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Reagan on the Enemy: The Soviet Threat

Clip: Season 24 | 2m 21s

The delegations of Communist leader Mikhail Gorbachev and President Reagan met in Geneva in 1985. "The President, from the very start, started to speak in a kind of lecturing tone, as though I was a suspect, or maybe a student," says Gorbachev.

Aired: 10/31/11

Rating: NR

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