id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6244 Trust, but verify - Wikipedia .html text/html 1406 188 71 Suzanne Massie, an American scholar, met with President Ronald Reagan many times between 1984 and 1987.[1] She taught him the Russian proverb Doveryai, no proveryai (Russian: Доверяй, но проверяй; Trust, but verify), advising him that "The Russians like to talk in proverbs. Following the 2013 Ghouta attacks, Secretary of State John Kerry told a news conference in Geneva that the United States and Russia had agreed on a framework to dispose of Syria's chemical weapons. On July 24, 2020, US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo referenced the proverb in a speech at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library saying that in dealing with China, the freedom-loving nations of the world must instead 'distrust and verify'.[20][21] "Did Reagan really coin the term 'Trust but verify,' a proverb revived by HBO's Chernobyl?". "Trust, but Verify: Reagan, Gorbachev, and the INF Treaty". Trust but verify excerpt from Reagan and Gorbachev press conference ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6244.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6244.txt