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...among the cedar trees on Reagan's 688 acres above the Pacific. The President called it "dog heaven." Likewise, Reagan was entering, at least for the moment, some kind of political Promised Land. Wirthlin's findings showed Americans gave Reagan an 81% approval rating for his performance at the Geneva summit and a 77% overall job approval. Once again, his popularity achieved a record high...
Almost nothing about Reagan the Leader is dismissible: his height, his straight back, his hair. In every scene played out in Geneva he had a slight physical advantage. "But it was never threatening," said one ambassador who was there. "Reagan radiated good will." ABC's David Hartman, the host of Good Morning, America and a former film actor himself, watched the Geneva script unwind on his monitors and said, "The President always played it so they came to him. That's the first rule of the stage...
...part of Reagan's human nature to like people. At one point during the Geneva summit, Reagan came out of a good private session with Gorbachev and told a close aide, "Sometimes I've got to remind myself just who he is and what he represents." Despite the amiability that came through in public, Reagan seems to have succeeded in that also...
...Geneva summit is not the only sign of a thaw in U.S.-Soviet relations. While Ronald Reagan was preparing to meet with Mikhail Gorbachev, a group of American banks was quietly deciding to loan money to the Soviet Union. The First National Bank of Chicago and three New York banks--Bankers Trust, Morgan Guaranty and Irving Trust--have joined the Royal Bank of Canada in giving the Soviets a $200 million credit line to help buy American and Canadian grain. Other U.S. banks are expected to participate in the loans...
...consolidate his power, firing old-line bureaucrats by the score and wooing popular support by touring Soviet farms and factories in the manner of a handshaking, baby-kissing Western politician. He broke the long, frozen silence between the nuclear superpowers by agreeing to meet President Ronald Reagan in Geneva for the first Soviet-American summit in six years. Their November talks in front of a cozy fire moved none of the substantive issues closer to solution. On the paramount question of arms control, though both have proposed a 50% cut in offensive nuclear weapons, agreement is still being blocked primarily...