00:38:18,032
Yeah, yeah, well, yes,
that's very funny, sir, but no.

669
00:38:18,065 --> 00:38:19,901
I mean, you have suggested

670
00:38:19,934 --> 00:38:22,570
that we remove our nuclear
protection of Belgium

671
00:38:22,603 --> 00:38:24,906
by removing
our Pershing missiles.

672
00:38:24,939 --> 00:38:25,940
-Yes.
-And yet,

673
00:38:25,973 --> 00:38:28,709
we have none protecting
our Japanese allies,

674
00:38:28,743 --> 00:38:30,477
but you have ones
that could threaten them.

675
00:38:30,511 --> 00:38:33,714
You have 6,500 nuclear warheads

676
00:38:33,748 --> 00:38:37,218
aboard American submarines
all over the world.

677
00:38:37,852 --> 00:38:41,488
More than 800 of which
are multiple reentry vehicles,

678
00:38:41,522 --> 00:38:44,125
multiple warheads per missile.

679
00:38:44,625 --> 00:38:46,393
And we know,
as equally as you do,

680
00:38:46,426 --> 00:38:48,830
of the greater accuracy
of American missiles.

681
00:38:48,863 --> 00:38:50,798
You're upset that we're good
at what we do?

682
00:38:50,832 --> 00:38:53,568
I'm explaining
that you have submarines

683
00:38:53,601 --> 00:38:55,468
in the Pacific defending Japan.

684
00:38:55,503 --> 00:38:57,205
And you have
none threatening it?

685
00:38:57,238 --> 00:38:59,106
The numbers are not equal.

686
00:38:59,140 --> 00:39:01,441
We have more land-based IRBMs.

687
00:39:01,474 --> 00:39:03,544
You have more submarines.

688
00:39:03,578 --> 00:39:06,614
But you expect me
to withdraw my Asian missiles

689
00:39:06,647 --> 00:39:09,183
while you offer no compromise,
be it submarine or otherwise.

690
00:39:09,217 --> 00:39:11,886
I am not going to leave
our Asian allies,

691
00:39:11,919 --> 00:39:14,354
none of whom have
nuclear forces of their own,

692
00:39:14,387 --> 00:39:15,388
defenseless.

693
00:39:15,422 --> 00:39:16,791
Yet you are asking me

694
00:39:16,824 --> 00:39:19,560
to leave my Warsaw Pact
allies defenseless,

695
00:39:19,594 --> 00:39:22,395
while I let your NATO allies
keep their nuclear weapons.

696
00:39:22,429 --> 00:39:25,365
I am not asking anything
of you, Mr. Gorbachev--

697
00:39:25,398 --> 00:39:27,400
you are asking me.

698
00:39:27,434 --> 00:39:31,739
The arrogance of the Americans.

699
00:39:32,173 --> 00:39:35,009
Uncompromising arrogance.

700
00:40:08,609 --> 00:40:11,411
What are you suggesting?

701
00:40:18,418 --> 00:40:19,921
I am suggesting

702
00:40:20,688 --> 00:40:22,757
that while I have proposed

703
00:40:22,790 --> 00:40:25,893
decoupling the question
of your NATO allies

704
00:40:25,927 --> 00:40:27,561
and their nuclear forces

705
00:40:27,595 --> 00:40:30,131
from the IRBM equation
in Europe,

706
00:40:30,164 --> 00:40:31,732
I have agreed, have I not,

707
00:40:31,766 --> 00:40:35,102
that they are separate
from the issue between us,

708
00:40:35,136 --> 00:40:39,540
you are not allowing that Asia
is another separate issue.

709
00:40:40,408 --> 00:40:42,610
How am I to compromise with you

710
00:40:42,643 --> 00:40:45,379
when you will do nothing
of the sort with me?

711
00:40:56,223 --> 00:40:57,625
It is near the time

712
00:40:57,658 --> 00:40:59,260
for the first session

713
00:40:59,293 --> 00:41:00,861
this morning to end,
Mr. Gorbachev.

714
00:41:00,895 --> 00:41:04,532
Perhaps we should update
our foreign ministers.

715
00:41:06,901 --> 00:41:07,768
And...

716
00:41:09,136 --> 00:41:10,838
in the spirit of compromise,

717
00:41:11,772 --> 00:41:16,444
I will advise mine that we wish
to pursue this deal

718
00:41:16,476 --> 00:41:19,347
relevant to the European
IRBM reduction.

719
00:41:19,380 --> 00:41:22,683
I'll ask him to have our staff
draft some language for it...

720
00:41:23,184 --> 00:41:25,219
with your approval, of course.

721
00:41:25,252 --> 00:41:27,487
This is satisfactory.

722
00:41:27,521 --> 00:41:29,557
We will meet again
at 3:00 p.m.?

723
00:41:30,858 --> 00:41:31,892
Of course.

724
00:41:57,551 --> 00:41:59,353
Stand to, gents.

725
00:41:59,387 --> 00:42:00,855
Gorbachev came to play.

726
00:42:00,888 --> 00:42:02,089
What's going on?

727
00:42:02,123 --> 00:42:04,859
Soviets are saying that they
will withdraw their IRBMs

728
00:42:04,892 --> 00:42:06,627
from Eastern Europe
if we pull the Pershings.

729
00:42:06,660 --> 00:42:07,995
-We're sure?
-That's unheard of.

730
00:42:08,029 --> 00:42:10,164
-They suggested it?
-Gonna lose my bet, aren't I?

731
00:42:10,197 --> 00:42:11,032
We have work to do.

732
00:42:11,065 --> 00:42:12,566
Chancellor Kohl
is gonna throw a fit.

733
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:13,834
He just spent two years

734
00:42:13,868 --> 00:42:16,203
and every last ounce
of political capital he has

735
00:42:16,237 --> 00:42:17,938
to move them in there.

736
00:42:18,572 --> 00:42:20,908
He had a million people
on the streets protesting.

737
00:42:20,941 --> 00:42:23,512
We'll worry about him
when we have a deal.

738
00:42:23,544 --> 00:42:25,746
For now, let's get started
on the details.

739
00:42:25,780 --> 00:42:26,781
A phased withdrawal.

740
00:42:26,814 --> 00:42:28,382
Seems right, but--

741
00:42:28,416 --> 00:42:31,852
First priority is determining
how it would be certified.

742
00:42:32,353 --> 00:42:34,088
<i>"Doveryai, no proveryai."</i>

743
00:42:34,121 --> 00:42:35,723
"Trust, but verify"?

744
00:42:35,756 --> 00:42:37,925
Russians will never
let a Yankee soldier

745
00:42:37,958 --> 00:42:39,460
on their rocket pads
to observe.

746
00:42:39,493 --> 00:42:40,661
Never happen.

747
00:42:41,595 --> 00:42:42,563
-No.
-He didn't.

748
00:42:42,596 --> 00:42:44,732
He knows
this could be his legacy,

749
00:42:45,399 --> 00:42:48,002
the President's legacy,
our legacy.

750
00:42:48,035 --> 00:42:50,037
There's plenty of room
on this boat

751
00:42:50,071 --> 00:42:52,606
for all of our résumés
and reputations.

752
00:42:53,140 --> 00:42:54,809
I'll see about getting us
some food.

753
00:42:54,842 --> 00:42:56,143
You get to work on a proposal.

754
00:42:56,177 --> 00:42:58,345
Shouldn't the boss be here?
Where is he?

755
00:42:58,879 --> 00:43:00,781
He's doing the smart thing,
Perle, resting.

756
00:43:00,815 --> 00:43:01,982
You know something about that.

757
00:43:03,217 --> 00:43:05,219
Mm.

758
00:43:55,069 --> 00:43:57,304
It's just chicken salad,
friend.

759
00:44:17,626 --> 00:44:18,425
Yes?

760
00:44:18,459 --> 00:44:19,561
How are you?

761
00:44:19,594 --> 00:44:20,961
<i>What is that music?</i>

762
00:44:20,995 --> 00:44:23,797
I tried to find something
by Rostropovich,

763
00:44:23,831 --> 00:44:26,000
but, uh, they don't have it.

764
00:44:26,033 --> 00:44:28,035
I'm sure he'd play here
when you get home.

765
00:44:28,068 --> 00:44:29,904
Well, let's see
if I can get his sister

766
00:44:29,937 --> 00:44:32,339
out of the Soviet Union
for his birthday first.

767
00:44:32,373 --> 00:44:34,808
<i>Gorbachev isn't exactly Gandhi.</i>

768
00:44:34,842 --> 00:44:36,645
Are there reindeer in Iceland?

769
00:44:36,677 --> 00:44:38,679
I'm pretty sure I'm staring
at a reindeer.

770
00:44:38,712 --> 00:44:40,214
I don't know.

771
00:44:40,247 --> 00:44:42,517
Well, I'm gonna have to inquire
about our ambassador.

772
00:44:42,551 --> 00:44:44,952
He shouldn't be hunting the
rare, indigenous, endangered

773
00:44:44,985 --> 00:44:46,921
<i>Icelandic reindeer.</i>

774
00:44:46,954 --> 00:44:47,988
<i>The environmentalist lobby</i>

775
00:44:48,022 --> 00:44:50,224
will never let me hear
the end of it.

776
00:44:50,257 --> 00:44:51,258
<i>Oh, Ronnie.</i>

777
00:44:52,159 --> 00:44:52,993
I don't think

778
00:44:53,027 --> 00:44:55,029
the environmentalists
vote Republican.

779
00:44:55,062 --> 00:44:57,798
Well, I won 49 out
of the 50 states, Nance.

780
00:44:57,831 --> 00:44:59,233
Some of those votes
were Democrats.

781
00:44:59,266 --> 00:45:01,402
Some of them care
about the environment.

782
00:45:03,505 --> 00:45:06,807
She told reporters I was ill.

783
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:09,410
Raisa Gorbachev
is just enjoying the spotlight.

784
00:45:09,443 --> 00:45:12,246
You know they don't even know
her name back home in Russia?

785
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:15,416
The KGB cuts her out
of pictures before the press,

786
00:45:15,449 --> 00:45:19,521
well, what they call the press,
can, uh, print it in the paper.

787
00:45:19,554 --> 00:45:21,422
She, uh, she doesn't exist
back there.

788
00:45:21,455 --> 00:45:22,524
That's gotta be tough.

789
00:45:22,990 --> 00:45:25,459
I'm not in this
for the spotlight.

790
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:27,494
I know. Yeah.

791
00:45:29,096 --> 00:45:32,266
There is, uh, there's something
weird about reindeer.

792
00:45:33,267 --> 00:45:35,002
Maybe just dead ones.

793
00:45:35,035 --> 00:45:36,804
Santa's all wrong about them.

794
00:45:36,837 --> 00:45:37,905
It's like a...

795
00:45:39,106 --> 00:45:41,976
It is like a menagerie of death
in here.

796
00:45:42,810 --> 00:45:44,078
What are you working on?

797
00:45:44,579 --> 00:45:46,914
Oh, uh, nothing,
just some little stuff

798
00:45:46,947 --> 00:45:48,550
my office has been planning.

799
00:45:48,583 --> 00:45:50,585
<i>Listen, I'll tell them</i>

800
00:45:50,619 --> 00:45:52,621
to issue a statement
that you're healthy.

801
00:45:52,654 --> 00:45:55,122
No. I can take care of myself.

802
00:45:56,056 --> 00:45:58,192
And I've got lots to do here,

803
00:45:58,225 --> 00:46:02,096
and you've got a ball game.
You stay focused there.

804
00:46:02,129 --> 00:46:04,431
<i>-Love you.</i>
<i>-Okay, bye.</i>

805
00:46:05,266 --> 00:46:06,166
Bye.

806
00:46:31,358 --> 00:46:33,494
<i>Reagan shot at close range,</i>

807
00:46:33,528 --> 00:46:34,529
<i>apparently by a...</i>

808
00:46:57,351 --> 00:46:58,852
-Sir.-George.

809
00:46:58,886 --> 00:47:00,254
What happened
to your shirt?

810
00:47:01,656 --> 00:47:03,758
Chicken salad sandwich.

811
00:47:03,792 --> 00:47:06,293
-Come on in.
-Uh...

812
00:47:06,894 --> 00:47:08,563
Plenty of time for you
to change.

813
00:47:14,268 --> 00:47:17,605
Something on your mind, George?
Speak up.

814
00:47:18,105 --> 00:47:21,041
I've been going over the
proposal with our team, sir.

815
00:47:21,075 --> 00:47:24,044
It's... it's been a big day
already.

816
00:47:24,078 --> 00:47:25,547
You want to quit
while we're ahead?

817
00:47:25,580 --> 00:47:26,715
The thought had occurred.

818
00:47:26,748 --> 00:47:29,116
Every missile out of Europe?

819
00:47:29,818 --> 00:47:31,352
That's a hell of a legacy.

820
00:47:31,385 --> 00:47:32,286
Yeah.

821
00:47:32,319 --> 00:47:34,355
Someday, you're gonna have
to explain to me

822
00:47:34,388 --> 00:47:37,592
what "legacy" means to all
you East Coast blue bloods.

823
00:47:38,827 --> 00:47:40,894
That means the next generation
is better off

824
00:47:40,928 --> 00:47:42,262
because of something you did.

825
00:47:43,364 --> 00:47:48,235
I'm sorry, sir, that came out
snarkier than I intended.

826
00:47:48,268 --> 00:47:50,204
I didn't hire you
for your suits.

827
00:47:50,904 --> 00:47:52,239
I hired you for your candor.

828
00:47:56,811 --> 00:47:59,146
We, uh... We're not done yet.

829
00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:02,116
You want to talk
about human rights again?

830
00:48:03,117 --> 00:48:06,453
Yeah. I do.

831
00:48:06,487 --> 00:48:08,590
Why? It'll only annoy him.

832
00:48:08,623 --> 00:48:10,157
They-They'll try to avoid it.

833
00:48:10,190 --> 00:48:12,426
Well, all the more reason.

834
00:48:12,459 --> 00:48:17,665
If you poke the Russian bear
too hard, he will react poorly.

