‘A Different Sort of Russian’
Reagan professed to like Gorbachev, and sensed he might be a reasonable man, but harbored no illusions about him or the Soviets during Cold War negotiations.
Our favorite story about Mikhail Gorbachev, the one-time Soviet party boss who died Tuesday at age 91, concerns the scoop that brought his name to the American public. He was, after all, essentially unknown to the world until a telephone rang at the foreign desk of the New York Post.
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