Edward L.
President George Bush and Ambassador Edward L. Rowny, 13 November 1989.
happened at the summit. I made similar visits later, extending them to Argentina
and Chile.
The next landmark was the Bush-Gorbachev summit in Malta, December 1989.
Can you tell me something about the preliminaries leading up to Malta and about
the meeting itself?
President Bush, after he was elected, started out carefully and deliberately in arms
control. He said he wanted his to be a Bush I and not a Reagan III administration.
He would wait until his administration sorted out its policies before proceeding
further on arms control.
What kinds of things needed sorting out?
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