835
00:48:17,699 --> 00:48:19,299
You trust me, George?

836
00:48:20,067 --> 00:48:21,502
Of course, Mr. President.

837
00:48:22,436 --> 00:48:24,471
Don't give me that
"salute-to-the-flag" answer.

838
00:48:24,506 --> 00:48:25,339
I asked you a question.

839
00:48:25,372 --> 00:48:28,041
Establishment
thinks I'm a warmonger,

840
00:48:28,710 --> 00:48:30,010
dangerous.

841
00:48:31,646 --> 00:48:33,180
What's the, uh, difference

842
00:48:33,213 --> 00:48:35,182
between me and any
other chucklehead on TV,

843
00:48:35,215 --> 00:48:36,984
except now I'm in the Oval.

844
00:48:38,553 --> 00:48:41,321
I'm asking why you trust me?

845
00:48:41,989 --> 00:48:44,958
New York boy, Princeton,
upper class,

846
00:48:45,225 --> 00:48:47,194
you're part
of the establishment.

847
00:48:50,364 --> 00:48:53,233
I trust you
because you're right.

848
00:48:53,267 --> 00:48:55,537
It can't just be diplomacy.

849
00:48:56,437 --> 00:49:00,642
The Soviets will not listen
to us unless we are strong.

850
00:49:00,675 --> 00:49:02,677
Peace through strength.

851
00:49:04,077 --> 00:49:05,680
We tried everything else.

852
00:49:06,246 --> 00:49:10,284
Engagement, encirclement,
low-intensity conflicts.

853
00:49:10,951 --> 00:49:12,587
Nothing worked,

854
00:49:12,620 --> 00:49:14,488
until your military buildup.

855
00:49:16,290 --> 00:49:19,426
You got us here, sir.
You got them to the table.

856
00:49:20,528 --> 00:49:22,864
"If you can't make them see
the light..."

857
00:49:22,897 --> 00:49:25,199
"...make sure
they feel the heat."

858
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:28,235
That was a good line.

859
00:49:29,470 --> 00:49:30,572
Mm.

860
00:49:31,606 --> 00:49:35,743
You tell me if you think
we should call it,

861
00:49:36,977 --> 00:49:39,046
if we get right up
to that red line.

862
00:49:41,215 --> 00:49:43,417
For now, let's see how far
they'll bend.

863
00:49:44,084 --> 00:49:45,820
Let's see how today ends.

864
00:49:46,220 --> 00:49:47,689
If it's a stalemate...

865
00:49:49,456 --> 00:49:50,592
I'll reconsider.

866
00:49:51,626 --> 00:49:52,527
Yes, sir.

867
00:50:16,016 --> 00:50:17,484
We resume this afternoon

868
00:50:17,519 --> 00:50:20,120
with our secretary of state,
George Shultz,

869
00:50:20,153 --> 00:50:22,524
and your foreign minister,
Eduard Shevardnadze.

870
00:50:22,557 --> 00:50:25,292
Mr. General Secretary,
we are pleased

871
00:50:25,325 --> 00:50:27,027
with the morning's progress.

872
00:50:27,060 --> 00:50:28,897
Our team believes
that we can find a way

873
00:50:28,930 --> 00:50:32,634
to reduce the European IRBMs
to zero.

874
00:50:33,133 --> 00:50:36,771
Thank you, Mr. President.
This is very good news.

875
00:50:36,804 --> 00:50:38,973
I wonder
if now might be the time

876
00:50:39,007 --> 00:50:41,174
to turn our discussions
to human rights,

877
00:50:41,743 --> 00:50:44,344
for instance, Mr. Rostropovich.

878
00:50:44,378 --> 00:50:46,014
We are a nation of immigrants.

879
00:50:46,046 --> 00:50:48,081
We take their rights
and their families' rights

880
00:50:48,115 --> 00:50:50,050
very seriously,
Secretary-General.

881
00:50:50,083 --> 00:50:52,286
If we could discuss
his sister's visit--

882
00:50:52,319 --> 00:50:54,589
As you stated before,

883
00:50:54,622 --> 00:50:56,056
and as I stated before,

884
00:50:56,089 --> 00:50:57,525
we would first like to continue

885
00:50:57,559 --> 00:50:59,794
on the subject
of arms reduction.

886
00:51:03,497 --> 00:51:04,032
Okay.

887
00:51:04,532 --> 00:51:06,500
We have
a further proposal.

888
00:51:07,234 --> 00:51:08,870
My foreign minister and I

889
00:51:08,903 --> 00:51:11,573
have been discussing
the nuclear triad,

890
00:51:11,606 --> 00:51:12,740
as you call it.

891
00:51:12,774 --> 00:51:14,408
Yes, our strategy

892
00:51:14,441 --> 00:51:17,277
relies upon a three-point
threat deterrence,

893
00:51:17,311 --> 00:51:19,981
our land-based intercontinental
ballistic missiles,

894
00:51:20,014 --> 00:51:23,083
our long-range strategic
air command of bombers

895
00:51:23,116 --> 00:51:24,151
with their cruise missiles,

896
00:51:24,184 --> 00:51:26,754
and our submarine-launched
missiles.

897
00:51:26,788 --> 00:51:28,422
You have something similar.

898
00:51:28,455 --> 00:51:30,825
We don't have nearly
the same numbers

899
00:51:30,858 --> 00:51:32,326
of submarines or bombers.

900
00:51:32,359 --> 00:51:34,696
Our strategy relies
almost entirely

901
00:51:34,729 --> 00:51:38,933
on the, uh, overwhelming
superiority of our ICBMs.

902
00:51:38,967 --> 00:51:40,635
Superiority? You have a number

903
00:51:40,668 --> 00:51:42,070
that's vastly greater
than our own.

904
00:51:42,102 --> 00:51:43,504
I might call it redundancy.

905
00:51:43,538 --> 00:51:46,440
-Please, you insult--
-We could, however, reclassify

906
00:51:46,473 --> 00:51:51,244
all these weapons as strategic
offensive armaments, hm?

907
00:51:51,278 --> 00:51:54,114
In years past,
our predecessors,

908
00:51:54,147 --> 00:51:55,950
going all the way back
to the advent

909
00:51:55,984 --> 00:51:57,685
of the hydrogen bomb,

910
00:51:57,719 --> 00:51:59,453
have tried to restrain

911
00:51:59,486 --> 00:52:01,656
the development
of these weapons,

912
00:52:01,689 --> 00:52:03,024
mostly the ICBMs,

913
00:52:03,057 --> 00:52:05,225
but also the bombers
and other types,

914
00:52:05,258 --> 00:52:08,630
to control
the expansion of arms.

915
00:52:08,663 --> 00:52:10,098
-Yes?-Yes.

916
00:52:10,130 --> 00:52:11,365
They have failed.

917
00:52:11,398 --> 00:52:14,102
We have tens of thousands
of these weapons anyway

918
00:52:14,134 --> 00:52:16,004
all pointed at each other.

919
00:52:16,037 --> 00:52:18,205
You propose a new plan
for these weapons?

920
00:52:18,238 --> 00:52:19,473
We propose,

921
00:52:19,507 --> 00:52:22,510
using this morning's
European plan as our guide,

922
00:52:22,543 --> 00:52:25,813
to reduce these weapons
as well.

923
00:52:36,090 --> 00:52:39,493
And, uh, you wanted
to quit while we were ahead.

924
00:52:39,527 --> 00:52:41,863
You're not going to let me live
that down, are you, sir?

925
00:52:41,896 --> 00:52:43,698
Never. Okay.

926
00:52:44,431 --> 00:52:47,167
Your turn at bat, swing away.

927
00:52:50,738 --> 00:52:54,441
We agree this would be
an admirable goal.

928
00:52:55,610 --> 00:52:57,912
Perhaps by as much
as one third?

929
00:53:02,116 --> 00:53:04,351
Or even by half?

930
00:53:05,452 --> 00:53:06,219
Half?

931
00:53:08,856 --> 00:53:10,625
Fifty percent?

932
00:53:10,658 --> 00:53:12,192
That is correct.

933
00:53:12,894 --> 00:53:14,929
In land-based ICBMs?

934
00:53:15,930 --> 00:53:18,331
In all. Huh?

935
00:53:19,232 --> 00:53:21,569
All parts of the triad.

936
00:53:22,537 --> 00:53:25,540
Which would still leave you
a significant advantage

937
00:53:25,573 --> 00:53:29,110
in land-based
and mobile-launched ICBMs.

938
00:53:29,143 --> 00:53:32,080
We understand
and are prepared to discuss

939
00:53:32,113 --> 00:53:33,614
how this goal
could be achieved.

940
00:53:33,648 --> 00:53:37,451
What I am asking is,
is this of interest to you?

941
00:53:40,722 --> 00:53:42,389
It certainly is.

942
00:53:42,422 --> 00:53:45,760
Good. Good. Good!

943
00:53:46,894 --> 00:53:48,462
We are making progress.

944
00:53:49,597 --> 00:53:51,431
Seems like Christmas
has come early.

945
00:53:51,899 --> 00:53:56,436
What-what does your religious
holiday have to do with this?

946
00:53:56,470 --> 00:53:59,339
Nothing. I'm sorry,
I forget you're all atheists.

947
00:54:01,809 --> 00:54:03,778
Although, it, uh...

948
00:54:05,345 --> 00:54:07,115
Well, it seems to me
that the Party

949
00:54:07,148 --> 00:54:08,750
is about the same as a church.

950
00:54:09,249 --> 00:54:11,819
You're true believers
in the Party, right?

951
00:54:12,385 --> 00:54:13,988
Sir, perhaps...

952
00:54:14,021 --> 00:54:17,825
Please, continue with
your thoughts, Mr. President.

953
00:54:18,793 --> 00:54:21,963
Well, I mean, you deny
religion as hokum,

954
00:54:21,996 --> 00:54:23,330
bunk, nonsense,

955
00:54:23,363 --> 00:54:25,066
and there can't be
an Almighty Party

956
00:54:25,099 --> 00:54:27,001
when there's an Almighty God
above it,

957
00:54:27,034 --> 00:54:28,770
so your people can't worship.

958
00:54:28,803 --> 00:54:31,973
They, uh, they have to worship
the Party.

959
00:54:32,907 --> 00:54:33,674
Mmm.

960
00:54:34,709 --> 00:54:40,413
To paraphrase the words
of our, um, theology,

961
00:54:40,447 --> 00:54:43,450
we believe religion
is a false prophet,

962
00:54:43,483 --> 00:54:44,685
promising the people things

963
00:54:44,719 --> 00:54:46,254
they ought to achieve
for themselves.

964
00:54:46,286 --> 00:54:49,023
And yet you make them
stand in line

965
00:54:49,056 --> 00:54:51,458
for bread and milk and shoes,

966
00:54:51,491 --> 00:54:53,227
and then deny them
the hereafter

967
00:54:53,261 --> 00:54:54,595
that would suggest that their,

968
00:54:54,629 --> 00:54:57,131
well, their suffering
is temporary.

969
00:54:57,165 --> 00:54:59,167
They have nothing
to look forward to,

970
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:00,535
this life or the next.

971
00:55:01,035 --> 00:55:02,770
No wonder
they're so pissed off.

972
00:55:02,804 --> 00:55:06,040
The Soviet people
are not pissed off.

973
00:55:06,073 --> 00:55:07,340
Then why do they wanna leave?

974
00:55:07,374 --> 00:55:10,278
Why do you have to keep them
locked up behind walls,

975
00:55:10,310 --> 00:55:11,879
like the one in Berlin?

976
00:55:12,547 --> 00:55:14,215
Why not tear it down?

977
00:55:14,248 --> 00:55:16,184
This is western propaganda.

978
00:55:16,217 --> 00:55:17,585
Your Voice of America.

979
00:55:17,618 --> 00:55:19,620
Which you keep trying
to jam the signal of.

980
00:55:19,654 --> 00:55:21,989
And we have nothing like it
attacking American ears.

981
00:55:22,023 --> 00:55:25,593
You won't even let
our movies into your cinemas,

982
00:55:25,626 --> 00:55:28,129
and yet you call
this free speech?

983
00:55:28,162 --> 00:55:29,530
Hmm? Open debate?

984
00:55:29,564 --> 00:55:31,165
Well, that's the difference,
gentlemen.

985
00:55:31,199 --> 00:55:32,834
The Republican Party
doesn't control

986
00:55:32,867 --> 00:55:36,003
what goes on the radio or TV.
We don't have our own channel.

987
00:55:36,704 --> 00:55:38,405
If you make something
that the American people

988
00:55:38,438 --> 00:55:40,575
actually wanna watch,
I guarantee they'll play it.

989
00:55:40,608 --> 00:55:41,843
Media companies don't care

990
00:55:41,876 --> 00:55:44,377
if you're religious
or fascist or nihilist,

991
00:55:44,411 --> 00:55:45,780
they just want to make money.

992
00:55:45,813 --> 00:55:49,917
Yes.
The great American distraction,

993
00:55:49,951 --> 00:55:52,186
making money.

994
00:55:52,220 --> 00:55:55,957
And you are trying to distract
us from our purpose here.

995
00:55:55,990 --> 00:55:57,258
This is pointless.

996
00:55:57,291 --> 00:55:59,392
I, uh I got
an intelligence report

997
00:55:59,426 --> 00:56:01,295
the other day from our CIA.

998
00:56:01,329 --> 00:56:02,530
They were, uh,

999
00:56:02,563 --> 00:56:05,432
they were assessing
your economic conditions,

1000
00:56:05,465 --> 00:56:07,434
tracking a bread line
in Moscow.

1001
00:56:08,035 --> 00:56:09,237
There was a guy, Boris,

1002
00:56:09,270 --> 00:56:11,205
and, uh, he was in front
of our agent,

1003
00:56:11,239 --> 00:56:12,840
and he got so pissed off

1004
00:56:12,874 --> 00:56:15,009
that he, uh,
he left the bread line.

1005
00:56:15,042 --> 00:56:17,945
He said he was gonna go find
you, Mr. General Secretary,

1006
00:56:17,979 --> 00:56:21,048
and bludgeon you
with a hammer and sickle.

