Thirty years ago, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev convened in Geneva for talks that helped usher in the end of the Cold War. Duke alumnus Jack Matlock (’50), the final United States ambassador to the Soviet Union who now teaches at Duke, recalls the summit.
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The Geneva Cold War Summit: 30 years later
Thirty years ago, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev convened in Geneva for talks that helped usher in the end of the Cold War. Duke alumnus Jack Matlock (’50), the final United States ambassador to the Soviet Union who now teaches at Duke, recalls the summit.
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