Susan Glasser: ‘Let’s Just Say the President of the United States Was Not Mohammed Ali’

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GLASSER: "And you know, going into this summit, it seems to me we’ve come out of it really with what were the worst-case scenarios that experts had in mind. I spoke with one long-time State Department official who had been involved for decades in preparing superpower summits between the Soviet Union and then Russia and the United States. And beforehand, you know, he said to me, 'We all fear that this is something like Mohammed Ali going up against an amateur boxer.' In that scenario, let’s just say the President of the United States was not Mohammed Ali."