President George H.W. Bush welcomes Russian Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev to the White House. Bush says that he sees a demilitarizing of Europe and a new era of cooperation. He cites Nicaragua and Angola as examples of US-Russian cooperation in world peace. He quotes Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov on civil rights, and praises Perestroika. Bush mentions Lithuania as an area of disagreement. Gorbachev praises the new stability in US-USSR relations. Comments by CBS newsman Dan Rather occur throughout the recording.
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