He Stared Down the Soviets

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Before he was a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and president of the Council on Foreign Relations, Leslie H. Gelb negotiated with the Soviet Union as a senior official in the Pentagon and State Department. Today on The Gist, Mike asks Gelb about negotiating with Iran and Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress. For the Spiel, it's pledge-drive season in public radio. Mike tabs up the amount of time you spend listening to noncommercial appeals for cash. Today's sponsors: Stamps.com. Sign up for a no-risk trial and get a $110 bonus offer, when you visit Stamps.com and enter promo code TheGist. Also, Squarespace.com. Get a free trial and 10 percent off your first purchase when you visit Squarespace.com and enter offer code GIST. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:04.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
1:07.0	It's Wednesday, March 4, 2015 from Slate It's the Just I'm Mike Pasca.
1:15.0	Hillary Clinton apparently ran a home-brew email system, what they call a home-brew she made it herself.
1:20.0	I didn't even know this was possible, but like people who bake their own bread or roll their own
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