1007
00:56:21,749 --> 00:56:24,552
Well, poor ol' Boris, he came
back about an hour later

1008
00:56:24,585 --> 00:56:26,587
and when our agent
asked him why,

1009
00:56:26,621 --> 00:56:29,690
he said the only line longer
than the one for bread

1010
00:56:29,724 --> 00:56:31,192
was the one to attack you.

1011
00:56:59,921 --> 00:57:01,222
You see, Mr. President,

1012
00:57:01,255 --> 00:57:04,558
you're not the only one with
public opinion problems, hm?

1013
00:57:04,592 --> 00:57:08,195
We both must answer
to the people.

1014
00:57:08,930 --> 00:57:13,601
Yes, but, uh, my people,
if they criticize me publicly,

1015
00:57:13,634 --> 00:57:15,569
don't get sent to the Gulag.

1016
00:57:16,137 --> 00:57:16,837
True.

1017
00:57:17,571 --> 00:57:20,174
And my people can't shoot me.

1018
00:57:29,884 --> 00:57:32,153
We must also ascertain
throw weight.

1019
00:57:33,988 --> 00:57:36,691
The amount of weight
the missile itself can carry,

1020
00:57:36,724 --> 00:57:39,994
how much a warhead,
or warheads, can weigh.

1021
00:57:41,028 --> 00:57:43,496
Your missiles can carry
a heavier payload,

1022
00:57:43,531 --> 00:57:44,832
so equal number of missiles

1023
00:57:44,865 --> 00:57:48,002
does not mean
equal number of warheads.

1024
00:57:50,371 --> 00:57:51,906
Let us discuss it.

1025
00:58:08,189 --> 00:58:09,557
Hold on, guys.

1026
00:58:09,590 --> 00:58:11,092
Perhaps I should
become a capitalist.

1027
00:58:11,125 --> 00:58:13,493
Then I could sell you time
in my restroom.

1028
00:58:21,435 --> 00:58:22,636
Colonel.

1029
00:58:26,273 --> 00:58:27,842
Détente, comrade.

1030
00:58:57,972 --> 00:59:00,541
Any idea why she's
looking at the Prose Edda?

1031
00:59:01,142 --> 00:59:02,109
The what?

1032
00:59:02,543 --> 00:59:05,046
The ancient Icelandic text.

1033
00:59:05,079 --> 00:59:06,814
Odin, Thor, Loki.

1034
00:59:06,847 --> 00:59:09,884
All their culture and religion
and things rolled into one.

1035
00:59:09,917 --> 00:59:12,219
Why would
you possibly know...

1036
00:59:12,253 --> 00:59:14,188
Oh, of course, NPR.

1037
00:59:14,221 --> 00:59:17,625
- Snorri Sturluson.
- "Snorry"? Come on!

1038
00:59:17,658 --> 00:59:20,327
That's the author
of the Prose Edda.

1039
00:59:20,361 --> 00:59:23,532
Snorri. S-N-O-R-R-I.

1040
00:59:23,564 --> 00:59:25,232
-Snorri Sturluson.
-Sturluson. Yeah.

1041
00:59:25,266 --> 00:59:26,400
So ask her.

1042
00:59:26,434 --> 00:59:27,568
Ask who what?

1043
00:59:27,601 --> 00:59:29,136
The Not First Lady of Russia.

1044
00:59:29,170 --> 00:59:30,404
She quoted Chekhov.

1045
00:59:30,438 --> 00:59:32,073
I expect she's got a reason
we're here

1046
00:59:32,106 --> 00:59:34,509
all looking at the Prose Edda,
so ask her.

1047
00:59:34,543 --> 00:59:36,844
-I see. And tell me--
-Mrs. Gorbachev!

1048
00:59:36,877 --> 00:59:38,479
-National Public Radio--
-American.

1049
00:59:38,513 --> 00:59:41,182
American National Public Radio.

1050
00:59:41,215 --> 00:59:43,684
Um, why are we here?

1051
00:59:43,717 --> 00:59:47,188
We are here to exchange
cultural knowledge, Ms. NPR.

1052
00:59:47,221 --> 00:59:50,791
The Prose Edda is a seminal
text in Norse history

1053
00:59:50,825 --> 00:59:53,894
and I am flattered
to examine it here

1054
00:59:53,928 --> 00:59:55,796
in the Land of Ice and Fire.

1055
00:59:55,830 --> 00:59:57,498
I'm sure you've seen
the press release.

1056
00:59:57,532 --> 01:00:00,167
Mrs. Reagan
is feeling just fine.

1057
01:00:00,201 --> 01:00:02,603
A rather terse
and unusual pronouncement

1058
01:00:02,636 --> 01:00:04,672
for a weekend
from the Administration.

1059
01:00:04,705 --> 01:00:05,973
You care to comment?

1060
01:00:06,006 --> 01:00:09,578
Well, I'm, uh, thrilled to hear
Mrs. Reagan is well.

1061
01:00:09,610 --> 01:00:12,213
I only wish she had brought
her good health here

1062
01:00:12,246 --> 01:00:16,484
so we could share
this incredible honor together,

1063
01:00:16,518 --> 01:00:18,352
viewing the Prose Edda.

1064
01:00:18,385 --> 01:00:21,590
What's it like staying
on a ship, Mrs. Gorbachev?

1065
01:00:21,622 --> 01:00:22,890
Why not a hotel?

1066
01:00:22,923 --> 01:00:25,726
I was told it is
for security reasons.

1067
01:00:27,094 --> 01:00:28,829
But I must tell you,

1068
01:00:29,396 --> 01:00:31,031
it is very romantic.

1069
01:00:33,134 --> 01:00:34,835
-Madam Gorbachev!
-Madam Gorbachev.

1070
01:00:40,474 --> 01:00:43,077
Huh. "Romantic."

1071
01:00:43,944 --> 01:00:46,013
That's one mental image
I won't get out of my head.

1072
01:00:46,046 --> 01:00:48,517
Ah, they're entitled
to their happiness.

1073
01:00:48,550 --> 01:00:49,917
Aren't we all?

1074
01:00:51,719 --> 01:00:52,853
I'm calling it.

1075
01:00:52,887 --> 01:00:54,788
I can't imagine my editor
will care.

1076
01:00:54,822 --> 01:00:57,626
Saturday afternoon on NPR
is always a dead zone.

1077
01:00:58,726 --> 01:01:00,661
-Let's find a bar.
-Schnapps!

1078
01:01:04,098 --> 01:01:05,466
Fifty percent reduction.

1079
01:01:05,499 --> 01:01:07,668
I think that
is considerable progress.

1080
01:01:07,701 --> 01:01:09,703
Imagine tomorrow,
Mr. General Secretary,

1081
01:01:09,737 --> 01:01:12,507
we will shake hands
for the cameras and say "deal."

1082
01:01:12,541 --> 01:01:14,175
I would like this very much.

1083
01:01:14,208 --> 01:01:17,178
But we must still discuss
your shield, hm?

1084
01:01:19,013 --> 01:01:21,215
The Strategic Defense
Initiative.

1085
01:01:25,219 --> 01:01:29,456
Perhaps it is too much
for this evening.

1086
01:01:30,124 --> 01:01:32,760
Uh, Mr. President,
you had been saying

1087
01:01:32,793 --> 01:01:35,062
that you wish to discuss
with your allies

1088
01:01:35,095 --> 01:01:38,365
the potential INF implications
in Asia.

1089
01:01:38,399 --> 01:01:41,068
Shall we adjourn
so that you may?

1090
01:01:41,670 --> 01:01:44,104
Yes, we will have
an answer quickly.

1091
01:01:44,138 --> 01:01:47,708
As we are able to assure you
that our eastern allies

1092
01:01:47,741 --> 01:01:50,612
will understand
our withdrawals in Europe.

1093
01:01:50,645 --> 01:01:52,479
I must warn you,
our NATO allies

1094
01:01:52,514 --> 01:01:53,615
are less subservient.

1095
01:01:53,648 --> 01:01:55,816
Didn't Mrs. Thatcher
thank you personally

1096
01:01:55,849 --> 01:01:57,552
for modernizing her arsenal?

1097
01:01:57,586 --> 01:01:59,053
And that you coordinate
your attacks

1098
01:01:59,086 --> 01:02:00,988
in the Soviet Union
and the Warsaw Pact

1099
01:02:01,021 --> 01:02:03,558
so as to avoid duplication.

1100
01:02:03,592 --> 01:02:05,926
You seem to know an awful lot.

1101
01:02:05,960 --> 01:02:08,762
That is how this game
is played, is it not?

1102
01:02:08,796 --> 01:02:10,497
Surely all of your intelligence

1103
01:02:10,532 --> 01:02:13,067
isn't wasted analyzing
bread lines?

1104
01:02:13,100 --> 01:02:14,235
No. It's not.

1105
01:02:14,268 --> 01:02:17,371
We also monitor
Russian treaty violation.

1106
01:02:17,404 --> 01:02:19,840
More waste, huh?

1107
01:02:20,474 --> 01:02:21,842
There have been none.

1108
01:02:21,875 --> 01:02:23,444
Trust, but verify.

1109
01:02:24,679 --> 01:02:27,248
As I have agreed we will do.

1110
01:02:28,249 --> 01:02:32,453
But you can imagine
the objections of my, uh, KGB.

1111
01:02:32,486 --> 01:02:33,787
And I...

1112
01:02:33,821 --> 01:02:36,123
I doubt I'll have an easy time
of it with our Congress.

1113
01:02:36,156 --> 01:02:40,094
You have your senators,
I have my generals.

1114
01:02:41,328 --> 01:02:44,733
We must convince them
that we are strongest together.

1115
01:02:44,765 --> 01:02:47,134
Yes, I suppose so.

1116
01:02:47,801 --> 01:02:50,304
Too bad we can't just get rid
of all of them.

1117
01:02:51,573 --> 01:02:52,840
Your senators?

1118
01:02:52,873 --> 01:02:54,709
No.

1119
01:02:54,743 --> 01:02:55,876
The nukes.

1120
01:02:59,581 --> 01:03:03,851
We're going to cut them by 50%
in the next ten years.

1121
01:03:03,884 --> 01:03:05,654
But that still leaves
thousands,

1122
01:03:05,687 --> 01:03:08,022
tens of thousands,
threatening the world.

1123
01:03:09,557 --> 01:03:11,058
Who's to say
who comes after us,

1124
01:03:11,091 --> 01:03:13,327
perhaps
the next general secretary

1125
01:03:13,360 --> 01:03:14,696
will want to renegotiate,

1126
01:03:14,729 --> 01:03:16,864
wish to build more, not less.

1127
01:03:16,897 --> 01:03:18,165
Or the next president.

1128
01:03:19,366 --> 01:03:21,935
Traditionally, throughout
the history of our republic,

1129
01:03:21,969 --> 01:03:23,571
new presidents have upheld

1130
01:03:23,605 --> 01:03:25,740
the treaties
of their predecessors.

1131
01:03:25,774 --> 01:03:27,509
But there is no law they must.

1132
01:03:27,542 --> 01:03:28,543
No.

1133
01:03:29,376 --> 01:03:30,277
No.

1134
01:03:31,412 --> 01:03:35,482
I'm not sure then I understand
what you're saying.

1135
01:03:38,152 --> 01:03:41,523
I'm saying good leaders
make things better now.

1136
01:03:42,289 --> 01:03:45,826
Great leaders make things
better for the future.

1137
01:03:45,859 --> 01:03:47,194
I'm saying...

1138
01:03:48,896 --> 01:03:51,065
why can't we just get rid
of all of them?

1139
01:03:51,800 --> 01:03:53,601
Every last one of the...

1140
01:03:55,302 --> 01:03:58,072
goshdamn contemptible things
once and for all!

1141
01:03:58,105 --> 01:04:01,041
I'm saying
why don't we make a deal

1142
01:04:01,075 --> 01:04:02,843
that the whole world
can rejoice,

1143
01:04:02,876 --> 01:04:05,112
a deal too good
for those who come after us

1144
01:04:05,145 --> 01:04:07,515
to reject or replace
or renegotiate?

1145
01:04:07,549 --> 01:04:10,552
I'm saying why don't we just
get rid of all of them?

1146
01:04:11,418 --> 01:04:15,989
I'm saying, are we going to be
merely good, Secretary-General,

1147
01:04:17,091 --> 01:04:19,159
or are we going to be great?

1148
01:04:27,434 --> 01:04:31,573
We would be willing to discuss
such an agreement.

1149
01:04:32,507 --> 01:04:35,777
All nuclear weapons reduced?

1150
01:04:35,810 --> 01:04:37,679
-To zero.
-In ten years?

1151
01:04:37,712 --> 01:04:38,912
-All.-Comrade...

1152
01:04:39,480 --> 01:04:41,882
let's not be too hasty
with the atmosphere

1153
01:04:41,915 --> 01:04:43,917
of what we have achieved
here today.

1154
01:04:43,951 --> 01:04:46,220
Perhaps we should break
for the evening.

1155
01:04:46,755 --> 01:04:48,823
Nuclear Zero.

1156
01:04:49,423 --> 01:04:52,861
Every single nuclear weapon
on earth, gone.

1157
01:04:53,394 --> 01:04:56,897
Taken out of the silo,
off the sub, out of the bomber,

1158
01:04:56,930 --> 01:05:00,033
dismantled, junked,
warheads spun down.

1159
01:05:00,602 --> 01:05:02,302
In just ten years.

1160
01:05:03,470 --> 01:05:05,906
Peace on earth? Hm?

1161
01:05:05,939 --> 01:05:07,742
Good will to all men?

1162
01:05:07,776 --> 01:05:09,376
Your Christmas come early?

1163
01:05:10,377 --> 01:05:12,580
Amen.

1164
01:05:12,614 --> 01:05:14,348
-Well...
-Well, then let's do it!

1165
01:05:14,616 --> 01:05:16,250
Yes. Let's do it.

1166
01:05:16,283 --> 01:05:18,118
It is impossible, gentlemen.

