President Richard Nixon made arms control agreements with the Soviet leaders, as did President Jimmy Carter. ... President George H.W. Bush’s administration gave assurances to Gorbachev that if the Soviets agreed to the renunification of Germany, the US would not move NATO one..…
While President George H.W. Bush rushed to claim credit for ending the Cold War, the Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev was the lynchpin of that historic conclusion. ..…
While President George H.W. Bush rushed to claim credit for ending the Cold War, the Soviet Union’s Mikhail Gorbachev was the lynchpin of that historic conclusion. ..…
While President George H.W. Bush rushed to claim credit for ending the Cold War, the Soviet Union’s Mikhail Gorbachev was the lynchpin of that historic conclusion. ..…
Reagan’s vice president, George H.W. Bush, pressured Soviet President Gorbachev to eliminate military and economic aid to Cuba. ..…
Stephen Cohen says that 'Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush negotiated with the last Soviet Russian leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, what they said was the end of the Cold War on the shared, expressed premise that it was ending ‘with no losers, only winners.’' . ..…
Faced with the loss of Soviet Union Bush's, President George H.W. Bush converted Saddam Hussein, the dictator of Iraq, into America's new official enemy as part of Persian Gulf intervention. ..…
This defied U.S. expectations as the CIA and the George H.W. Bush administration had believed that the government of Najibullah would fall as soon as Soviet troops were withdrawn. ..…
President George H.W. Bush and Secretary of State James Baker built enduring relationships with diverse leaders across the Soviet bloc and the Middle East. ..…
As a point of comparison, as the Soviet Union was unraveling in 1991, President George H.W. ..…
The most notable example was President Gerald Ford’s Team B project, launched in May 1976, to challenge the conventional intelligence community assessments of the Soviet threat. George H.W. Bush, who was director of the CIA at the time, had approved the project, which enlisted a..…
In my own career, I worked from 1990 to January 1993 at the National Security Council (NSC) in the White House as Director of Soviet Affairs for President George H.W. ..…
Indeed, it is well known that Gorbachev and other Soviet leaders received assurances that NATO would not expand. These assurances came not only from President George H.W. Bush but also from West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher; West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl;..…
Indeed, it is well known that Gorbachev and other Soviet leaders received assurances that NATO would not expand. These assurances came not only from President George H.W. Bush but also from West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher; West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl;..…
Indeed, it is well known that Gorbachev and other Soviet leaders received assurances that NATO would not expand. These assurances came not only from President George H.W. Bush but also from West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher; West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl;..…
The end of the Soviet Union in 1991 brought a golden opportunity for Washington to impose a “new world order” (as George H.W. ..…
Fun facts: George H.W. Bush saw the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War during his term. ..…
WASHINGTON — Harold Brown, has died at age 91.. ..…
He was tasked with reviving the credibility of the American intelligence community as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency in 1976 and presided over the peaceful fall of the Soviet Union during his single term as president. . 'In many ways, George H.W. Bush's passing..…
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Israel's prime minister is praising former President George H.W. Bush's 'commitment to Israel's security' and 'important contribution to the liberation of Soviet Jewry.' . ... Former Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev has expressed his 'deep condolences' to the family of..…
President George H.W. Bush (left) and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev exchange pens after signing the historic Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) in Moscow on July 31, 1991. . ..…
Bush was known for his gentlemanly demeanor, dedication to traditional American values, willingness to take on foreign despots like Iraq's Hussein and Panama's Manuel Noriega, and presiding over the breakup of the Soviet Union. . . FILE - In this Jan. 20, 1989, file photo, President George..…
Former Republican President George H.W. Bush, who served a term that saw the collapse of the Soviet Union and the first Gulf War, has died. ..…
Israel's prime minister is praising former President George H.W. Bush's 'commitment to Israel's security' and 'important contribution to the liberation of Soviet Jewry.' . ... Former Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev has expressed his 'deep condolences' to the family of..…
Israel's prime minister is praising former President George H.W. Bush's 'commitment to Israel's security' and 'important contribution to the liberation of Soviet Jewry.' . ... Former Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev has expressed his 'deep condolences' to the family of..…
Ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev: 'I express my deep condolences to the family of George H.W. ..…
Israel's prime minister is praising former President George H.W. Bush's 'commitment to Israel's security' and 'important contribution to the liberation of Soviet Jewry.' . ... Former Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev has expressed his 'deep condolences' to the family of..…
FILE - In this Oct. 29, 1991, file photo, President George H.W. Bush gestures during a joint news conference with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, at the Soviet Embassy in Madrid. ..…
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu On behalf of the people of Israel I send heartfelt condolences to Bush family and American People on the passing of American, President George H.W. The People of Israel will always remember his commitment to Israel's security, his contribution to..…
Photos: President George H.W. Bush's life in pictures . . Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev takes in the New York skyline with Reagan and Bush in 1988. . ..…
President George H.W. Bush (left) and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev exchange pens after signing the historic Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) in Moscow on July 31, 1991. . ..…
George H.W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev President George H.W. Bush gestures during a joint news conference with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, at the Soviet Embassy in Madrid in October 1991. | Associated Press . . ..…
Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton had promised the Russians that nato would not expand into the former Soviet Union empire. ..…
During the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, senior members of the George H.W. ..…
It was followed in 1991 by the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which the Soviet Union signed with President George H.W. ..…
., under pressure from the president's Foreign Policy Advisory Board, conducted an in-house review of its performance in analyzing Soviet strategic doctrine and military capabilities over the previous decade. . Professor Pipes, right, with Vice President George H.W. Bush in the..…
From 1989 through March 1991, Rice served on President George H.W. Bush’s National Security Council staff. She served as director; senior director of Soviet and east European affairs; and, special assistant to the president for national security affairs. ..…
President Ronald Wilson Reagan successfully negotiated arms limitation treaties with the Soviet Union, which Russia still honors. But beginning with President George H.W. Bush, America’s policy toward the world’s largest country has been one of betrayal, encirclement, and..…
In the early months of 1989, the overriding foreign policy issue for the new George H.W. ... Did the Soviet leader represent fundamental change, or was he merely a new face for the same old policies? ..…
Internationally, this period was overshadowed by other events, including the U.S. presidential campaign between Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush in 1992, the breakup of the Soviet Union, and war in the former Yugoslavia.In the United States, the fall of the Soviet-backed regime in..…