The Governors Island Summit was a summit meeting between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev. It was held on December 7, 1988. U.S. Vice President and President-elect George H. W. Bush was also in attendance.[1][2]
| Governors Island Summit | |
|---|---|
 Bush, Reagan and Gorbachev | |
| Host country |  United States |
| Date | December 7, 1988 |
| Cities | New York City |
| Venues | Governors Island |
| Participants |  Mikhail Gorbachev Ronald Reagan |
| Follows | Moscow Summit (1988) |
| Precedes | Malta Summit |
Gorbachev cut his trip to the United States short as soon as he was informed of the earthquake that had struck the Soviet republic of Armenia earlier that day.[3]
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- ↑ "Reagan, Gorbachev and Bush at Governor's Island". The National Security Archive. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
- ↑ Dowd, Maureen (8 December 1988). "The Gorbachev Visit; Soviet Star Is a Smash In Broadway Showing". The New York Times. Vol. 138, no. 47713.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ William Taubman, Gorbachev: His Life and Times (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2017), pp. 423-26.
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