1167
01:05:18,152 --> 01:05:19,920
How would we even begin
to start?

1168
01:05:19,953 --> 01:05:21,188
We'll ask the experts

1169
01:05:21,221 --> 01:05:23,190
to make the arrangements,
handle the fine print.

1170
01:05:23,223 --> 01:05:24,893
You brought your experts,
they're upstairs

1171
01:05:24,958 --> 01:05:26,360
across the hall from mine.

1172
01:05:26,393 --> 01:05:28,563
They have a long night
ahead of them, huh?

1173
01:05:28,596 --> 01:05:30,632
Yes, I'd say they do.

1174
01:05:31,064 --> 01:05:33,835
We will meet tomorrow morning
to discuss the terms.

1175
01:05:34,101 --> 01:05:37,004
-And SDI.
-And human rights.

1176
01:05:38,372 --> 01:05:40,240
Good night,
Mr. General-Secretary.

1177
01:05:40,274 --> 01:05:42,142
Sleep well, Mr. President.

1178
01:05:42,176 --> 01:05:43,645
<i>We're moving.</i>

1179
01:05:49,016 --> 01:05:51,952
Not sure we're going to need
you much longer, Tim.

1180
01:05:51,985 --> 01:05:53,220
Sorry, sir?

1181
01:05:53,621 --> 01:05:56,558
Nothing. Thank you, Colonel.
I'll be out in a minute.

1182
01:05:56,591 --> 01:05:57,559
Yes, sir.

1183
01:05:59,092 --> 01:06:02,129
They, uh, make me do rehearsals
every few months.

1184
01:06:02,162 --> 01:06:03,832
You wanna know how it works?

1185
01:06:03,865 --> 01:06:06,601
How to end the world?
No, thank you, sir.

1186
01:06:06,634 --> 01:06:08,903
Well, you're in the line
of succession, George,

1187
01:06:08,937 --> 01:06:10,370
and I'm not bulletproof.

1188
01:06:11,305 --> 01:06:12,406
I know.

1189
01:06:13,775 --> 01:06:14,809
Try not to get shot again

1190
01:06:14,843 --> 01:06:16,276
before we get through
tomorrow, sir.

1191
01:06:16,310 --> 01:06:17,244
Yeah.

1192
01:06:17,846 --> 01:06:18,847
I'll assemble our team,

1193
01:06:18,880 --> 01:06:21,482
and get them caffeine,
lots of it,

1194
01:06:21,516 --> 01:06:22,951
get them in a room
with the Soviets.

1195
01:06:22,983 --> 01:06:24,284
Well, get them to zero.

1196
01:06:24,318 --> 01:06:26,788
Every nuclear weapon gone
from the face of the Earth

1197
01:06:26,821 --> 01:06:28,222
in just a few hours?

1198
01:06:28,255 --> 01:06:30,457
Congress is going to lose
their minds.

1199
01:06:30,491 --> 01:06:31,759
Joint Chiefs too.

1200
01:06:31,793 --> 01:06:33,795
And the CIA, and the DIA,

1201
01:06:33,828 --> 01:06:35,630
and I need to tell our allies.

1202
01:06:35,663 --> 01:06:37,030
Yes, do that tonight.

1203
01:06:37,064 --> 01:06:39,366
Get Thatcher and Mitterrand
and Kohl to sign off.

1204
01:06:40,167 --> 01:06:41,703
And if they don't?

1205
01:06:43,036 --> 01:06:44,939
I don't know, George.
We'll think of something.

1206
01:06:44,973 --> 01:06:47,040
But just, you know,
just get the team into it.

1207
01:06:47,074 --> 01:06:49,076
All right?
This is a better world.

1208
01:06:49,109 --> 01:06:51,478
We can leave America safer
than we found her.

1209
01:07:03,023 --> 01:07:05,627
"Peace on earth.
Good will to all men"?

1210
01:07:05,660 --> 01:07:07,896
Gorbachev actually said that?

1211
01:07:07,929 --> 01:07:09,597
The head of the worldwide
communist plot?

1212
01:07:09,631 --> 01:07:12,667
It upsets 50 years
of stable geopolitics.

1213
01:07:12,700 --> 01:07:15,369
A mutually assured
destruction works for a reason.

1214
01:07:15,402 --> 01:07:17,572
How the hell are we gonna
defend Western Europe

1215
01:07:17,605 --> 01:07:20,975
when they have overwhelmingly
superior conventional forces

1216
01:07:21,009 --> 01:07:22,810
that will just roll downhill,

1217
01:07:22,844 --> 01:07:24,344
thousands of T-72 tanks

1218
01:07:24,378 --> 01:07:26,346
right through Frankfurt
and Paris,

1219
01:07:26,380 --> 01:07:27,949
straight
to the English Channel?

1220
01:07:27,982 --> 01:07:29,316
Does any man here doubt

1221
01:07:29,349 --> 01:07:31,719
that the world would be safer
without nuclear weapons?

1222
01:07:32,520 --> 01:07:34,656
Hard to put the genie
back in the bottle,

1223
01:07:34,989 --> 01:07:36,456
and I've been doing this longer

1224
01:07:36,490 --> 01:07:38,125
than the rest of you
put together.

1225
01:07:38,158 --> 01:07:39,493
When we got here,
you all thought

1226
01:07:39,527 --> 01:07:41,696
this was a colossal waste
of a weekend.

1227
01:07:41,729 --> 01:07:44,264
-Well...
-Now, no denying it.

1228
01:07:45,567 --> 01:07:50,038
And yet, the General Secretary
of the Communist Party

1229
01:07:50,070 --> 01:07:52,406
of the Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics

1230
01:07:52,439 --> 01:07:54,141
has just offered us
the best deal

1231
01:07:54,174 --> 01:07:56,209
since Russia sold us Alaska.

1232
01:07:57,177 --> 01:07:59,446
Hell, maybe of all time.

1233
01:08:00,848 --> 01:08:02,382
Are we going to pass it by?

1234
01:08:03,718 --> 01:08:06,888
You've all trained
for high stakes negotiations.

1235
01:08:06,921 --> 01:08:07,689
This is it.

1236
01:08:08,288 --> 01:08:10,123
This is our Super Bowl.

1237
01:08:10,992 --> 01:08:13,528
Are you in or are you out?

1238
01:08:18,066 --> 01:08:20,300
I serve at the pleasure
of the President.

1239
01:08:20,334 --> 01:08:23,705
I serve at the pleasure
of the President.

1240
01:08:31,111 --> 01:08:34,048
So, who's going to lead
this moonshot?

1241
01:08:34,082 --> 01:08:35,883
- Paul.
- Paul.

1242
01:08:43,992 --> 01:08:45,593
Have you got
the scrambler set up?

1243
01:08:47,895 --> 01:08:49,097
You're kidding.

1244
01:08:49,129 --> 01:08:51,465
<i>It looks like something</i>
<i>out of Get Smart.</i>

1245
01:08:52,000 --> 01:08:54,134
Sorry about that,
Mr. Secretary.

1246
01:08:59,040 --> 01:09:00,842
What's the button
for Foggy Bottom?

1247
01:09:00,875 --> 01:09:01,643
Four.

1248
01:09:07,180 --> 01:09:08,348
This is the secretary.

1249
01:09:08,382 --> 01:09:10,450
Get me a line
to Ambassador Price in London.

1250
01:09:10,484 --> 01:09:12,086
Yes, this is the secretary.

1251
01:09:12,120 --> 01:09:14,555
Get me a line
to Ambassador Rodgers in Paris.

1252
01:09:15,857 --> 01:09:17,457
Richard, George Shultz.

1253
01:09:18,793 --> 01:09:20,895
Yes, it's late. Sorry.

1254
01:09:20,928 --> 01:09:23,798
Listen, you're gonna have
to get Helmut up as well.

1255
01:09:23,831 --> 01:09:24,966
Call me back when you have him.

1256
01:09:24,999 --> 01:09:26,100
The President has an update

1257
01:09:26,134 --> 01:09:27,902
from Reykjavík for the
chancellor.

1258
01:09:27,935 --> 01:09:29,537
His ears and yours only.

1259
01:09:29,570 --> 01:09:31,506
Wake him up.
Wake him up. Wake him up.

1260
01:09:44,484 --> 01:09:45,620
Move.

1261
01:09:49,123 --> 01:09:50,692
Holy shit.

1262
01:09:50,725 --> 01:09:51,526
Is that...

1263
01:09:51,559 --> 01:09:53,628
Marshall Sergey Akhromeyev.

1264
01:09:53,661 --> 01:09:56,164
Four time winner
of the Order of Lenin,

1265
01:09:56,196 --> 01:09:58,132
veteran of the siege
of Leningrad,

1266
01:09:58,166 --> 01:10:00,034
hero of the Soviet Union...

1267
01:10:01,002 --> 01:10:04,739
Chief of the General Staff
of the Soviet Armed Forces.

1268
01:10:05,840 --> 01:10:08,142
They brought their Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs

1269
01:10:08,176 --> 01:10:09,476
to negotiate?

1270
01:10:10,678 --> 01:10:12,947
Not intimidating at all.

1271
01:10:13,948 --> 01:10:14,716
Well...

1272
01:10:15,550 --> 01:10:17,685
I'm glad we voted on you, Paul.

1273
01:10:34,202 --> 01:10:35,870
I forgot to call.

1274
01:10:35,903 --> 01:10:37,337
<i>You all right?</i>

1275
01:10:39,406 --> 01:10:41,776
<i>- Ronnie?</i>
<i>- I'm just...</i>

1276
01:10:41,809 --> 01:10:43,144
I'm-I'm just tired.

1277
01:10:43,177 --> 01:10:44,478
<i>How's the hand?</i>

1278
01:10:47,815 --> 01:10:48,616
Fine.

1279
01:10:49,249 --> 01:10:51,719
<i>Do they have a TV there</i>
<i>at least?</i>

1280
01:10:51,753 --> 01:10:54,155
You need to take
your mind off things.

1281
01:10:54,387 --> 01:10:56,891
Well, I'm sure there's one
around here somewhere,

1282
01:10:56,924 --> 01:11:00,260
but I... I just don't think
Icelandic broadcasters

1283
01:11:00,293 --> 01:11:02,029
have Family Ties.

1284
01:11:04,766 --> 01:11:06,466
You know,
they say that Icelanders

1285
01:11:06,500 --> 01:11:08,669
don't have TV
at all on Thursdays.

1286
01:11:08,703 --> 01:11:12,640
Something about having time for
family and cultural awareness.

1287
01:11:12,673 --> 01:11:16,343
Can you imagine, whole country
with no TV for a night?

1288
01:11:16,376 --> 01:11:19,412
Well, thank goodness
it's Saturday.

1289
01:11:20,748 --> 01:11:23,618
<i>I know how lonely</i>
<i>the job feels,</i>

1290
01:11:23,651 --> 01:11:26,754
being responsible
for millions of people.

1291
01:11:28,355 --> 01:11:30,457
I'm so sorry
I'm not there with you.

1292
01:11:30,490 --> 01:11:31,959
It was a mistake.

1293
01:11:33,761 --> 01:11:35,663
Eh, it's okay. Uh...

1294
01:11:35,696 --> 01:11:37,064
<i>I'm just fine.</i>

1295
01:11:38,065 --> 01:11:39,267
I love you.

1296
01:11:39,299 --> 01:11:40,868
<i>Good night.</i>

1297
01:11:40,902 --> 01:11:41,836
Love you.

1298
01:11:42,270 --> 01:11:43,470
Good night.

1299
01:11:54,015 --> 01:11:55,817
I should've stayed on a boat.

1300
01:12:12,365 --> 01:12:14,936
This is different, hm?

1301
01:12:14,969 --> 01:12:17,171
You coming home after me.

1302
01:12:17,205 --> 01:12:19,841
We seize
the opportunities we have.

1303
01:12:20,775 --> 01:12:23,476
How many times
did you change today?

1304
01:12:24,312 --> 01:12:26,314
Eight already.

1305
01:12:26,346 --> 01:12:28,850
The models of Milan
have nothing on you.

1306
01:12:29,851 --> 01:12:30,785
Going back out?

1307
01:12:30,818 --> 01:12:34,454
Dinner with the prime minister
of Iceland.

1308
01:12:38,159 --> 01:12:39,827
How is it with your American?

1309
01:12:41,095 --> 01:12:41,896
Hmm.

1310
01:12:42,797 --> 01:12:45,833
You must trust and believe
in people.

1311
01:12:48,069 --> 01:12:49,369
Otherwise,

1312
01:12:49,402 --> 01:12:51,672
-life becomes impossible.
-Life becomes impossible.

1313
01:12:52,573 --> 01:12:55,910
You got a KGB report on me
at the hot springs?

1314
01:12:58,512 --> 01:13:00,081
What has happened?

1315
01:13:03,450 --> 01:13:04,852
I cannot say.

1316
01:13:06,520 --> 01:13:09,557
Are you being proud
or desperate?

1317
01:13:09,590 --> 01:13:12,960
I think you will say we have
something to be proud of.

1318
01:13:14,996 --> 01:13:15,763
Good.

1319
01:13:16,998 --> 01:13:17,865
Good.

1320
01:13:19,000 --> 01:13:22,402
Then you will be able to make
the changes we need

1321
01:13:22,435 --> 01:13:24,572
and our people will prosper.

1322
01:13:27,308 --> 01:13:28,976
You harbor no doubts?

1323
01:13:30,477 --> 01:13:32,113
Not about our nation.

1324
01:13:33,080 --> 01:13:34,447
Not about you.

1325
01:13:38,418 --> 01:13:40,453
Do you?

1326
01:13:57,972 --> 01:13:58,739
What?

1327
01:14:01,142 --> 01:14:02,343
You think the KGB

1328
01:14:02,376 --> 01:14:05,546
is now bugging
the Soviet premier's toilet?

1329
01:14:06,814 --> 01:14:09,150
I think the minister
of state security

1330
01:14:09,183 --> 01:14:13,254
chose this boat and not
the embassy for our lodging

1331
01:14:13,287 --> 01:14:17,925
so that we could not take long
walks away from microphones.

