Governors Island Summit

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Governors Island Summit
President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H. W. Bush meet with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev on Governor's Island New York.jpg
Bush, Reagan and Gorbachev
Host countryFlag of the United States.svg  United States
DateDecember 7, 1988
Venue(s) Governors Island
Cities New York City
Participants Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Mikhail Gorbachev
Flag of the United States.svg Ronald Reagan
Follows Moscow Summit (1988)
Precedes Malta Summit

The Governors Island Summit was a summit meeting between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev. It was held on December 7, 1988. U.S. Vice President and President-elect George H. W. Bush was also in attendance. [1] [2]

Gorbachev cut his trip to the United States short as soon as he was informed of the earthquake that had struck the Soviet republic of Armenia earlier that day. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Reagan, Gorbachev and Bush at Governor's Island". The National Security Archive. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  2. ↑ Dowd, Maureen (8 December 1988). "The Gorbachev Visit; Soviet Star Is a Smash In Broadway Showing". The New York Times. Vol. 138, no. 47713. Archived from the original on 12 August 2024.
  3. ↑ William Taubman, Gorbachev: His Life and Times (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2017), pp. 423-26.
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