1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.BZ 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.BZ 3 00:01:13,199 --> 00:01:14,241 Mr. President? 4 00:01:15,618 --> 00:01:16,660 Mr. President. 5 00:01:23,793 --> 00:01:24,960 Mr. President. 6 00:01:29,089 --> 00:01:30,299 I failed. 7 00:01:38,098 --> 00:01:40,476 I offered him the deal of the century, 8 00:01:40,726 --> 00:01:41,894 of human history, 9 00:01:42,019 --> 00:01:46,106 and he's walking away over one word, a single word. 10 00:01:47,191 --> 00:01:48,651 Never should've trusted him. 11 00:01:50,236 --> 00:01:51,278 Sir, the car is here, 12 00:01:51,403 --> 00:01:52,905 ready to take him to the airport, 13 00:01:53,030 --> 00:01:55,449 but it's not over, not yet. 14 00:01:55,574 --> 00:01:56,534 It's over. 15 00:01:57,535 --> 00:01:59,787 The whole world living on hope. 16 00:02:00,454 --> 00:02:02,164 Press will know by tonight. 17 00:02:03,833 --> 00:02:05,000 Sir, when you recruited me, 18 00:02:05,125 --> 00:02:06,877 you told me we could make a difference. 19 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:08,963 You told me we could 20 00:02:09,088 --> 00:02:10,881 make America safer than when we found her. 21 00:02:11,006 --> 00:02:11,966 It's over. 22 00:02:16,428 --> 00:02:17,972 Ask him to come to Washington. 23 00:02:18,848 --> 00:02:21,559 For what? More talk that leads to nothing? 24 00:02:21,684 --> 00:02:23,435 Maybe this place is haunted. 25 00:02:25,813 --> 00:02:28,482 Ask him anyway, sir. Please, in spite of it all. 26 00:02:28,607 --> 00:02:30,818 We have maybe a minute left until he comes out that door, 27 00:02:30,943 --> 00:02:32,778 gets in that car, and he is gone. 28 00:02:34,238 --> 00:02:36,991 Do not let what happened in that house, in that room, 29 00:02:37,116 --> 00:02:40,494 over the last 30 hours destroy our entire future. 30 00:03:18,073 --> 00:03:19,700 All teams, Rawhide has arrived. 31 00:03:26,290 --> 00:03:28,250 He stays with the football. 32 00:03:29,209 --> 00:03:31,712 - Establish position. - The Brits gave it up. 33 00:03:31,837 --> 00:03:33,672 Pictures falling off the walls in the night, 34 00:03:33,797 --> 00:03:35,591 the ambassador's wife refused to stay. 35 00:03:36,091 --> 00:03:37,885 They sold it back to the Icelandic government. 36 00:03:38,010 --> 00:03:39,553 Let me get this straight, George, 37 00:03:39,678 --> 00:03:41,805 of all the places on earth you could pick for a meeting 38 00:03:41,931 --> 00:03:43,223 about the fate of the human race, 39 00:03:43,349 --> 00:03:45,267 you picked a haunted house in Iceland? 40 00:03:45,392 --> 00:03:47,227 Not me, sir. Secret Service. 41 00:03:47,353 --> 00:03:48,979 Perfect for security. 42 00:03:49,104 --> 00:03:51,315 Nothing around but lava rock and the North Atlantic. 43 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:52,691 Total isolation. 44 00:03:52,816 --> 00:03:53,817 "Total isolation." 45 00:03:53,943 --> 00:03:55,235 Can't blame Nancy for staying home. 46 00:03:55,361 --> 00:03:57,029 But I am blaming you. 47 00:03:57,154 --> 00:03:58,030 Yes, sir. 48 00:03:58,155 --> 00:03:59,323 Ready to begin? 49 00:04:03,953 --> 00:04:04,828 Copy. All clear. 50 00:04:04,954 --> 00:04:05,663 Hello, how are you? 51 00:04:05,788 --> 00:04:06,747 - Good to see you. - Mr. President. 52 00:04:06,872 --> 00:04:08,332 - Good to see you. - Welcome, sir. 53 00:04:08,457 --> 00:04:10,042 - This is George Shultz. - Hello, sir. 54 00:04:12,294 --> 00:04:13,671 Should be in the same area. 55 00:04:14,380 --> 00:04:16,966 We'll share this top floor, Soviets are down the hall, 56 00:04:17,091 --> 00:04:19,301 and here is our conference room. 57 00:04:21,011 --> 00:04:22,930 Any update? 58 00:04:23,055 --> 00:04:24,014 Tight quarters. 59 00:04:24,139 --> 00:04:26,600 I'm surprised you didn't shove me in the basement. 60 00:04:27,476 --> 00:04:28,519 You'll be pleased to know, sir, 61 00:04:28,644 --> 00:04:30,771 that the basement, in the spirit of this summit-- 62 00:04:30,896 --> 00:04:32,272 It's not a summit. 63 00:04:32,398 --> 00:04:33,941 We've been having summits for 40 years. 64 00:04:34,066 --> 00:04:35,484 Nothing changes. 65 00:04:35,609 --> 00:04:37,152 Actions speak louder than words. 66 00:04:37,277 --> 00:04:40,072 If this guy Gorbachev wants to bluster and bullshit, 67 00:04:40,197 --> 00:04:42,116 then... ...we'll just walk. 68 00:04:42,616 --> 00:04:44,576 Call it a meeting. And no press. 69 00:04:44,702 --> 00:04:46,370 Sir, we can say no press, 70 00:04:46,495 --> 00:04:48,956 but the leaders of the two superpowers, 71 00:04:49,081 --> 00:04:52,626 with 70,000 nuclear-tipped ICBMs, IRBMs, 72 00:04:52,751 --> 00:04:53,711 air-launched cruise missiles, 73 00:04:53,836 --> 00:04:54,920 not to mention, 74 00:04:55,045 --> 00:04:57,673 five million active duty conventional troops 75 00:04:57,798 --> 00:05:01,802 at their fingertips, are having a... meeting. 76 00:05:01,927 --> 00:05:03,804 Mr. President, whatever we call it, 77 00:05:03,929 --> 00:05:05,264 we have two days. 78 00:05:05,389 --> 00:05:07,433 Perhaps you'd like to glance at the briefing binders? 79 00:05:07,558 --> 00:05:08,892 What, the basement... 80 00:05:09,018 --> 00:05:10,310 You were saying, what's in the basement? 81 00:05:10,436 --> 00:05:12,271 That where you keep the ghosts? 82 00:05:12,396 --> 00:05:13,480 Well, in a manner of speaking, sir. 83 00:05:13,605 --> 00:05:14,815 The CIA. 84 00:05:14,940 --> 00:05:16,066 Ah, of course. 85 00:05:16,191 --> 00:05:17,860 - And the KGB. - Together? 86 00:05:17,985 --> 00:05:21,030 Oh, well, that's got to set a world record for awkward. 87 00:05:21,155 --> 00:05:22,906 Or cooperation? 88 00:05:23,032 --> 00:05:25,075 Have you met the CIA and KGB? 89 00:05:25,951 --> 00:05:28,454 George, where's our team? 90 00:05:28,579 --> 00:05:29,329 Yes, sir. 91 00:05:32,374 --> 00:05:33,625 Let's be quick, gentlemen. 92 00:05:35,502 --> 00:05:36,837 Max Kampelman. 93 00:05:37,713 --> 00:05:39,048 Paul Nitze. 94 00:05:39,173 --> 00:05:40,424 Richard Perle. 95 00:05:41,175 --> 00:05:42,718 And Ken Adelman. 96 00:05:42,843 --> 00:05:45,471 The entire State Department, entire federal government, 97 00:05:45,596 --> 00:05:47,514 at your disposal and you could only find Democrats? 98 00:05:48,891 --> 00:05:50,726 I'm actually a Republican, sir. 99 00:05:50,851 --> 00:05:52,269 Well, that makes two of us. 100 00:05:53,187 --> 00:05:54,521 I'm glad you're all here. 101 00:05:54,646 --> 00:05:57,399 I-I know you gave up time at home 102 00:05:57,524 --> 00:05:59,568 for a weekend in a house in Iceland. 103 00:05:59,693 --> 00:06:01,487 But, hey, I hear there are ghosts, 104 00:06:01,612 --> 00:06:03,822 so it should be fun. 105 00:06:03,947 --> 00:06:05,616 Let's talk about how we open this thing. 106 00:06:05,741 --> 00:06:08,827 We've agreed to begin with formal statements, sir. 107 00:06:08,952 --> 00:06:11,163 This is our basic boilerplate, 108 00:06:11,288 --> 00:06:12,664 plus a few other ideas. 109 00:06:13,457 --> 00:06:14,374 Uh-huh. 110 00:06:20,714 --> 00:06:24,093 I'm going to move up the human rights stuff. 111 00:06:25,844 --> 00:06:29,807 I strongly suggest we don't poke the bear first thing, sir. 112 00:06:29,932 --> 00:06:31,809 You read the briefing binders? 113 00:06:31,934 --> 00:06:33,352 The Russians are focused 114 00:06:33,477 --> 00:06:35,312 on the Strategic Defense Initiative. 115 00:06:35,437 --> 00:06:36,522 Think it violates 116 00:06:36,647 --> 00:06:38,482 the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty. 117 00:06:38,607 --> 00:06:41,276 When, in reality, SDI does nothing of the kind 118 00:06:41,401 --> 00:06:42,945 and they're violating the ABM already 119 00:06:43,070 --> 00:06:45,280 with the radar installation at Krasnoyarsk. 120 00:06:49,868 --> 00:06:51,370 Being underestimated 121 00:06:51,495 --> 00:06:53,497 is a tactical advantage, gentlemen. 122 00:06:54,248 --> 00:06:55,916 Let's not make that same mistake 123 00:06:56,041 --> 00:06:56,875 with the new secretary-general. 124 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,420 Gorbachev is relatively young for a Sov-- 125 00:07:00,546 --> 00:07:02,923 Considering the last three died before I could even meet them, 126 00:07:03,048 --> 00:07:04,174 I guess he must be. 127 00:07:04,299 --> 00:07:07,052 Well, he acted for a while in high school, 128 00:07:07,177 --> 00:07:09,179 - then some in college. - No kidding? 129 00:07:09,304 --> 00:07:12,141 Not film like you, just stage plays. 130 00:07:12,266 --> 00:07:13,892 Explains his bombastic speeches. 131 00:07:14,017 --> 00:07:15,185 All those big hand movements. 132 00:07:15,310 --> 00:07:16,854 At least you have something in common, sir. 133 00:07:16,979 --> 00:07:19,815 Yes, except for the fact that we disagree 134 00:07:19,940 --> 00:07:22,192 about free enterprise, freedom of speech, 135 00:07:22,317 --> 00:07:25,571 and freedom of just about any kind. 136 00:07:27,239 --> 00:07:29,867 Gentlemen, can you trust an enemy? 137 00:07:29,992 --> 00:07:32,870 Since the founding of the Soviet Union, 138 00:07:32,995 --> 00:07:35,622 they have concentrated their foreign policy 139 00:07:35,747 --> 00:07:38,876 on the, uh, coercion of other nations. 140 00:07:39,001 --> 00:07:41,420 And no nation, not a single one, 141 00:07:41,545 --> 00:07:43,088 that has become communist 142 00:07:43,213 --> 00:07:44,882 has ever turned back to democracy. 143 00:07:45,007 --> 00:07:45,966 And because of that, 144 00:07:46,091 --> 00:07:48,594 we face an enemy that is ever-growing, 145 00:07:48,719 --> 00:07:52,306 an octopus stretching tentacles into even our own hemisphere. 146 00:07:52,431 --> 00:07:55,309 Some of you, except for this former Marine, 147 00:07:55,434 --> 00:07:58,145 are too young to remember the Second World War. 148 00:07:59,062 --> 00:08:00,355 I am not. 149 00:08:01,106 --> 00:08:03,859 A system, no matter fascist or communist, 150 00:08:04,610 --> 00:08:06,695 that subjugates every citizen, 151 00:08:06,820 --> 00:08:08,906 denying them not just basic rights, 152 00:08:09,031 --> 00:08:10,657 but their God-given free will, 153 00:08:10,782 --> 00:08:12,659 is a threat not just to one nation, 154 00:08:13,285 --> 00:08:15,996 but eventually to all nations. 155 00:08:18,332 --> 00:08:22,502 So we have rebuilt our military, 156 00:08:22,628 --> 00:08:24,922 we have moved our Pershing missiles into Germany 157 00:08:25,047 --> 00:08:26,798 in defense of our NATO allies, 158 00:08:27,883 --> 00:08:29,384 we have funded those committed 159 00:08:29,509 --> 00:08:31,011 to the cause of democracy and freedom 160 00:08:31,136 --> 00:08:31,845 throughout the world, 161 00:08:31,970 --> 00:08:35,515 and, now, finally, we have begun scientific work 162 00:08:35,641 --> 00:08:38,518 on a missile shield to protect the American people. 163 00:08:40,145 --> 00:08:42,397 We have done all this, 164 00:08:43,774 --> 00:08:46,360 even though I have been called a warmonger 165 00:08:46,485 --> 00:08:49,363 by The New York Times and even some of our allies, 166 00:08:50,697 --> 00:08:52,741 even though the atomic scientists 167 00:08:52,866 --> 00:08:55,994 have the Doomsday Clock down to five minutes 'til annihilation, 168 00:08:56,119 --> 00:08:57,412 we have done all this... 169 00:09:00,832 --> 00:09:02,793 because I believed it would drive the Soviets 170 00:09:02,918 --> 00:09:04,336 to the negotiating table. 171 00:09:06,546 --> 00:09:07,256 But... 172 00:09:10,133 --> 00:09:13,136 if we fail, if I fail... 173 00:09:15,764 --> 00:09:18,016 well, then I will be just a warmonger. 174 00:09:18,934 --> 00:09:21,395 I will have endangered the American people. 175 00:09:23,689 --> 00:09:26,275 Which is the absolute opposite of our goal. 176 00:09:28,568 --> 00:09:31,196 We must find out if we can trust this Gorbachev, 177 00:09:31,321 --> 00:09:33,448 if we can make a deal with him, 178 00:09:33,573 --> 00:09:36,410 if I can shake his hand at the end of all this as the... 179 00:09:38,328 --> 00:09:39,997 photographers click and flash. 180 00:10:02,811 --> 00:10:04,688 If the capitalist press finds out 181 00:10:04,813 --> 00:10:07,107 you brought so many clothes, 182 00:10:07,232 --> 00:10:09,443 they will confuse you with Nancy Reagan. 183 00:10:09,568 --> 00:10:11,236 Oh... 184 00:10:11,361 --> 00:10:13,530 That doesn't look like Karl Marx. 185 00:10:14,656 --> 00:10:19,828 "A nuclear war can never be won and must never be fought." 186 00:10:20,787 --> 00:10:21,580 Who? 187 00:10:21,705 --> 00:10:23,999 A quote from the leader of our main enemy 188 00:10:24,708 --> 00:10:28,045 when he addressed the Japanese parliament three years ago. 189 00:10:28,337 --> 00:10:30,547 Don't get your hopes up, Miliy. 190 00:10:30,672 --> 00:10:33,842 It looked promising before, in Geneva, and it fell apart. 191 00:10:36,803 --> 00:10:39,848 "The production of too many useful things 192 00:10:39,973 --> 00:10:43,143 results in too many useless people." 193 00:10:43,268 --> 00:10:46,605 Karl Marx never had to deal with Paris and Mitterrand. 194 00:10:46,730 --> 00:10:47,898 Do you not remember? 195 00:10:48,023 --> 00:10:49,399 I wore the same thing twice 196 00:10:49,524 --> 00:10:51,485 and their press treated me like a peasant. 197 00:10:53,111 --> 00:10:54,821 In the West, people are on the streets, begging, 198 00:10:54,946 --> 00:10:56,823 yet I'm mocked if I repeat a dress. 199 00:10:57,949 --> 00:10:59,326 The hypocrisy. 200 00:10:59,451 --> 00:11:03,246 But I will remind them how sophisticated we are, 201 00:11:03,372 --> 00:11:04,664 how we are strong, 202 00:11:04,790 --> 00:11:06,750 as you will show him in that room. 203 00:11:07,250 --> 00:11:10,420 We gave Reagan the option of London or Reykjavik. 204 00:11:10,545 --> 00:11:14,049 He chose not the capital of his main ally, 205 00:11:14,925 --> 00:11:16,426 the British, 206 00:11:16,551 --> 00:11:19,763 but this place, that is equidistant between us. 207 00:11:20,764 --> 00:11:22,391 This is a good sign, Raisa. 208 00:11:23,308 --> 00:11:24,351 He chose it 209 00:11:24,976 --> 00:11:27,354 because the only airport is at their airbase, 210 00:11:27,479 --> 00:11:29,064 forcing, for the first time ever, 211 00:11:29,189 --> 00:11:32,359 a Soviet premier to land upon NATO military territory. 212 00:11:32,484 --> 00:11:35,195 Their electronic warfare teams 213 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:37,280 must have enjoyed themselves immensely 214 00:11:37,406 --> 00:11:39,616 scanning all our communications. 215 00:11:40,534 --> 00:11:43,703 He is arrogant and uncompromising. 216 00:11:44,913 --> 00:11:47,082 We have survived the bloodletting 217 00:11:47,207 --> 00:11:49,668 of the Revolution, 218 00:11:49,793 --> 00:11:51,753 the onslaught of the Nazis, 219 00:11:51,878 --> 00:11:54,548 and the purges of that maniac Stalin. 220 00:11:54,673 --> 00:11:57,843 We will survive electronic warfare teams, my love. 221 00:11:59,553 --> 00:12:01,513 I know you want to accomplish great things 222 00:12:01,638 --> 00:12:02,973 for our nation. 223 00:12:03,098 --> 00:12:05,392 I can't accomplish anything if we continue fighting 224 00:12:05,517 --> 00:12:07,602 this Cold War with the Americans. 225 00:12:09,604 --> 00:12:12,649 The soil of the Ukraine is as rich as their Iowa, 226 00:12:13,608 --> 00:12:18,071 yet we continue to import more and more of their grain. 227 00:12:18,864 --> 00:12:22,075 Forty million tons last year alone. 228 00:12:27,122 --> 00:12:30,959 "Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid." 229 00:12:33,628 --> 00:12:35,964 - Tolstoy? - Goethe. 230 00:12:37,799 --> 00:12:40,135 What a dissident reader you've become. 231 00:12:40,260 --> 00:12:43,096 Well, thanks to you, Miliy, 232 00:12:43,221 --> 00:12:46,475 we no longer need to be dissidents about what we read. 233 00:12:49,186 --> 00:12:51,188 No heavy coat. Take the light one. 234 00:12:52,397 --> 00:12:54,316 You'll look like you can't take the cold. 235 00:12:55,150 --> 00:12:56,568 And you're Russian. 236 00:13:46,701 --> 00:13:48,828 Well, I see they made their own border. 237 00:13:48,954 --> 00:13:51,957 CIA on one side, KGB on the other. 238 00:13:52,082 --> 00:13:54,376 That's the spirit of cooperation? 239 00:13:55,126 --> 00:13:56,044 Lao Tzu tells us 240 00:13:56,169 --> 00:13:58,713 the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. 241 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:03,885 Mr. President, I'm Margaret Clancy. 242 00:14:04,010 --> 00:14:05,011 How can I help you? 243 00:14:05,136 --> 00:14:05,929 That your real name? 244 00:14:06,054 --> 00:14:09,099 It is as far as they're concerned, sir. 245 00:14:09,224 --> 00:14:12,143 Ah. Well, then, Ms. Clancy, I'd like to talk to my wife. 246 00:14:12,269 --> 00:14:14,604 Well, sir, the best option is a scrambler. 247 00:14:14,729 --> 00:14:15,730 Ours isn't set up yet, 248 00:14:15,855 --> 00:14:17,732 but there is one in the Ambassador's residence. 