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...this tough talk at so delicate a moment in Soviet-American relations? Perle, among the most hawkish members of the Administration, denied any effort "to throw cold water on the summit." But some Administration officials clearly thought otherwise. Secretary of State George Shultz went so far as to complain inside the official family about Weinberger's rhetorical offensive. The Defense Secretary showed no sign of backing off. He even postponed an upcoming trip to Asia, an aide explained, so he could "position himself to remain active in the walk-up to Geneva...
...want to show our intentions and we also want to show by our actions what steps we are counting on the American side to take. Yet all our attempts to somehow escape this present bad situation in Soviet-American relations, attempts to somehow lead matters toward ending the arms race, toward relaxing tensions, toward disarmament--all these attempts come up against a negative position of the U.S. Administration. We keep hearing one and the same answer: "No, no, no. It's propaganda, propaganda, propaganda." Surely the most responsible people in the land cannot, should not, conduct themselves in that...
...after all the people of the two countries who put the politicians into the positions they hold today. So it is in our interests to express those wishes in practical ways. We must seek ways to put an end to the arms race, to seek disarmament, to switch Soviet-American relations onto a normal track. Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in our relations, an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth, nations on whom depends the very destiny of civilization...
...doomed to utter failure. We have never accused the U.S. of being an "evil empire." We understand what the U.S. is, what the American people are, and the role they are playing and will play in the world. We are certainly in favor of beginning a new phase in Soviet-American relations. But let me repeat that perhaps if a new phase appears, a phase still worse than the present one, this goal will be all the harder to achieve, if it is possible at all. Then a process might be launched that would be simply impossible even to conceive...
...asked me what is the primary thing that defines Soviet-American relations. I think it is the immutable fact that whether we like one another or not, we can either survive or perish only together. The principal question that we must answer is whether we are at last ready to recognize that there is no other way to live at peace with each other and whether we are prepared to switch our mentality and our mode of acting from a warlike to a peaceful track. As you say, live and let live. We call it peaceful coexistence...