Presidential Diplomacy in 1989

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 8, 2017

Jeffrey Engel, founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University and the author of When the World Seemed New: George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), talks about how President George H.W. Bush handled the multiple challenges of 1989 and the end of the Cold War.

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