06/19/1991
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"We're very pleased to have the good fortune to work with such impressive men as President Gorbachev and President Yeltsin."
"We will be interested in his views on the critical issues confronting the U.S.S.R. and its place in the world."
"Let's not forget that it was President Gorbachev's courageous policies of glasnost and perestroika that were the pivotal factors enabling us to end the cold war."
"I have great respect for President Gorbachev, as I do for him."