| Governors Island Summit | |
|---|---|
 Bush, Reagan and Gorbachev | |
| Host country |  United States |
| Date | December 7, 1988 |
| Venue(s) | Governors Island |
| Cities | New York City |
| Participants |  Mikhail Gorbachev Ronald Reagan |
| Follows | Moscow Summit (1988) |
| Precedes | Malta Summit |
The Governors Island Summit was a summit meeting between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev. It was held on December 7, 1988. U.S. Vice President and President-elect George H. W. Bush was also in attendance.[1][2]
Gorbachev cut his trip to the United States short as soon as he was informed of the earthquake that had struck the Soviet republic of Armenia earlier that day.[3]
- ^ "Reagan, Gorbachev and Bush at Governor's Island". The National Security Archive. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
- ^ Dowd, Maureen (8 December 1988). "The Gorbachev Visit; Soviet Star Is a Smash In Broadway Showing". The New York Times. Vol. 138, no. 47713. Archived from the original on 12 August 2024.
- ^ William Taubman, Gorbachev: His Life and Times (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2017), pp. 423-26.