* 1987 – Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate U. S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.

* 1988 – U. S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

Two months later, Reagan and Gorbachev agreed to sign a treaty to eliminate intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe, and the Supreme Soviet ordered Rust to be released in August 1988 as a goodwill gesture to the west.

Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in a meeting with US President Ronald Reagan.

President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev shaking hands at the US-Soviet summit in Washington, D. C ..

" In 1987, Mikhail Gorbachev became the first Soviet leader to visit Washington, D. C. since Nikita Khrushchev in 1959, and Nancy Reagan was in charge of planning and hosting the important and highly anticipated state dinner.

Both Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev had developed a productive relationship through their summit negotiations.

The relationship between Nancy Reagan and Raisa Gorbachev was anything but the friendly, diplomatic one between their husbands ; Nancy found Raisa hard to converse with and their relationship was described as " frosty ".

* 1985 – Cold War: In Geneva, U. S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.

After the 1986 Reykjavik summit between U. S. President Ronald Reagan and the new Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, the United States and the Soviet Union concluded two important nuclear arms reduction treaties: the INF Treaty ( 1987 ) and START I ( 1991 ).

* 1986 – Cold War: U. S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavík, Iceland, in an effort to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe.

With the cooperation of the American president Ronald Reagan, Gorbachev wound down the size of the Soviet Armed Forces and reduced nuclear arms in Europe, while liberalizing the economy.

* June 12 – During a visit to Berlin, Germany, U. S. President Ronald Reagan challenges Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.

** The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed in Washington, D. C. by U. S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

* October 11 – Cold War: Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavík, Iceland, to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe ( the talks break down in failure ).

* November 19 – Cold War: In Geneva, U. S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.

President Reagan, challenging Mikhail Gorbachev | Gorbachev to " tear down this wall!

In 1987, Reagan and Gorbachev agreed to go further than a nuclear freeze.

Yuri Maltsev, a high-ranking economist in the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev during the 1980s, believed that Reagan was definitely right.

During his second term in office, in May – June 1988, more than five years after using the term " evil empire ," Reagan visited the new reformist General Secretary of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow.

When Gorbachev met with Ronald Reagan during his visit the United States, Reagan called, bizarrely, for the dissolution of the Afghan army.

At the Ronald Reagan / Mikhail Gorbachev summit in Moscow ( 29 May – 1 June 1988 ) between leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union, it was decided that Cuban troops would be withdrawn from Angola, and Soviet military aid would cease, as soon as South Africa withdrew from Namibia.

In 1987, US President Ronald Reagan gave a speech at Brandenburg Gate challenging Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to " tear down this wall " that had separated Berlin.

On the one hand, Reagan stated that SDI was " consistent with ... the ABM Treaty ", but on the other hand, he viewed it as a defensive system that would help reduce the possibility that mutual assured destruction ( MAD ) would become reality ; he even suggested that the Soviets would be given access to the SDI technology.

The Soviets could not afford to ignore Reagan ’ s new endeavor, therefore their policy at the time was to enter negotiations with the Americans.

Governor and Mrs. Clinton attend the Dinner Honoring the Nation's Governors in the White House with President Ronald Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan, 1987.

He finished with an approval rating of 68 %, which matched those of Ronald Reagan and Franklin D. Roosevelt as the highest ratings for departing presidents in the modern era.

During the Reagan administration, conservatives also supported the so-called " Reagan Doctrine " under which the U. S., as part of a Cold War strategy, provided military and other support to guerrilla insurgencies that were fighting governments aligned with the Soviet Union.

On 4 January 1982, Reagan signed the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 ( NSDD-17 ), giving the CIA the authority to recruit and support the contras with $ 19 million in military aid.

On May 1, 1985 President Reagan announced that his administration perceived Nicaragua to be " an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States ," and declared a " national emergency " and a trade embargo against Nicaragua to " deal with that threat.

On top of that, Oliver North helped Carl Channell's tax-exempt organization, the " National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty ", to raise $ 10 million, by arranging numerous briefings for groups of potential contributors at the premises of the White House and by facilitating private visits and photo sessions with president Reagan for major contributors.

In late 1972, the Legislature approved a reorganization ( suggested from a study initiated by then-Governor Ronald Reagan ), in which the Department of Public Works was merged with the Department of Aeronautics to become the modern Department of Transportation.

Jello Biafra's biting lyrics tackled the sociopolitical concerns of the Reagan era with a distinct sense of morbid humor and satire, following in the footsteps of such earlier rock satirists as Frank Zappa and non-musical countercultural figures like Abbie Hoffman and Lenny Bruce.

* Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan, a 1999 biography with fictional elements by Edmund Morris

Not until Reagan would another president leave office with so strong a sense of having accomplished what he set out to do.

* On 23 June 1987, Kaye was posthumously presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan.

Lady Bird Johnson pioneered environmental protection and beautification ; Pat Nixon encouraged volunteerism and traveled extensively abroad ; Betty Ford supported women's rights ; Rosalynn Carter aided those with mental disabilities ; Nancy Reagan founded the Just Say No drug awareness campaign ; Barbara Bush promoted literacy ; Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to reform the healthcare system in the U. S .; and Laura Bush supported women's ' rights groups and encouraged childhood literacy.

Senator Schmitt with then-President Ronald Reagan in Roswell, New Mexico, October 1982

Handwritten notes taken by Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger on December 7, 1985 indicate that Reagan was aware of potential hostages transfers with Iran, as well as the sale of Hawk and TOW missiles to " moderates elements " within that country.

While the President was recovering in the hospital, McFarlane met with him and told him that representatives from Israel had contacted the National Security Agency to pass on confidential information from what Reagan later described as the " moderate " Iranian faction opposed to the Ayatollah's hardline anti-American policies.

According to Reagan, these Iranians sought to establish a quiet relationship with the United States, before establishing formal relationships upon the death of the octogenarian Ayatollah.

* United States presidential inauguration, held every four years since 1937 ( with 2 exceptions by Eisenhower & Reagan, on January 21st because January 20 was a Sunday and 1985 ) in odd-numbered years after years when the United States Presidential Election takes place ( as the election takes place in years divisible by four – 2004, 2008, 2012, and so on – the inauguration takes place in 2005, 2009, 2013, etc .).

He also became involved in a " liberal group ... with a leftist slant ", along with Ronald Reagan.

* 1981 – In a private meeting with U. S. President Ronald Reagan, French Prime Minister François Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing that the Soviets had been stealing American technological research and development.

At the 1984 Republican National Convention, Kemp, along with allies such as Gingrich and Lott, added a plank to the party platform that put President Reagan on record as ruling out tax increases.