Reagan Invites Gorbachev to Presidential Library
Former President Ronald Reagan has invited former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev to visit the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley.
Gorbachev has yet to respond to the invitation, said Cathy Goldberg, a spokeswoman for Reagan. “It was open-ended. It wasn’t like, ‘respond by midnight or else.’ ”
Goldberg said Reagan received a letter from Gorbachev the day after the Soviet leader’s Dec. 25 resignation. In it, Goldberg said, Gorbachev told the former President that he had been thinking about their roles in ending the Cold War.
“It fell on you and I to make the first and perhaps the most difficult step on this path,” Gorbachev wrote.
In his Dec. 30 response, Reagan invited Gorbachev and his wife, Raisa, to visit California and the library, “which chronicles many of the historic steps we walked together,” Reagan wrote.
The $56.8-million library opened Nov. 4.
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