Document No. 69: Memorandum of Telephone Conversation between George H.W. Bush and Helmut Kohl June 23, 1989
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Soviet Union, Eastern Europe international relations Cold War diplomacy notes speeches conferences' transcriptions History Political Science Public Admin. & Development HIS010010 POL011010 HBJD JPSDSujets proches
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Svetlana Savranskaya et al., « Document No. 69: Memorandum of Telephone Conversation between George H.W. Bush and Helmut Kohl June 23, 1989 », Central European University Press, ID : 10670/1.kkvlul
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This telephone transcript of another in a succession of conversations between Bush and Kohl seems most remarkable in retrospect for the absence on the American side of any sense of the pace of change in Eastern Europe. President Bush appears simply to be conveying a series of talking points given to him by the bureaucracy about the Vienna CFE talks and the economic summit, with no sense of the big picture at all. The telling phrase comes from Bush regarding the possibility of debt forgiveness...