"From the perspective of the West, the former President of the Soviet Union of course was a courageous, far-seeing prophet whose reforms set in motion the collapse of the Soviet dictatorship and the end of the Cold War....Perhaps one day again we'll see you in political office in Russia. We know taht you've devoted your life to peace and to changing your country and those of us who have gotten to know you count ourselves among the privileged."-Tom Brokaw opening and closing his October 29, 1996 MSNBC InterNight interview with former communist Mikhail Gorbachev.