But Reagan and Bush were not so sure. After meeting Mr. Gorbachev at the funeral in Moscow, Bush sent a cable back to Reagan with his impressions. In his view, Mr. Gorbachev was just a slicker ...

Slow start – Reagan had an invitation to visit Washington passed on to Gorbachev at Chernenko’s funeral, but nothing much happened for months. Still, the White House perceived a change in tone ...

Gorbachev wrote in The New York Times the week of Reagan’s funeral: “I don’t know whether we would have been able to agree and to insist on the implementation of our agreements with a ...

Reagan was more popular than his three immediate ... Vladimir Putin’s refusal to attend Gorbachev’s funeral is telling. In truth, Putin’s Russia is a remnant of Gorbachev’s failure to ...

Millions were expected to tune in for the live television broadcast of the national funeral, which began at around 1130 EDT (1530 GMT). Reagan's coffin was brought ... as did the last Soviet leader, ...

He added that former first lady Nancy Reagan was touched when Gorbachev attended her late husband's funeral in Washington, D.C. in 2004. The Reagan Foundation and Institute mourns the loss of ...

He attended Reagan’s 2004 funeral, and he met with Barack Obama during the president’s trip to Russia. Obama later recalled feeling sorry for Gorbachev, calling him “a strangely tragic figure.” He was ...

The funeral for Gorbachev was notably restrained ... At a summit in Iceland with U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1986, Gorbachev proposed that both the United States and the Soviet Union eliminate ...

But Reagan and Bush were not so sure. After meeting Mr. Gorbachev at the funeral in Moscow, Bush sent a cable back to Reagan with his impressions. In his view, Mr. Gorbachev was just a slicker ...