Secretary of State James Baker Discusses the Collapse of the Soviet Union (1995)
In this video clip from The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, David Gergen, editor-at-large of U.S. News & World Report, interviews James Baker, former Secretary of State in the George H. W. Bush administration, regarding his last years in government, which overlapped with events commonly associated with the end of the Cold War. In their conversation, Gergen and Baker link those events to Saddam Hussein’s decision to invade Kuwait with Iraqi troops.
The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour | NewsHour Productions | October 11, 1995 This video clip and associated transcript appear from 47:45 - 52:17 in the full record.
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