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Some Progress, Many Problems
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CURRENT ISSUES
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1 / 1986 |
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President Ronald Reagan
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It's great to be home. Nancy and I thank you for this wonderful homecoming. And before I go on I want to say a personal thank you to Nancy. She was an outstanding ambassador of good will for all of us. She didn't know I was going to say that. Mr. Speaker, Senator Dole, I want you to know your statements of support were greatly appreciated. You can't imagine how much it means in dealing with the Soviets to have the Congress, the allies, and the American people firmly behind you.
I guess you know, I have just come from Geneva and talks with General Secretary [Mikhail] Gorbachev. In the past few days, in the past two days we spent over 15 hours in various meetings with the General Secretary and the members of his official party. Approximately five of those hours were talks between Mr. Gorbachev and myself, just one on one. That was the best part--our fireside summit.
There will be, I know, a great deal of commentary and opinion as to what the meetings produced and what they were like. There were over 3,000 reporters in Geneva, so it's possible there will be 3,000 opinions on what happened. Maybe it's the old broadcaster in me but I decided to file my own report directly to you.
We met, as we had to meet. I had called for a fresh start--and we made that start. I can't claim that we had a meeting of the minds on such fundamentals as ideology or national purpose--but we understand each other better and that's a key to peace. I gained a better perspective; I feel he did, too.
It was a constructive meeting. So constructive, in fact, that I look
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