First Reagan and then Bush came to view Mr. Gorbachev, who died at 91 on Tuesday, as an authentic agent of change and a trustworthy interlocutor who could at last help end the four-decade-old ...

OPINION Reagan's plan defeated Gorbachev's communism. It can beat communist China, too A new Cold War with China can be won with Ronald Reagan’s 'Peace through Strength' ...

At a 1986 summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, Reagan became so frustrated with Gorbachev’s intransigence that he walked away. But that wasn’t the end. The two sides regrouped and kept the summits going.

Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan is pictured during his "tear down this wall" speech in West Berlin, Germany, on June 12, 1987. The speech resurfaced on Tuesday with news of the death of former ...

On that day, Reagan stood 100 yards away from the concrete wall dividing East and West Berlin, challenging the Russian-born Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev by saying, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down ...

In hindsight, President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, the last ruler of the Soviet Union, were the two most unexpected people of the 1980s.Gorbachev’s passing Tuesday at age 91 represents ...

Reagan had gotten the idea from the 1951 film “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” and invoked it for a speech before the United Nations. Members of his administration had tried to remove it from his ...

Gorbachev died Tuesday at age 91. But his mission to eliminate nuclear weapons, which he shared with Reagan, must continue. We have to hope and pray that future leaders will take up the cause.

President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 8, 1987, as they met for the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.

When Gorbachev became Communist party general secretary in March 1985 after Chernenko’s death, the White House sensed a potential opening, said Jack Matlock, then Reagan’s top negotiator with ...

In October 1986, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev met for a summit in Iceland. A group of Soviet Jewry activists from the U.S. showed up to speak out for the right of ...

Mr. Gorbachev was charming and presented himself as a reformer, but neither Ronald Reagan nor George Bush was convinced he was for real. They would both be proved wrong.