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Author of the new book PRESIDENTS OF WAR (Crown). Nine books. @NBCNews Presidential Historian. Contributor PBS @NewsHour. Williams College. Born Chicago.

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    Michael Beschloss‏Verified account @BeschlossDC 2 Dec 2017

    Bush, Reagan, Gorbachev and Lower Manhattan, in a more hopeful world, this week 1988: #Geropic.twitter.com/rIK4s3AI6H

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      2. Ant O'Fearghail‏ @aofarre 2 Dec 2017
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        More hopeful? You reckon?

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      3. Jeremy Bowman‏ @bowmanthebard 2 Dec 2017
        Replying to @aofarre @BeschlossDC

        I lived in the US at the time, & yes, Gorbachev created an almost unbelievable, hopeful atmosphere.

        1 reply 0 retweets 19 likes
      4. Ant O'Fearghail‏ @aofarre 2 Dec 2017
        Replying to @bowmanthebard @BeschlossDC

        I guess when measuring hope the baseline matters. Communism was still at large at that time.

        3 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      5. Jeremy Bowman‏ @bowmanthebard 2 Dec 2017
        Replying to @aofarre @BeschlossDC

        Yes indeed. But from my perspective (my age, at the time) it was dizzying, the thought of the evil empire cracking & collapsing at last.

        4 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
      6. Jeremy Bowman‏ @bowmanthebard 2 Dec 2017
        Replying to @bowmanthebard @aofarre @BeschlossDC

        (I was also affected by my 1979 visit to East Berlin + surrounding countryside, where you could cut the chronic, low-level misery with a knife.)

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      2. John S.‏ @jr_chillin550 2 Dec 2017
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        Twin Towers in the background, oh the irony. 🙏🏽

        3 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
      3. Oh to see a media outlet that's straight.‏ @marion1100 2 Dec 2017
        Replying to @jr_chillin550 @BeschlossDC

        And Bush John, a small world..

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      4. John S.‏ @jr_chillin550 2 Dec 2017
        Replying to @marion1100 @BeschlossDC

        Absolutely.

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      2. Pete Butkovich‏ @ButkovichPete 2 Dec 2017
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        1954 B&W editorial published in Midwest Tribune. America’s first artist to call for #nuclearban using fine art. Early image evolved into two surreal Skeleton Combatants. USA and NOKO are one misstep away from war. No winners- Mega Death. Studied at the Corcoran in DC 1940s.pic.twitter.com/7bpQGLVVFq

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      3. Simon Ashworth Wood‏ @Simon_A_Wood 3 Dec 2017
        Replying to @ButkovichPete @BeschlossDC

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        #NuclearBanhttps://twitter.com/Simon_A_Wood/status/895195192076115968 …

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        Simon Ashworth Wood @Simon_A_Wood
        72 years ago US #nuclearweapons killed 200,000 civilians. Please ask your government to sign the #NuclearBan pledge http://bit.ly/2uBHKR1  pic.twitter.com/Ku2hB1wMpg
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      2. Rick Braun‏ @rickyb_sports 2 Dec 2017
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        Did the Dems cry "Russia! Russia! Russia!" after this pic was taken?

        2 replies 0 retweets 12 likes
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      1. Pete Butkovich‏ @ButkovichPete 2 Dec 2017
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        Sorry Michael, I tapped on different or wrong photo. This has my dad at Ellis Island before Twin Towers were knocked down. He was America’s first antinuclear war artist. Editorial drawing published in 1954 calls for abolition of all nuclear weapons. USA and NOKO one misstep war.pic.twitter.com/lqWc8mcVS6

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      1. Dave Coffman‏ @Dcoffmanf16 2 Dec 2017
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        For all those saying these were "happier, hopeful" times, don't forget all the "sky is falling" loons that said Reagan would lead the world to nuke war. How soon they forget.

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      1. Always Private‏ @alwaysprivate 2 Dec 2017
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        BS... It was Reagan's tax cuts and deficits that started this country on the road to ruin.

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      1. Natalie Lanoville‏ @NatalieLanovill 2 Dec 2017
        Replying to @BeschlossDC @anngibbon

        I remember that time. I and those around me felt we could do so much better. What we didn't know was how much worse we could do.

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      1. Carrie Serfass‏ @ceeserf 2 Dec 2017
        Replying to @BeschlossDC @RadioFreeTom

        I was there. So much happiness and hope then. Today, despair...

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      2. mike sisak‏ @lionswon 2 Dec 2017
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        Eerie with WTC at left.

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      1. Abid Hussain‏Verified account @abidhussayn 4 Dec 2017
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        and all i could notice in this picture were the twin towers of trade center...

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