249 00:14:17,857 --> 00:14:19,526 And if I promise not to tell Nancy 250 00:14:19,651 --> 00:14:21,319 any classified nuclear secrets? 251 00:14:21,444 --> 00:14:22,571 Well, sir... 252 00:14:24,197 --> 00:14:26,575 Uh, that'll be fine for the sat relay. 253 00:14:26,700 --> 00:14:27,867 The switchboard at Langley 254 00:14:27,993 --> 00:14:30,203 ought to be able to put you through to the Lincoln Bedroom. 255 00:14:34,332 --> 00:14:37,460 Ronnie? You look good on TV. 256 00:14:37,586 --> 00:14:40,797 NBC says Air Force One made a textbook landing 257 00:14:40,922 --> 00:14:41,923 despite the winds. 258 00:14:42,549 --> 00:14:45,260 I wish the Secret Service would've brought the car. 259 00:14:45,385 --> 00:14:46,678 It's got better armor. 260 00:14:46,803 --> 00:14:47,762 Didn't think we'd need it. 261 00:14:47,887 --> 00:14:49,180 And the Ambassador's car is fine. 262 00:14:49,306 --> 00:14:51,975 I mean, we... we, uh, kicked him out of his residence, 263 00:14:52,100 --> 00:14:53,852 might as well take his car too. 264 00:14:53,977 --> 00:14:54,936 Wonder where we sent him. 265 00:14:55,061 --> 00:14:56,229 You're too trusting. 266 00:14:56,354 --> 00:14:58,440 Well, if they launch a first strike, 267 00:14:58,565 --> 00:15:00,150 they take out Gorbachev too. 268 00:15:00,275 --> 00:15:01,401 Seems unlikely, Nance. 269 00:15:01,526 --> 00:15:04,362 And, uh, you know I don't trust the Commies. 270 00:15:06,906 --> 00:15:07,616 Listen... 271 00:15:08,450 --> 00:15:10,619 Raisa Gorbachev is here. 272 00:15:13,246 --> 00:15:16,750 Intelligence reported it as we landed this morning. 273 00:15:17,459 --> 00:15:19,794 Oh, Ronnie, I should be there. 274 00:15:19,919 --> 00:15:21,713 And you know what this will look like. 275 00:15:22,297 --> 00:15:24,549 It's fine. We're not doing anything social. 276 00:15:24,674 --> 00:15:25,967 There will be no pictures of her 277 00:15:26,092 --> 00:15:28,094 and him and me, and not you, no loss of face. 278 00:15:29,054 --> 00:15:30,180 I'm sorry, Nance. 279 00:15:33,892 --> 00:15:34,768 Don't worry about it. 280 00:15:34,893 --> 00:15:37,145 I've got lots of work to do here. 281 00:15:37,896 --> 00:15:38,938 Go be great. 282 00:15:40,523 --> 00:15:42,651 Yes, ma'am. Love you. 283 00:15:42,776 --> 00:15:44,110 Love you. 284 00:15:53,828 --> 00:15:56,498 Yes, would you ask my chief of staff to come by? 285 00:15:57,874 --> 00:16:00,877 Yes, wake her if need be. Thank you. 286 00:16:19,688 --> 00:16:21,731 Convoy is on approach. 287 00:16:21,856 --> 00:16:23,566 There it is in the formation. 288 00:16:26,319 --> 00:16:27,362 Cameras? 289 00:16:27,862 --> 00:16:30,448 Just our guy, Pete Souza, and one for the Soviets. 290 00:16:31,324 --> 00:16:33,827 Last time anyone gets this close to the summit. 291 00:16:33,952 --> 00:16:34,744 Meeting. 292 00:16:39,249 --> 00:16:41,292 Good to see you, Mr. President. 293 00:16:42,001 --> 00:16:43,628 And you're early, hm? 294 00:16:43,753 --> 00:16:45,839 Always looking for the advantage. 295 00:16:45,964 --> 00:16:48,425 Well, we are politicians, Secretary-General. 296 00:16:48,550 --> 00:16:50,135 That we are, yes. 297 00:16:50,260 --> 00:16:52,762 And I hope we can be partners in peace 298 00:16:52,887 --> 00:16:54,806 and begin the work 299 00:16:54,931 --> 00:16:58,226 that the world and our peoples expect of us on arms reduction. 300 00:17:00,645 --> 00:17:02,605 I'm sure we will. Yes. 301 00:17:03,148 --> 00:17:05,275 And, uh, did you hear this place is haunted? 302 00:17:25,962 --> 00:17:28,339 Must be a British joke, hm? 303 00:17:28,465 --> 00:17:29,966 I don't see any ghosts. 304 00:17:32,051 --> 00:17:34,471 I'll, uh, I'll let you get settled with your staff 305 00:17:34,596 --> 00:17:37,390 and then I'll, uh, I'll meet you in that room there. 306 00:17:37,515 --> 00:17:39,392 How much time do you need? Half an hour? 307 00:17:39,517 --> 00:17:41,102 Five minutes? 308 00:17:41,227 --> 00:17:42,562 Unless you need more time 309 00:17:42,687 --> 00:17:45,148 to recover from your early arrival. 310 00:17:45,273 --> 00:17:46,775 I'll be there. 311 00:17:59,746 --> 00:18:01,748 - Did he say "reduction"? - He did. 312 00:18:02,540 --> 00:18:05,084 He mistranslated the English word for "control." 313 00:18:05,210 --> 00:18:06,628 He meant arms control. 314 00:18:06,753 --> 00:18:09,255 Hell of a mistake to make in the first minute, sir. 315 00:18:10,131 --> 00:18:11,633 Gorbachev has been in the Party 316 00:18:11,758 --> 00:18:14,219 and making moves since he was a teenager. 317 00:18:14,969 --> 00:18:16,012 He's too good for that. 318 00:18:16,137 --> 00:18:16,846 Yeah. 319 00:18:18,306 --> 00:18:20,600 There have been countless agreements 320 00:18:20,725 --> 00:18:22,101 about arms control, sir, 321 00:18:22,227 --> 00:18:24,521 but in all of human history, 322 00:18:24,646 --> 00:18:26,231 there has never been a single pact 323 00:18:26,356 --> 00:18:30,443 between peoples on the reduction of arms. 324 00:18:32,028 --> 00:18:33,738 This could be historic. 325 00:18:33,863 --> 00:18:34,864 Your legacy. 326 00:18:35,657 --> 00:18:38,493 Or it's a move meant to throw us off our game 327 00:18:38,618 --> 00:18:40,745 and he's just going to bullshit for two days. 328 00:18:41,454 --> 00:18:43,122 There's an old Russian saying, George, 329 00:18:43,248 --> 00:18:46,251 "Trust, but verify." 330 00:18:46,376 --> 00:18:47,293 So... 331 00:18:48,294 --> 00:18:49,671 we need a test 332 00:18:49,796 --> 00:18:51,881 to see if he's serious about change. 333 00:18:52,006 --> 00:18:52,882 Yes. 334 00:18:53,007 --> 00:18:56,553 I have the Rostropovich letter in my briefcase upstairs. 335 00:19:14,904 --> 00:19:15,989 Shall we begin? 336 00:19:32,338 --> 00:19:34,048 Minister Shevardnadze. 337 00:19:34,757 --> 00:19:36,301 Secretary Shultz. 338 00:19:38,428 --> 00:19:40,722 I never imagined I'd see the controls 339 00:19:40,847 --> 00:19:44,058 for 70,000 nuclear weapons in the same room... 340 00:19:45,310 --> 00:19:46,853 a few feet apart. 341 00:19:46,978 --> 00:19:49,689 I have always wondered why you Americans 342 00:19:49,814 --> 00:19:51,858 call it the "nuclear football." 343 00:19:52,901 --> 00:19:56,237 Only a weak people need to be afraid of their own creation. 344 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:01,618 Yes, we humans do have a way 345 00:20:01,743 --> 00:20:04,871 of making the horrific sound innocuous. 346 00:20:06,706 --> 00:20:08,333 For example, "Gulag"... 347 00:20:09,208 --> 00:20:10,585 sounds so much nicer 348 00:20:10,710 --> 00:20:14,464 than "inhumane Siberian torture prison." 349 00:20:31,522 --> 00:20:33,316 Mr. General Secretary, 350 00:20:35,318 --> 00:20:38,237 I have been impatiently awaiting this meeting. 351 00:20:39,489 --> 00:20:41,282 In the organizational plan, 352 00:20:42,033 --> 00:20:43,826 it would evidently be expedient 353 00:20:43,952 --> 00:20:47,538 to devote part of the time to talks held one-on-one, 354 00:20:47,664 --> 00:20:48,915 and part of the time 355 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:50,833 to the exchange of opinions 356 00:20:50,959 --> 00:20:53,753 in the presence of our ministers of foreign affairs. 357 00:20:53,878 --> 00:20:56,089 Is this procedure acceptable to you? 358 00:20:57,006 --> 00:20:59,175 Yes, I agree with this. 359 00:20:59,801 --> 00:21:01,386 As a matter of fact, 360 00:21:01,511 --> 00:21:04,639 that is what we had in mind when we suggested this meeting. 361 00:21:07,058 --> 00:21:09,602 With what problems shall we begin our discussions? 362 00:21:10,728 --> 00:21:14,482 It seems to me we have an entire series of problems. 363 00:21:15,066 --> 00:21:16,693 I am referring to the problems 364 00:21:16,818 --> 00:21:19,904 of intermediate-range weapons, space, 365 00:21:20,029 --> 00:21:21,781 and agreements on the ABM defense, 366 00:21:21,906 --> 00:21:24,784 as well as proposals on strategic weapons. 367 00:21:24,909 --> 00:21:27,537 Mr. President, I believe it would make sense 368 00:21:27,662 --> 00:21:30,206 to first conduct a brief exchange of opinions 369 00:21:30,331 --> 00:21:31,749 on the situation in the world 370 00:21:31,874 --> 00:21:34,627 which has prompted me to appeal to you 371 00:21:34,752 --> 00:21:36,921 with the proposal of this meeting. 372 00:21:37,046 --> 00:21:39,132 Obviously we would be willing to discuss 373 00:21:39,257 --> 00:21:40,508 all questions 374 00:21:40,633 --> 00:21:43,678 which the American side feels necessary to raise. 375 00:21:43,803 --> 00:21:44,679 Thank you, sir. 376 00:21:45,847 --> 00:21:48,016 I would like to add that, in my opinion, 377 00:21:49,142 --> 00:21:51,853 we really will have to talk about human rights. 378 00:21:53,604 --> 00:21:56,315 Unlike other questions which we have cited, 379 00:21:56,441 --> 00:21:59,402 they have great influence on how far we can go 380 00:21:59,527 --> 00:22:02,071 in cooperation with the Soviet side 381 00:22:02,196 --> 00:22:04,449 in view of our public opinion. 382 00:22:07,201 --> 00:22:10,788 Please continue with your thoughts. 383 00:22:12,749 --> 00:22:13,958 Human rights, 384 00:22:14,792 --> 00:22:17,462 specifically questions of exit from the Soviet Union, 385 00:22:18,337 --> 00:22:20,965 are ever present in appeals to my office. 386 00:22:21,090 --> 00:22:22,633 Specifically, sir, I... 387 00:22:22,759 --> 00:22:24,177 Well, you may know 388 00:22:24,302 --> 00:22:26,345 that the National Symphony in Washington, 389 00:22:26,471 --> 00:22:29,098 a wonderful, cherished orchestra, 390 00:22:29,223 --> 00:22:32,977 has a cellist and conductor, Mr. Rostropovich, 391 00:22:33,102 --> 00:22:34,854 who hails from the Soviet Union. 392 00:22:34,979 --> 00:22:39,442 He left in 1974, I believe. 393 00:22:39,567 --> 00:22:41,569 His birthday is coming up 394 00:22:41,694 --> 00:22:45,156 and, uh, he has not seen his sister, his only family, 395 00:22:45,281 --> 00:22:46,491 in over ten years. 396 00:22:49,452 --> 00:22:53,247 I have his letter here, Mr. General Secretary, 397 00:22:53,372 --> 00:22:56,084 from him, beseeching you... 398 00:22:57,960 --> 00:22:59,879 to let her travel to Washington... 399 00:23:01,506 --> 00:23:02,757 for his birthday. 400 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:06,886 Hmm. 401 00:23:11,891 --> 00:23:15,186 We will talk about human rights, hm? 402 00:23:15,311 --> 00:23:17,814 But now I would like to express in principle 403 00:23:17,939 --> 00:23:20,149 what problems concern the Soviet Union 404 00:23:20,274 --> 00:23:21,776 such as arms control, 405 00:23:21,901 --> 00:23:25,196 including strategic arms, medium-range missiles, 406 00:23:25,321 --> 00:23:26,322 the ABM Treaty, 407 00:23:26,447 --> 00:23:29,826 and the cessation of nuclear testing. 408 00:23:29,951 --> 00:23:31,285 Yes, I agree with your approach. 409 00:23:31,410 --> 00:23:33,246 However, it is important that you know 410 00:23:33,371 --> 00:23:35,915 the force of public opinion in the USA. 411 00:23:38,126 --> 00:23:40,002 We are a nation of immigrants. 412 00:23:41,170 --> 00:23:42,922 One out of every eight Americans 413 00:23:43,047 --> 00:23:44,090 has some relations 414 00:23:44,215 --> 00:23:47,635 with your vast Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 415 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:50,471 And, of course, I... 416 00:23:50,596 --> 00:23:52,890 ...I understand this national spiritual tie 417 00:23:53,015 --> 00:23:54,851 since I, as an Irishman, 418 00:23:54,976 --> 00:23:56,853 feel these ties myself with Ireland. 419 00:23:57,854 --> 00:24:01,107 Therefore, I see that all Americans are concerned 420 00:24:01,232 --> 00:24:03,401 about what is going on in your country 421 00:24:03,526 --> 00:24:05,486 because we are all immigrants. 422 00:24:06,821 --> 00:24:09,157 And it will be easier to conclude agreements 423 00:24:09,282 --> 00:24:10,992 on various arms questions 424 00:24:11,117 --> 00:24:12,827 when public opinion is not angered 425 00:24:12,952 --> 00:24:16,414 by some events in the countries of their cultural heritage. 426 00:24:20,710 --> 00:24:24,213 However, I agree that these problems are secondary 427 00:24:24,338 --> 00:24:27,175 as compared with the problems of nuclear arms. 428 00:24:28,176 --> 00:24:31,262 Our situation is unique in human history. 429 00:24:32,763 --> 00:24:35,224 Here we are, the two of us, 430 00:24:36,058 --> 00:24:37,685 sitting together in a room, 431 00:24:38,769 --> 00:24:42,648 deciding whether there will be peace or war in the world. 432 00:24:46,027 --> 00:24:47,528 We both want peace, 433 00:24:49,030 --> 00:24:50,531 but how will we achieve it? 434 00:24:51,657 --> 00:24:56,495 How do we strengthen trust and reduce suspicion 435 00:24:56,621 --> 00:24:58,039 between our two peoples? 436 00:25:08,883 --> 00:25:09,634 Hmm. 437 00:25:11,344 --> 00:25:13,512 I will consider your request. 438 00:25:17,850 --> 00:25:20,519 Thank you, Mr. General Secretary. 439 00:25:20,645 --> 00:25:21,854 I may continue? 440 00:25:31,155 --> 00:25:32,949 - We're on channel two. - Copy that. 441 00:25:35,159 --> 00:25:36,410 For Pete's sake, Austin, 442 00:25:36,535 --> 00:25:38,663 how many waffles did you have for breakfast? 443 00:25:38,788 --> 00:25:40,081 I gotta take a leak! 444 00:25:42,917 --> 00:25:44,627 Oh, yeah, as if this is the first time 445 00:25:44,752 --> 00:25:46,212 you've seen someone waiting in line. 446 00:25:46,337 --> 00:25:49,298 You guys, you have to wait in line for a loaf of bread. 447 00:25:50,967 --> 00:25:53,594 KGB doesn't wait for bread. 448 00:25:53,719 --> 00:25:55,471 Oh, yeah, no class warfare 449 00:25:55,596 --> 00:25:56,639 when you have the only guns 450 00:25:56,764 --> 00:25:58,224 and they're aimed at the proletariat. 451 00:26:24,625 --> 00:26:27,044 The water is very pure and very clean. 452 00:26:27,169 --> 00:26:30,214 It has a really high mineral content 453 00:26:30,339 --> 00:26:34,218 that is especially 454 00:26:34,343 --> 00:26:36,137 - Bravo! - Who are you with? 455 00:26:36,762 --> 00:26:38,806 NPR. I'm-I'm Cleo. 456 00:26:38,931 --> 00:26:41,142 You're The Times? London? 457 00:26:41,267 --> 00:26:44,895 Yeah. Alexander. How'd you... Uh, right. 458 00:26:45,438 --> 00:26:47,023 Just, uh... I knew that. 459 00:26:49,525 --> 00:26:51,360 It is so beautiful. 460 00:26:51,485 --> 00:26:54,322 The water is so beautiful. So blue. 461 00:26:54,447 --> 00:26:55,906 Good morning. 462 00:26:58,576 --> 00:27:00,745 Well, this is crazy. Right? 463 00:27:00,870 --> 00:27:02,246 What? 464 00:27:02,371 --> 00:27:04,290 The entire world's press corps descends 465 00:27:04,415 --> 00:27:06,709 on the tiny, freezing strategic cornerstone 466 00:27:06,834 --> 00:27:07,710 of the North Atlantic, 467 00:27:07,835 --> 00:27:10,171 only to discover a whole island with no hotels, 468 00:27:10,296 --> 00:27:13,215 no motels, no bed and breakfasts, 469 00:27:13,341 --> 00:27:14,717 not even cars to rent. 470 00:27:14,842 --> 00:27:16,594 Just an old church with cots to sleep in, 471 00:27:16,719 --> 00:27:19,430 and a complete media blackout of the actual summit? 472 00:27:19,555 --> 00:27:21,265 So instead of covering the leader of the free world 473 00:27:21,390 --> 00:27:22,892 and the leader of the communist empire 474 00:27:23,017 --> 00:27:25,227 alone in a room together for the first time in 40 years 475 00:27:25,353 --> 00:27:27,480 debating whether we're all gonna die in a mushroom cloud, 476 00:27:27,605 --> 00:27:30,941 we're left here at a natural hot springs 477 00:27:31,067 --> 00:27:32,818 watching water aerobics? 478 00:27:36,989 --> 00:27:38,741 Madam Soviet First Lady? 479 00:27:38,866 --> 00:27:40,910 Uh, The Times. I have a question. 480 00:27:41,035 --> 00:27:42,453 - Uh, no-- - Of course. 481 00:27:42,578 --> 00:27:45,289 I would be happy to answer any questions. 482 00:27:45,414 --> 00:27:47,958 But I am not First Lady. 483 00:27:48,084 --> 00:27:50,753 I'm sure Nancy Reagan appreciates the title, 484 00:27:50,878 --> 00:27:55,383 but in the Soviet Union, we are all truly equal. 485 00:27:56,008 --> 00:27:58,636 I am simply Raisa Gorbacheva. 486 00:27:58,761 --> 00:28:00,930 Ah, yeah. Right. 487 00:28:01,764 --> 00:28:04,725 Um, Mrs. Gorbacheva, how are you enjoying your time here? 488 00:28:04,850 --> 00:28:06,811 On behalf of the Soviet people, 489 00:28:06,936 --> 00:28:11,107 I am very grateful and, uh, hope we will become friends. 490 00:28:11,732 --> 00:28:13,567 As Chekhov once said, 491 00:28:13,692 --> 00:28:16,320 "We must trust and believe in people 492 00:28:16,445 --> 00:28:18,697 or life becomes impossible." 493 00:28:20,908 --> 00:28:22,910 Oh, thank you, darling. 494 00:28:23,035 --> 00:28:26,372 Where is your, uh, counterpart, Mrs. Reagan? 495 00:28:26,497 --> 00:28:27,665 I don't know. 496 00:28:28,707 --> 00:28:30,751 I can't imagine leaving my husband 497 00:28:30,876 --> 00:28:34,380 at such a critical time in our world's history. 