UNIVERSITY’S HOOVER INSTITUTION
AFTER LEAVING GOVERNMENT.
PROMOTING ARMS CONTROL, FIGHTING
AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE. JOINING ME IS ONE OF HIS VERY
JOINING ME IS ONE OF HIS VERY
GOOD FRIENDS.
YOU WERE RUSSIA EXPERT BEFORE
YOU WERE SECRETARY OF STATE.
>> GEORGE INFLUENCED SO MANY
PEOPLE IN HIS 100-YEAR
CONSEQUENTIAL LIFE.
HE DID SAY BEING SECRETARY OF
STATE WAS HIS BEST JOB IN
GOVERNMENT EXCEPTION FOR BEING A
CAPTIVE IN THE MARINES.
HE SERVED HIS COUNTRY. HE’S PATRIOT.
HE’S PATRIOT.
PEOPLE WHO KNEW HIM IN DIPLOMACY
KNEW HIM AS ALWAYS LOOKING FOR
SOLUTIONS.
WHEN HE CAME BACK TO STANFORD,
IT WAS CLIMATE CHANGE THAT
REALLY GOT HIS ATTENTION AND HE
LEARNED THE SCIENCE AND HE
LEARNED THE TECHNOLOGY AND HE
BROUGHT HIS ECONOMIC AND
POLITICAL INSTINCTS TO IT.
A LIFELONG LEARNER.
GREAT MENTOR TO SO MANY PEOPLE
LIKE ME AND SO MANY OTHERS.
A TEACHER, A GREAT BUSINESSMAN
AND ABOVE ALL, HE WILL BE
REMEMBERED AS THE PERSON WHO
CHANNELS RONALD REAGAN’S GREAT
INSTINCTS ABOUT THE SOVIET YAWNU
UNION.
WER
WE’RE ALL BETTER FOR THE 100
YEARS.
I KNOW YOU AND ALAN KNEW HIM
WELL.
HE INFLUENCED A LOT OF PEOPLE.
>> COVERING SECRETARY OF STATE,
THE COLD WAR AND THE SUMMITS
WITH GORBACHEV WERE SO -- FACING THE HARD LINERS.
THE HARD LINERS.
THERE WE SEE HIM SHOWING HIM IN
RED SQUARE. HE PLAYED A SUCH A CRITICAL ROLE
HE PLAYED A SUCH A CRITICAL ROLE
IN CHANGING THE WHOLE FUTURE.
>> HE CHANNELLED REAGAN’S TOUGH
MINDED INSTINCTS.
MR. GORBACHEV, TEAR DOWN THAT
WALL.
THE
THEY GOT THE MOST REMARKABLE ARMS CONTROL TREATY PERHAPS IN
ARMS CONTROL TREATY PERHAPS IN
OUR HISTORY.
HE HAD THE TRUST OF RONALD
REAGAN.
RONALD REAGAN KNEW THAT WHEN HE
SENT HIM OUT INTO THE WORLD HE
WAS GOING TO DO THE BIDDING OF
THE PRESIDENT AND OF THE
ADMINISTRATION AND THAT MADE
OTHER DIPLOMATS RESPECT NOT JUST
GEORGE’S INTELLECT AND VALUE BUT
HIS ABILITY TO DELIVER ON A
BEHALF OF THE PRESIDENT.
HE WAS A CONSEQUENTIAL FIGURE.
HE’LL BE MISSED BUT 100 YEARS OF
A CONSEQUENTIAL LIFE, WE’RE ALL
FORTUNATE TO HAVE BEEN A PART OF
THAT.
>> A BLESSING TO SO MANY