Apr
22
“Clinton, McCain and Bush gave me no end of grief for saying that I would consider speaking with our enemies. But as time has passed, people realize that I was right. This is a long-standing bipartisan tradition. Kennedy famously stated “Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.” Nixon met with Chairman Mao. FDR met with Stalin. JFK met with Khrushchev. Reagan met with Gorbachev. If U.S. Presidents met with two genocidal heads of state – Stalin and Mao – how can they say I shouldn’t meet with Hugo Chavez!?”
Barack Obama
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