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Chatter: Former National Security Advisor Steve Hadley's Reflections on Presidential Transitions

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The Icon and the Axe

Steve Hadley: My wife and I read out loud. She usually means me reading to her as she drips off to sleep. Henry Kissinger's book entitled Diplomacy is a wonderful history of diplomacy from, you know, over the last 400 years. And secondly, with all the discussion about Russia and Ukraine, we're reading the icon and the axe which came out over 20 years ago before the collapse of the Soviet Union. It tells you that ever since the 14th, 15th century, Russia has been struggling with how to define its relationship with the West. We still haven't gotten that right.

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