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Reagan had been well coached on what to expect from his Kremlin rival. Gorbachev had been forceful and unyielding at his presummit meeting in Moscow two weeks before with Secretary of State George Shultz, and Shultz had passed along to Reagan a vivid description of the Kremlin leader in action: assertive, dynamic, very opinionated and not easily swayed by eloquent rhetoric. Nonetheless, Shultz had counseled, Gorbachev was a good listener, and extremely curious to learn more about the mind-sets of his Western adversaries...
...week before the summit, Reagan had intimated that he wanted to take personal charge by demanding that he be shown no more briefing books, be given no more lectures. "That was when he started calling it his summit," recalled an aide. Shultz had even advised his counterpart, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, that "my guy likes to size up his opposite number and see what he's really like, and the way for them to do that is for them to spend some time alone...
...nearly an hour at the very outset came as a surprise to his advisers. As the two leaders remained behind closed doors on that first morning and their aides began a reverse countdown, ticking off how long they were exceeding their schedules, one American official came up to Shultz, nervously pointing at his watch and fretting that the Big Two were not keeping to the program. Retorted Shultz: "If you're dumb enough to go in there and break it up, you don't deserve to be employed here...
Gergen says he expects that President Bush will assemble a team of advisers to assist him in making the appointment, including Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove and two officials from the Reagan White House: former CEA chairman Michael Boskin and former Secretary of State George Shultz...
...factor leading to last week's tense encounter was a lobbying effort by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Secretary of State George Shultz, who urged the President to ensure that the proposed cuts would not threaten national security. But geopolitical considerations were partly responsible for the postponement of a showdown. The lawmakers decided that sending Reagan to Geneva with a fiscal default hanging over his head would be unseemly. Before leaving, however, Reagan vetoed an appropriations bill that overshot its targeted limit by $180 million. "Until Congress comes to grips with the problem of the large budget deficit," said Reagan...