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The Importance of Talking to Each Other
After the Berlin crisis in 1962, General Curtis LeMay tried to provoke a war with an incident at Checkpoint Charlie. He had mounted bulldozer plows on the front of the tanks to plow down the Berlin Wall and that and the Russians had come. But Khrushchev took his word, act his tanks off first, and then my uncle ordered LeMay to back back. And he said, you know, it occurs to me now that we're all on an arc and that there is not another one. The entire fate of the planet and all of its creatures are dependent on the decisions we make. You and I have a moral obligation to go forward with each other's friends.