498 00:28:34,505 --> 00:28:36,340 Perhaps she doesn't feel well? 499 00:28:37,174 --> 00:28:38,509 - Mrs. Gorbacheva! - Mrs. Gorbacheva! 500 00:28:38,634 --> 00:28:40,636 Any word from your husband? 501 00:28:42,388 --> 00:28:43,639 For too many years, 502 00:28:43,764 --> 00:28:46,809 there has been an overly complex mechanism 503 00:28:46,934 --> 00:28:48,686 of Soviet-American dialogue. 504 00:28:49,270 --> 00:28:52,398 In this time, this mechanism of dialogue 505 00:28:52,523 --> 00:28:55,276 has been disrupted several times, 506 00:28:55,401 --> 00:28:58,404 and still we are not resolved on the main questions 507 00:28:59,029 --> 00:29:01,323 even though many, many words have been said 508 00:29:01,449 --> 00:29:02,783 regarding these questions. 509 00:29:02,908 --> 00:29:05,619 I have been frustrated for many years myself 510 00:29:05,744 --> 00:29:07,496 with this lack of progress. 511 00:29:08,581 --> 00:29:12,084 So now we find ourselves 512 00:29:12,209 --> 00:29:15,129 in an increasingly urgent situation, 513 00:29:16,172 --> 00:29:18,048 and that is why I have suggested 514 00:29:18,174 --> 00:29:19,341 this meeting with you. 515 00:29:21,635 --> 00:29:24,054 I was very struck 516 00:29:24,180 --> 00:29:26,557 by your first campaign for the presidency, 517 00:29:26,682 --> 00:29:30,311 when you suggested a Nuclear Zero option. 518 00:29:31,937 --> 00:29:35,733 I wonder now if this was merely rhetoric. 519 00:29:37,026 --> 00:29:38,611 I wonder, Mr. President, 520 00:29:38,736 --> 00:29:42,531 because despite the millions of protestors 521 00:29:42,656 --> 00:29:44,283 for peace in Western Europe, 522 00:29:44,950 --> 00:29:47,953 despite the condemnation of many allies 523 00:29:48,078 --> 00:29:50,664 and the political costs to Chancellor Kohl 524 00:29:50,789 --> 00:29:52,500 and Prime Minister Thatcher, 525 00:29:52,625 --> 00:29:55,836 you have moved intermediate ballistic missiles 526 00:29:55,961 --> 00:29:57,046 into Germany. 527 00:29:57,671 --> 00:29:58,756 If launched, 528 00:29:59,548 --> 00:30:03,093 these missiles are five or six minutes from Moscow. 529 00:30:05,304 --> 00:30:08,182 You would give me five or six minutes 530 00:30:08,307 --> 00:30:10,100 to respond to an attack? 531 00:30:10,893 --> 00:30:12,353 What do you think would happen? 532 00:30:12,478 --> 00:30:15,439 How am I to respond to such aggression? 533 00:30:16,273 --> 00:30:19,693 Are these the actions of peace? 534 00:30:35,709 --> 00:30:37,419 Hm. 535 00:30:37,545 --> 00:30:38,754 Thank you, Mr. Gorbachev, 536 00:30:38,879 --> 00:30:41,215 for your sincere and clear remarks. 537 00:30:44,093 --> 00:30:47,346 I would remind you that the United States 538 00:30:47,471 --> 00:30:50,182 has placed its Pershing missiles, our IRBMs, 539 00:30:50,307 --> 00:30:53,060 in West Germany at the request 540 00:30:53,811 --> 00:30:55,729 of a democratically elected government, 541 00:30:55,854 --> 00:30:58,649 and that our number, 108, 542 00:30:58,774 --> 00:31:01,360 is less than half of the 279 543 00:31:01,485 --> 00:31:03,362 that you have stationed in Eastern Europe. 544 00:31:03,487 --> 00:31:04,863 Yet we have nothing similar 545 00:31:04,989 --> 00:31:07,157 threatening Washington in five or six minutes. 546 00:31:07,283 --> 00:31:08,409 Threatening the free peoples 547 00:31:08,534 --> 00:31:10,035 of Brussels, Paris, Rome, and London 548 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:12,413 is threatening Washington, Mr. Gorbachev. 549 00:31:12,538 --> 00:31:14,540 Such is the nuclear umbrella policy 550 00:31:14,665 --> 00:31:17,042 of our security agreements with our allies. 551 00:31:17,167 --> 00:31:19,753 An attack on one is an attack on all. 552 00:31:19,878 --> 00:31:22,172 Yes, I am familiar with NATO Article 5. 553 00:31:22,298 --> 00:31:25,175 However, we have discussed 554 00:31:25,301 --> 00:31:28,512 many times the subject of arms control. 555 00:31:29,430 --> 00:31:31,640 We have many agreements. 556 00:31:32,891 --> 00:31:33,809 Yes. 557 00:31:33,934 --> 00:31:37,938 Are you suggesting such a thing in Europe with the IRBMs? 558 00:31:38,063 --> 00:31:39,982 To limit them, to control them? 559 00:31:40,107 --> 00:31:40,858 No. 560 00:31:41,775 --> 00:31:43,902 I am suggesting that the Soviet Union 561 00:31:44,028 --> 00:31:48,365 would be willing to remove our IRBMs. 562 00:31:49,074 --> 00:31:51,452 I am suggesting that we develop 563 00:31:52,244 --> 00:31:55,748 an agreement on arms reduction... 564 00:31:57,333 --> 00:32:00,711 and that nuclear intermediate- range ballistic missiles 565 00:32:00,836 --> 00:32:01,837 in Europe 566 00:32:01,962 --> 00:32:03,839 can be reduced... 567 00:32:04,632 --> 00:32:05,549 to zero. 568 00:32:22,399 --> 00:32:25,778 We would be open... 569 00:32:29,990 --> 00:32:31,784 to discussing such an agreement. 570 00:32:42,544 --> 00:32:44,380 As the press blackout continues 571 00:32:44,505 --> 00:32:45,297 here in Iceland, 572 00:32:45,422 --> 00:32:47,800 the Soviet premier's wife, Raisa Gorbachev, 573 00:32:47,925 --> 00:32:49,760 {\an8}was available for questions. 574 00:32:49,885 --> 00:32:52,513 {\an8}When asked why the First Lady was not also available, 575 00:32:52,638 --> 00:32:54,556 {\an8}she suggested that perhaps health concerns 576 00:32:54,682 --> 00:32:57,184 had prevented Mrs. Reagan from making the trip. 577 00:32:58,644 --> 00:32:59,436 Mrs. Gorbachev... 578 00:32:59,561 --> 00:33:02,189 Samantha, I'll need my press secretary as well. 579 00:33:02,314 --> 00:33:03,190 - Thank you. - ...as she uses her time 580 00:33:03,315 --> 00:33:05,484 to draw attention to the cultural treasures 581 00:33:05,609 --> 00:33:07,111 of this island country. 582 00:33:09,822 --> 00:33:11,740 And what about the missiles in Asia? 583 00:33:11,865 --> 00:33:14,952 The IRBMs that have a range of 1000 kilometers or less? 584 00:33:15,077 --> 00:33:18,831 Our proposal only concerns Europe. 585 00:33:20,124 --> 00:33:22,251 There is a small problem. 586 00:33:22,376 --> 00:33:23,752 I am not authorized to negotiate 587 00:33:23,877 --> 00:33:26,380 the nuclear forces of Britain and France, Mr. Gorbachev. 588 00:33:26,505 --> 00:33:27,464 I am aware 589 00:33:27,589 --> 00:33:29,508 that you are neither Mrs. Thatcher 590 00:33:29,633 --> 00:33:30,759 nor Mr. Mitterrand. 591 00:33:30,884 --> 00:33:34,179 So you are saying that your proposal 592 00:33:34,304 --> 00:33:37,433 would include only US and Soviet Union weapons? 593 00:33:37,558 --> 00:33:38,475 I am. 594 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:40,561 Britain and France have the right to keep theirs 595 00:33:40,686 --> 00:33:43,313 as a part of their own defensive posture? 596 00:33:44,648 --> 00:33:46,191 I would hope you'd encourage them 597 00:33:46,316 --> 00:33:48,277 to see that by withdrawing our weapons, 598 00:33:48,402 --> 00:33:51,739 we leave our Warsaw Pact allies vulnerable. 599 00:33:51,864 --> 00:33:55,367 That their NATO weapons are an unaligned threat 600 00:33:56,076 --> 00:33:58,537 and that there is then no deterrence for us. 601 00:33:59,329 --> 00:34:02,124 I would hope you would help your NATO allies 602 00:34:02,249 --> 00:34:05,878 to see that their weapons were no longer necessary. 603 00:34:06,545 --> 00:34:09,339 And you won't simply paint over the Soviet flag 604 00:34:09,465 --> 00:34:10,424 with an East German flag, 605 00:34:10,549 --> 00:34:12,092 thereby, magically, 606 00:34:12,217 --> 00:34:15,262 a Soviet missile becomes an East German one? 607 00:34:16,972 --> 00:34:18,056 I will not. 608 00:34:18,182 --> 00:34:21,351 What assurances do we have? 609 00:34:22,269 --> 00:34:25,105 My word and that of the Soviet Union. 610 00:34:26,565 --> 00:34:28,901 You'll forgive me, Mr. General Secretary, 611 00:34:29,985 --> 00:34:32,488 but we have a long history of finding the USSR 612 00:34:32,613 --> 00:34:35,407 to be cheating on its international obligations, 613 00:34:35,532 --> 00:34:38,202 including those to the United States. 614 00:34:38,327 --> 00:34:40,621 You have a long history of suspicion of us 615 00:34:40,746 --> 00:34:43,791 and a history of covert activities 616 00:34:43,916 --> 00:34:46,251 in sovereign nations hostile to you. 617 00:34:47,878 --> 00:34:49,087 I was sorry to hear 618 00:34:49,213 --> 00:34:52,299 of your recent misfortunes with the Contras. 619 00:34:56,762 --> 00:34:59,932 I hope you will see this proposal 620 00:35:00,057 --> 00:35:03,101 as a bold new initiative for peace. 621 00:35:12,236 --> 00:35:14,571 There is a very old Russian saying. 622 00:35:15,405 --> 00:35:16,406 A proverb. 623 00:35:17,658 --> 00:35:19,827 "Doveryai, no proveryai." 624 00:35:21,578 --> 00:35:23,163 "Trust, but verify." Yes. 625 00:35:23,288 --> 00:35:24,373 Yes. 626 00:35:24,998 --> 00:35:26,542 How do you propose we do that? 627 00:35:29,837 --> 00:35:32,631 Well, perhaps it's as simple as letting American personnel 628 00:35:32,756 --> 00:35:35,050 observe the removal of your missiles from Europe. 629 00:35:35,175 --> 00:35:37,511 This is not possible. 630 00:35:38,136 --> 00:35:40,472 My military will never allow an enemy 631 00:35:40,597 --> 00:35:43,141 to observe our most closely guarded technology. 632 00:35:43,267 --> 00:35:45,352 How would it be different if you were to observe us? 633 00:35:45,477 --> 00:35:47,354 We would have the same problem. 634 00:35:48,063 --> 00:35:52,734 But our military still reports to our civilian leadership. 635 00:35:53,485 --> 00:35:54,403 To me. 636 00:35:55,863 --> 00:35:57,114 Does yours? 637 00:35:59,449 --> 00:36:02,369 - "Trust, but verify"? - Yes. 638 00:36:04,746 --> 00:36:06,164 How did you say it? 639 00:36:06,290 --> 00:36:10,460 We would be willing to discuss such an agreement. 640 00:36:12,671 --> 00:36:13,672 Now... 641 00:36:16,133 --> 00:36:18,719 what about those IRBMs in Asia? 642 00:36:47,456 --> 00:36:49,875 What happened to solidarity, comrade? 643 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,336 "From each according to their ability, 644 00:36:52,461 --> 00:36:54,463 to each according to their need." 645 00:36:55,088 --> 00:36:56,965 You do not need to quote Marx to me. 646 00:36:57,090 --> 00:37:00,385 How about, "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"? 647 00:37:00,510 --> 00:37:01,678 You've heard of that one? 648 00:37:01,803 --> 00:37:03,889 Yes, written by a slaveholder. 649 00:37:04,014 --> 00:37:05,307 How conveniently capitalist. 650 00:37:05,432 --> 00:37:06,683 Yeah, well, 651 00:37:06,808 --> 00:37:10,562 at least he didn't massacre 20 million farmers like Stalin. 652 00:37:11,396 --> 00:37:12,773 That's enough. 653 00:37:13,398 --> 00:37:15,317 Go upstairs and get me a coffee. 654 00:37:29,164 --> 00:37:32,000 But you expect me to abandon my Asian allies? 655 00:37:32,125 --> 00:37:35,003 We have no intermediate ballistic missiles in Asia, 656 00:37:35,128 --> 00:37:37,089 at least not ones that are nuclear-tipped. 657 00:37:37,214 --> 00:37:39,633 What do you expect me to withdraw? 658 00:37:39,758 --> 00:37:42,761 I expect the United States to have the same regard 659 00:37:42,886 --> 00:37:44,972 for Soviet concerns as you have for your own. 660 00:37:46,056 --> 00:37:49,977 Are we not mutually assured partners in destruction? 661 00:37:50,811 --> 00:37:54,314 Shall we not be mutually assured partners in reduction? 662 00:37:55,232 --> 00:37:56,650 That's a great turn of phrase. 663 00:37:58,735 --> 00:37:59,820 You mock me? 664 00:37:59,945 --> 00:38:02,406 No, on the contrary, Mr. Gorbachev, I salute you. 665 00:38:03,031 --> 00:38:04,282 You have a better command of English 666 00:38:04,408 --> 00:38:05,617 than I ever could of Russian. 667 00:38:05,742 --> 00:38:07,202 Let me ask you this. 668 00:38:07,327 --> 00:38:10,372 What is the difference between Brussels and Tokyo? 669 00:38:13,125 --> 00:38:15,002 The sushi is better in Tokyo. 670 00:38:15,127 --> 00:38:18,130 Yeah, yeah, well, yes, that's very funny, sir, but no. 671 00:38:18,255 --> 00:38:20,215 I mean, you have suggested 672 00:38:20,340 --> 00:38:22,801 that we remove our nuclear protection of Belgium 673 00:38:22,926 --> 00:38:24,970 by removing our Pershing missiles. 674 00:38:25,095 --> 00:38:26,263 - Yes. - And yet, 675 00:38:26,388 --> 00:38:28,974 we have none protecting our Japanese allies, 676 00:38:29,099 --> 00:38:30,684 but you have ones that could threaten them. 677 00:38:30,809 --> 00:38:33,979 You have 6,500 nuclear warheads 678 00:38:34,104 --> 00:38:37,441 aboard American submarines all over the world. 679 00:38:38,233 --> 00:38:41,653 More than 800 of which are multiple reentry vehicles, 680 00:38:41,778 --> 00:38:44,322 multiple warheads per missile. 681 00:38:44,948 --> 00:38:46,575 And we know, as equally as you do, 682 00:38:46,700 --> 00:38:49,119 of the greater accuracy of American missiles. 683 00:38:49,244 --> 00:38:51,079 You're upset that we're good at what we do? 684 00:38:51,204 --> 00:38:53,790 I'm explaining that you have submarines 685 00:38:53,915 --> 00:38:55,667 in the Pacific defending Japan. 686 00:38:55,792 --> 00:38:57,335 And you have none threatening it? 687 00:38:57,461 --> 00:38:59,212 The numbers are not equal. 688 00:38:59,337 --> 00:39:01,631 We have more land-based IRBMs. 689 00:39:01,757 --> 00:39:03,759 You have more submarines. 690 00:39:03,884 --> 00:39:06,845 But you expect me to withdraw my Asian missiles 691 00:39:06,970 --> 00:39:09,306 while you offer no compromise, be it submarine or otherwise. 692 00:39:09,431 --> 00:39:12,184 I am not going to leave our Asian allies, 693 00:39:12,309 --> 00:39:14,519 none of whom have nuclear forces of their own, 694 00:39:14,644 --> 00:39:15,520 defenseless. 695 00:39:15,645 --> 00:39:17,064 Yet you are asking me 696 00:39:17,189 --> 00:39:19,775 to leave my Warsaw Pact allies defenseless, 697 00:39:19,900 --> 00:39:22,569 while I let your NATO allies keep their nuclear weapons. 698 00:39:22,694 --> 00:39:25,530 I am not asking anything of you, Mr. Gorbachev-- 699 00:39:25,655 --> 00:39:27,574 you are asking me. 700 00:39:27,699 --> 00:39:31,828 The arrogance of the Americans. 701 00:39:32,370 --> 00:39:35,165 Uncompromising arrogance. 702 00:40:08,907 --> 00:40:11,409 What are you suggesting? 703 00:40:18,667 --> 00:40:20,043 I am suggesting 704 00:40:21,002 --> 00:40:22,963 that while I have proposed 705 00:40:23,088 --> 00:40:25,924 decoupling the question of your NATO allies 706 00:40:26,049 --> 00:40:27,759 and their nuclear forces 707 00:40:27,884 --> 00:40:30,220 from the IRBM equation in Europe, 708 00:40:30,345 --> 00:40:31,972 I have agreed, have I not, 709 00:40:32,097 --> 00:40:35,433 that they are separate from the issue between us, 710 00:40:35,559 --> 00:40:39,563 you are not allowing that Asia is another separate issue. 711 00:40:40,647 --> 00:40:42,816 How am I to compromise with you 712 00:40:42,941 --> 00:40:45,527 when you will do nothing of the sort with me? 713 00:40:56,413 --> 00:40:57,831 It is near the time 714 00:40:57,956 --> 00:40:59,374 for the first session 715 00:40:59,499 --> 00:41:01,126 this morning to end, Mr. Gorbachev. 716 00:41:01,251 --> 00:41:04,546 Perhaps we should update our foreign ministers. 717 00:41:07,007 --> 00:41:07,841 And... 718 00:41:09,301 --> 00:41:10,927 in the spirit of compromise, 719 00:41:12,095 --> 00:41:16,600 I will advise mine that we wish to pursue this deal 720 00:41:16,725 --> 00:41:19,728 relevant to the European IRBM reduction. 721 00:41:19,853 --> 00:41:22,731 I'll ask him to have our staff draft some language for it... 722 00:41:23,356 --> 00:41:25,317 with your approval, of course. 723 00:41:25,442 --> 00:41:27,652 This is satisfactory. 724 00:41:27,777 --> 00:41:29,571 We will meet again at 3:00 p.m.? 725 00:41:30,947 --> 00:41:31,990 Of course. 726 00:41:57,807 --> 00:41:59,434 Stand to, gents. 727 00:41:59,601 --> 00:42:00,852 Gorbachev came to play. 728 00:42:00,977 --> 00:42:02,395 What's going on? 729 00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:05,106 Soviets are saying that they will withdraw their IRBMs 730 00:42:05,232 --> 00:42:06,816 from Eastern Europe if we pull the Pershings. 731 00:42:06,942 --> 00:42:08,276 - We're sure? - That's unheard of. 732 00:42:08,401 --> 00:42:10,237 - They suggested it? - Gonna lose my bet, aren't I? 733 00:42:10,362 --> 00:42:11,321 We have work to do. 734 00:42:11,446 --> 00:42:12,739 Chancellor Kohl is gonna throw a fit. 735 00:42:12,864 --> 00:42:14,074 He just spent two years 736 00:42:14,199 --> 00:42:16,284 and every last ounce of political capital he has 737 00:42:16,409 --> 00:42:18,036 to move them in there. 738 00:42:18,828 --> 00:42:21,164 He had a million people on the streets protesting. 739 00:42:21,289 --> 00:42:23,667 We'll worry about him when we have a deal. 740 00:42:23,792 --> 00:42:25,961 For now, let's get started on the details. 741 00:42:26,086 --> 00:42:27,420 A phased withdrawal. 742 00:42:27,545 --> 00:42:28,505 Seems right, but-- 743 00:42:28,630 --> 00:42:31,925 First priority is determining how it would be certified. 