World News Tonight (ABC) - 1991-06-04
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[0:26] rely on the team spirit of channel 2
[0:28] news at 6:30
[0:32] [music]
[0:34] from ABC. This is World News Tonight
[0:37] with Peter Jennings.
[0:38] >> Good evening. We begin tonight with a
[0:39] delicate issue of US relations with the
[0:41] Soviet Union. At a moment when the
[0:43] Soviet Union is verging more than ever
[0:45] on chaos, President Bush is under
[0:47] pressure to help the Soviet leader
[0:48] Mikall Gorbachoff, who is under even
[0:51] greater pressure by Soviets for and
[0:53] against any further change in the Soviet
[0:56] system. This involves American money,
[0:58] nuclear weapons, and today the
[1:01] president's choice for the next American
[1:02] ambassador to Moscow. He is a legendary
[1:05] mover and shaker, the former chairman of
[1:07] the Democratic Party, Robert Strauss.
[1:10] But what does the president have in
[1:11] mind? Here's ABC's Brit Hume.
[1:15] >> When Texas's two most prominent
[1:17] Republicans, walked out of the Oval
[1:19] Office with one of the lone star state's
[1:21] most famous and enduring Democrats
[1:23] today, it was the kind of political
[1:25] surprise Washington loves. Bob Strauss,
[1:28] lawyer, lobbyist, and legendary
[1:30] backslapper, is back for an assignment
[1:32] nobody, including him, would have
[1:34] imagined. A week ago, if anyone had told
[1:36] me I would be standing here, I would
[1:38] have thought they were crazy.
[1:39] >> In the 1970s, as hi