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That was true, but he wasn't really making much of an effort, and there was a fear that if you don't reach out to the soviets, they are so afraid of us, they will do something stupid. >> president reagan had a change of heart. he is now much more eager to meet with the new leader of the soviet union and he has sent mikhail gorbachev a letter suggesting a summit. ♪ >> all previous summits had a communique worked out ahead of time by the two foreign ministries. here's what we say at the end, and some gaps to be filled in during the meetings. reagan said we are not doing any communiques. he say...

Important problems concerning the arms race and increasing hopes of peace, we didn't succeed in reaching at this meeting. so of course there are important disagreements on matters of principle that remain between us. >> the general feeling here is that president reagan deserves credit for starting a dialogue with soviet leader gorbachev, that, in the nuclear age, any lessening of tension must be applauded. but many here pronounced the summit only a modest success, because it failed to achieve any significant progress on arms control. >> the first word that something was seriously wrong came fr...

>> it was perfect. it was beautiful. he had to insist on keeping it in the speech. and he did it. don't let anybody tell you it was a staffer or anybody else that did that. >> meanwhile, in the soviet union, gorbachev decides to do something bold and he says let's separate sdi from reducing the nuclear stockpile. once he does this, it opens up the possibility for a third summit. >> this week's summit may prove especially important, even historic. for the first time since the onset of the nuclear age, the united states and soviet union will sign a treaty actually reducing the number of nuclear ...

Didn't meet any soviet leaders. when asked about it, reagan said they keep dying on me. that was true, but he wasn't making much of an effort, and there was a fear that if you don't reach out to the soviets, they're so afraid of us, they'll do something stupid. >> president reagan had a change of heart. he is now much more eager to meet with the new leader of the soviet union and he has sent mikhail gorbachev a letter suggesting a summit. ♪ >> all previous sum its had a communique worked out ahead of time by the two foreign ministries. here's what we say at the end, and some gaps to be fille...

>> the solving of the most important problem concerning the arms race and increasing hopes of peace, we didn't succeed in reaching at this meeting. so of course there are important disagreements on matters of principle that remain between us. >> the general feeling here is that president reagan deserves credit for starting a dialogue with soviet leader gorbachev, that, in the nuclear age, any lessening of tension must be applauded. but many pronounced the summit here only a modest success because it failed to achieve any significant progress on arms control. >> the first word that something wa...