744 00:42:32,550 --> 00:42:34,135 "Doveryai, no proveryai." 745 00:42:34,261 --> 00:42:35,887 "Trust, but verify"? 746 00:42:36,012 --> 00:42:38,181 Russians will never let a Yankee soldier 747 00:42:38,306 --> 00:42:39,599 on their rocket pads to observe. 748 00:42:39,724 --> 00:42:40,684 Never happen. 749 00:42:41,935 --> 00:42:42,727 - No. - He didn't. 750 00:42:42,852 --> 00:42:44,771 He knows this could be his legacy, 751 00:42:45,605 --> 00:42:48,275 the President's legacy, our legacy. 752 00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:50,318 There's plenty of room on this boat 753 00:42:50,443 --> 00:42:52,862 for all of our résumés and reputations. 754 00:42:53,530 --> 00:42:55,031 I'll see about getting us some food. 755 00:42:55,156 --> 00:42:56,449 You get to work on a proposal. 756 00:42:56,574 --> 00:42:58,535 Shouldn't the boss be here? Where is he? 757 00:42:59,202 --> 00:43:00,996 He's doing the smart thing, Perle, resting. 758 00:43:01,121 --> 00:43:02,080 You know something about that. 759 00:43:03,373 --> 00:43:05,375 Mm. 760 00:43:55,425 --> 00:43:57,469 It's just chicken salad, friend. 761 00:44:17,864 --> 00:44:18,531 Yes? 762 00:44:18,656 --> 00:44:19,699 How are you? 763 00:44:19,824 --> 00:44:21,201 What is that music? 764 00:44:21,326 --> 00:44:23,995 I tried to find something by Rostropovich, 765 00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:26,247 but, uh, they don't have it. 766 00:44:26,373 --> 00:44:28,291 I'm sure he'd play here when you get home. 767 00:44:28,416 --> 00:44:30,126 Well, let's see if I can get his sister 768 00:44:30,251 --> 00:44:32,420 out of the Soviet Union for his birthday first. 769 00:44:32,545 --> 00:44:35,006 Gorbachev isn't exactly Gandhi. 770 00:44:35,131 --> 00:44:36,800 Are there reindeer in Iceland? 771 00:44:36,925 --> 00:44:38,843 I'm pretty sure I'm staring at a reindeer. 772 00:44:38,968 --> 00:44:40,512 I don't know. 773 00:44:40,637 --> 00:44:42,889 Well, I'm gonna have to inquire about our ambassador. 774 00:44:43,014 --> 00:44:45,183 He shouldn't be hunting the rare, indigenous, endangered 775 00:44:45,308 --> 00:44:47,310 Icelandic reindeer. 776 00:44:47,435 --> 00:44:48,228 The environmentalist lobby 777 00:44:48,353 --> 00:44:50,271 will never let me hear the end of it. 778 00:44:50,397 --> 00:44:51,398 Oh, Ronnie. 779 00:44:52,399 --> 00:44:53,233 I don't think 780 00:44:53,358 --> 00:44:55,276 the environmentalists vote Republican. 781 00:44:55,402 --> 00:44:57,987 Well, I won 49 out of the 50 states, Nance. 782 00:44:58,113 --> 00:44:59,531 Some of those votes were Democrats. 783 00:44:59,656 --> 00:45:01,574 Some of them care about the environment. 784 00:45:03,701 --> 00:45:06,996 She told reporters I was ill. 785 00:45:07,122 --> 00:45:09,749 Raisa Gorbachev is just enjoying the spotlight. 786 00:45:09,874 --> 00:45:12,377 You know they don't even know her name back home in Russia? 787 00:45:13,420 --> 00:45:15,755 The KGB cuts her out of pictures before the press, 788 00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:19,634 well, what they call the press, can, uh, print it in the paper. 789 00:45:19,759 --> 00:45:21,511 She, uh, she doesn't exist back there. 790 00:45:21,636 --> 00:45:22,720 That's gotta be tough. 791 00:45:23,263 --> 00:45:25,640 I'm not in this for the spotlight. 792 00:45:26,266 --> 00:45:27,684 I know. Yeah. 793 00:45:29,436 --> 00:45:32,397 There is, uh, there's something weird about reindeer. 794 00:45:33,398 --> 00:45:35,233 Maybe just dead ones. 795 00:45:35,358 --> 00:45:36,985 Santa's all wrong about them. 796 00:45:37,110 --> 00:45:37,944 It's like a... 797 00:45:39,446 --> 00:45:42,031 It is like a menagerie of death in here. 798 00:45:43,074 --> 00:45:44,159 What are you working on? 799 00:45:44,784 --> 00:45:47,120 Oh, uh, nothing, just some little stuff 800 00:45:47,245 --> 00:45:48,663 my office has been planning. 801 00:45:48,788 --> 00:45:50,707 Listen, I'll tell them 802 00:45:50,832 --> 00:45:52,750 to issue a statement that you're healthy. 803 00:45:52,876 --> 00:45:55,211 No. I can take care of myself. 804 00:45:56,337 --> 00:45:58,465 And I've got lots to do here, 805 00:45:58,590 --> 00:46:02,343 and you've got a ball game. You stay focused there. 806 00:46:02,469 --> 00:46:04,596 - Love you. - Okay, bye. 807 00:46:05,388 --> 00:46:06,181 Bye. 808 00:46:31,748 --> 00:46:33,583 Reagan shot at close range, 809 00:46:33,708 --> 00:46:34,626 apparently by a... 810 00:46:57,482 --> 00:46:59,025 - Sir. - George. 811 00:46:59,150 --> 00:47:00,360 What happened to your shirt? 812 00:47:01,861 --> 00:47:03,905 Chicken salad sandwich. 813 00:47:04,030 --> 00:47:06,407 - Come on in. - Uh... 814 00:47:07,158 --> 00:47:08,743 Plenty of time for you to change. 815 00:47:14,624 --> 00:47:17,794 Something on your mind, George? Speak up. 816 00:47:18,419 --> 00:47:21,256 I've been going over the proposal with our team, sir. 817 00:47:21,381 --> 00:47:24,259 It's... it's been a big day already. 818 00:47:24,384 --> 00:47:25,760 You want to quit while we're ahead? 819 00:47:25,885 --> 00:47:26,844 The thought had occurred. 820 00:47:26,970 --> 00:47:29,180 Every missile out of Europe? 821 00:47:30,056 --> 00:47:31,432 That's a hell of a legacy. 822 00:47:31,558 --> 00:47:32,559 Yeah. 823 00:47:32,684 --> 00:47:34,644 Someday, you're gonna have to explain to me 824 00:47:34,769 --> 00:47:38,022 what "legacy" means to all you East Coast blue bloods. 825 00:47:39,065 --> 00:47:41,067 That means the next generation is better off 826 00:47:41,192 --> 00:47:42,360 because of something you did. 827 00:47:43,736 --> 00:47:48,491 I'm sorry, sir, that came out snarkier than I intended. 828 00:47:48,616 --> 00:47:50,368 I didn't hire you for your suits. 829 00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:52,328 I hired you for your candor. 830 00:47:57,041 --> 00:47:59,210 We, uh... We're not done yet. 831 00:48:00,128 --> 00:48:02,171 You want to talk about human rights again? 832 00:48:03,423 --> 00:48:06,509 Yeah. I do. 833 00:48:06,634 --> 00:48:08,678 Why? It'll only annoy him. 834 00:48:08,803 --> 00:48:10,346 They-They'll try to avoid it. 835 00:48:10,471 --> 00:48:12,724 Well, all the more reason. 836 00:48:12,849 --> 00:48:17,770 If you poke the Russian bear too hard, he will react poorly. 837 00:48:17,895 --> 00:48:19,397 You trust me, George? 838 00:48:20,356 --> 00:48:21,649 Of course, Mr. President. 839 00:48:22,817 --> 00:48:24,569 Don't give me that "salute-to-the-flag" answer. 840 00:48:24,694 --> 00:48:25,612 I asked you a question. 841 00:48:25,737 --> 00:48:28,072 Establishment thinks I'm a warmonger, 842 00:48:28,906 --> 00:48:30,033 dangerous. 843 00:48:31,826 --> 00:48:33,411 What's the, uh, difference 844 00:48:33,536 --> 00:48:35,413 between me and any other chucklehead on TV, 845 00:48:35,538 --> 00:48:36,998 except now I'm in the Oval. 846 00:48:38,708 --> 00:48:41,419 I'm asking why you trust me? 847 00:48:42,253 --> 00:48:45,214 New York boy, Princeton, upper class, 848 00:48:45,548 --> 00:48:47,258 you're part of the establishment. 849 00:48:50,720 --> 00:48:53,473 I trust you because you're right. 850 00:48:53,598 --> 00:48:55,683 It can't just be diplomacy. 851 00:48:56,809 --> 00:49:00,730 The Soviets will not listen to us unless we are strong. 852 00:49:00,855 --> 00:49:02,857 Peace through strength. 853 00:49:04,359 --> 00:49:05,860 We tried everything else. 854 00:49:06,569 --> 00:49:10,365 Engagement, encirclement, low-intensity conflicts. 855 00:49:11,199 --> 00:49:12,659 Nothing worked, 856 00:49:12,784 --> 00:49:14,619 until your military buildup. 857 00:49:16,579 --> 00:49:19,457 You got us here, sir. You got them to the table. 858 00:49:20,917 --> 00:49:23,002 "If you can't make them see the light..." 859 00:49:23,127 --> 00:49:25,254 "...make sure they feel the heat." 860 00:49:26,005 --> 00:49:28,216 That was a good line. 861 00:49:29,592 --> 00:49:30,718 Mm. 862 00:49:32,011 --> 00:49:35,932 You tell me if you think we should call it, 863 00:49:37,225 --> 00:49:39,060 if we get right up to that red line. 864 00:49:41,521 --> 00:49:43,648 For now, let's see how far they'll bend. 865 00:49:44,357 --> 00:49:46,025 Let's see how today ends. 866 00:49:46,526 --> 00:49:47,860 If it's a stalemate... 867 00:49:49,570 --> 00:49:50,738 I'll reconsider. 868 00:49:51,781 --> 00:49:52,657 Yes, sir. 869 00:50:16,264 --> 00:50:17,765 We resume this afternoon 870 00:50:17,890 --> 00:50:20,309 with our secretary of state, George Shultz, 871 00:50:20,435 --> 00:50:22,812 and your foreign minister, Eduard Shevardnadze. 872 00:50:22,937 --> 00:50:25,523 Mr. General Secretary, we are pleased 873 00:50:25,648 --> 00:50:27,191 with the morning's progress. 874 00:50:27,316 --> 00:50:29,026 Our team believes that we can find a way 875 00:50:29,152 --> 00:50:32,780 to reduce the European IRBMs to zero. 876 00:50:33,406 --> 00:50:36,868 Thank you, Mr. President. This is very good news. 877 00:50:36,993 --> 00:50:39,120 I wonder if now might be the time 878 00:50:39,245 --> 00:50:41,205 to turn our discussions to human rights, 879 00:50:41,914 --> 00:50:44,584 for instance, Mr. Rostropovich. 880 00:50:44,709 --> 00:50:46,169 We are a nation of immigrants. 881 00:50:46,294 --> 00:50:48,254 We take their rights and their families' rights 882 00:50:48,379 --> 00:50:50,214 very seriously, Secretary-General. 883 00:50:50,339 --> 00:50:52,508 If we could discuss his sister's visit-- 884 00:50:52,633 --> 00:50:54,635 As you stated before, 885 00:50:54,761 --> 00:50:56,220 and as I stated before, 886 00:50:56,345 --> 00:50:57,764 we would first like to continue 887 00:50:57,889 --> 00:50:59,974 on the subject of arms reduction. 888 00:51:03,603 --> 00:51:04,270 Okay. 889 00:51:04,896 --> 00:51:06,606 We have a further proposal. 890 00:51:07,523 --> 00:51:08,983 My foreign minister and I 891 00:51:09,108 --> 00:51:11,611 have been discussing the nuclear triad, 892 00:51:11,736 --> 00:51:12,820 as you call it. 893 00:51:12,945 --> 00:51:14,655 Yes, our strategy 894 00:51:14,781 --> 00:51:17,492 relies upon a three-point threat deterrence, 895 00:51:17,617 --> 00:51:20,119 our land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, 896 00:51:20,244 --> 00:51:23,331 our long-range strategic air command of bombers 897 00:51:23,456 --> 00:51:24,332 with their cruise missiles, 898 00:51:24,457 --> 00:51:26,834 and our submarine-launched missiles. 899 00:51:26,959 --> 00:51:28,669 You have something similar. 900 00:51:28,795 --> 00:51:30,922 We don't have nearly the same numbers 901 00:51:31,047 --> 00:51:32,548 of submarines or bombers. 902 00:51:32,673 --> 00:51:35,009 Our strategy relies almost entirely 903 00:51:35,134 --> 00:51:39,055 on the, uh, overwhelming superiority of our ICBMs. 904 00:51:39,180 --> 00:51:40,932 Superiority? You have a number 905 00:51:41,057 --> 00:51:42,225 that's vastly greater than our own. 906 00:51:42,350 --> 00:51:43,768 I might call it redundancy. 907 00:51:43,893 --> 00:51:46,687 - Please, you insult-- - We could, however, reclassify 908 00:51:46,813 --> 00:51:51,442 all these weapons as strategic offensive armaments, hm? 909 00:51:51,567 --> 00:51:54,278 In years past, our predecessors, 910 00:51:54,403 --> 00:51:56,072 going all the way back to the advent 911 00:51:56,197 --> 00:51:57,740 of the hydrogen bomb, 912 00:51:57,865 --> 00:51:59,700 have tried to restrain 913 00:51:59,826 --> 00:52:01,702 the development of these weapons, 914 00:52:01,828 --> 00:52:03,162 mostly the ICBMs, 915 00:52:03,287 --> 00:52:05,414 but also the bombers and other types, 916 00:52:05,540 --> 00:52:08,668 to control the expansion of arms. 917 00:52:08,793 --> 00:52:10,253 - Yes? - Yes. 918 00:52:10,378 --> 00:52:11,587 They have failed. 919 00:52:11,712 --> 00:52:14,257 We have tens of thousands of these weapons anyway 920 00:52:14,382 --> 00:52:16,133 all pointed at each other. 921 00:52:16,259 --> 00:52:18,678 You propose a new plan for these weapons? 922 00:52:18,803 --> 00:52:19,720 We propose, 923 00:52:19,846 --> 00:52:22,765 using this morning's European plan as our guide, 924 00:52:22,890 --> 00:52:25,977 to reduce these weapons as well. 925 00:52:36,571 --> 00:52:39,740 And, uh, you wanted to quit while we were ahead. 926 00:52:39,866 --> 00:52:41,951 You're not going to let me live that down, are you, sir? 927 00:52:42,076 --> 00:52:43,828 Never. Okay. 928 00:52:44,745 --> 00:52:47,164 Your turn at bat, swing away. 929 00:52:51,127 --> 00:52:54,505 We agree this would be an admirable goal. 930 00:52:55,965 --> 00:52:58,092 Perhaps by as much as one third? 931 00:53:02,346 --> 00:53:04,390 Or even by half? 932 00:53:05,516 --> 00:53:06,225 Half? 933 00:53:09,020 --> 00:53:10,646 Fifty percent? 934 00:53:10,771 --> 00:53:12,189 That is correct. 935 00:53:13,065 --> 00:53:15,109 In land-based ICBMs? 936 00:53:16,110 --> 00:53:18,362 In all. Huh? 937 00:53:19,488 --> 00:53:21,657 All parts of the triad. 938 00:53:22,867 --> 00:53:25,786 Which would still leave you a significant advantage 939 00:53:25,912 --> 00:53:29,248 in land-based and mobile-launched ICBMs. 940 00:53:29,373 --> 00:53:32,209 We understand and are prepared to discuss 941 00:53:32,335 --> 00:53:33,878 how this goal could be achieved. 942 00:53:34,003 --> 00:53:37,506 What I am asking is, is this of interest to you? 943 00:53:40,843 --> 00:53:42,595 It certainly is. 944 00:53:42,720 --> 00:53:45,890 Good. Good. Good! 945 00:53:47,058 --> 00:53:48,517 We are making progress. 946 00:53:49,936 --> 00:53:51,729 Seems like Christmas has come early. 947 00:53:52,313 --> 00:53:56,651 What-what does your religious holiday have to do with this? 948 00:53:56,776 --> 00:53:59,362 Nothing. I'm sorry, I forget you're all atheists. 949 00:54:01,948 --> 00:54:03,908 Although, it, uh... 950 00:54:05,618 --> 00:54:07,244 Well, it seems to me that the Party 951 00:54:07,370 --> 00:54:08,871 is about the same as a church. 952 00:54:09,497 --> 00:54:11,958 You're true believers in the Party, right? 953 00:54:12,667 --> 00:54:14,335 Sir, perhaps... 954 00:54:14,460 --> 00:54:18,047 Please, continue with your thoughts, Mr. President. 955 00:54:19,173 --> 00:54:22,051 Well, I mean, you deny religion as hokum, 956 00:54:22,176 --> 00:54:23,511 bunk, nonsense, 957 00:54:23,636 --> 00:54:25,179 and there can't be an Almighty Party 958 00:54:25,304 --> 00:54:27,098 when there's an Almighty God above it, 959 00:54:27,223 --> 00:54:29,058 so your people can't worship. 960 00:54:29,183 --> 00:54:32,144 They, uh, they have to worship the Party. 961 00:54:33,062 --> 00:54:33,771 Mmm. 962 00:54:35,064 --> 00:54:40,611 To paraphrase the words of our, um, theology, 963 00:54:40,736 --> 00:54:43,656 we believe religion is a false prophet, 964 00:54:43,781 --> 00:54:44,949 promising the people things 965 00:54:45,074 --> 00:54:46,409 they ought to achieve for themselves. 966 00:54:46,534 --> 00:54:49,120 And yet you make them stand in line 967 00:54:49,245 --> 00:54:51,664 for bread and milk and shoes, 968 00:54:51,789 --> 00:54:53,374 and then deny them the hereafter 969 00:54:53,499 --> 00:54:54,834 that would suggest that their, 970 00:54:54,959 --> 00:54:57,253 well, their suffering is temporary. 971 00:54:57,378 --> 00:54:59,296 They have nothing to look forward to, 972 00:54:59,422 --> 00:55:00,589 this life or the next. 973 00:55:01,215 --> 00:55:03,050 No wonder they're so pissed off. 974 00:55:03,175 --> 00:55:06,345 The Soviet people are not pissed off. 975 00:55:06,470 --> 00:55:07,513 Then why do they wanna leave? 976 00:55:07,638 --> 00:55:10,433 Why do you have to keep them locked up behind walls, 977 00:55:10,558 --> 00:55:12,018 like the one in Berlin? 978 00:55:12,852 --> 00:55:14,353 Why not tear it down? 979 00:55:14,478 --> 00:55:16,313 This is western propaganda. 980 00:55:16,439 --> 00:55:17,815 Your Voice of America. 981 00:55:17,940 --> 00:55:19,859 Which you keep trying to jam the signal of. 982 00:55:19,984 --> 00:55:22,319 And we have nothing like it attacking American ears. 983 00:55:22,445 --> 00:55:25,823 You won't even let our movies into your cinemas, 984 00:55:25,948 --> 00:55:28,242 and yet you call this free speech? 985 00:55:28,367 --> 00:55:29,744 Hmm? Open debate? 986 00:55:29,869 --> 00:55:31,287 Well, that's the difference, gentlemen. 987 00:55:31,412 --> 00:55:33,122 The Republican Party doesn't control 988 00:55:33,247 --> 00:55:36,167 what goes on the radio or TV. We don't have our own channel. 989 00:55:37,043 --> 00:55:38,586 If you make something that the American people 990 00:55:38,711 --> 00:55:40,796 actually wanna watch, I guarantee they'll play it. 991 00:55:40,921 --> 00:55:42,131 Media companies don't care 992 00:55:42,256 --> 00:55:44,550 if you're religious or fascist or nihilist, 993 00:55:44,675 --> 00:55:46,052 they just want to make money. 994 00:55:46,177 --> 00:55:49,972 Yes. The great American distraction, 995 00:55:50,097 --> 00:55:52,558 making money. 