deal and forced the missiles out. but it was a disastrous summit by all accounts. obviously, yalta also for fdr was also a disaster. he went in there thinking joe stalin was a good guy, i will give him what he wants, and i won t ask anything in return. we ceded millions of people to the eastern bloc. innocent people in the now warsaw pact countries, who ended up living enslaved under the soviet union for many years. laura: what about nixon? one of his summits was kind of a disaster. nixon gave too much away. nixon and kissinger were interested in a good photo op, interested in the trophy on the wall. nixon gave grain sales to the soviets, he gave loan guarantees to the soviets, didn t really ask anything in return. that was the point, is that reagan understood what these other presidents didn t understand. the soviets will take and take and take until you draw a line in the sand. back in 1964, reagan understood