“Eisenhower was a pretty peace-oriented president. Truman was a pretty hawkish. I would argue, if we had more time, I would argue Truman had a lot to do with getting the Cold War going.” IfsWarPresidentColdArguingMore TimeCold WarTrumanPresident Truman Author:Robert Scheer
“Eisenhower provided the first break in the Cold War, by bringing Khrushchev to the United States, in humanizing the Soviets; and then Nixon, by making the opening to China; and then Reagan, even meeting in Reykjavik with Gorbachev and acknowledging that nuclear weapons are a horror. So I won't accept that Republicans just escalate. Republicans, at least when they were more moderate, they were maybe even more isolationist, they sometimes brought sanity to the debate. We don't have that now. We have - all these Republicans have gone off the neoconservative deep end.” FirstsWarEndsSometimesStatesUnitedAcceptingBreakUnited StatesGoneColdRepublicanHorrorWeaponsMeetingsChinaNuclearDebateOpeningSanityNuclear WeaponsCold WarModeratesGorbachevReykjavik Author:Robert Scheer
“Richard Nixon even before becoming president, before meeting Henry Kissinger, he said, "This is ridiculous. Communism is nationalist. The Chinese and Russian and Yugoslav and Cuban and - none of these communists get along, and the Koreans and the Vietnamese, and we can do business with them." And then he opened up to China, and that's when the Cold War started.” SaidWarPresidentCan DoColdBecomingMeetingsChinaRidiculousCommunismChineseCommunistCold WarKoreanCubanVietnameseKissingerHenry KissingerBecoming President Author:Robert Scheer
