Did you write this book . Mr. Gorbachev everyone is writing books. I sometimes read books about perestroika, and so my name in those books, but the rest was totally false, stupid, silly. A lot of rumors. A lot of speculation. Some other books are quite serious, of course. I dont want to over dramatize it. But i thought that i am the principal witness and the principal person who bears responsibility for what happened, and i believed it was important for me to ask plane my position about how i started reforms and why i came around to the view that reforms were necessary. Why did i decide, and how did that decision about reforms emerge, and how difficult that process was. So i thought it was important to write a book about the time of perestroika because perestroika had farreaching consequences for my country and for the world. I could not accept it when people speak of gorbachev. I had to speak out. I had to avoid the temptation of writers to show myself in better light. I tried to keep
Mikhail gorbachev, why did you write this book . So i thought that it is important to write a book about the time of perestroika because perestroika had far reaching consequences for my country and for the world. I cannot accept it when people speak but gorbachev is silent. I had to speak out and i did that and i about the time of perestroika because perestroika had far reaching consequences for my country and for the world. I cannot accept it when people speak but gorbachev is silent. I had to speak out and i did that and i tried to avoid the temptation of the writers of many memoirs to prettify myself, to show myself in better life. I tried to keep within the facts. I have a lot of facts about various events, about all that happened and about my relationship with various people in domestic and international politics. I could say a lot. I tried to write about the most important things. At first i dictated 10,000 pages of material. Here, this book is equivalent to 1,000 pages of typewr
Mikhail gorbachev, why did you write this book . So i thought that it is important to write a book about the time of perestroika because perestroika had far reaching consequences for my country and for the world. I cannot accept it when people speak but gorbachev is silent. I had to speak out and i did that and i about the time of perestroika because perestroika had far reaching consequences for my country and for the world. I cannot accept it when people speak but gorbachev is silent. I had to speak out and i did that and i tried to avoid the temptation of the writers of many memoirs to prettify myself, to show myself in better life. I tried to keep within the facts. I have a lot of facts about various events, about all that happened and about my relationship with various people in domestic and international politics. I could say a lot. I tried to write about the most important things. At first i dictated 10,000 pages of material. Here, this book is equivalent to 1,000 pages of typewr
One with the Vice President and nra leadership. The president tweeting it was a great meeting. Also white house if turmoil. Yet another top official may be on the way out. Sources telling cnn that National Security adviser h. R. Mcmaster could leave his position by the end of the month. Plus a cnn exclusive, sources saying that u. S. Counterintelligence officials are investigating one of ivanka trumps business deals having to do with the Trump International hotel and tower in vancouver, canada. And President Trump says imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum, catching staff by surprise angering republican lawmaker and overseas trading partners. I want to begin with our cnn political commentator. David axelrod. Can we talk first about the meeting tonight with the higher ups at nra, and the officials that the president seems to be backing off suggestions about gun control . Well we have seen this movie before, havent we, don, on daca, when he wanted to pass this bill of love and was open
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