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Tom Harkin: If the Senator will yield, now we get two sides. It seems to me if there is a meeting with the Secretary of State--it…

On the recordApril 30, 1998
If the Senator will yield, now we get two sides. It seems to me if there is a meeting with the Secretary of State--it was James Baker at the time--and Mr. Gorbachev and our Ambassador, there would have been--there has been at every meeting I have been to--a memorandum called MEMCOMS were sent back to the State Department. I wonder if we can produce the MEMCOMS so we can look at those and see what did transpire.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Discussing the need for documentation from a meeting involving Secretary of State James Baker and Gorbachev.

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