1332
01:14:22,330 --> 01:14:24,332
What preys upon your mind,
my love?

1333
01:14:30,004 --> 01:14:31,405
He seems genuine.

1334
01:14:31,439 --> 01:14:32,773
But you're not sure.

1335
01:14:33,507 --> 01:14:36,844
I offer him Nuclear Zero.

1336
01:14:38,379 --> 01:14:39,747
But I cannot tell.

1337
01:14:39,780 --> 01:14:42,783
I don't think
he will give up SDI.

1338
01:14:42,817 --> 01:14:43,483
Well...

1339
01:14:44,218 --> 01:14:48,589
I brought it up for the first
time at the close of day

1340
01:14:48,622 --> 01:14:51,392
and the look on his face
was clear.

1341
01:14:51,425 --> 01:14:53,394
SDI is a mirage.

1342
01:14:53,427 --> 01:14:56,430
Even his own people
don't think it'll work.

1343
01:14:56,464 --> 01:14:58,165
Don't let it distract you.

1344
01:14:59,667 --> 01:15:03,104
Nuclear weapons gave them
powered submarines

1345
01:15:03,137 --> 01:15:05,573
so quiet we cannot detect them.

1346
01:15:05,606 --> 01:15:09,043
The space race gave them
computers now so small

1347
01:15:09,076 --> 01:15:10,511
they fit on a desk.

1348
01:15:10,544 --> 01:15:13,214
If we cannot contain this SDI...

1349
01:15:14,315 --> 01:15:16,751
who knows
what terrible inventions

1350
01:15:16,784 --> 01:15:18,185
they will come up with.

1351
01:15:19,487 --> 01:15:23,758
And if we have to take
the arms race into space,

1352
01:15:25,026 --> 01:15:26,961
our people will starve.

1353
01:15:27,895 --> 01:15:28,963
Hmm.

1354
01:15:30,965 --> 01:15:31,899
Famine.

1355
01:15:33,434 --> 01:15:35,069
Like Stalin's time.

1356
01:15:40,474 --> 01:15:43,644
But your reforms--
perestroika, glasnost--

1357
01:15:43,677 --> 01:15:45,079
they are working.

1358
01:15:45,112 --> 01:15:46,347
We just need time.

1359
01:15:46,881 --> 01:15:50,384
The one thing we cannot beg,
borrow, or steal.

1360
01:15:50,418 --> 01:15:51,285
Hm.

1361
01:15:54,755 --> 01:15:57,625
Don't let them harm the rodina.

1362
01:15:59,593 --> 01:16:01,530
But even more, my love,

1363
01:16:01,562 --> 01:16:04,665
don't let us harm the rodina.

1364
01:16:04,698 --> 01:16:07,134
Even with the best
of intentions.

1365
01:16:25,719 --> 01:16:27,421
Our submarines have the ability

1366
01:16:27,455 --> 01:16:29,023
to protect our homeland
the longest--

1367
01:16:29,056 --> 01:16:32,827
Which is precisely why we want
them gone in the first round.

1368
01:16:32,860 --> 01:16:34,795
Can you not understand?

1369
01:16:34,829 --> 01:16:36,531
We must become
vulnerable together.

1370
01:16:36,565 --> 01:16:37,498
We think the opposite.

1371
01:16:37,532 --> 01:16:38,699
A slow drawdown,

1372
01:16:38,732 --> 01:16:41,435
several years of
confidence-building reductions

1373
01:16:41,469 --> 01:16:43,070
in other areas,
culminating in--

1374
01:16:43,104 --> 01:16:44,972
Let it be noted
it's the Americans

1375
01:16:45,005 --> 01:16:48,843
who wish to proceed cautiously
for the first time in history.

1376
01:16:51,812 --> 01:16:54,048
Why don't we proceed
with a different topic?

1377
01:16:54,081 --> 01:16:55,382
We proceed nowhere.

1378
01:17:01,722 --> 01:17:04,325
Well, it is supposed
to be haunted.

1379
01:17:05,326 --> 01:17:07,294
It is the wind from the sea.

1380
01:17:07,761 --> 01:17:10,631
I will go out to enjoy it
for a moment.

1381
01:17:32,453 --> 01:17:34,355
<i>Reagan shot at close range,</i>

1382
01:17:34,388 --> 01:17:35,856
<i>apparently by a lone assailant.</i>

1383
01:18:32,146 --> 01:18:33,447
How close are we?

1384
01:18:34,982 --> 01:18:36,383
Well, there's a reason
they trained

1385
01:18:36,417 --> 01:18:37,686
the astronauts here, sir.

1386
01:18:37,718 --> 01:18:39,019
Might as well be the moon.

1387
01:18:39,053 --> 01:18:41,855
How do you tell one mound
of lava rock from another?

1388
01:18:41,889 --> 01:18:43,224
I meant our team.

1389
01:18:43,857 --> 01:18:45,960
Oh, yes. Sorry.

1390
01:18:45,993 --> 01:18:47,962
Um, they're closing in.

1391
01:18:49,363 --> 01:18:51,432
- I want it done.
- Yes, sir.

1392
01:18:52,967 --> 01:18:54,034
Thatcher was telling me

1393
01:18:54,068 --> 01:18:55,537
her theory one time
at Chequers.

1394
01:18:55,570 --> 01:18:57,171
You heard this?
"Two lads and a pint"?

1395
01:18:57,738 --> 01:18:59,240
That like two guys and a beer?

1396
01:18:59,273 --> 01:19:01,909
She has this theory
that everything in the world

1397
01:19:01,942 --> 01:19:05,212
is actually decided
by two lads and a pint.

1398
01:19:05,879 --> 01:19:08,516
Or in her case,
two ladies and a whiskey?

1399
01:19:08,550 --> 01:19:10,251
It's not a bad theory.

1400
01:19:11,051 --> 01:19:14,088
Can we trust an enemy?
Can we trust Gorbachev?

1401
01:19:14,788 --> 01:19:16,257
If so, then in theory,

1402
01:19:16,290 --> 01:19:18,526
we can trust his word
to stick to this plan

1403
01:19:18,560 --> 01:19:20,194
until we can ink a treaty.

1404
01:19:20,729 --> 01:19:23,397
-And we can verify.
-Yes.

1405
01:19:26,200 --> 01:19:30,337
I want you to get me some
information on the refuseniks.

1406
01:19:30,371 --> 01:19:31,138
Sir?

1407
01:19:31,905 --> 01:19:33,575
- The refuseniks--
- I mean,

1408
01:19:33,608 --> 01:19:35,442
why do you want
that information?

1409
01:19:36,511 --> 01:19:38,846
Get me the information.

1410
01:19:41,415 --> 01:19:42,283
Yes, sir.

1411
01:19:59,166 --> 01:20:00,769
Good morning, Mr. President.

1412
01:20:00,801 --> 01:20:02,704
Good morning,
Mr. General Secretary.

1413
01:20:02,737 --> 01:20:06,106
I understand from my team that
we have made some progress,

1414
01:20:06,140 --> 01:20:08,909
but not all the progress.

1415
01:20:08,942 --> 01:20:11,478
I have instructed them
to continue.

1416
01:20:12,379 --> 01:20:13,914
As have I, for our side.

1417
01:20:13,947 --> 01:20:15,249
Good.

1418
01:20:15,282 --> 01:20:18,252
Then, for the moment,
shall we pick other topics?

1419
01:20:18,285 --> 01:20:20,387
- Human rights.
- Yes.

1420
01:20:23,490 --> 01:20:25,292
I have spoken with my ministers

1421
01:20:25,326 --> 01:20:28,329
about your maestro
in Washington.

1422
01:20:28,362 --> 01:20:31,865
They believe he would be
a bad person to appease.

1423
01:20:31,899 --> 01:20:33,267
He is very prominent

1424
01:20:33,300 --> 01:20:38,305
and his case would undoubtedly
cause unwanted attention.

1425
01:20:39,273 --> 01:20:40,407
Public opinion.

1426
01:20:41,175 --> 01:20:45,279
So perhaps now we can discuss
the ABM Treaty and your SDI.

1427
01:20:47,948 --> 01:20:49,350
Well, first, let me just say

1428
01:20:49,383 --> 01:20:51,919
that we are
particularly sensitive

1429
01:20:51,952 --> 01:20:54,589
to the travel rights
of the Soviet peoples,

1430
01:20:54,622 --> 01:20:55,824
not just Mr. Rostropovich.

1431
01:20:55,856 --> 01:20:57,257
And we are concerned,

1432
01:20:57,291 --> 01:20:59,927
especially with those who wish
to practice their religion,

1433
01:20:59,960 --> 01:21:01,462
enshrined
in our Bill of Rights.

1434
01:21:01,495 --> 01:21:03,931
There are small numbers
of Jewish peoples

1435
01:21:03,964 --> 01:21:05,734
wishing to emigrate to Israel.

1436
01:21:05,767 --> 01:21:07,067
The refuseniks, you call them.

1437
01:21:07,101 --> 01:21:09,236
Yes, and there are some
Christians, Pentecostals,

1438
01:21:09,269 --> 01:21:11,972
who wish to leave as well
to come to America.

1439
01:21:12,005 --> 01:21:16,910
Did you know
Jesus was the first socialist?

1440
01:21:19,714 --> 01:21:20,948
It's true.

1441
01:21:20,981 --> 01:21:24,918
The first to seek
a better life for all mankind.

1442
01:21:25,452 --> 01:21:29,223
So why would these Christians
want to leave my country

1443
01:21:29,256 --> 01:21:30,391
and go to yours?

1444
01:21:30,424 --> 01:21:31,992
You have homeless.

1445
01:21:33,994 --> 01:21:34,895
What do you mean?

1446
01:21:35,362 --> 01:21:39,400
Your citizens who are homeless
have no rights to housing.

1447
01:21:39,433 --> 01:21:42,002
We have no homeless
in the Soviet Union.

1448
01:21:42,035 --> 01:21:44,639
Your murder rates are enormous.

1449
01:21:45,305 --> 01:21:46,508
And...

1450
01:21:46,541 --> 01:21:49,711
...the less said about your
country's longstanding history

1451
01:21:49,744 --> 01:21:51,345
of racism, the better.

1452
01:21:51,880 --> 01:21:52,980
Well, unlike you,

1453
01:21:53,013 --> 01:21:54,948
we acknowledge, uh,
we have many faults.

1454
01:21:55,449 --> 01:21:58,952
And yet I'm the one that must
be lectured on human rights

1455
01:21:58,986 --> 01:22:00,855
and people without passports?

1456
01:22:00,889 --> 01:22:02,156
Well, then I would ask you

1457
01:22:02,189 --> 01:22:04,425
if they may not have
the freedom to travel,

1458
01:22:04,992 --> 01:22:06,193
why not give them the freedom

1459
01:22:06,226 --> 01:22:08,061
to form
their own political party?

1460
01:22:08,095 --> 01:22:10,063
Organize their future
in your country?

1461
01:22:10,097 --> 01:22:13,033
The Soviet people organized
this Communist Party.

1462
01:22:13,066 --> 01:22:14,501
Seventy years ago.

1463
01:22:14,536 --> 01:22:16,336
You think they might like
to try something else?

1464
01:22:16,370 --> 01:22:18,338
Your own party
has been around much longer.

1465
01:22:18,372 --> 01:22:21,408
Yes, but Republicans
can be voted out of office.

1466
01:22:21,442 --> 01:22:23,410
Your backstabbing
political gridlock

1467
01:22:23,444 --> 01:22:24,945
is something you wish us
to endure?

1468
01:22:24,978 --> 01:22:26,113
No, thank you.

1469
01:22:26,146 --> 01:22:28,182
"Democracy is the worst form
of government,

1470
01:22:28,215 --> 01:22:29,983
except for all the others."

1471
01:22:30,017 --> 01:22:32,486
Churchill had a rather
convenient horse in that race,

1472
01:22:32,520 --> 01:22:33,487
don't you think?

1473
01:22:33,521 --> 01:22:35,322
And Lenin,
like Marx before him,

1474
01:22:35,355 --> 01:22:38,893
suggested that socialism may
need to be global to succeed.

1475
01:22:38,927 --> 01:22:40,394
And so we see you

1476
01:22:40,427 --> 01:22:43,130
actively trying
to manipulate the elections

1477
01:22:43,163 --> 01:22:45,600
and futures of nations
around the globe.

1478
01:22:45,633 --> 01:22:47,702
And you do not?

1479
01:22:47,735 --> 01:22:49,871
In Chile? In Iran? In Angola?

1480
01:22:49,904 --> 01:22:51,438
And I suppose
you were just helping

1481
01:22:51,472 --> 01:22:53,474
the people of Cuba
and Poland and Vietnam

1482
01:22:53,508 --> 01:22:55,375
to choose
their oppressive regimes,

1483
01:22:55,409 --> 01:22:57,277
and Germany,
when you tore it in two?

1484
01:22:57,311 --> 01:22:59,346
You fly your U-2 spy planes

1485
01:22:59,379 --> 01:23:01,649
over our heads with impunity,

1486
01:23:01,683 --> 01:23:02,951
sail your Seventh Fleet

1487
01:23:02,983 --> 01:23:05,520
around the Pacific as if
it were your swimming pool,

1488
01:23:05,553 --> 01:23:08,590
and park your submarines
within sight of our shores,

1489
01:23:08,623 --> 01:23:11,291
and yet you expect
my people to trust you?

1490
01:23:11,325 --> 01:23:13,561
And seizing our journalist
in Moscow

1491
01:23:13,595 --> 01:23:14,629
only a few months ago?

1492
01:23:14,662 --> 01:23:16,029
Does that encourage trust?

1493
01:23:16,063 --> 01:23:17,732
I returned him!

1494
01:23:18,365 --> 01:23:21,836
Despite evidence
from my security services.

1495
01:23:21,870 --> 01:23:23,403
He was a spy.

1496
01:23:24,371 --> 01:23:26,508
The United States
will remain vigilant and strong

1497
01:23:26,541 --> 01:23:28,877
to the threats posed
by international communism

1498
01:23:28,910 --> 01:23:30,010
by the Soviet Union.

