Word: summiteer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jesse Jackson yesterday at the Kennedy School called the budget deficit the greatest national problem and said if he were president he would convene a Camp David-like summit of congressional and gubernatorial leaders to resolve the issue...
Jackson said the planned superpower summit is"a modest step for mankind and a giant step forPresident Reagan," but cautioned that we "shouldnot then contradict the process [of the summit andthe pending treaty eliminating medium-andshort-range missiles] by adding new weapon systemsin the name of modernization...
...Shultz and his advisers had not expected the Soviet leader to bring up the issue as a barrier to a fall summit, which Gorbachev had agreed to last month after Shevardnadze's talks in Washington with Reagan and Shultz...
Earlier, the President had indicated that he had no inclination to be drawn into a battle of wits with Gorbachev over whether the Soviet leader would accept an invitation to visit the United States for a summit meeting...
...same time, presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said U.S. officials are perplexed by Gorbachev's refusal to set a date for the summit that both sides have contemplated to consumate the INF treaty...