996 00:55:52,683 --> 00:55:56,020 And you are trying to distract us from our purpose here. 997 00:55:56,145 --> 00:55:57,396 This is pointless. 998 00:55:57,521 --> 00:55:59,565 I, uh I got an intelligence report 999 00:55:59,690 --> 00:56:01,567 the other day from our CIA. 1000 00:56:01,692 --> 00:56:02,735 They were, uh, 1001 00:56:02,860 --> 00:56:05,613 they were assessing your economic conditions, 1002 00:56:05,738 --> 00:56:07,573 tracking a bread line in Moscow. 1003 00:56:08,199 --> 00:56:09,366 There was a guy, Boris, 1004 00:56:09,492 --> 00:56:11,327 and, uh, he was in front of our agent, 1005 00:56:11,452 --> 00:56:13,120 and he got so pissed off 1006 00:56:13,245 --> 00:56:15,331 that he, uh, he left the bread line. 1007 00:56:15,456 --> 00:56:18,250 He said he was gonna go find you, Mr. General Secretary, 1008 00:56:18,375 --> 00:56:21,212 and bludgeon you with a hammer and sickle. 1009 00:56:22,088 --> 00:56:24,757 Well, poor ol' Boris, he came back about an hour later 1010 00:56:24,882 --> 00:56:26,801 and when our agent asked him why, 1011 00:56:26,926 --> 00:56:29,929 he said the only line longer than the one for bread 1012 00:56:30,054 --> 00:56:31,305 was the one to attack you. 1013 00:57:00,042 --> 00:57:01,585 You see, Mr. President, 1014 00:57:01,710 --> 00:57:04,713 you're not the only one with public opinion problems, hm? 1015 00:57:04,839 --> 00:57:08,384 We both must answer to the people. 1016 00:57:09,301 --> 00:57:13,806 Yes, but, uh, my people, if they criticize me publicly, 1017 00:57:13,931 --> 00:57:15,599 don't get sent to the Gulag. 1018 00:57:16,308 --> 00:57:17,017 True. 1019 00:57:17,852 --> 00:57:20,271 And my people can't shoot me. 1020 00:57:30,239 --> 00:57:32,324 We must also ascertain throw weight. 1021 00:57:34,368 --> 00:57:36,912 The amount of weight the missile itself can carry, 1022 00:57:37,037 --> 00:57:40,124 how much a warhead, or warheads, can weigh. 1023 00:57:41,417 --> 00:57:43,669 Your missiles can carry a heavier payload, 1024 00:57:43,794 --> 00:57:45,087 so equal number of missiles 1025 00:57:45,212 --> 00:57:48,132 does not mean equal number of warheads. 1026 00:57:50,593 --> 00:57:52,011 Let us discuss it. 1027 00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:09,737 Hold on, guys. 1028 00:58:09,862 --> 00:58:11,363 Perhaps I should become a capitalist. 1029 00:58:11,488 --> 00:58:13,490 Then I could sell you time in my restroom. 1030 00:58:21,665 --> 00:58:22,666 Colonel. 1031 00:58:26,462 --> 00:58:27,922 Détente, comrade. 1032 00:58:58,327 --> 00:59:00,621 Any idea why she's looking at the Prose Edda? 1033 00:59:01,288 --> 00:59:02,248 The what? 1034 00:59:02,790 --> 00:59:05,084 The ancient Icelandic text. 1035 00:59:05,209 --> 00:59:07,044 Odin, Thor, Loki. 1036 00:59:07,169 --> 00:59:10,130 All their culture and religion and things rolled into one. 1037 00:59:10,256 --> 00:59:12,299 Why would you possibly know... 1038 00:59:12,424 --> 00:59:14,510 Oh, of course, NPR. 1039 00:59:14,635 --> 00:59:17,763 - Snorri Sturluson. - "Snorry"? [chuckles] Come on! 1040 00:59:17,888 --> 00:59:20,432 That's the author of the Prose Edda. 1041 00:59:20,557 --> 00:59:23,686 Snorri. S-N-O-R-R-I. 1042 00:59:23,811 --> 00:59:25,312 - Snorri Sturluson. - Sturluson. Yeah. 1043 00:59:25,437 --> 00:59:26,522 So ask her. 1044 00:59:26,647 --> 00:59:27,731 Ask who what? 1045 00:59:27,856 --> 00:59:29,191 The Not First Lady of Russia. 1046 00:59:29,316 --> 00:59:30,526 She quoted Chekhov. 1047 00:59:30,651 --> 00:59:32,361 I expect she's got a reason we're here 1048 00:59:32,486 --> 00:59:34,655 all looking at the Prose Edda, so ask her. 1049 00:59:34,780 --> 00:59:37,074 - I see. And tell me-- - Mrs. Gorbachev! 1050 00:59:37,199 --> 00:59:38,617 - National Public Radio-- - American. 1051 00:59:38,742 --> 00:59:41,245 American National Public Radio. 1052 00:59:41,370 --> 00:59:43,872 Um, why are we here? 1053 00:59:43,998 --> 00:59:47,501 We are here to exchange cultural knowledge, Ms. NPR. 1054 00:59:47,626 --> 00:59:50,963 The Prose Edda is a seminal text in Norse history 1055 00:59:51,088 --> 00:59:54,133 and I am flattered to examine it here 1056 00:59:54,258 --> 00:59:56,010 in the Land of Ice and Fire. 1057 00:59:56,135 --> 00:59:57,636 I'm sure you've seen the press release. 1058 00:59:57,761 --> 01:00:00,472 Mrs. Reagan is feeling just fine. 1059 01:00:00,597 --> 01:00:02,766 A rather terse and unusual pronouncement 1060 01:00:02,891 --> 01:00:05,144 for a weekend from the Administration. 1061 01:00:05,269 --> 01:00:06,228 You care to comment? 1062 01:00:06,353 --> 01:00:09,732 Well, I'm, uh, thrilled to hear Mrs. Reagan is well. 1063 01:00:09,857 --> 01:00:12,526 I only wish she had brought her good health here 1064 01:00:12,651 --> 01:00:16,613 so we could share this incredible honor together, 1065 01:00:16,739 --> 01:00:18,699 viewing the Prose Edda. 1066 01:00:18,824 --> 01:00:21,744 What's it like staying on a ship, Mrs. Gorbachev? 1067 01:00:21,869 --> 01:00:23,120 Why not a hotel? 1068 01:00:23,245 --> 01:00:25,748 I was told it is for security reasons. 1069 01:00:27,207 --> 01:00:28,959 But I must tell you, 1070 01:00:29,585 --> 01:00:31,128 it is very romantic. 1071 01:00:33,505 --> 01:00:35,049 - Madam Gorbachev! - Madam Gorbachev. 1072 01:00:40,679 --> 01:00:43,182 Huh. "Romantic." 1073 01:00:44,266 --> 01:00:46,268 That's one mental image I won't get out of my head. 1074 01:00:46,393 --> 01:00:48,645 Ah, they're entitled to their happiness. 1075 01:00:48,771 --> 01:00:49,980 Aren't we all? 1076 01:00:51,982 --> 01:00:53,067 I'm calling it. 1077 01:00:53,192 --> 01:00:54,985 I can't imagine my editor will care. 1078 01:00:55,110 --> 01:00:57,654 Saturday afternoon on NPR is always a dead zone. 1079 01:00:58,989 --> 01:01:00,657 - Let's find a bar. - Schnapps! 1080 01:01:04,453 --> 01:01:05,579 Fifty percent reduction. 1081 01:01:05,704 --> 01:01:07,831 I think that is considerable progress. 1082 01:01:07,956 --> 01:01:09,875 Imagine tomorrow, Mr. General Secretary, 1083 01:01:10,000 --> 01:01:12,628 we will shake hands for the cameras and say "deal." 1084 01:01:12,753 --> 01:01:14,463 I would like this very much. 1085 01:01:14,588 --> 01:01:17,299 But we must still discuss your shield, hm? 1086 01:01:19,343 --> 01:01:21,261 The Strategic Defense Initiative. 1087 01:01:25,599 --> 01:01:29,645 Perhaps it is too much for this evening. 1088 01:01:30,479 --> 01:01:32,940 Uh, Mr. President, you had been saying 1089 01:01:33,065 --> 01:01:35,317 that you wish to discuss with your allies 1090 01:01:35,442 --> 01:01:38,445 the potential INF implications in Asia. 1091 01:01:38,570 --> 01:01:41,156 Shall we adjourn so that you may? 1092 01:01:41,907 --> 01:01:44,368 Yes, we will have an answer quickly. 1093 01:01:44,493 --> 01:01:47,871 As we are able to assure you that our eastern allies 1094 01:01:47,996 --> 01:01:50,749 will understand our withdrawals in Europe. 1095 01:01:50,874 --> 01:01:52,626 I must warn you, our NATO allies 1096 01:01:52,751 --> 01:01:53,752 are less subservient. 1097 01:01:53,877 --> 01:01:56,004 Didn't Mrs. Thatcher thank you personally 1098 01:01:56,130 --> 01:01:57,673 for modernizing her arsenal? 1099 01:01:57,798 --> 01:01:59,299 And that you coordinate your attacks 1100 01:01:59,425 --> 01:02:01,218 in the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact 1101 01:02:01,343 --> 01:02:03,679 so as to avoid duplication. 1102 01:02:03,804 --> 01:02:06,140 You seem to know an awful lot. 1103 01:02:06,265 --> 01:02:08,934 That is how this game is played, is it not? 1104 01:02:09,059 --> 01:02:10,602 Surely all of your intelligence 1105 01:02:10,727 --> 01:02:13,063 isn't wasted analyzing bread lines? 1106 01:02:13,188 --> 01:02:14,523 No. It's not. 1107 01:02:14,648 --> 01:02:17,443 We also monitor Russian treaty violation. 1108 01:02:17,568 --> 01:02:19,862 More waste, huh? 1109 01:02:20,654 --> 01:02:22,030 There have been none. 1110 01:02:22,156 --> 01:02:23,615 Trust, but verify. 1111 01:02:24,908 --> 01:02:27,369 As I have agreed we will do. 1112 01:02:28,620 --> 01:02:32,666 But you can imagine the objections of my, uh, KGB. 1113 01:02:32,791 --> 01:02:33,959 And I... 1114 01:02:34,084 --> 01:02:36,378 I doubt I'll have an easy time of it with our Congress. 1115 01:02:36,503 --> 01:02:40,174 You have your senators, I have my generals. 1116 01:02:41,717 --> 01:02:44,887 We must convince them that we are strongest together. 1117 01:02:45,012 --> 01:02:47,222 Yes, I suppose so. 1118 01:02:48,056 --> 01:02:50,434 Too bad we can't just get rid of all of them. 1119 01:02:51,768 --> 01:02:53,020 Your senators? 1120 01:02:53,145 --> 01:02:54,855 No. 1121 01:02:54,980 --> 01:02:55,898 The nukes. 1122 01:03:00,027 --> 01:03:04,031 We're going to cut them by 50% in the next ten years. 1123 01:03:04,156 --> 01:03:05,782 But that still leaves thousands, 1124 01:03:05,908 --> 01:03:08,076 tens of thousands, threatening the world. 1125 01:03:09,745 --> 01:03:11,288 Who's to say who comes after us, 1126 01:03:11,413 --> 01:03:13,373 perhaps the next general secretary 1127 01:03:13,499 --> 01:03:14,833 will want to renegotiate, 1128 01:03:14,958 --> 01:03:17,044 wish to build more, not less. 1129 01:03:17,169 --> 01:03:18,378 Or the next president. 1130 01:03:19,755 --> 01:03:22,132 Traditionally, throughout the history of our republic, 1131 01:03:22,257 --> 01:03:23,675 new presidents have upheld 1132 01:03:23,800 --> 01:03:25,886 the treaties of their predecessors. 1133 01:03:26,011 --> 01:03:27,596 But there is no law they must. 1134 01:03:27,721 --> 01:03:28,722 No. 1135 01:03:29,515 --> 01:03:30,516 No. 1136 01:03:31,808 --> 01:03:35,646 I'm not sure then I understand what you're saying. 1137 01:03:38,482 --> 01:03:41,693 I'm saying good leaders make things better now. 1138 01:03:42,653 --> 01:03:45,989 Great leaders make things better for the future. 1139 01:03:46,114 --> 01:03:47,282 I'm saying... 1140 01:03:49,159 --> 01:03:51,119 why can't we just get rid of all of them? 1141 01:03:52,037 --> 01:03:53,789 Every last one of the... 1142 01:03:55,666 --> 01:03:58,293 goshdamn contemptible things once and for all! 1143 01:03:58,418 --> 01:04:01,255 I'm saying why don't we make a deal 1144 01:04:01,380 --> 01:04:03,006 that the whole world can rejoice, 1145 01:04:03,131 --> 01:04:05,342 a deal too good for those who come after us 1146 01:04:05,467 --> 01:04:07,844 to reject or replace or renegotiate? 1147 01:04:07,970 --> 01:04:10,722 I'm saying why don't we just get rid of all of them? 1148 01:04:11,807 --> 01:04:16,019 I'm saying, are we going to be merely good, Secretary-General, 1149 01:04:17,396 --> 01:04:19,398 or are we going to be great? 1150 01:04:27,823 --> 01:04:31,743 We would be willing to discuss such an agreement. 1151 01:04:32,661 --> 01:04:35,914 All nuclear weapons reduced? 1152 01:04:36,039 --> 01:04:37,791 - To zero. - In ten years? 1153 01:04:37,916 --> 01:04:39,167 - All. - Comrade... 1154 01:04:39,876 --> 01:04:42,045 let's not be too hasty with the atmosphere 1155 01:04:42,170 --> 01:04:44,089 of what we have achieved here today. 1156 01:04:44,214 --> 01:04:46,300 Perhaps we should break for the evening. 1157 01:04:46,967 --> 01:04:49,052 Nuclear Zero. 1158 01:04:49,803 --> 01:04:53,098 Every single nuclear weapon on earth, gone. 1159 01:04:53,765 --> 01:04:57,060 Taken out of the silo, off the sub, out of the bomber, 1160 01:04:57,185 --> 01:05:00,063 dismantled, junked, warheads spun down. 1161 01:05:00,772 --> 01:05:02,399 In just ten years. 1162 01:05:03,609 --> 01:05:06,069 Peace on earth? Hm? 1163 01:05:06,194 --> 01:05:07,863 Good will to all men? 1164 01:05:07,988 --> 01:05:09,489 Your Christmas come early? 1165 01:05:10,490 --> 01:05:12,659 Amen. 1166 01:05:12,784 --> 01:05:14,453 - Well... - Well, then let's do it! 1167 01:05:14,786 --> 01:05:16,496 Yes. [laughs] Let's do it. 1168 01:05:16,622 --> 01:05:18,332 It is impossible, gentlemen. 1169 01:05:18,457 --> 01:05:20,167 How would we even begin to start? 1170 01:05:20,292 --> 01:05:21,418 We'll ask the experts 1171 01:05:21,543 --> 01:05:23,420 to make the arrangements, handle the fine print. 1172 01:05:23,545 --> 01:05:25,047 You brought your experts, they're upstairs 1173 01:05:25,172 --> 01:05:26,632 across the hall from mine. 1174 01:05:26,757 --> 01:05:28,634 They have a long night ahead of them, huh? 1175 01:05:28,759 --> 01:05:30,802 Yes, I'd say they do. 1176 01:05:31,345 --> 01:05:34,056 We will meet tomorrow morning to discuss the terms. 1177 01:05:34,389 --> 01:05:37,017 - And SDI. - And human rights. 1178 01:05:38,727 --> 01:05:40,479 Good night, Mr. General-Secretary. 1179 01:05:40,604 --> 01:05:42,356 Sleep well, Mr. President. 1180 01:05:42,481 --> 01:05:43,815 We're moving. 1181 01:05:49,279 --> 01:05:52,115 Not sure we're going to need you much longer, Tim. 1182 01:05:52,240 --> 01:05:53,533 Sorry, sir? 1183 01:05:54,034 --> 01:05:56,620 Nothing. Thank you, Colonel. I'll be out in a minute. 1184 01:05:56,745 --> 01:05:57,704 Yes, sir. 1185 01:05:59,373 --> 01:06:02,334 They, uh, make me do rehearsals every few months. 1186 01:06:02,459 --> 01:06:03,960 You wanna know how it works? 1187 01:06:04,086 --> 01:06:06,922 How to end the world? No, thank you, sir. 1188 01:06:07,047 --> 01:06:09,049 Well, you're in the line of succession, George, 1189 01:06:09,174 --> 01:06:10,467 and I'm not bulletproof. 1190 01:06:11,385 --> 01:06:12,511 I know. 1191 01:06:13,970 --> 01:06:14,930 Try not to get shot again 1192 01:06:15,055 --> 01:06:16,264 before we get through tomorrow, sir. 1193 01:06:16,390 --> 01:06:17,391 Yeah. 1194 01:06:18,058 --> 01:06:18,975 I'll assemble our team, 1195 01:06:19,101 --> 01:06:21,770 and get them caffeine, lots of it, 1196 01:06:21,895 --> 01:06:23,146 get them in a room with the Soviets. 1197 01:06:23,271 --> 01:06:24,523 Well, get them to zero. 1198 01:06:24,648 --> 01:06:26,900 Every nuclear weapon gone from the face of the Earth 1199 01:06:27,025 --> 01:06:28,443 in just a few hours? 1200 01:06:28,568 --> 01:06:30,487 Congress is going to lose their minds. 1201 01:06:30,612 --> 01:06:31,863 Joint Chiefs too. 1202 01:06:31,988 --> 01:06:33,907 And the CIA, and the DIA, 1203 01:06:34,032 --> 01:06:35,701 and I need to tell our allies. 1204 01:06:35,826 --> 01:06:37,202 Yes, do that tonight. 1205 01:06:37,327 --> 01:06:39,454 Get Thatcher and Mitterrand and Kohl to sign off. 1206 01:06:40,455 --> 01:06:41,873 And if they don't? 1207 01:06:43,291 --> 01:06:45,085 I don't know, George. We'll think of something. 1208 01:06:45,210 --> 01:06:47,212 But just, you know, just get the team into it. 1209 01:06:47,337 --> 01:06:49,256 All right? This is a better world. 1210 01:06:49,381 --> 01:06:51,591 We can leave America safer than we found her. 1211 01:07:03,270 --> 01:07:05,689 "Peace on earth. Good will to all men"? 1212 01:07:05,814 --> 01:07:08,024 Gorbachev actually said that? 1213 01:07:08,150 --> 01:07:09,901 The head of the worldwide communist plot? 1214 01:07:10,026 --> 01:07:12,988 It upsets 50 years of stable geopolitics. 1215 01:07:13,113 --> 01:07:15,615 A mutually assured destruction works for a reason. 1216 01:07:15,741 --> 01:07:17,868 How the hell are we gonna defend Western Europe 1217 01:07:17,993 --> 01:07:21,121 when they have overwhelmingly superior conventional forces 1218 01:07:21,246 --> 01:07:22,914 that will just roll downhill, 1219 01:07:23,039 --> 01:07:24,583 thousands of T-72 tanks 1220 01:07:24,708 --> 01:07:26,585 right through Frankfurt and Paris, 1221 01:07:26,710 --> 01:07:28,086 straight to the English Channel? 1222 01:07:28,211 --> 01:07:29,546 Does any man here doubt 1223 01:07:29,671 --> 01:07:31,882 that the world would be safer without nuclear weapons? 1224 01:07:32,883 --> 01:07:34,801 Hard to put the genie back in the bottle, 1225 01:07:35,218 --> 01:07:36,720 and I've been doing this longer 1226 01:07:36,845 --> 01:07:38,305 than the rest of you put together. 1227 01:07:38,430 --> 01:07:39,723 When we got here, you all thought 1228 01:07:39,848 --> 01:07:41,767 this was a colossal waste of a weekend. 1229 01:07:41,892 --> 01:07:44,311 - Well... - Now, no denying it. 1230 01:07:45,937 --> 01:07:50,192 And yet, the General Secretary of the Communist Party 1231 01:07:50,317 --> 01:07:52,652 of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1232 01:07:52,778 --> 01:07:54,321 has just offered us the best deal 1233 01:07:54,446 --> 01:07:56,239 since Russia sold us Alaska. 1234 01:07:57,449 --> 01:07:59,534 Hell, maybe of all time. 1235 01:08:01,036 --> 01:08:02,454 Are we going to pass it by? 1236 01:08:04,122 --> 01:08:07,000 You've all trained for high stakes negotiations. 1237 01:08:07,125 --> 01:08:07,918 This is it. 1238 01:08:08,585 --> 01:08:10,128 This is our Super Bowl. 1239 01:08:11,213 --> 01:08:13,632 Are you in or are you out? 1240 01:08:18,303 --> 01:08:20,514 I serve at the pleasure of the President. 