Episode 247 The LEADERSHIP of GEORGE BUSH (Part 18) The Conference in Malta

BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback · Dec 21, 2023 · 54m

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In this episode we look back at the moment it was clear the Cold War was essentially over. The story actually begins in 1985, when Mikhail Gorbachev is elevated to power after a succession of elderly, Communist leaders, all of whom went back to the early days of the Soviet Union.

Leonid Brezhnev had been a hard line, old school, Communist leader, that had been in power throughout the Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and early Reagan Years. He had presided over the Soviet Union's military rise as a Super Power but also had seen the nation's economy become weak. He, however, was…