1499
01:23:30,645 --> 01:23:33,715
As we will maintain
our strength as well

1500
01:23:33,748 --> 01:23:35,449
in defense of socialism

1501
01:23:35,482 --> 01:23:39,486
desired by billions
all around the globe.

1502
01:23:39,521 --> 01:23:43,023
To defend those
who seek our way of life.

1503
01:23:43,056 --> 01:23:44,157
In all your speeches,

1504
01:23:44,191 --> 01:23:46,928
you deride us
as the "evil empire"

1505
01:23:46,961 --> 01:23:49,096
to be met by force
in every sphere.

1506
01:23:49,129 --> 01:23:50,565
I wonder, Mr. President,

1507
01:23:50,598 --> 01:23:54,836
who it is here that is trying
to expand his ideas by force.

1508
01:23:54,869 --> 01:23:56,436
You would do well to remember

1509
01:23:56,470 --> 01:23:59,807
that no such method
has ever succeeded on Russia.

1510
01:23:59,841 --> 01:24:03,645
Not by Napoleon, not by Hitler.

1511
01:24:03,678 --> 01:24:04,679
No one.

1512
01:24:06,581 --> 01:24:08,650
We are a strong people.

1513
01:24:09,717 --> 01:24:12,252
And we have learned
that strength

1514
01:24:12,854 --> 01:24:14,756
is how you win a war.

1515
01:24:19,794 --> 01:24:22,262
We're not trying to win a war.

1516
01:24:24,331 --> 01:24:26,466
We're trying to end one.

1517
01:24:36,109 --> 01:24:38,178
Perhaps a break, hm?

1518
01:25:15,182 --> 01:25:17,484
May I speak candidly,
Mr. President?

1519
01:25:18,086 --> 01:25:21,656
George, we're both exhausted,
just speak.

1520
01:25:23,558 --> 01:25:25,158
Let it go.

1521
01:25:26,094 --> 01:25:29,030
Don't blow this deal
over refuseniks

1522
01:25:29,063 --> 01:25:31,231
and Pentecostals and a cellist.

1523
01:25:31,264 --> 01:25:33,233
I love classical music,

1524
01:25:34,334 --> 01:25:36,269
and I dearly love the freedom

1525
01:25:36,303 --> 01:25:38,573
that comes
with being an American...

1526
01:25:39,807 --> 01:25:40,541
but...

1527
01:25:41,976 --> 01:25:44,244
he said Rostropovich left,

1528
01:25:44,277 --> 01:25:46,681
when we all know he defected.

1529
01:25:47,314 --> 01:25:49,517
And if his sister
was allowed to defect

1530
01:25:49,550 --> 01:25:52,720
at a birthday party
in Washington, DC,

1531
01:25:53,420 --> 01:25:55,623
it would be a public relations
disaster.

1532
01:25:55,657 --> 01:25:58,660
Gorbachev cannot take
that risk.

1533
01:25:59,493 --> 01:26:04,264
Sir, I'm truly afraid
that we could lose this deal.

1534
01:26:05,867 --> 01:26:07,200
Well, George,

1535
01:26:07,234 --> 01:26:08,903
what about
the millions of people

1536
01:26:08,936 --> 01:26:10,303
that'd still be oppressed?

1537
01:26:15,977 --> 01:26:17,879
Tell me good news, Democrats.

1538
01:26:17,912 --> 01:26:19,212
- Sir, I-I'm a--
- Yes.

1539
01:26:19,246 --> 01:26:20,915
Can we all agree

1540
01:26:20,948 --> 01:26:22,817
that this is a bipartisan
effort

1541
01:26:22,850 --> 01:26:24,118
to avoid World War III?

1542
01:26:24,152 --> 01:26:25,385
Just tell us.

1543
01:26:25,419 --> 01:26:27,254
The most stealthy, stable,

1544
01:26:27,287 --> 01:26:29,423
and, therefore, serious part
of the triad

1545
01:26:29,456 --> 01:26:31,358
is the submarines, sir.

1546
01:26:31,893 --> 01:26:33,193
They are impossible to track,

1547
01:26:33,226 --> 01:26:34,762
and therefore
cannot be targeted.

1548
01:26:35,328 --> 01:26:38,231
They are the absolute
last line of defense.

1549
01:26:38,265 --> 01:26:40,034
You can't get rid of the subs?

1550
01:26:40,068 --> 01:26:40,968
We're close.

1551
01:26:41,002 --> 01:26:42,904
Almost there, but, uh...

1552
01:26:42,937 --> 01:26:44,271
You're out of time.

1553
01:26:48,576 --> 01:26:50,277
Well, all right.

1554
01:26:52,113 --> 01:26:53,748
Give me what you got.

1555
01:26:55,348 --> 01:26:58,218
We're not giving up the game
on the ten-yard line.

1556
01:27:02,824 --> 01:27:04,625
We have already agreed

1557
01:27:04,659 --> 01:27:07,929
to unilaterally suspend
nuclear testing,

1558
01:27:07,962 --> 01:27:11,264
draw down our conventional
forces in Western Europe,

1559
01:27:11,298 --> 01:27:15,136
offered a 50% reduction
in all arms,

1560
01:27:15,169 --> 01:27:17,437
and agreed
to a Nuclear Zero future,

1561
01:27:17,471 --> 01:27:20,007
and still he tries
to distract you

1562
01:27:20,041 --> 01:27:21,676
with this dissident conductor.

1563
01:27:22,543 --> 01:27:25,847
Constantly evading SDI.
Constantly.

1564
01:27:27,215 --> 01:27:28,683
You must at least consider

1565
01:27:28,716 --> 01:27:31,853
that he is making you
the obstacle

1566
01:27:32,787 --> 01:27:34,655
and is not a partner in peace.

1567
01:28:03,017 --> 01:28:04,786
We should thank our teams.

1568
01:28:04,819 --> 01:28:07,221
They have not reached
a, uh, final agreement,

1569
01:28:07,255 --> 01:28:08,556
but they have come close.

1570
01:28:08,589 --> 01:28:10,024
We are indeed very close.

1571
01:28:10,057 --> 01:28:11,959
We've reached an agreement
in the first five years

1572
01:28:11,993 --> 01:28:17,131
to eliminate the SOA category
of land-based ICBMs.

1573
01:28:17,165 --> 01:28:19,332
And in the next five years

1574
01:28:19,366 --> 01:28:21,202
to dismantling
the remaining IRBMs

1575
01:28:21,235 --> 01:28:22,570
and cruise missiles.

1576
01:28:22,603 --> 01:28:26,406
Yes, which leaves only the
submarine-launched missiles.

1577
01:28:28,042 --> 01:28:31,879
We must first discuss SDI.

1578
01:28:33,480 --> 01:28:37,084
In regards to the
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty?

1579
01:28:37,118 --> 01:28:39,520
The ABM treaty forbids SDI.

1580
01:28:40,154 --> 01:28:41,856
Well, we, uh,
we disagree

1581
01:28:41,889 --> 01:28:43,224
and, anyway, you...

1582
01:28:43,257 --> 01:28:45,693
you've already violated
the ABM at Krasnoyarsk

1583
01:28:45,726 --> 01:28:47,562
with your defenses
around Moscow.

1584
01:28:47,595 --> 01:28:49,931
We have no such defenses
in Washington.

1585
01:28:49,964 --> 01:28:53,500
Our defenses are exactly
matching to the letter

1586
01:28:53,534 --> 01:28:54,836
of the ABM treaty.

1587
01:28:54,869 --> 01:28:59,040
And it is not our fault
that you chose not to exercise

1588
01:28:59,073 --> 01:29:00,407
your rights under the treaty

1589
01:29:00,440 --> 01:29:03,845
to build such defenses
around your capital.

1590
01:29:04,812 --> 01:29:06,581
But the ABM treaty

1591
01:29:06,614 --> 01:29:11,219
specifically rejects the idea
of space-based weapons.

1592
01:29:11,252 --> 01:29:13,754
SDI is not solely space-based.

1593
01:29:16,657 --> 01:29:19,492
How are we to begin
to eliminate

1594
01:29:19,527 --> 01:29:21,529
our Strategic Offensive Arms

1595
01:29:21,562 --> 01:29:24,765
if you will have a "shield"
to defend yourself?

1596
01:29:24,799 --> 01:29:29,036
You could renege or launch
a first strike from a NATO ally

1597
01:29:29,070 --> 01:29:30,171
and we would be defenseless.

1598
01:29:30,204 --> 01:29:32,439
You are obsessed with this SDI.

1599
01:29:33,007 --> 01:29:34,308
What about the people?

1600
01:29:34,342 --> 01:29:37,545
It will make the people safer
for both our nations.

1601
01:29:37,578 --> 01:29:40,147
What if some rogue state
launches a missile?

1602
01:29:40,848 --> 01:29:43,684
The shield will protect us,
protect the American people.

1603
01:29:43,718 --> 01:29:46,921
You are free to develop
your own for your people.

1604
01:29:47,555 --> 01:29:50,191
You won't let them leave,
at least you can protect them.

1605
01:29:50,725 --> 01:29:52,627
Of course I care
about the people.

1606
01:29:52,660 --> 01:29:55,563
The Soviet people
are my responsibility.

1607
01:29:55,596 --> 01:29:57,832
But you cannot possibly believe

1608
01:29:57,865 --> 01:30:00,433
that their fate
is not tied to this shield,

1609
01:30:00,467 --> 01:30:02,837
which you have already
announced you intend to--

1610
01:30:02,870 --> 01:30:05,472
Mutually assured destruction
works from the point of view

1611
01:30:05,506 --> 01:30:07,141
that each side
must be vulnerable.

1612
01:30:07,174 --> 01:30:10,811
That the, uh, Sword of Damocles
not only hangs above us,

1613
01:30:10,845 --> 01:30:13,446
but must remain hanging
over us.

1614
01:30:13,480 --> 01:30:16,350
Why can we simply
not take the sword down?

1615
01:30:16,384 --> 01:30:18,418
This is what SDI will do.

1616
01:30:22,723 --> 01:30:26,727
"Men rise from one ambition
to the next.

1617
01:30:26,761 --> 01:30:31,299
First, they seek to secure
themselves from attack,

1618
01:30:31,332 --> 01:30:33,433
and then to attack others."

1619
01:30:34,869 --> 01:30:36,037
Machiavelli.

1620
01:30:37,638 --> 01:30:40,274
Are you suggesting
that we are building a shield

1621
01:30:40,308 --> 01:30:41,909
in order that once we have it

1622
01:30:41,943 --> 01:30:44,045
we can then strike you first
with impunity?

1623
01:30:44,078 --> 01:30:48,049
Well, why wouldn't you strike
the "evil empire"?

1624
01:30:50,450 --> 01:30:51,484
Look...

1625
01:30:53,421 --> 01:30:55,222
all we are asking

1626
01:30:55,256 --> 01:30:58,326
is that you do not develop
this SDI

1627
01:30:58,359 --> 01:30:59,894
during the ten years

1628
01:30:59,927 --> 01:31:01,796
that we are eliminating
these weapons,

1629
01:31:01,829 --> 01:31:03,764
so as not to gain an advantage.

1630
01:31:03,798 --> 01:31:06,200
This is not
an offensive weapon.

1631
01:31:06,233 --> 01:31:07,268
It is a shield.

1632
01:31:07,301 --> 01:31:08,636
It is a threat.

1633
01:31:11,739 --> 01:31:13,341
Mr. General Secretary,

1634
01:31:13,374 --> 01:31:16,444
are you coupling
the arms reduction

1635
01:31:16,476 --> 01:31:18,478
to the end of SDI?

1636
01:31:32,026 --> 01:31:32,994
I am.

1637
01:31:34,662 --> 01:31:36,697
It is the position
of the Soviet Union

1638
01:31:36,731 --> 01:31:38,766
that they are the same thing.

1639
01:31:50,745 --> 01:31:53,547
After the use of mustard gas
in World War I,

1640
01:31:53,581 --> 01:31:54,815
we developed a gas mask.

1641
01:31:54,849 --> 01:31:57,718
Why would you not want
a gas mask, a shield,

1642
01:31:57,752 --> 01:31:59,086
against nuclear missiles?

1643
01:31:59,653 --> 01:32:03,657
We owe it to the world
to develop this technology.

1644
01:32:03,691 --> 01:32:06,794
The world has gotten along
just fine without it.

1645
01:32:07,461 --> 01:32:08,596
This is absurd.

1646
01:32:09,196 --> 01:32:10,664
And how will you ensure

1647
01:32:10,698 --> 01:32:12,833
that your allies
do not strike us?

1648
01:32:12,867 --> 01:32:14,802
I will do everything
in my power

1649
01:32:14,835 --> 01:32:17,204
to get them to give up
their nuclear weapons as well.

1650
01:32:17,238 --> 01:32:19,306
But do you really believe
that their people

1651
01:32:19,340 --> 01:32:20,808
will let them keep them?

1652
01:32:20,841 --> 01:32:23,778
With the costs of maintenance
and dangers of mistakes,

1653
01:32:23,811 --> 01:32:27,648
when there is no longer a
threat from the Soviet Union?

1654
01:32:27,681 --> 01:32:30,051
I believe it is very difficult

1655
01:32:30,084 --> 01:32:33,387
for people to give up
their weapons of any kind,

1656
01:32:33,421 --> 01:32:34,889
including shields.

1657
01:32:44,031 --> 01:32:47,635
Gentlemen, I suggest
we take a short break.

1658
01:32:47,668 --> 01:32:49,303
-Perhaps--
-I would like to know

1659
01:32:49,336 --> 01:32:50,671
if the President is serious

1660
01:32:50,704 --> 01:32:53,741
about continuing
this discussion on SDI.

1661
01:32:54,575 --> 01:32:57,778
If he is serious
about compromise.

1662
01:33:41,523 --> 01:33:43,224
Isn't it beautiful?

1663
01:33:45,192 --> 01:33:47,995
The Icelandic horse
is the only horse in the world

1664
01:33:48,028 --> 01:33:51,065
that has a fifth gait
called the tölt.

