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you had in those the first months, early progress on new start so when president went to moscow in july of 2009, they had already guidelines of what it would look like. that reflects, i think a return to traditional approach. the russians are more comfortable complaints i heard about the bush administration, yes, we understand the american desire to limit war heads but you limit deployed war heads but you don t limit reserve war heads or missiles and bombers, how does not create a huge breakout potential. the russians are more comfortable when the obama administration indicated that it was prepared to go back to traditional approach eliminating war heads but also strategic vehicles and missiles and bombers. new start gave a boost to reset, early progress was good for the broader u.s.-russia relationship. and just a comment on reset, a small and decreasing people but i see this as success in terms of what i understand it s original purpose was, not to get the u.s.-ru ....
president reagan was that i arrived in the soviet union in moscow three days before the chernobyl accident. i had a fellowship for one month at the institute for world economy and i had with me a one-year-old 1-year-old son. and that is relevant to what i m going to say. i had been there two days, i m listening to the bbc radio and that i realize that some catastrophes happen. in terms of a nuclear accident. in the next week, a few days later i gave a talk at the institute and tried to be forward leaning and talking about the importance of improving u.s. soviet relations. the person who hosted me then started attacking me for the quote unquote lies that the united states was telling about chernobyl. there have been no accident, nobody would had been killed. that was one version. by the way after my talk i have people privately come up to me and say what s really going on. in the three subsequent weeks gorbachev had a complete turnaround after first while denying that so ....
someday show somme promise and he blows it up as the threat of all time. he could get reagan to give up sdi if he gave an offer on reduction of nuclear weapon but it totally failed. and then to reform the soviet union. and once he started the reforms they were vastly accelerated with the meeting and then the next year was a party conference that implemented these reforms. that is my thesis. i know marvin will disagree but we can talk about that later. two or three points. to have the great background i learned never pick a fight with of moderator. [laughter] at what i would disagree with khomeini they feared the nuclear attack and because of the succession and ideas to share birthday with robert mcnamara and then make the same point every year to show you how effective that was to always come back from moscow and said basically a blip scared out of its mind putting nuclear attack. i said the last time that i checked the older bombers are lined up bunny their field all o ....
host: you hitchhiked. guest: yeah. and guys were throwing beer bottles at me from pickup trucks, and i d hitchhiked from twin cities and here i am in gillette and i d never seen the west before. i was awestruck by it but gillette was a tough town, and i saw someone walking towards me from town that looked like bad news. and i m a young kid out in the great land and kind of jumpy. this guy is walking towards me and i remember he was in a carhartt canvas union suit that was filthy dirty and his hair was matted and he clearly was homeless and struggling. he was big dude. he came up to me, and i was instantly on my guard. and he said, hey, man, where are you going? i said, i m going california. and he said, how much food you got? now, i would give food to anyone who was hungry, but i didn t think that s what was going on. thought he wanted to rob me. wanted me to get me to open up my bag. i didn t know what was going to happen but i was definitely jumpy. so, i said, i j ....
hair dirty and matted, homeless and struggling. he was a big dude. he came up to me and i was instantly on my guard. and he said where are you going and he said i am going to california and he said how much food do you have. i thought he wanted to rob me. he wanted me to open up my bag and i didn t know what was going to happen but i was jumpy about it. i said i have a little cheese. he was carrying a lunch box and said i lib in a broken down car and he said i walk out to the coal mine to see if anyone is sick and they can hire me. most days they don t need to hire he and today they don t need me so i will not need my lunch. he had a baloney sandwich, apple and bag of potato chips and he said i want you to have my food because you will need all you can to get to california. you can imagine how bad i felt. it was my first lesson not in generosity but taking responsibility for another person you don t know. he looked at me on the highway and saw a brother. he saw someone ....