1241 01:08:20,639 --> 01:08:23,850 I serve at the pleasure of the President. 1242 01:08:31,358 --> 01:08:34,194 So, who's going to lead this moonshot? 1243 01:08:34,319 --> 01:08:35,987 - Paul. - Paul. 1244 01:08:44,204 --> 01:08:45,705 Have you got the scrambler set up? 1245 01:08:48,458 --> 01:08:49,251 You're kidding. 1246 01:08:49,376 --> 01:08:51,545 It looks like something out of Get Smart. 1247 01:08:52,212 --> 01:08:54,130 Sorry about that, Mr. Secretary. 1248 01:08:59,261 --> 01:09:00,929 What's the button for Foggy Bottom? 1249 01:09:01,054 --> 01:09:01,763 Four. 1250 01:09:07,477 --> 01:09:08,562 This is the secretary. 1251 01:09:08,687 --> 01:09:10,689 Get me a line to Ambassador Price in London. 1252 01:09:10,814 --> 01:09:12,232 Yes, this is the secretary. 1253 01:09:12,357 --> 01:09:14,651 Get me a line to Ambassador Rodgers in Paris. 1254 01:09:16,027 --> 01:09:17,529 Richard, George Shultz. 1255 01:09:18,947 --> 01:09:21,241 Yes, it's late. Sorry. 1256 01:09:21,366 --> 01:09:23,869 Listen, you're gonna have to get Helmut up as well. 1257 01:09:23,994 --> 01:09:25,078 Call me back when you have him. 1258 01:09:25,203 --> 01:09:26,246 The President has an update 1259 01:09:26,371 --> 01:09:27,998 from Reykjavík for the chancellor. 1260 01:09:28,123 --> 01:09:29,791 His ears and yours only. 1261 01:09:29,916 --> 01:09:31,585 Wake him up. Wake him up. Wake him up. 1262 01:09:44,556 --> 01:09:45,724 Move. 1263 01:09:49,352 --> 01:09:50,729 Holy shit. 1264 01:09:50,854 --> 01:09:51,771 Is that... 1265 01:09:51,897 --> 01:09:53,899 Marshall Sergey Akhromeyev. 1266 01:09:54,024 --> 01:09:56,318 Four time winner of the Order of Lenin, 1267 01:09:56,443 --> 01:09:58,278 veteran of the siege of Leningrad, 1268 01:09:58,403 --> 01:10:00,238 hero of the Soviet Union... 1269 01:10:01,448 --> 01:10:04,868 Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces. 1270 01:10:06,244 --> 01:10:08,288 They brought their Chairman of the Joint Chiefs 1271 01:10:08,413 --> 01:10:09,539 to negotiate? 1272 01:10:11,041 --> 01:10:13,126 Not intimidating at all. 1273 01:10:14,127 --> 01:10:14,836 Well... 1274 01:10:15,879 --> 01:10:17,797 I'm glad we voted on you, Paul. 1275 01:10:34,439 --> 01:10:35,941 I forgot to call. 1276 01:10:36,066 --> 01:10:37,359 You all right? 1277 01:10:39,694 --> 01:10:41,821 - Ronnie? - I'm just... 1278 01:10:41,947 --> 01:10:43,281 I'm-I'm just tired. 1279 01:10:43,406 --> 01:10:44,532 How's the hand? 1280 01:10:47,953 --> 01:10:48,703 Fine. 1281 01:10:49,496 --> 01:10:51,998 Do they have a TV there at least? 1282 01:10:52,123 --> 01:10:54,376 You need to take your mind off things. 1283 01:10:54,668 --> 01:10:57,212 Well, I'm sure there's one around here somewhere, 1284 01:10:57,337 --> 01:11:00,423 but I... I just don't think Icelandic broadcasters 1285 01:11:00,548 --> 01:11:02,133 have Family Ties. 1286 01:11:05,136 --> 01:11:06,680 You know, they say that Icelanders 1287 01:11:06,805 --> 01:11:08,932 don't have TV at all on Thursdays. 1288 01:11:09,057 --> 01:11:12,894 Something about having time for family and cultural awareness. 1289 01:11:13,019 --> 01:11:16,523 Can you imagine, whole country with no TV for a night? 1290 01:11:16,648 --> 01:11:19,442 Well, thank goodness it's Saturday. 1291 01:11:21,111 --> 01:11:23,863 I know how lonely the job feels, 1292 01:11:23,989 --> 01:11:26,866 being responsible for millions of people. 1293 01:11:28,618 --> 01:11:30,662 I'm so sorry I'm not there with you. 1294 01:11:30,787 --> 01:11:32,122 It was a mistake. 1295 01:11:33,873 --> 01:11:35,667 Eh, it's okay. Uh... 1296 01:11:35,792 --> 01:11:37,252 I'm just fine. 1297 01:11:38,253 --> 01:11:39,421 I love you. 1298 01:11:39,546 --> 01:11:40,922 Good night. 1299 01:11:41,047 --> 01:11:41,965 Love you. 1300 01:11:42,507 --> 01:11:43,508 Good night. 1301 01:11:54,185 --> 01:11:55,937 I should've stayed on a boat. 1302 01:12:12,620 --> 01:12:14,998 This is different, hm? 1303 01:12:15,123 --> 01:12:17,292 You coming home after me. 1304 01:12:17,417 --> 01:12:19,961 We seize the opportunities we have. 1305 01:12:21,129 --> 01:12:23,506 How many times did you change today? 1306 01:12:24,549 --> 01:12:26,468 Eight already. 1307 01:12:26,593 --> 01:12:28,970 The models of Milan have nothing on you. 1308 01:12:30,138 --> 01:12:31,056 Going back out? 1309 01:12:31,181 --> 01:12:34,476 Dinner with the prime minister of Iceland. 1310 01:12:38,354 --> 01:12:39,939 How is it with your American? 1311 01:12:41,274 --> 01:12:42,150 Hmm. 1312 01:12:43,151 --> 01:12:45,945 You must trust and believe in people. 1313 01:12:48,615 --> 01:12:49,532 Otherwise, 1314 01:12:49,657 --> 01:12:51,743 - life becomes impossible. - Life becomes impossible. 1315 01:12:52,869 --> 01:12:56,039 You got a KGB report on me at the hot springs? 1316 01:12:58,792 --> 01:13:00,251 What has happened? 1317 01:13:03,713 --> 01:13:04,964 I cannot say. 1318 01:13:06,800 --> 01:13:09,761 Are you being proud or desperate? 1319 01:13:09,886 --> 01:13:13,098 I think you will say we have something to be proud of. 1320 01:13:15,141 --> 01:13:15,850 Good. 1321 01:13:17,143 --> 01:13:18,061 Good. 1322 01:13:19,395 --> 01:13:22,565 Then you will be able to make the changes we need 1323 01:13:22,690 --> 01:13:24,609 and our people will prosper. 1324 01:13:27,529 --> 01:13:29,114 You harbor no doubts? 1325 01:13:30,740 --> 01:13:32,283 Not about our nation. 1326 01:13:33,243 --> 01:13:34,452 Not about you. 1327 01:13:38,665 --> 01:13:40,458 Do you? 1328 01:13:58,101 --> 01:13:58,810 What? 1329 01:14:01,312 --> 01:14:02,480 You think the KGB 1330 01:14:02,605 --> 01:14:05,567 is now bugging the Soviet premier's toilet? 1331 01:14:07,152 --> 01:14:09,487 I think the minister of state security 1332 01:14:09,612 --> 01:14:13,616 chose this boat and not the embassy for our lodging 1333 01:14:13,741 --> 01:14:18,037 so that we could not take long walks away from microphones. 1334 01:14:22,542 --> 01:14:24,460 What preys upon your mind, my love? 1335 01:14:30,133 --> 01:14:31,551 He seems genuine. 1336 01:14:31,676 --> 01:14:32,844 But you're not sure. 1337 01:14:33,761 --> 01:14:36,931 I offer him Nuclear Zero. 1338 01:14:38,600 --> 01:14:39,976 But I cannot tell. 1339 01:14:40,101 --> 01:14:42,770 I don't think he will give up SDI. 1340 01:14:42,896 --> 01:14:43,730 Well... 1341 01:14:44,647 --> 01:14:48,776 I brought it up for the first time at the close of day 1342 01:14:48,902 --> 01:14:51,529 and the look on his face was clear. 1343 01:14:51,654 --> 01:14:53,531 SDI is a mirage. 1344 01:14:53,656 --> 01:14:56,576 Even his own people don't think it'll work. 1345 01:14:56,701 --> 01:14:58,328 Don't let it distract you. 1346 01:14:59,954 --> 01:15:03,166 Nuclear weapons gave them powered submarines 1347 01:15:03,291 --> 01:15:05,752 so quiet we cannot detect them. 1348 01:15:05,877 --> 01:15:09,088 The space race gave them computers now so small 1349 01:15:09,214 --> 01:15:10,673 they fit on a desk. 1350 01:15:10,798 --> 01:15:13,384 If we cannot contain this SDI... 1351 01:15:14,510 --> 01:15:16,971 who knows what terrible inventions 1352 01:15:17,096 --> 01:15:18,431 they will come up with. 1353 01:15:19,724 --> 01:15:23,811 And if we have to take the arms race into space, 1354 01:15:25,146 --> 01:15:27,065 our people will starve. 1355 01:15:27,982 --> 01:15:28,983 Hmm. 1356 01:15:31,069 --> 01:15:31,986 Famine. 1357 01:15:33,655 --> 01:15:35,198 Like Stalin's time. 1358 01:15:40,703 --> 01:15:43,831 But your reforms-- perestroika, glasnost-- 1359 01:15:43,957 --> 01:15:45,124 they are working. 1360 01:15:45,250 --> 01:15:46,542 We just need time. 1361 01:15:47,210 --> 01:15:50,505 The one thing we cannot beg, borrow, or steal. 1362 01:15:50,630 --> 01:15:51,464 Hm. 1363 01:15:55,051 --> 01:15:57,637 Don't let them harm the rodina. 1364 01:15:59,806 --> 01:16:01,683 But even more, my love, 1365 01:16:01,808 --> 01:16:04,852 don't let us harm the rodina. 1366 01:16:04,978 --> 01:16:07,272 Even with the best of intentions. 1367 01:16:25,999 --> 01:16:27,542 Our submarines have the ability 1368 01:16:27,667 --> 01:16:29,294 to protect our homeland the longest-- 1369 01:16:29,419 --> 01:16:32,964 Which is precisely why we want them gone in the first round. 1370 01:16:33,131 --> 01:16:35,008 Can you not understand? 1371 01:16:35,133 --> 01:16:36,676 We must become vulnerable together. 1372 01:16:36,801 --> 01:16:37,844 We think the opposite. 1373 01:16:37,969 --> 01:16:38,845 A slow drawdown, 1374 01:16:39,012 --> 01:16:41,556 several years of confidence-building reductions 1375 01:16:41,681 --> 01:16:43,349 in other areas, culminating in-- 1376 01:16:43,474 --> 01:16:45,226 Let it be noted it's the Americans 1377 01:16:45,351 --> 01:16:48,896 who wish to proceed cautiously for the first time in history. 1378 01:16:52,108 --> 01:16:54,068 Why don't we proceed with a different topic? 1379 01:16:54,193 --> 01:16:55,570 We proceed nowhere. 1380 01:17:01,993 --> 01:17:04,495 Well, it is supposed to be haunted. 1381 01:17:05,496 --> 01:17:07,457 It is the wind from the sea. 1382 01:17:08,041 --> 01:17:10,626 I will go out to enjoy it for a moment. 1383 01:17:32,899 --> 01:17:34,442 Reagan shot at close range, 1384 01:17:34,567 --> 01:17:36,069 apparently by a lone assailant. 1385 01:18:32,250 --> 01:18:33,626 How close are we? 1386 01:18:35,294 --> 01:18:36,462 Well, there's a reason they trained 1387 01:18:36,587 --> 01:18:38,005 the astronauts here, sir. 1388 01:18:38,131 --> 01:18:39,257 Might as well be the moon. 1389 01:18:39,382 --> 01:18:42,051 How do you tell one mound of lava rock from another? 1390 01:18:42,176 --> 01:18:43,344 I meant our team. 1391 01:18:44,137 --> 01:18:46,180 Oh, yes. Sorry. 1392 01:18:46,305 --> 01:18:48,015 Um, they're closing in. 1393 01:18:49,517 --> 01:18:51,602 - I want it done. - Yes, sir. 1394 01:18:53,271 --> 01:18:54,272 Thatcher was telling me 1395 01:18:54,397 --> 01:18:55,648 her theory one time at Chequers. 1396 01:18:55,773 --> 01:18:57,275 You heard this? "Two lads and a pint"? 1397 01:18:57,984 --> 01:18:59,527 That like two guys and a beer? 1398 01:18:59,652 --> 01:19:02,113 She has this theory that everything in the world 1399 01:19:02,238 --> 01:19:05,324 is actually decided by two lads and a pint. 1400 01:19:06,159 --> 01:19:08,619 Or in her case, two ladies and a whiskey? 1401 01:19:08,744 --> 01:19:10,371 It's not a bad theory. 1402 01:19:11,372 --> 01:19:14,167 Can we trust an enemy? Can we trust Gorbachev? 1403 01:19:15,042 --> 01:19:16,544 If so, then in theory, 1404 01:19:16,669 --> 01:19:18,629 we can trust his word to stick to this plan 1405 01:19:18,754 --> 01:19:20,298 until we can ink a treaty. 1406 01:19:20,965 --> 01:19:23,551 - And we can verify. - Yes. 1407 01:19:26,554 --> 01:19:30,391 I want you to get me some information on the refuseniks. 1408 01:19:30,516 --> 01:19:31,225 Sir? 1409 01:19:32,185 --> 01:19:33,686 - The refuseniks-- - I mean, 1410 01:19:33,811 --> 01:19:35,605 why do you want that information? 1411 01:19:36,689 --> 01:19:39,025 Get me the information. 1412 01:19:41,569 --> 01:19:42,403 Yes, sir. 1413 01:19:59,504 --> 01:20:00,922 Good morning, Mr. President. 1414 01:20:01,047 --> 01:20:03,090 Good morning, Mr. General Secretary. 1415 01:20:03,216 --> 01:20:06,344 I understand from my team that we have made some progress, 1416 01:20:06,469 --> 01:20:09,096 but not all the progress. 1417 01:20:09,222 --> 01:20:11,641 I have instructed them to continue. 1418 01:20:12,517 --> 01:20:14,101 As have I, for our side. 1419 01:20:14,227 --> 01:20:15,520 Good. 1420 01:20:15,645 --> 01:20:18,523 Then, for the moment, shall we pick other topics? 1421 01:20:18,648 --> 01:20:20,608 - Human rights. - Yes. 1422 01:20:23,653 --> 01:20:25,571 I have spoken with my ministers 1423 01:20:25,696 --> 01:20:28,616 about your maestro in Washington. 1424 01:20:28,741 --> 01:20:32,203 They believe he would be a bad person to appease. 1425 01:20:32,328 --> 01:20:33,538 He is very prominent 1426 01:20:33,663 --> 01:20:38,417 and his case would undoubtedly cause unwanted attention. 1427 01:20:39,377 --> 01:20:40,545 Public opinion. 1428 01:20:41,504 --> 01:20:45,383 So perhaps now we can discuss the ABM Treaty and your SDI. 1429 01:20:48,219 --> 01:20:49,637 Well, first, let me just say 1430 01:20:49,762 --> 01:20:52,098 that we are particularly sensitive 1431 01:20:52,223 --> 01:20:54,684 to the travel rights of the Soviet peoples, 1432 01:20:54,809 --> 01:20:56,310 not just Mr. Rostropovich. 1433 01:20:56,435 --> 01:20:57,520 And we are concerned, 1434 01:20:57,645 --> 01:21:00,064 especially with those who wish to practice their religion, 1435 01:21:00,189 --> 01:21:01,774 enshrined in our Bill of Rights. 1436 01:21:01,899 --> 01:21:04,110 There are small numbers of Jewish peoples 1437 01:21:04,235 --> 01:21:05,861 wishing to emigrate to Israel. 1438 01:21:05,987 --> 01:21:07,280 The refuseniks, you call them. 1439 01:21:07,405 --> 01:21:09,490 Yes, and there are some Christians, Pentecostals, 1440 01:21:09,615 --> 01:21:12,159 who wish to leave as well to come to America. 1441 01:21:12,285 --> 01:21:16,914 Did you know Jesus was the first socialist? 1442 01:21:20,126 --> 01:21:21,127 It's true. 1443 01:21:21,252 --> 01:21:25,172 The first to seek a better life for all mankind. 1444 01:21:25,840 --> 01:21:29,218 So why would these Christians want to leave my country 1445 01:21:29,343 --> 01:21:30,428 and go to yours? 1446 01:21:30,553 --> 01:21:32,013 You have homeless. 1447 01:21:34,473 --> 01:21:35,141 What do you mean? 1448 01:21:35,725 --> 01:21:39,687 Your citizens who are homeless have no rights to housing. 1449 01:21:39,812 --> 01:21:42,189 We have no homeless in the Soviet Union. 1450 01:21:42,315 --> 01:21:44,817 Your murder rates are enormous. 1451 01:21:45,443 --> 01:21:46,819 And... 1452 01:21:46,944 --> 01:21:49,822 ...the less said about your country's longstanding history 1453 01:21:49,947 --> 01:21:51,449 of racism, the better. 1454 01:21:52,199 --> 01:21:53,159 Well, unlike you, 1455 01:21:53,284 --> 01:21:55,202 we acknowledge, uh, we have many faults. 1456 01:21:55,828 --> 01:21:59,123 And yet I'm the one that must be lectured on human rights 1457 01:21:59,248 --> 01:22:01,000 and people without passports? 1458 01:22:01,125 --> 01:22:02,376 Well, then I would ask you 1459 01:22:02,501 --> 01:22:04,545 if they may not have the freedom to travel, 1460 01:22:05,254 --> 01:22:06,422 why not give them the freedom 1461 01:22:06,547 --> 01:22:08,257 to form their own political party? 1462 01:22:08,382 --> 01:22:10,259 Organize their future in your country? 1463 01:22:10,384 --> 01:22:13,220 The Soviet people organized this Communist Party. 1464 01:22:13,346 --> 01:22:14,805 Seventy years ago. 1465 01:22:14,930 --> 01:22:16,599 You think they might like to try something else? 1466 01:22:16,724 --> 01:22:18,601 Your own party has been around much longer. 1467 01:22:18,726 --> 01:22:21,687 Yes, but Republicans can be voted out of office. 1468 01:22:21,812 --> 01:22:23,689 Your backstabbing political gridlock 1469 01:22:23,814 --> 01:22:25,524 is something you wish us to endure? 1470 01:22:25,650 --> 01:22:26,317 No, thank you. 1471 01:22:26,442 --> 01:22:28,361 "Democracy is the worst form of government, 1472 01:22:28,527 --> 01:22:30,154 except for all the others." 1473 01:22:30,279 --> 01:22:32,740 Churchill had a rather convenient horse in that race, 1474 01:22:32,865 --> 01:22:33,532 don't you think? 1475 01:22:33,658 --> 01:22:35,576 And Lenin, like Marx before him, 1476 01:22:35,701 --> 01:22:39,038 suggested that socialism may need to be global to succeed. 1477 01:22:39,163 --> 01:22:40,623 And so we see you 1478 01:22:40,748 --> 01:22:43,334 actively trying to manipulate the elections 1479 01:22:43,459 --> 01:22:45,670 and futures of nations around the globe. 1480 01:22:45,795 --> 01:22:47,797 And you do not? 1481 01:22:47,922 --> 01:22:50,007 In Chile? In Iran? In Angola? 1482 01:22:50,132 --> 01:22:51,717 And I suppose you were just helping 1483 01:22:51,842 --> 01:22:53,761 the people of Cuba and Poland and Vietnam 1484 01:22:53,886 --> 01:22:55,638 to choose their oppressive regimes, 1485 01:22:55,763 --> 01:22:57,515 and Germany, when you tore it in two? 1486 01:22:57,640 --> 01:22:59,600 You fly your U-2 spy planes 1487 01:22:59,725 --> 01:23:01,811 over our heads with impunity, 1488 01:23:01,936 --> 01:23:03,104 sail your Seventh Fleet 1489 01:23:03,229 --> 01:23:05,815 around the Pacific as if it were your swimming pool, 1490 01:23:05,940 --> 01:23:08,901 and park your submarines within sight of our shores, 1491 01:23:09,026 --> 01:23:11,529 and yet you expect my people to trust you? 1492 01:23:11,654 --> 01:23:13,614 And seizing our journalist in Moscow 1493 01:23:13,739 --> 01:23:14,699 only a few months ago? 1494 01:23:14,824 --> 01:23:16,200 Does that encourage trust? 1495 01:23:16,325 --> 01:23:17,910 I returned him! 1496 01:23:18,703 --> 01:23:21,956 Despite evidence from my security services. 