In this handout from the White House, U.S. President Ronald Reagan (2nd R) shakes hands with a boy as Mikhail Gorbachev (R ... during this encounter of Regan shaking the hand of a Russian ...

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In hindsight, President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail ... To be sure, Gorbachev did have genuine liberalizing sentiments, but he couldn’t really shake the shackles of the illiberal ideology of ...

Then he just got out of his limousine and began shaking hands ... that Reagan, the Hollywood actor who became president and an icon of the American right, was known for. Reagan and Gorbachev ...

Did President Ronald Reagan win the Cold War, or did the war end because Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev abandoned ... United States would extend “the hand of friendship” and declare that ...

The second was on Dec. 11, 1987, when Mikhail Gorbachev — on his way to the White House to meet with President Ronald Reagan ... staring at her hand. “I’m still shaking.

On a November day in 1985, the new Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev tried to sum up his first summit with then-President Ronald Reagan in Geneva. Both men had been cautious during the talks to tamp ...

While in office, Gorbachev and U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987. In a statement Tuesday, Fred Ryan, the chairman of the board at the Reagan ...

Mikhail Gorbachev stepped onto a Washington street and began shaking hands to cheers and applause in 1990 -- a bit of unaccustomed political showmanship worthy of his friend Ronald Reagan.

WASHINGTON - Mikhail Gorbachev stepped onto a Washington street and began shaking hands to cheers and applause ... showmanship worthy of his friend Ronald Reagan. Ana Maria Guzman was in the ...