US Presidency
1988

And we were just outside the building, and he said something to me about that I had never seen Russia. And I turned to him and said, And you have never seen the United States. You've never been in the United States before. I said, We're having the summit here. Why don't we have the next summit in the United States, and I hereby invite you? And he said, I accept. And he said, Then why don't we have the following one in 1987 in the Soviet Union? I said, I accept. Well, when I told our people that we were already scheduled for two more summits in our two countries, they almost fell down. They couldn't believe it. So, immediately we saw a great difference between this man and the previous leaders of the Soviet Union. You see, I hadn't had much chance to meet with them. They kept dying on me. Middle East Peace Efforts Q. Mr.