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The Diary of Ronald Reagan
The Diary of
Ronald Reagan

Diary Entry - 02/22/1984

Ronald Reagan's white house diaries for the day of 02-22-1984

Key Facts

  • President Reagan tapes a message about the school prayer amendment.

  • President Reagan has his advisors consider an invitation to General Secretary Cherenkov to be the President's guest at the opening of the Olympic games in Los Angeles in July.

  • Britain and the U.S. send warships to the Persian Gulf following an Iranian offensive against Iraq.

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George S. & I met and discussed mainly the Soviets & how we should react to Chernenko’s mild sounding talk with George B. I have a gut feeling I’d like to talk to him about our problems man to man & see if I could convince him there would be a material benefit to the Soviets if they’d join the family of nations etc. We dont want to appear anxious which would tempt them to play games & possibly snub us. I have our team considering an invitation to him to be my guest at the opening of the Olympics—July in L.A. Then he & I could have a session together in which we could start the ball rolling for outright summit on arms reductions, human rights, trade etc. We’ll see. Rehearsed in P.M. for Press Conf. Nancy came home thank Heaven (and I did). Press conference went well even though they spent most of their time on Lebanon.

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