Gorbachevs and Reagans Exchange Gifts to Commemorate Their Talks
President Reagan, Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev and their wives exchanged gifts to commemorate their meetings here, officials said Wednesday.
White House press spokesman Larry Speakes said Reagan gave Gorbachev a Chippendale-style mahogany box with an inscribed message. The box was made in Virginia’s Colonial Williamsburg.
A second gift--a desk set on the theme “Peace through communications”--was presented in honor of the joint U.S.-Soviet Apollo-Soyuz space mission.
Gorbachev gave Reagan 15 gold medallions representing the Soviet republics, set in a red-lined leather box, and a Palekh wall plaque showing a view of the Kremlin with St. Basil’s cathedral, Speakes said.
Mrs. Reagan gave Mrs. Gorbachev a large bowl known as the Rose Garden bowl. Mrs. Gorbachev gave Mrs. Reagan a porcelain tea set, a string of beads and a matching bracelet.
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