Reagan Says He’ll Tell Gorbachev That Bush Represents Continuity
President Reagan said Saturday that he plans to tell Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev next week that President-elect George Bush represents continuity as well as change.
In his weekly radio address, Reagan said that his fifth and final meeting with the Soviet leader on Wednesday in New York will not be a formal summit with a formal agenda.
“But you can be sure that I’ll be telling Mr. Gorbachev that George Bush represents change, yes, but also continuity,” Reagan said. Bush will also attend the talks.
U.S. officials have played down the meeting, refusing to call it a summit since it will take place without the detailed preliminary talks of other Reagan-Gorbachev meetings.
The meeting will be Gorbachev’s final meeting with Reagan and his first with Bush since Bush’s election last month.
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