1497 01:23:22,081 --> 01:23:23,499 He was a spy. 1498 01:23:24,709 --> 01:23:26,794 The United States will remain vigilant and strong 1499 01:23:26,919 --> 01:23:29,004 to the threats posed by international communism 1500 01:23:29,130 --> 01:23:30,256 by the Soviet Union. 1501 01:23:31,048 --> 01:23:33,801 As we will maintain our strength as well 1502 01:23:33,926 --> 01:23:35,720 in defense of socialism 1503 01:23:35,845 --> 01:23:39,765 desired by billions all around the globe. 1504 01:23:39,890 --> 01:23:43,185 To defend those who seek our way of life. 1505 01:23:43,310 --> 01:23:44,353 In all your speeches, 1506 01:23:44,478 --> 01:23:47,064 you deride us as the "evil empire" 1507 01:23:47,189 --> 01:23:49,525 to be met by force in every sphere. 1508 01:23:49,650 --> 01:23:50,860 I wonder, Mr. President, 1509 01:23:50,985 --> 01:23:54,947 who it is here that is trying to expand his ideas by force. 1510 01:23:55,072 --> 01:23:56,699 You would do well to remember 1511 01:23:56,824 --> 01:23:59,910 that no such method has ever succeeded on Russia. 1512 01:24:00,035 --> 01:24:03,706 Not by Napoleon, not by Hitler. 1513 01:24:03,831 --> 01:24:04,832 No one. 1514 01:24:06,709 --> 01:24:08,919 We are a strong people. 1515 01:24:09,879 --> 01:24:12,381 And we have learned that strength 1516 01:24:13,048 --> 01:24:14,925 is how you win a war. 1517 01:24:19,972 --> 01:24:22,308 We're not trying to win a war. 1518 01:24:24,643 --> 01:24:26,562 We're trying to end one. 1519 01:24:36,363 --> 01:24:38,199 Perhaps a break, hm? 1520 01:25:15,444 --> 01:25:17,571 May I speak candidly, Mr. President? 1521 01:25:18,322 --> 01:25:21,784 George, we're both exhausted, just speak. 1522 01:25:23,661 --> 01:25:25,162 Let it go. 1523 01:25:26,330 --> 01:25:29,166 Don't blow this deal over refuseniks 1524 01:25:29,291 --> 01:25:31,418 and Pentecostals and a cellist. 1525 01:25:31,544 --> 01:25:33,254 I love classical music, 1526 01:25:34,630 --> 01:25:36,465 and I dearly love the freedom 1527 01:25:36,590 --> 01:25:38,676 that comes with being an American... 1528 01:25:39,969 --> 01:25:40,636 but... 1529 01:25:42,179 --> 01:25:44,431 he said Rostropovich left, 1530 01:25:44,557 --> 01:25:46,809 when we all know he defected. 1531 01:25:47,601 --> 01:25:49,770 And if his sister was allowed to defect 1532 01:25:49,895 --> 01:25:52,857 at a birthday party in Washington, DC, 1533 01:25:53,732 --> 01:25:55,901 it would be a public relations disaster. 1534 01:25:56,026 --> 01:25:58,779 Gorbachev cannot take that risk. 1535 01:25:59,822 --> 01:26:04,285 Sir, I'm truly afraid that we could lose this deal. 1536 01:26:06,036 --> 01:26:07,371 Well, George, 1537 01:26:07,496 --> 01:26:08,998 what about the millions of people 1538 01:26:09,123 --> 01:26:10,332 that'd still be oppressed? 1539 01:26:16,171 --> 01:26:17,965 Tell me good news, Democrats. 1540 01:26:18,090 --> 01:26:19,383 - Sir, I-I'm a-- - Yes. 1541 01:26:19,508 --> 01:26:21,010 Can we all agree 1542 01:26:21,135 --> 01:26:22,887 that this is a bipartisan effort 1543 01:26:23,012 --> 01:26:24,263 to avoid World War III? 1544 01:26:24,388 --> 01:26:25,598 Just tell us. 1545 01:26:25,723 --> 01:26:27,433 The most stealthy, stable, 1546 01:26:27,558 --> 01:26:29,643 and, therefore, serious part of the triad 1547 01:26:29,768 --> 01:26:31,395 is the submarines, sir. 1548 01:26:32,062 --> 01:26:33,355 They are impossible to track, 1549 01:26:33,480 --> 01:26:34,899 and therefore cannot be targeted. 1550 01:26:35,608 --> 01:26:38,402 They are the absolute last line of defense. 1551 01:26:38,527 --> 01:26:40,154 You can't get rid of the subs? 1552 01:26:40,279 --> 01:26:41,071 We're close. 1553 01:26:41,196 --> 01:26:42,990 Almost there, but, uh... 1554 01:26:43,115 --> 01:26:44,283 You're out of time. 1555 01:26:48,662 --> 01:26:50,289 Well, all right. 1556 01:26:52,333 --> 01:26:53,876 Give me what you got. 1557 01:26:55,628 --> 01:26:58,213 We're not giving up the game on the ten-yard line. 1558 01:27:02,968 --> 01:27:04,887 We have already agreed 1559 01:27:05,012 --> 01:27:08,223 to unilaterally suspend nuclear testing, 1560 01:27:08,349 --> 01:27:11,435 draw down our conventional forces in Western Europe, 1561 01:27:11,560 --> 01:27:15,272 offered a 50% reduction in all arms, 1562 01:27:15,397 --> 01:27:17,650 and agreed to a Nuclear Zero future, 1563 01:27:17,775 --> 01:27:20,110 and still he tries to distract you 1564 01:27:20,235 --> 01:27:21,904 with this dissident conductor. 1565 01:27:22,863 --> 01:27:25,991 Constantly evading SDI. Constantly. 1566 01:27:27,451 --> 01:27:28,953 You must at least consider 1567 01:27:29,078 --> 01:27:32,122 that he is making you the obstacle 1568 01:27:32,915 --> 01:27:34,750 and is not a partner in peace. 1569 01:28:03,195 --> 01:28:05,072 We should thank our teams. 1570 01:28:05,197 --> 01:28:07,366 They have not reached a, uh, final agreement, 1571 01:28:07,491 --> 01:28:09,159 but they have come close. 1572 01:28:09,284 --> 01:28:10,119 We are indeed very close. 1573 01:28:10,244 --> 01:28:12,287 We've reached an agreement in the first five years 1574 01:28:12,413 --> 01:28:17,251 to eliminate the SOA category of land-based ICBMs. 1575 01:28:17,376 --> 01:28:19,503 And in the next five years 1576 01:28:19,628 --> 01:28:21,755 to dismantling the remaining IRBMs 1577 01:28:21,880 --> 01:28:22,798 and cruise missiles. 1578 01:28:22,923 --> 01:28:26,427 Yes, which leaves only the submarine-launched missiles. 1579 01:28:28,220 --> 01:28:32,016 We must first discuss SDI. 1580 01:28:33,767 --> 01:28:37,187 In regards to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty? 1581 01:28:37,312 --> 01:28:39,565 The ABM treaty forbids SDI. 1582 01:28:40,357 --> 01:28:41,900 Well, we, uh, we disagree 1583 01:28:42,026 --> 01:28:43,360 and, anyway, you... 1584 01:28:43,485 --> 01:28:45,946 you've already violated the ABM at Krasnoyarsk 1585 01:28:46,071 --> 01:28:47,740 with your defenses around Moscow. 1586 01:28:47,865 --> 01:28:50,242 We have no such defenses in Washington. 1587 01:28:50,367 --> 01:28:53,746 Our defenses are exactly matching to the letter 1588 01:28:53,871 --> 01:28:55,122 of the ABM treaty. 1589 01:28:55,247 --> 01:28:59,126 And it is not our fault that you chose not to exercise 1590 01:28:59,251 --> 01:29:00,586 your rights under the treaty 1591 01:29:00,711 --> 01:29:03,964 to build such defenses around your capital. 1592 01:29:04,923 --> 01:29:06,800 But the ABM treaty 1593 01:29:06,925 --> 01:29:11,346 specifically rejects the idea of space-based weapons. 1594 01:29:11,472 --> 01:29:13,849 SDI is not solely space-based. 1595 01:29:16,977 --> 01:29:19,688 How are we to begin to eliminate 1596 01:29:19,813 --> 01:29:21,690 our Strategic Offensive Arms 1597 01:29:21,815 --> 01:29:25,027 if you will have a "shield" to defend yourself? 1598 01:29:25,152 --> 01:29:29,114 You could renege or launch a first strike from a NATO ally 1599 01:29:29,239 --> 01:29:30,282 and we would be defenseless. 1600 01:29:30,407 --> 01:29:32,785 You are obsessed with this SDI. 1601 01:29:33,410 --> 01:29:34,453 What about the people? 1602 01:29:34,578 --> 01:29:37,748 It will make the people safer for both our nations. 1603 01:29:37,873 --> 01:29:40,334 What if some rogue state launches a missile? 1604 01:29:41,210 --> 01:29:43,921 The shield will protect us, protect the American people. 1605 01:29:44,046 --> 01:29:47,049 You are free to develop your own for your people. 1606 01:29:47,841 --> 01:29:50,385 You won't let them leave, at least you can protect them. 1607 01:29:51,053 --> 01:29:52,846 Of course I care about the people. 1608 01:29:52,971 --> 01:29:55,766 The Soviet people are my responsibility. 1609 01:29:55,891 --> 01:29:58,102 But you cannot possibly believe 1610 01:29:58,227 --> 01:30:00,604 that their fate is not tied to this shield, 1611 01:30:00,729 --> 01:30:03,107 which you have already announced you intend to-- 1612 01:30:03,232 --> 01:30:05,651 Mutually assured destruction works from the point of view 1613 01:30:05,776 --> 01:30:07,486 that each side must be vulnerable. 1614 01:30:07,611 --> 01:30:11,073 That the, uh, Sword of Damocles not only hangs above us, 1615 01:30:11,198 --> 01:30:13,617 but must remain hanging over us. 1616 01:30:13,742 --> 01:30:16,495 Why can we simply not take the sword down? 1617 01:30:16,620 --> 01:30:18,413 This is what SDI will do. 1618 01:30:23,043 --> 01:30:26,964 "Men rise from one ambition to the next. 1619 01:30:27,089 --> 01:30:31,426 First, they seek to secure themselves from attack, 1620 01:30:31,552 --> 01:30:33,428 and then to attack others." 1621 01:30:34,972 --> 01:30:36,181 Machiavelli. 1622 01:30:37,933 --> 01:30:40,394 Are you suggesting that we are building a shield 1623 01:30:40,519 --> 01:30:42,187 in order that once we have it 1624 01:30:42,312 --> 01:30:44,356 we can then strike you first with impunity? 1625 01:30:44,481 --> 01:30:48,110 Well, why wouldn't you strike the "evil empire"? 1626 01:30:50,696 --> 01:30:51,488 Look... 1627 01:30:53,657 --> 01:30:55,325 all we are asking 1628 01:30:55,450 --> 01:30:58,453 is that you do not develop this SDI 1629 01:30:58,579 --> 01:31:00,164 during the ten years 1630 01:31:00,289 --> 01:31:01,999 that we are eliminating these weapons, 1631 01:31:02,124 --> 01:31:04,001 so as not to gain an advantage. 1632 01:31:04,126 --> 01:31:06,295 This is not an offensive weapon. 1633 01:31:06,420 --> 01:31:07,379 It is a shield. 1634 01:31:07,504 --> 01:31:08,672 It is a threat. 1635 01:31:12,050 --> 01:31:13,468 Mr. General Secretary, 1636 01:31:13,594 --> 01:31:16,597 are you coupling the arms reduction 1637 01:31:16,722 --> 01:31:18,473 to the end of SDI? 1638 01:31:32,154 --> 01:31:33,113 I am. 1639 01:31:34,907 --> 01:31:36,909 It is the position of the Soviet Union 1640 01:31:37,034 --> 01:31:38,827 that they are the same thing. 1641 01:31:51,048 --> 01:31:53,717 After the use of mustard gas in World War I, 1642 01:31:53,842 --> 01:31:55,052 we developed a gas mask. 1643 01:31:55,177 --> 01:31:57,930 Why would you not want a gas mask, a shield, 1644 01:31:58,055 --> 01:31:59,223 against nuclear missiles? 1645 01:31:59,932 --> 01:32:03,852 We owe it to the world to develop this technology. 1646 01:32:03,977 --> 01:32:06,855 The world has gotten along just fine without it. 1647 01:32:07,689 --> 01:32:08,649 This is absurd. 1648 01:32:09,358 --> 01:32:10,859 And how will you ensure 1649 01:32:10,984 --> 01:32:13,070 that your allies do not strike us? 1650 01:32:13,195 --> 01:32:15,030 I will do everything in my power 1651 01:32:15,155 --> 01:32:17,532 to get them to give up their nuclear weapons as well. 1652 01:32:17,658 --> 01:32:19,409 But do you really believe that their people 1653 01:32:19,534 --> 01:32:21,036 will let them keep them? 1654 01:32:21,161 --> 01:32:23,997 With the costs of maintenance and dangers of mistakes, 1655 01:32:24,122 --> 01:32:27,834 when there is no longer a threat from the Soviet Union? 1656 01:32:27,960 --> 01:32:30,337 I believe it is very difficult 1657 01:32:30,462 --> 01:32:33,507 for people to give up their weapons of any kind, 1658 01:32:33,632 --> 01:32:34,967 including shields. 1659 01:32:44,393 --> 01:32:47,813 Gentlemen, I suggest we take a short break. 1660 01:32:47,938 --> 01:32:49,398 - Perhaps-- - I would like to know 1661 01:32:49,523 --> 01:32:50,857 if the President is serious 1662 01:32:50,983 --> 01:32:53,777 about continuing this discussion on SDI. 1663 01:32:54,820 --> 01:32:57,823 If he is serious about compromise. 1664 01:33:41,742 --> 01:33:43,368 Isn't it beautiful? 1665 01:33:45,579 --> 01:33:48,248 The Icelandic horse is the only horse in the world 1666 01:33:48,373 --> 01:33:51,084 that has a fifth gait called the tölt. 1667 01:33:51,209 --> 01:33:53,628 Amazing. 1668 01:33:53,837 --> 01:33:56,048 Oh, is it? I'm still hungover. 1669 01:33:56,173 --> 01:33:57,549 I told you to quit on the schnapps. 1670 01:33:57,674 --> 01:33:58,425 You did not. 1671 01:33:58,550 --> 01:33:59,384 Just watch. 1672 01:33:59,509 --> 01:34:01,928 You won't even spill your coffee. 1673 01:34:02,054 --> 01:34:03,096 Or vodka! 1674 01:34:04,222 --> 01:34:08,393 Really think I’m gonna blow schnapps chunks. 1675 01:34:08,518 --> 01:34:10,479 I can't believe you'd insult Icelandic schnapps 1676 01:34:10,604 --> 01:34:11,688 by calling it chunky. 1677 01:34:11,813 --> 01:34:13,523 Do something. 1678 01:34:14,399 --> 01:34:15,484 Do something? What do you want me to-- 1679 01:34:15,609 --> 01:34:16,777 Distract me. 1680 01:34:17,486 --> 01:34:18,779 Mrs. Gorbachev! 1681 01:34:18,904 --> 01:34:20,322 I didn't mean shouting. 1682 01:34:21,531 --> 01:34:22,866 I have a question for you. 1683 01:34:24,451 --> 01:34:27,788 Of course, wonderful. How can I help? 1684 01:34:27,913 --> 01:34:29,998 Well, the White House released a statement 1685 01:34:30,123 --> 01:34:31,083 just before we got in the vans-- 1686 01:34:31,208 --> 01:34:33,293 The First Lady decided to come here 1687 01:34:33,418 --> 01:34:35,712 to see the famous Icelandic horse? 1688 01:34:35,837 --> 01:34:37,089 She's a little late. 1689 01:34:37,214 --> 01:34:38,799 Actually, sources say 1690 01:34:38,924 --> 01:34:40,509 that she's launched a new national campaign 1691 01:34:40,634 --> 01:34:42,594 for breast cancer awareness. 1692 01:34:42,719 --> 01:34:44,471 It's a major new initiative 1693 01:34:44,596 --> 01:34:46,181 that she hopes can be a model for the world. 1694 01:34:46,306 --> 01:34:48,183 What do you say to the American people 1695 01:34:48,308 --> 01:34:50,602 and people across the globe 1696 01:34:50,727 --> 01:34:52,813 about your own efforts this weekend 1697 01:34:52,938 --> 01:34:54,689 on behalf of the Soviet peoples? 1698 01:34:54,815 --> 01:34:57,859 Not that this Icelandic horse isn't important, 1699 01:34:57,984 --> 01:35:00,612 but it's not exactly cancer prevention. 1700 01:35:01,321 --> 01:35:03,782 Mrs. Gorbachev, have you spoken to Mrs. Reagan? 1701 01:35:03,907 --> 01:35:04,866 Would you like to meet with Nancy Reagan? 1702 01:35:04,991 --> 01:35:07,869 No questions. 1703 01:35:09,037 --> 01:35:10,580 Mrs. Gorbachev must be livid, 1704 01:35:10,705 --> 01:35:12,416 her spotlight pulled so hastily. 1705 01:35:13,625 --> 01:35:15,335 You mess with the bull. 1706 01:35:16,962 --> 01:35:18,296 How's it going? 1707 01:35:19,214 --> 01:35:21,925 Well, we're, uh, at an impasse. 1708 01:35:22,050 --> 01:35:25,595 Well, Mars is ascendant, so we have that going for us. 1709 01:35:25,720 --> 01:35:26,805 Yes, yes. 1710 01:35:27,597 --> 01:35:29,182 They can't afford it. 1711 01:35:29,307 --> 01:35:29,975 What? 1712 01:35:30,100 --> 01:35:31,560 They can't afford to compete. 1713 01:35:31,685 --> 01:35:33,895 Not on SDI, not on any of it anymore. 1714 01:35:34,646 --> 01:35:35,981 Isn't that what you wanted? 1715 01:35:36,106 --> 01:35:37,732 What you've been working towards? 1716 01:35:37,858 --> 01:35:38,984 I know. 1717 01:35:40,193 --> 01:35:41,611 I've just gotta reach him. 1718 01:35:43,113 --> 01:35:44,656 I've gotta try, Nance. 1719 01:35:47,033 --> 01:35:48,201 Go be great. 1720 01:36:38,585 --> 01:36:41,171 Can we agree, Mr. General Secretary, 1721 01:36:41,296 --> 01:36:44,716 that the, uh, issue of submarines can be resolved 1722 01:36:44,841 --> 01:36:46,301 with our considerable engagement 1723 01:36:46,426 --> 01:36:49,221 and commitment at a later date, and that, uh, the main focus 1724 01:36:49,346 --> 01:36:52,265 of our last discussion should be about SDI? 1725 01:36:52,390 --> 01:36:53,141 Yes. 1726 01:36:53,266 --> 01:36:54,976 Then I would like to take us back to World War I. 1727 01:36:56,144 --> 01:36:58,438 The horrifying advent of chemical warfare, 1728 01:36:58,563 --> 01:37:00,398 mustard gas and chlorine. 1729 01:37:00,524 --> 01:37:02,275 We have been over this before, Mr. President. 1730 01:37:02,400 --> 01:37:05,862 And-And the development, in a few years, 1731 01:37:05,987 --> 01:37:06,905 of the gas mask, 1732 01:37:07,030 --> 01:37:10,158 of chemical and biological protection suits. 1733 01:37:10,283 --> 01:37:12,410 An anti-ballistic missile system, 1734 01:37:13,161 --> 01:37:15,956 full of lasers, counter-attack radars, 1735 01:37:16,081 --> 01:37:18,375 interceptors, and satellite weapons 1736 01:37:18,500 --> 01:37:20,085 is hardly a gas mask. 1737 01:37:20,210 --> 01:37:21,878 But the principle is the same. 1738 01:37:22,003 --> 01:37:24,214 I returned to this session under the impression 1739 01:37:24,339 --> 01:37:26,049 that you were serious about compromise. 1740 01:37:29,594 --> 01:37:31,263 What if we gave it to you? 1741 01:37:39,437 --> 01:37:40,939 This is not serious. 1742 01:37:41,648 --> 01:37:43,775 I will give you the shield. 1743 01:37:43,900 --> 01:37:45,652 I will give you SDI. 1744 01:37:45,777 --> 01:37:48,029 Your Congress will never allow it. 1745 01:37:48,154 --> 01:37:49,406 They will if it's coupled 1746 01:37:49,531 --> 01:37:51,950 with complete Soviet nuclear disarmament. 