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That is, in fact, precisely the type of opening one would expect from Reagan, even at a historic confrontation. There is no guile in his manner. What...
Despite the preparations he still must attend to, Reagan is willing to ruminate about his sense of the importance of the Iceland meeting, about how two men in a strange and distant room can shatter the world or heal it. "When I sat down with Gorbachev in Geneva, I told him that here were two individuals in a room who either could provide peace for the world or could bring about World War III," says Reagan, his voice taking on a tone of urgency. "We needed to work to eliminate the mistrust between us and then the armaments that could...
Before all of that there is this man-to-man exercise, the palpable event of settling into one of those big, brown leather chairs (Reagan carefully studied the advance pictures of the stark Reykjavík meeting room) and looking into the eyes of Mikhail Gorbachev and trying to discern what they are saying even as strange language tumbles out of his lips and is unscrambled by an interpreter between them...
...curious about what brought this flat-out invitation to meet now," says Reagan. "He's concerned about the summit, I think. He wants to be sure that we have a summit that will produce something...
...Reagan has some street smarts, conditioning that comes from being slapped around a good deal by critics on the right and left in his own country and from dealing for six years with a wily and unpredictable adversary...