Diary Entry - 08/17/1984
Key Facts
President Reagan hosts a luncheon with Polish-Americans, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising.
President Reagan meets with Senator Pete V. Domenici (R-New Mexico) to discuss problems in the copper industry.
A Lunch in the St. Dining Room with about 100 Polish Am. leaders. The spirit of freedom & independence is very much alive in these people. They’ve been fighting for freedom for 200 yrs. I told them we would hold the “powers” including the Soviets to the Yalta Agreement that all the captive nations had a right to free elections.
A meeting with George S. & Bud—we are agreed I will invite Gromyko to come to Wash.
A meeting with Pete Domenici (Sen.). He has had a documented report put together disproving the Dem. charges that we’ve been unfair. Then we talked copper. Our mines are being hurt by imports but our copper fabricates an industry 5 times as big as mining wants the imports. It’s a sticky problem.
In interview with Donnie Radcliffe about Nancy & up to the living quarters.
