Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...response to the crash. Within an hour of Treasury Secretary James Baker's return from West Germany to Washington on Tuesday, Greenspan was huddling with him to plan the Administration's response to the market crash. Later that day the Fed chairman helped persuade Reagan to offer Congress a summit meeting to negotiate a federal-deficit reduction program...
...Washington the day before, the President, despite all his actor's wiles, could scarcely hide his eagerness for a Gorbachev visit. Indeed, there had been hope that Reagan might be able to open the session -- his first in the White House in seven months -- by announcing that the summit had finally been scheduled. But Shultz had not yet completed his talks; when a reporter raised the subject, Reagan could merely state, "We don't have a word yet or a date yet." Then he went on to muse about how he would like the Soviet leader "to see a great...
...Soviet leader was curiously circumspect as he posed with the Secretary of State last Friday in the ocher-colored St. Catherine Hall of the Kremlin's Great Palace. "I think this will happen," he replied, somewhat evasively, when reporters questioned him about the prospects for a summit. Asked whether he would like to see just Washington or the rest of the country, he again sounded a note of doubt. "I would like to see the country, the whole country," he answered. "Whether I am able to is the question...
...move that blindsided the White House, Gorbachev declared that the pending agreement on intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) was not, by itself, enough reason to justify a Washington summit. Unless the U.S. was willing to talk about ways to limit Reagan's cherished Strategic Defense Initiative program, he would prefer to pass up Thanksgiving at the ranch. Barely a year after he had done much the same in Reykjavik, Gorbachev pulled off a bait-and-switch scheme at Reagan's expense, luring him into high- level, high-visibility diplomacy only to shock and infuriate the Administration at the last minute...
...contras in Nicaragua, and his aim of pushing through a budget plan that would protect defense spending without raising existing taxes or imposing new ones. The stock-market plunge only magnified his new aura of ineffectiveness. Through it all, he and his aides were hoping for a grandly choreographed summit with Gorbachev to salvage a bit of Reagan's public luster...