1747 01:37:52,075 --> 01:37:53,702 Nor will your military. 1748 01:37:53,827 --> 01:37:56,121 I have told you, they report to me. 1749 01:37:56,246 --> 01:37:58,999 Say nothing of your military industrial complex. 1750 01:37:59,124 --> 01:38:00,500 What does that have to do... 1751 01:38:00,625 --> 01:38:04,754 You expect Lockheed and Northrup 1752 01:38:04,879 --> 01:38:07,007 and all your other defense contractors 1753 01:38:07,132 --> 01:38:08,717 to simply give up the license 1754 01:38:08,842 --> 01:38:10,844 to the most complex 1755 01:38:10,969 --> 01:38:14,431 and advanced military technology ever developed? 1756 01:38:14,973 --> 01:38:17,726 I may not be a capitalist, Mr. President, 1757 01:38:17,851 --> 01:38:20,145 but I do understand how it works. 1758 01:38:20,270 --> 01:38:21,438 We can work that out. 1759 01:38:21,563 --> 01:38:23,857 This is a fantasy! 1760 01:38:23,982 --> 01:38:26,318 You have come in here with a fantasy. 1761 01:38:26,443 --> 01:38:28,570 Or is this some trick? 1762 01:38:28,695 --> 01:38:29,779 You can't afford it, 1763 01:38:29,904 --> 01:38:30,739 you don't believe me 1764 01:38:30,864 --> 01:38:32,574 that we won't use it to protect ourselves 1765 01:38:32,699 --> 01:38:33,992 and preemptively strike. 1766 01:38:34,117 --> 01:38:35,869 I'm telling you that I won't give it up 1767 01:38:35,994 --> 01:38:37,245 because of rogue nations 1768 01:38:37,370 --> 01:38:39,664 and I will not have future generations 1769 01:38:39,789 --> 01:38:41,291 of Americans live in fear. 1770 01:38:41,833 --> 01:38:43,251 We will give it to you. 1771 01:38:43,376 --> 01:38:46,004 You won't even give us milking machines! 1772 01:38:47,172 --> 01:38:49,507 You have a stranglehold on every technology 1773 01:38:49,633 --> 01:38:51,843 ever created in the West so tight 1774 01:38:51,968 --> 01:38:53,928 that you will not sell us 1775 01:38:54,054 --> 01:38:57,599 basic agricultural tractors, plows, 1776 01:38:57,724 --> 01:39:00,685 milking machines for cows to us! 1777 01:39:01,728 --> 01:39:03,313 But you want me to believe 1778 01:39:03,438 --> 01:39:04,481 that you will give us 1779 01:39:04,606 --> 01:39:07,901 the most incredible American science ever created 1780 01:39:08,026 --> 01:39:09,903 and that you will be able to do this 1781 01:39:10,028 --> 01:39:12,155 over the objections of your Congress 1782 01:39:12,280 --> 01:39:14,908 and your companies and your Pentagon 1783 01:39:15,033 --> 01:39:16,993 and your citizens and your allies and... 1784 01:39:17,619 --> 01:39:20,664 and you won't even sell the machines 1785 01:39:20,789 --> 01:39:23,917 so that we can produce more milk for our children! 1786 01:39:39,808 --> 01:39:43,561 I, uh... I will look into the milking machines. 1787 01:39:59,452 --> 01:40:00,120 I-I... 1788 01:40:01,371 --> 01:40:02,622 Never, uh, 1789 01:40:02,747 --> 01:40:05,709 never occurred to me that I might get assassinated. 1790 01:40:07,961 --> 01:40:09,087 Not once. 1791 01:40:11,589 --> 01:40:14,551 Nancy would, uh, bring it up during the first campaign, 1792 01:40:14,676 --> 01:40:15,719 but I just never... 1793 01:40:23,226 --> 01:40:24,436 If I survived that bullet, 1794 01:40:24,561 --> 01:40:26,229 uh, it was for a reason, 1795 01:40:26,354 --> 01:40:28,481 a new mission, a purpose, so... 1796 01:40:36,281 --> 01:40:37,657 What if we agree... 1797 01:40:40,160 --> 01:40:42,412 not to deploy the system 1798 01:40:43,538 --> 01:40:44,664 for ten years? 1799 01:40:46,666 --> 01:40:47,917 SDI? 1800 01:40:48,460 --> 01:40:49,878 You will not deploy it 1801 01:40:50,003 --> 01:40:52,839 for the ten years that we are eliminating these weapons? 1802 01:40:53,506 --> 01:40:55,967 And you will do everything in your power 1803 01:40:56,092 --> 01:40:57,719 to persuade the British and the French 1804 01:40:57,844 --> 01:40:59,220 to give up their weapons as well 1805 01:40:59,345 --> 01:41:01,848 or else you'll not extend your shield to them? 1806 01:41:02,682 --> 01:41:03,808 It will be very hard, 1807 01:41:03,933 --> 01:41:07,228 many of our allies are under our nuclear umbrella. 1808 01:41:07,353 --> 01:41:08,521 As are ours. 1809 01:41:08,646 --> 01:41:10,106 We would all be exposed together. 1810 01:41:10,231 --> 01:41:13,026 Yes. Okay. I will talk with our allies. 1811 01:41:13,735 --> 01:41:16,696 I don't believe their peoples will wish them to continue 1812 01:41:16,821 --> 01:41:18,448 when we have given them up. 1813 01:41:18,573 --> 01:41:22,327 Such is the peace-loving nature of a democratic people. 1814 01:41:22,452 --> 01:41:23,203 Yes. 1815 01:41:24,078 --> 01:41:24,788 So... 1816 01:41:26,873 --> 01:41:30,126 we will both agree to remove all warheads 1817 01:41:30,251 --> 01:41:32,045 over the next ten years. 1818 01:41:32,170 --> 01:41:33,338 Nuclear Zero. 1819 01:41:34,172 --> 01:41:35,465 And, of course, 1820 01:41:35,590 --> 01:41:37,884 your inspectors, trust, but verify. 1821 01:41:38,676 --> 01:41:41,971 And, um, you can develop SDI 1822 01:41:42,096 --> 01:41:43,056 in the laboratory. 1823 01:41:49,187 --> 01:41:50,772 Not just the laboratory. 1824 01:41:51,606 --> 01:41:52,649 I'm sorry? 1825 01:41:53,233 --> 01:41:54,818 We will not deploy the system, 1826 01:41:54,943 --> 01:41:57,237 but we must be allowed to test the shield 1827 01:41:57,362 --> 01:41:58,822 to know if it can work. 1828 01:41:59,572 --> 01:42:01,950 You can test it in the laboratory. 1829 01:42:02,075 --> 01:42:05,036 Of course, but-but they must be tested in the real world. 1830 01:42:05,161 --> 01:42:07,747 Progress cannot be made in just a laboratory. 1831 01:42:07,872 --> 01:42:08,832 I mean, you think we could launch 1832 01:42:08,957 --> 01:42:10,834 a man into space on a rocket 1833 01:42:10,959 --> 01:42:12,961 that just worked on a simulation 1834 01:42:13,086 --> 01:42:14,754 in some scientist's lab? 1835 01:42:15,380 --> 01:42:19,217 So you will agree, we can test the shield? 1836 01:42:19,342 --> 01:42:21,219 In the laboratory. 1837 01:42:22,303 --> 01:42:25,682 You will have inspectors at our secure sites as well. 1838 01:42:25,807 --> 01:42:29,185 We would welcome them to our testing grounds. 1839 01:42:29,310 --> 01:42:32,689 You put a man on the moon in less than ten years. 1840 01:42:32,814 --> 01:42:34,566 Yes, I was just talking about that. 1841 01:42:34,691 --> 01:42:37,068 Developed the atom bomb in under five. 1842 01:42:37,193 --> 01:42:39,153 - Okay. - Do you not see? 1843 01:42:39,279 --> 01:42:40,280 See what? 1844 01:42:40,405 --> 01:42:43,408 I cannot allow you to field test a new weapons system... 1845 01:42:43,533 --> 01:42:44,409 Shield. 1846 01:42:44,534 --> 01:42:47,620 ...this thing, in the next ten years, 1847 01:42:47,745 --> 01:42:50,206 less time than it took you to put a man on the moon. 1848 01:42:50,331 --> 01:42:52,625 I can't understand-- You will have inspectors. 1849 01:42:52,750 --> 01:42:54,252 If you're successful, 1850 01:42:54,377 --> 01:42:56,337 you could immediately deploy it, 1851 01:42:56,462 --> 01:42:58,965 and we would be right back to where we are now. 1852 01:42:59,090 --> 01:43:00,216 You could order a strike. 1853 01:43:00,341 --> 01:43:02,594 We would be defenseless while you hid behind your shield. 1854 01:43:02,719 --> 01:43:06,014 You can test it in a laboratory, 1855 01:43:06,139 --> 01:43:08,349 just like any other scientific advance. 1856 01:43:08,474 --> 01:43:11,728 And in the meantime, if in the next ten years 1857 01:43:11,853 --> 01:43:13,605 some other state wants to launch a missile 1858 01:43:13,730 --> 01:43:14,480 against my people, 1859 01:43:14,606 --> 01:43:15,940 we won't be able to prove 1860 01:43:16,065 --> 01:43:17,442 that it would be futile 1861 01:43:17,567 --> 01:43:21,029 except in some sort of, uh, scientific journal. 1862 01:43:21,154 --> 01:43:22,322 We will be defenseless. 1863 01:43:22,447 --> 01:43:23,698 As would we. 1864 01:43:24,949 --> 01:43:26,159 It's one word. 1865 01:43:27,201 --> 01:43:28,453 "Laboratory." 1866 01:43:28,578 --> 01:43:30,580 It's one word. 1867 01:43:30,705 --> 01:43:33,499 It's one word that changes everything for my people. 1868 01:43:33,625 --> 01:43:34,709 And my people. 1869 01:43:35,376 --> 01:43:37,378 Another generation lost to the terror 1870 01:43:37,503 --> 01:43:39,797 and horror of waiting for the bomb to drop. 1871 01:43:39,923 --> 01:43:42,050 Not if the bombs don't exist. 1872 01:44:03,321 --> 01:44:05,907 I-I don't know what else I could have done. 1873 01:44:09,827 --> 01:44:11,162 Just say yes. 1874 01:44:15,917 --> 01:44:19,420 On this one point, Mr. President... 1875 01:44:22,340 --> 01:44:23,883 ...I cannot compromise. 1876 01:44:26,010 --> 01:44:27,303 Where are you going? 1877 01:44:28,721 --> 01:44:31,432 I'm afraid I will not see you again. 1878 01:45:04,549 --> 01:45:05,591 Mr. President. 1879 01:45:05,717 --> 01:45:07,260 ...apparently by a lone assailant. 1880 01:45:07,385 --> 01:45:08,428 Mr. President. 1881 01:45:10,555 --> 01:45:11,848 Mr. President! 1882 01:45:16,060 --> 01:45:17,270 I failed. 1883 01:45:25,069 --> 01:45:27,488 I offered him the deal of the century, 1884 01:45:27,697 --> 01:45:28,531 of human history, 1885 01:45:28,656 --> 01:45:30,533 and he's walking away over one word, 1886 01:45:31,409 --> 01:45:32,827 a single word. 1887 01:45:34,037 --> 01:45:35,621 Never should've trusted him. 1888 01:45:37,206 --> 01:45:38,249 Sir, the car is here, 1889 01:45:38,374 --> 01:45:39,834 ready to take him to the airport, 1890 01:45:39,959 --> 01:45:42,587 but it's not over, not yet. 1891 01:45:42,712 --> 01:45:43,713 It's over. 1892 01:45:44,630 --> 01:45:46,591 The whole world living on hope. 1893 01:45:47,383 --> 01:45:49,010 Press will know by tonight. 1894 01:45:50,845 --> 01:45:51,971 Sir, when you recruited me, 1895 01:45:52,096 --> 01:45:53,848 you told me we could make a difference. 1896 01:45:54,891 --> 01:45:56,934 You told me we could make America safer 1897 01:45:57,060 --> 01:45:58,061 than when we found her. 1898 01:45:58,186 --> 01:45:58,978 It's over. 1899 01:46:03,483 --> 01:46:05,109 Ask him to come to Washington. 1900 01:46:05,943 --> 01:46:08,571 For what? More talk that leads to nothing? 1901 01:46:08,696 --> 01:46:10,364 Maybe this place is haunted. 1902 01:46:12,617 --> 01:46:15,578 Ask him anyway, sir. Please, in spite of it all. 1903 01:46:15,703 --> 01:46:17,914 We have maybe a minute left until he comes out that door, 1904 01:46:18,039 --> 01:46:19,832 gets in that car, and he is gone. 1905 01:46:21,084 --> 01:46:23,753 Do not let what happened in that house, in that room, 1906 01:46:23,878 --> 01:46:25,296 over the last 30 hours 1907 01:46:25,421 --> 01:46:27,173 destroy our entire future. 1908 01:46:32,804 --> 01:46:34,263 This is the red line, sir. 1909 01:46:35,473 --> 01:46:37,058 You asked me to tell you. 1910 01:46:37,934 --> 01:46:39,102 Well, this is it. 1911 01:46:40,812 --> 01:46:43,523 This is it. 1912 01:46:46,025 --> 01:46:48,945 You don't want to be seen as a warmonger. 1913 01:46:49,737 --> 01:46:51,489 Sir, if we fail here, 1914 01:46:52,615 --> 01:46:53,866 there will be war. 1915 01:46:55,034 --> 01:46:56,244 And when that war is over, 1916 01:46:56,369 --> 01:46:58,621 there will be nothing left on God's green earth 1917 01:46:58,746 --> 01:47:01,582 but smoldering, irradiated, lifeless rock. 1918 01:47:03,668 --> 01:47:05,670 I know that that is not what they want. 1919 01:47:05,795 --> 01:47:07,755 That is not what any sane person wants. 1920 01:47:07,880 --> 01:47:10,675 It's not about want, George, it's about need. 1921 01:47:10,800 --> 01:47:12,343 We need peace. 1922 01:47:13,219 --> 01:47:15,805 And that requires the end of them. 1923 01:47:17,390 --> 01:47:23,354 Liberty, George, only liberty equals peace. 1924 01:47:30,987 --> 01:47:33,030 You didn't come here 1925 01:47:33,614 --> 01:47:35,825 to negotiate about nuclear weapons. 1926 01:47:36,492 --> 01:47:39,203 You came here to try to prove to them 1927 01:47:39,328 --> 01:47:41,664 that they are fundamentally wrong. 1928 01:47:45,334 --> 01:47:49,297 You came here to end the Soviet Union. 1929 01:47:50,089 --> 01:47:53,259 I came here to show him the contradiction. 1930 01:47:54,969 --> 01:47:56,512 That holding people at gunpoint 1931 01:47:56,637 --> 01:47:59,599 and claiming you're a utopia is not possible. 1932 01:47:59,724 --> 01:48:01,184 No one is safe, 1933 01:48:01,309 --> 01:48:04,061 no free citizen anywhere is safe, 1934 01:48:04,187 --> 01:48:06,355 until a system 1935 01:48:06,480 --> 01:48:10,026 that is based on the devaluing of individual liberty, 1936 01:48:10,151 --> 01:48:13,654 that threatens everyone with tyranny, is over. 1937 01:48:14,447 --> 01:48:16,782 We can talk about arms control, arms reduction, 1938 01:48:16,908 --> 01:48:19,619 missile shields 'til Kingdom come, 1939 01:48:19,744 --> 01:48:22,914 but if they just admit that they're wrong, 1940 01:48:23,039 --> 01:48:27,210 they admit that their perfect Soviet commune is wrong... 1941 01:48:28,127 --> 01:48:30,421 if he admits something as simple 1942 01:48:31,380 --> 01:48:33,049 as people want to leave... 1943 01:48:34,342 --> 01:48:37,261 then it's over, it crumbles. 1944 01:48:38,012 --> 01:48:40,765 We consign them to the ash heap of history. 1945 01:48:42,683 --> 01:48:47,271 George, we just have to show that it's possible. 1946 01:48:52,735 --> 01:48:53,819 Last night we had a deal 1947 01:48:53,945 --> 01:48:57,114 to rid the planet of nuclear weapons, sir. 1948 01:48:57,240 --> 01:49:00,284 Ah, anything is possible. 1949 01:49:02,245 --> 01:49:03,663 May I suggest, sir, 1950 01:49:04,580 --> 01:49:08,626 that you retry your test with Rostropovich's sister, 1951 01:49:08,751 --> 01:49:10,086 this time with a compromise. 1952 01:49:10,211 --> 01:49:12,588 Well, why should I compromise when he won't? 1953 01:49:12,713 --> 01:49:15,675 Because, sir, good leaders make the present better, 1954 01:49:15,800 --> 01:49:18,636 great leaders make the future better. 1955 01:49:19,262 --> 01:49:21,430 He wants to do great things too, sir. 1956 01:49:22,265 --> 01:49:23,182 He needs a partner. 1957 01:49:29,772 --> 01:49:30,606 Well... 1958 01:49:32,817 --> 01:49:34,235 what's the compromise? 1959 01:49:36,153 --> 01:49:37,822 That you'll send her back home. 1960 01:49:39,824 --> 01:49:42,493 And it won't be forever, sir. Not if you're right. 1961 01:49:47,790 --> 01:49:49,333 Secretary-General. 1962 01:50:00,344 --> 01:50:04,181 Let Rostropovich's sister come to his birthday in Washington. 1963 01:50:05,224 --> 01:50:07,810 Let her leave, and I give you my word, 1964 01:50:07,935 --> 01:50:09,061 she'll return. 1965 01:50:13,190 --> 01:50:15,401 A journey of a thousand miles doesn't start 1966 01:50:15,526 --> 01:50:18,154 with the most incredible arms agreement in history, 1967 01:50:19,030 --> 01:50:20,948 it begins with a single step. 1968 01:50:21,073 --> 01:50:21,949 If you seek peace, 1969 01:50:23,075 --> 01:50:25,786 tear down this wall between us, Mr. Gorbachev, 1970 01:50:26,746 --> 01:50:28,080 tear down this wall, 1971 01:50:28,205 --> 01:50:30,458 just this one time, for this one woman, 1972 01:50:32,335 --> 01:50:33,544 and we will meet... 1973 01:50:35,212 --> 01:50:36,922 we will talk again. 1974 01:50:52,188 --> 01:50:54,857 The world thought it was a failure at the time. 1975 01:50:55,483 --> 01:50:57,068 Even I had my doubts. 1976 01:50:59,111 --> 01:51:00,613 But a year later, 1977 01:51:00,738 --> 01:51:02,448 President Reagan and Mr. Gorbachev 1978 01:51:02,573 --> 01:51:07,078 {\an8}signed the first arms reduction agreement in human history. 1979 01:51:08,037 --> 01:51:10,998 {\an8}Since then, nuclear weapons have been reduced 1980 01:51:11,123 --> 01:51:14,543 {\an8}to less than 10% of their Cold War peak. 1981 01:51:15,961 --> 01:51:18,547 Two years later, the Cold War was over. 1982 01:51:19,173 --> 01:51:21,717 And just as President Reagan had foreseen, 1983 01:51:22,593 --> 01:51:24,261 the Soviet Union ended 1984 01:51:25,471 --> 01:51:26,597 because our leaders 1985 01:51:26,722 --> 01:51:29,308 decided to build bridges instead of bombs. 1986 01:51:32,520 --> 01:51:34,522 Rostropovich flew to Berlin 1987 01:51:35,314 --> 01:51:38,109 and, with a folding chair and a borrowed cello, 1988 01:51:38,234 --> 01:51:40,861 played Bach as the Wall came down. 1989 01:51:42,530 --> 01:51:44,365 A few years later, 1990 01:51:44,490 --> 01:51:47,201 Mr. Gorbachev visited me out at Stanford. 1991 01:51:48,869 --> 01:51:51,789 I said, "When we first met, 1992 01:51:51,914 --> 01:51:55,251 the Cold War was at its most dangerous point 1993 01:51:56,794 --> 01:51:59,088 and, three years later, it was over. 1994 01:52:00,798 --> 01:52:03,759 What do you believe was the beginning of the end?" 1995 01:52:06,095 --> 01:52:07,888 He replied with one word: 1996 01:52:10,349 --> 01:52:11,559 "Reykjavik." 1997 01:52:22,027 --> 01:52:22,945 Deal.