Thursday, October 14, 2010
"Oct. 12, 1986, ..., The Day That The World Changed"
Some Presidents stick up for what they believe in.
It's an admirable trait, to say the least...
It's an admirable trait, to say the least...
John Heubusch writes at Investors.com:
"On the evening of Oct. 12, 1986, the Reykjavik Summit appeared to have ended in failure for President Reagan. Two days of talks between him and Mikhail Gorbachev over the reduction of their nations' vast missile arsenals had resulted in Reagan walking out at the last minute.
The issue? Gorbachev wouldn't agree to any agreement unless the U.S. ceased its research on the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Reagan said no.
The meeting adjourned, and both leaders, with their staffs, walked out into the cold Iceland rain.
As historian Richard Reeves recounts in his biography, 'President Reagan: Triumph of Imagination,' on the trip home aboard Air Force One, Charles Wick, director of the United States Information Service, approached the president and said... "