1665
01:33:51,098 --> 01:33:53,434
Amazing.

1666
01:33:53,602 --> 01:33:55,836
Oh, is it? I'm still hungover.

1667
01:33:55,870 --> 01:33:57,438
I told you to quit
on the schnapps.

1668
01:33:57,471 --> 01:33:58,305
You did not.

1669
01:33:58,339 --> 01:33:59,306
Just watch.

1670
01:33:59,340 --> 01:34:01,942
You won't even spill
your coffee.

1671
01:34:01,976 --> 01:34:02,676
Or vodka!

1672
01:34:03,911 --> 01:34:08,115
Really think I'm gonna blow
schnapps chunks.

1673
01:34:08,149 --> 01:34:10,384
I can't believe you'd insult
Icelandic schnapps

1674
01:34:10,417 --> 01:34:11,553
by calling it chunky.

1675
01:34:11,586 --> 01:34:13,354
Do something.

1676
01:34:14,054 --> 01:34:15,389
Do something?
What do you want me to--

1677
01:34:15,422 --> 01:34:16,757
Distract me.

1678
01:34:17,324 --> 01:34:18,627
Mrs. Gorbachev!

1679
01:34:18,659 --> 01:34:20,194
I didn't mean shouting.

1680
01:34:21,362 --> 01:34:22,830
I have a question for you.

1681
01:34:24,098 --> 01:34:27,636
Of course, wonderful.
How can I help?

1682
01:34:27,668 --> 01:34:29,803
Well, the White House
released a statement

1683
01:34:29,837 --> 01:34:30,871
just before we got
in the vans--

1684
01:34:30,905 --> 01:34:33,040
The First Lady decided
to come here

1685
01:34:33,073 --> 01:34:35,577
to see the famous
Icelandic horse?

1686
01:34:35,610 --> 01:34:36,877
She's a little late.

1687
01:34:36,911 --> 01:34:38,647
Actually, sources say

1688
01:34:38,679 --> 01:34:40,414
that she's launched
a new national campaign

1689
01:34:40,447 --> 01:34:42,483
for breast cancer awareness.

1690
01:34:42,517 --> 01:34:44,185
It's a major new initiative

1691
01:34:44,218 --> 01:34:45,953
that she hopes can be a model
for the world.

1692
01:34:45,986 --> 01:34:47,955
What do you say
to the American people

1693
01:34:47,988 --> 01:34:50,491
and people across the globe

1694
01:34:50,525 --> 01:34:52,661
about your own efforts
this weekend

1695
01:34:52,693 --> 01:34:54,361
on behalf
of the Soviet peoples?

1696
01:34:54,395 --> 01:34:57,698
Not that this Icelandic horse
isn't important,

1697
01:34:57,731 --> 01:35:00,434
but it's not exactly
cancer prevention.

1698
01:35:01,001 --> 01:35:03,638
Mrs. Gorbachev,
have you spoken to Mrs. Reagan?

1699
01:35:03,672 --> 01:35:04,705
Would you like to meet
with Nancy Reagan?

1700
01:35:04,738 --> 01:35:07,841
No questions.

1701
01:35:08,776 --> 01:35:10,477
Mrs. Gorbachev must be livid,

1702
01:35:10,512 --> 01:35:12,346
her spotlight pulled
so hastily.

1703
01:35:13,447 --> 01:35:15,282
You mess with the bull.

1704
01:35:16,717 --> 01:35:18,185
<i>How's it going?</i>

1705
01:35:18,919 --> 01:35:21,755
Well, we're, uh, at an impasse.

1706
01:35:21,789 --> 01:35:25,492
Well, Mars is ascendant,
so we have that going for us.

1707
01:35:25,527 --> 01:35:26,794
Yes, yes.

1708
01:35:27,428 --> 01:35:29,096
They can't afford it.

1709
01:35:29,129 --> 01:35:29,797
What?

1710
01:35:29,830 --> 01:35:31,265
They can't afford to compete.

1711
01:35:31,298 --> 01:35:33,767
Not on SDI,
not on any of it anymore.

1712
01:35:34,468 --> 01:35:35,803
Isn't that what you wanted?

1713
01:35:35,836 --> 01:35:37,606
What you've been working
towards?

1714
01:35:37,639 --> 01:35:38,939
I know.

1715
01:35:39,907 --> 01:35:41,442
<i>I've just gotta reach him.</i>

1716
01:35:42,843 --> 01:35:44,478
<i>I've gotta try, Nance.</i>

1717
01:35:46,780 --> 01:35:48,115
<i>Go be great.</i>

1718
01:36:38,232 --> 01:36:40,968
Can we agree,
Mr. General Secretary,

1719
01:36:41,001 --> 01:36:44,606
that the, uh, issue of
submarines can be resolved

1720
01:36:44,639 --> 01:36:46,073
with our considerable
engagement

1721
01:36:46,106 --> 01:36:49,009
and commitment at a later date,
and that, uh, the main focus

1722
01:36:49,043 --> 01:36:51,646
of our last discussion
should be about SDI?

1723
01:36:51,680 --> 01:36:52,946
Yes.

1724
01:36:52,980 --> 01:36:54,882
Then I would like
to take us back to World War I.

1725
01:36:55,883 --> 01:36:58,385
The horrifying advent
of chemical warfare,

1726
01:36:58,419 --> 01:37:00,154
mustard gas and chlorine.

1727
01:37:00,187 --> 01:37:02,056
We have been over this before,
Mr. President.

1728
01:37:02,089 --> 01:37:05,560
And-And the development,
in a few years,

1729
01:37:05,593 --> 01:37:06,761
of the gas mask,

1730
01:37:06,795 --> 01:37:09,963
of chemical and biological
protection suits.

1731
01:37:09,997 --> 01:37:12,299
An anti-ballistic
missile system,

1732
01:37:12,900 --> 01:37:15,804
full of lasers,
counter-attack radars,

1733
01:37:15,836 --> 01:37:18,339
interceptors,
and satellite weapons

1734
01:37:18,372 --> 01:37:19,907
is hardly a gas mask.

1735
01:37:19,940 --> 01:37:21,543
But the principle is the same.

1736
01:37:21,576 --> 01:37:24,011
I returned to this
session under the impression

1737
01:37:24,044 --> 01:37:26,013
that you were serious
about compromise.

1738
01:37:29,450 --> 01:37:31,185
What if we gave it to you?

1739
01:37:39,326 --> 01:37:40,928
This is not serious.

1740
01:37:41,495 --> 01:37:43,665
I will give you the shield.

1741
01:37:43,698 --> 01:37:45,366
I will give you SDI.

1742
01:37:45,399 --> 01:37:47,868
Your Congress
will never allow it.

1743
01:37:47,901 --> 01:37:49,169
They will if it's coupled

1744
01:37:49,203 --> 01:37:51,806
with complete Soviet nuclear
disarmament.

1745
01:37:51,840 --> 01:37:53,608
Nor will your military.

1746
01:37:53,641 --> 01:37:55,943
I have told you,
they report to me.

1747
01:37:55,976 --> 01:37:58,847
Say nothing of your military
industrial complex.

1748
01:37:58,879 --> 01:38:00,247
What does that have to do...

1749
01:38:00,280 --> 01:38:04,451
You expect Lockheed
and Northrup

1750
01:38:04,485 --> 01:38:06,855
and all your other
defense contractors

1751
01:38:06,887 --> 01:38:08,623
to simply give up the license

1752
01:38:08,656 --> 01:38:10,525
to the most complex

1753
01:38:10,558 --> 01:38:14,328
and advanced military
technology ever developed?

1754
01:38:14,763 --> 01:38:17,632
I may not be a capitalist,
Mr. President,

1755
01:38:17,665 --> 01:38:19,967
but I do understand
how it works.

1756
01:38:20,000 --> 01:38:21,201
We can work that out.

1757
01:38:21,235 --> 01:38:23,738
This is a fantasy!

1758
01:38:23,772 --> 01:38:26,106
You have come in here
with a fantasy.

1759
01:38:26,140 --> 01:38:28,510
Or is this some trick?

1760
01:38:28,543 --> 01:38:29,511
You can't afford it,

1761
01:38:29,544 --> 01:38:30,645
you don't believe me

1762
01:38:30,678 --> 01:38:32,514
that we won't use it
to protect ourselves

1763
01:38:32,547 --> 01:38:33,848
and preemptively strike.

1764
01:38:33,882 --> 01:38:35,750
I'm telling you
that I won't give it up

1765
01:38:35,784 --> 01:38:37,050
because of rogue nations

1766
01:38:37,084 --> 01:38:39,587
and I will not have
future generations

1767
01:38:39,621 --> 01:38:41,221
of Americans live in fear.

1768
01:38:41,656 --> 01:38:43,056
We will give it to you.

1769
01:38:43,090 --> 01:38:45,926
You won't even
give us milking machines!

1770
01:38:46,927 --> 01:38:49,296
You have a stranglehold
on every technology

1771
01:38:49,329 --> 01:38:51,733
ever created in the West
so tight

1772
01:38:51,766 --> 01:38:53,802
that you will not sell us

1773
01:38:53,835 --> 01:38:57,337
basic agricultural
tractors, plows,

1774
01:38:57,371 --> 01:39:00,542
milking machines
for cows to us!

1775
01:39:01,576 --> 01:39:02,976
But you want me to believe

1776
01:39:03,010 --> 01:39:04,244
that you will give us

1777
01:39:04,278 --> 01:39:07,782
the most incredible American
science ever created

1778
01:39:07,816 --> 01:39:09,784
and that you will be able
to do this

1779
01:39:09,818 --> 01:39:11,985
over the objections
of your Congress

1780
01:39:12,019 --> 01:39:14,789
and your companies
and your Pentagon

1781
01:39:14,823 --> 01:39:16,791
and your citizens
and your allies and...

1782
01:39:17,291 --> 01:39:20,394
and you won't even sell
the machines

1783
01:39:20,427 --> 01:39:23,731
so that we can produce
more milk for our children!

1784
01:39:39,446 --> 01:39:43,450
I, uh... I will look
into the milking machines.

1785
01:39:59,366 --> 01:40:00,100
I-I...

1786
01:40:01,101 --> 01:40:02,369
Never, uh,

1787
01:40:02,402 --> 01:40:05,573
never occurred to me
that I might get assassinated.

1788
01:40:07,775 --> 01:40:09,076
Not once.

1789
01:40:11,278 --> 01:40:14,516
Nancy would, uh, bring it up
during the first campaign,

1790
01:40:14,549 --> 01:40:15,583
but I just never...

1791
01:40:22,991 --> 01:40:24,224
If I survived that bullet,

1792
01:40:24,258 --> 01:40:26,059
uh, it was for a reason,

1793
01:40:26,093 --> 01:40:28,395
a new mission, a purpose, so...

1794
01:40:36,036 --> 01:40:37,539
What if we agree...

1795
01:40:39,941 --> 01:40:42,342
not to deploy the system

1796
01:40:43,443 --> 01:40:44,612
for ten years?

1797
01:40:46,548 --> 01:40:47,749
SDI?

1798
01:40:48,181 --> 01:40:49,584
You will not deploy it

1799
01:40:49,617 --> 01:40:52,687
for the ten years that we are
eliminating these weapons?

1800
01:40:53,220 --> 01:40:55,857
And you will do everything
in your power

1801
01:40:55,890 --> 01:40:57,457
to persuade the British
and the French

1802
01:40:57,491 --> 01:40:59,059
to give up
their weapons as well

1803
01:40:59,092 --> 01:41:01,663
or else you'll not extend
your shield to them?

1804
01:41:02,262 --> 01:41:03,565
It will be very hard,

1805
01:41:03,598 --> 01:41:07,067
many of our allies are under
our nuclear umbrella.

1806
01:41:07,100 --> 01:41:08,302
As are ours.

1807
01:41:08,335 --> 01:41:09,971
We would all be exposed
together.

1808
01:41:10,004 --> 01:41:12,840
Yes. Okay.
I will talk with our allies.

1809
01:41:13,407 --> 01:41:16,644
I don't believe their peoples
will wish them to continue

1810
01:41:16,678 --> 01:41:18,245
when we have given them up.

1811
01:41:18,278 --> 01:41:22,349
Such is the peace-loving nature
of a democratic people.

1812
01:41:22,382 --> 01:41:23,183
Yes.

1813
01:41:23,885 --> 01:41:24,652
So...

1814
01:41:26,521 --> 01:41:29,991
we will both agree
to remove all warheads

1815
01:41:30,024 --> 01:41:31,926
over the next ten years.

1816
01:41:31,960 --> 01:41:33,293
Nuclear Zero.

1817
01:41:33,962 --> 01:41:35,262
And, of course,

1818
01:41:35,295 --> 01:41:37,665
your inspectors,
trust, but verify.

1819
01:41:38,365 --> 01:41:41,869
And, um, you can develop SDI

1820
01:41:41,903 --> 01:41:42,870
in the laboratory.

1821
01:41:48,977 --> 01:41:50,645
Not just the laboratory.

1822
01:41:51,512 --> 01:41:52,547
I'm sorry?

1823
01:41:53,014 --> 01:41:54,549
We will not deploy the system,

1824
01:41:54,582 --> 01:41:57,085
but we must be allowed
to test the shield

1825
01:41:57,117 --> 01:41:58,686
to know if it can work.

1826
01:41:59,286 --> 01:42:01,656
You can test it
in the laboratory.

1827
01:42:01,689 --> 01:42:04,726
Of course, but-but they must be
tested in the real world.

1828
01:42:04,759 --> 01:42:07,494
Progress cannot be made
in just a laboratory.

1829
01:42:07,528 --> 01:42:08,763
I mean, you think
we could launch

1830
01:42:08,796 --> 01:42:10,765
a man into space on a rocket

1831
01:42:10,798 --> 01:42:12,867
that just worked
on a simulation

1832
01:42:12,900 --> 01:42:14,636
in some scientist's lab?

1833
01:42:15,135 --> 01:42:19,073
So you will agree,
we can test the shield?

1834
01:42:19,107 --> 01:42:21,009
In the laboratory.

