The Only Way to Write History Is to Close Your Eyes

I think a lot of people make a mistake when they look back at historical events, that they look at them through a 2018 prism. To me the only way to write history is to close your eyes and try and remember how things look to people then. The Soviet Union and the Chinese did represent deeply unpleasant totalitarian forces. History will show that the United States was absolutely right to lead the Western nations in resisting. We were the good guys in the Cold War, and I have no doubt about that.