1835
01:42:21,876 --> 01:42:25,445
You will have inspectors
at our secure sites as well.

1836
01:42:25,479 --> 01:42:28,850
We would welcome them
to our testing grounds.

1837
01:42:28,883 --> 01:42:32,452
You put a man on the moon
in less than ten years.

1838
01:42:32,486 --> 01:42:34,354
Yes, I was just talking
about that.

1839
01:42:34,388 --> 01:42:36,958
Developed the atom bomb
in under five.

1840
01:42:36,991 --> 01:42:38,793
-Okay.
-Do you not see?

1841
01:42:38,826 --> 01:42:40,128
See what?

1842
01:42:40,160 --> 01:42:43,363
I cannot allow you to field test
a new weapons system...

1843
01:42:43,397 --> 01:42:44,231
Shield.

1844
01:42:44,264 --> 01:42:47,401
...this thing,
in the next ten years,

1845
01:42:47,434 --> 01:42:49,871
less time than it took you
to put a man on the moon.

1846
01:42:49,904 --> 01:42:52,406
I can't understand--
You will have inspectors.

1847
01:42:52,439 --> 01:42:54,108
If you're successful,

1848
01:42:54,142 --> 01:42:56,176
you could immediately deploy it,

1849
01:42:56,209 --> 01:42:58,445
and we would be right back
to where we are now.

1850
01:42:58,478 --> 01:43:00,081
You could order a strike.

1851
01:43:00,114 --> 01:43:02,382
We would be defenseless while
you hid behind your shield.

1852
01:43:02,416 --> 01:43:05,720
You can test it
in a laboratory,

1853
01:43:05,753 --> 01:43:08,188
just like any other
scientific advance.

1854
01:43:08,221 --> 01:43:11,491
And in the meantime,
if in the next ten years

1855
01:43:11,526 --> 01:43:13,594
some other state wants
to launch a missile

1856
01:43:13,628 --> 01:43:14,294
against my people,

1857
01:43:14,327 --> 01:43:15,863
we won't be able to prove

1858
01:43:15,897 --> 01:43:17,264
that it would be futile

1859
01:43:17,297 --> 01:43:20,935
except in some sort
of, uh, scientific journal.

1860
01:43:20,968 --> 01:43:22,170
We will be defenseless.

1861
01:43:22,202 --> 01:43:23,604
As would we.

1862
01:43:24,806 --> 01:43:25,973
It's one word.

1863
01:43:27,008 --> 01:43:28,275
"Laboratory."

1864
01:43:28,308 --> 01:43:30,377
It's one word.

1865
01:43:30,410 --> 01:43:33,313
It's one word that changes
everything for my people.

1866
01:43:33,346 --> 01:43:34,615
And my people.

1867
01:43:35,149 --> 01:43:37,217
Another generation
lost to the terror

1868
01:43:37,250 --> 01:43:39,554
and horror of waiting
for the bomb to drop.

1869
01:43:39,587 --> 01:43:41,889
Not if the bombs don't exist.

1870
01:44:03,111 --> 01:44:05,780
I-I don't know what else
I could have done.

1871
01:44:09,717 --> 01:44:10,985
Just say yes.

1872
01:44:15,590 --> 01:44:19,459
On this one point,
Mr. President...

1873
01:44:22,130 --> 01:44:23,765
...I cannot compromise.

1874
01:44:25,867 --> 01:44:27,300
Where are you going?

1875
01:44:28,435 --> 01:44:31,404
I'm afraid
I will not see you again.

1876
01:45:04,138 --> 01:45:05,405
Mr. President.

1877
01:45:05,438 --> 01:45:07,141
<i>...apparently</i>
<i>by a lone assailant.</i>

1878
01:45:07,175 --> 01:45:08,276
Mr. President.

1879
01:45:10,310 --> 01:45:11,746
Mr. President!

1880
01:45:15,917 --> 01:45:17,084
I failed.

1881
01:45:24,725 --> 01:45:27,161
I offered him the deal
of the century,

1882
01:45:27,327 --> 01:45:28,361
of human history,

1883
01:45:28,395 --> 01:45:30,497
and he's walking away
over one word,

1884
01:45:31,199 --> 01:45:32,733
a single word.

1885
01:45:33,701 --> 01:45:35,570
Never should've trusted him.

1886
01:45:37,038 --> 01:45:38,139
Sir, the car is here,

1887
01:45:38,172 --> 01:45:39,607
ready to take him
to the airport,

1888
01:45:39,640 --> 01:45:42,610
but it's not over, not yet.

1889
01:45:42,643 --> 01:45:43,644
It's over.

1890
01:45:44,377 --> 01:45:46,479
The whole world living on hope.

1891
01:45:47,181 --> 01:45:48,883
Press will know by tonight.

1892
01:45:50,551 --> 01:45:51,719
Sir, when you recruited me,

1893
01:45:51,752 --> 01:45:53,754
you told me
we could make a difference.

1894
01:45:54,589 --> 01:45:56,891
You told me
we could make America safer

1895
01:45:56,924 --> 01:45:57,992
than when we found her.

1896
01:45:58,025 --> 01:45:58,860
It's over.

1897
01:46:03,264 --> 01:46:04,966
Ask him to come to Washington.

1898
01:46:05,633 --> 01:46:08,401
For what? More talk
that leads to nothing?

1899
01:46:08,435 --> 01:46:10,370
Maybe this place is haunted.

1900
01:46:12,372 --> 01:46:15,209
Ask him anyway, sir.
Please, in spite of it all.

1901
01:46:15,243 --> 01:46:17,678
We have maybe a minute left
until he comes out that door,

1902
01:46:17,712 --> 01:46:19,747
gets in that car,
and he is gone.

1903
01:46:20,748 --> 01:46:23,551
Do not let what happened
in that house, in that room,

1904
01:46:23,584 --> 01:46:25,186
over the last 30 hours

1905
01:46:25,219 --> 01:46:27,088
destroy our entire future.

1906
01:46:32,526 --> 01:46:34,095
This is the red line, sir.

1907
01:46:35,263 --> 01:46:36,931
You asked me to tell you.

1908
01:46:37,832 --> 01:46:38,966
Well, this is it.

1909
01:46:40,735 --> 01:46:43,503
This is it.

1910
01:46:45,706 --> 01:46:48,843
You don't want
to be seen as a warmonger.

1911
01:46:49,476 --> 01:46:51,478
Sir, if we fail here,

1912
01:46:52,380 --> 01:46:53,781
there will be war.

1913
01:46:54,715 --> 01:46:55,950
And when that war is over,

1914
01:46:55,983 --> 01:46:58,451
there will be nothing left
on God's green earth

1915
01:46:58,485 --> 01:47:01,555
but smoldering, irradiated,
lifeless rock.

1916
01:47:03,423 --> 01:47:05,492
I know that
that is not what they want.

1917
01:47:05,526 --> 01:47:07,561
That is not what
any sane person wants.

1918
01:47:07,595 --> 01:47:10,531
It's not about want, George,
it's about need.

1919
01:47:10,564 --> 01:47:12,166
We need peace.

1920
01:47:12,867 --> 01:47:15,736
And that requires
the end of them.

1921
01:47:17,004 --> 01:47:23,177
Liberty, George,
only liberty equals peace.

1922
01:47:30,685 --> 01:47:32,920
You didn't come here

1923
01:47:33,387 --> 01:47:35,756
to negotiate
about nuclear weapons.

1924
01:47:36,290 --> 01:47:38,926
You came here
to try to prove to them

1925
01:47:38,960 --> 01:47:41,629
that they are
fundamentally wrong.

1926
01:47:44,966 --> 01:47:49,136
You came here
to end the Soviet Union.

1927
01:47:49,770 --> 01:47:53,107
I came here to show him
the contradiction.

1928
01:47:54,675 --> 01:47:56,377
That holding people at gunpoint

1929
01:47:56,410 --> 01:47:59,447
and claiming you're a utopia
is not possible.

1930
01:47:59,479 --> 01:48:01,115
No one is safe,

1931
01:48:01,148 --> 01:48:04,018
no free citizen anywhere
is safe,

1932
01:48:04,051 --> 01:48:06,053
until a system

1933
01:48:06,087 --> 01:48:09,790
that is based on the devaluing
of individual liberty,

1934
01:48:09,824 --> 01:48:13,427
that threatens everyone
with tyranny, is over.

1935
01:48:14,061 --> 01:48:16,630
We can talk about arms control,
arms reduction,

1936
01:48:16,664 --> 01:48:19,467
missile shields
'til Kingdom come,

1937
01:48:19,499 --> 01:48:22,703
but if they just admit
that they're wrong,

1938
01:48:22,737 --> 01:48:26,974
they admit that their perfect
Soviet commune is wrong...

1939
01:48:27,808 --> 01:48:30,244
if he admits
something as simple

1940
01:48:31,212 --> 01:48:32,947
as people want to leave...

1941
01:48:34,181 --> 01:48:37,118
then it's over, it crumbles.

1942
01:48:37,718 --> 01:48:40,721
We consign them
to the ash heap of history.

1943
01:48:42,256 --> 01:48:47,128
George, we just have
to show that it's possible.

1944
01:48:52,500 --> 01:48:53,634
Last night we had a deal

1945
01:48:53,667 --> 01:48:57,071
to rid the planet
of nuclear weapons, sir.

1946
01:48:57,104 --> 01:49:00,141
Ah, anything is possible.

1947
01:49:02,109 --> 01:49:03,444
May I suggest, sir,

1948
01:49:04,178 --> 01:49:08,482
that you retry your test
with Rostropovich's sister,

1949
01:49:08,517 --> 01:49:09,850
this time with a compromise.

1950
01:49:09,884 --> 01:49:12,253
Well, why should I compromise
when he won't?

1951
01:49:12,286 --> 01:49:15,524
Because, sir, good leaders
make the present better,

1952
01:49:15,556 --> 01:49:18,426
great leaders
make the future better.

1953
01:49:18,926 --> 01:49:21,262
He wants
to do great things too, sir.

1954
01:49:22,129 --> 01:49:23,064
He needs a partner.

1955
01:49:29,538 --> 01:49:30,604
Well...

1956
01:49:32,573 --> 01:49:34,108
what's the compromise?

1957
01:49:35,843 --> 01:49:37,778
That you'll send her back home.

1958
01:49:39,380 --> 01:49:42,316
And it won't be forever, sir.
Not if you're right.

1959
01:49:47,556 --> 01:49:49,190
Secretary-General.

1960
01:50:00,000 --> 01:50:04,004
Let Rostropovich's sister come
to his birthday in Washington.

1961
01:50:04,905 --> 01:50:07,641
Let her leave,
and I give you my word,

1962
01:50:07,675 --> 01:50:08,976
she'll return.

1963
01:50:12,880 --> 01:50:15,116
A journey of a thousand miles
doesn't start

1964
01:50:15,149 --> 01:50:18,018
with the most incredible
arms agreement in history,

1965
01:50:18,752 --> 01:50:20,754
it begins with a single step.

1966
01:50:20,788 --> 01:50:21,889
If you seek peace,

1967
01:50:22,790 --> 01:50:25,759
tear down this wall between us,
Mr. Gorbachev,

1968
01:50:26,528 --> 01:50:27,862
tear down this wall,

1969
01:50:27,895 --> 01:50:30,297
just this one time,
for this one woman,

1970
01:50:32,199 --> 01:50:33,367
and we will meet...

1971
01:50:35,102 --> 01:50:36,871
we will talk again.

1972
01:50:51,886 --> 01:50:54,722
<i>The world thought</i>
<i>it was a failure at the time.</i>

1973
01:50:55,322 --> 01:50:56,991
<i>Even I had my doubts.</i>

1974
01:50:58,826 --> 01:51:00,494
<i>But a year later,</i>

1975
01:51:00,529 --> 01:51:02,163
<i>President Reagan</i>
<i>and Mr. Gorbachev</i>

1976
01:51:02,196 --> 01:51:07,001
<i>signed the first arms reduction</i>
<i>agreement in human history.</i>

1977
01:51:07,768 --> 01:51:10,804
<i>Since then, nuclear weapons</i>
<i>have been reduced</i>

1978
01:51:10,838 --> 01:51:14,375
<i>to less than 10%</i>
<i>of their Cold War peak.</i>

1979
01:51:15,709 --> 01:51:18,379
<i>Two years later,</i>
<i>the Cold War was over.</i>

1980
01:51:18,879 --> 01:51:21,715
<i>And just as President Reagan</i>
<i>had foreseen,</i>

1981
01:51:22,416 --> 01:51:24,151
<i>the Soviet Union ended</i>

1982
01:51:25,286 --> 01:51:26,287
<i>because our leaders</i>

1983
01:51:26,320 --> 01:51:29,190
<i>decided to build bridges</i>
<i>instead of bombs.</i>

1984
01:51:32,359 --> 01:51:34,361
<i>Rostropovich flew to Berlin</i>

1985
01:51:34,995 --> 01:51:37,932
<i>and, with a folding chair</i>
<i>and a borrowed cello,</i>

1986
01:51:37,965 --> 01:51:40,834
<i>played Bach</i>
<i>as the Wall came down.</i>

1987
01:51:42,369 --> 01:51:44,104
<i>A few years later,</i>

1988
01:51:44,138 --> 01:51:47,107
<i>Mr. Gorbachev visited me</i>
<i>out at Stanford.</i>

1989
01:51:48,643 --> 01:51:51,646
<i>I said, "When we first met,</i>

1990
01:51:51,680 --> 01:51:55,149
<i>the Cold War</i>
<i>was at its most dangerous point</i>

1991
01:51:56,585 --> 01:51:59,019
<i>and, three years later,</i>
<i>it was over.</i>

1992
01:52:00,387 --> 01:52:03,757
<i>What do you believe</i>
<i>was the beginning of the end?"</i>

1993
01:52:05,826 --> 01:52:07,861
<i>He replied with one word:</i>

1994
01:52:10,231 --> 01:52:11,398
"Reykjavik."

1995
01:52:21,976 --> 01:52:22,910
Deal.