Secret to ending the Cold War: Nancy Reagan snow party, writes SecretsBedard.
But in his voice, first lady Nancy Reagan apparently heard something different. While he cursed the red menace, she saw it as his way to bring the Kremlin to the negotiating table and maybe even negotiate an end to the Cold War.The late George Shultz, who replaced Al Haig as secretary of state early in the Reagan administration, apparently heard the same thing but always seemed to be elbowed aside and cut off from Reagan by the anti-Soviet hard-liners.
Soon after, while in his Foggy Bottom office on a Friday in February 1983, the biggest snowstorm since 1922 started, and he rushed home. At the White House, the Reagans were snowed in, blocked from their regular weekends at Camp David, according to Taubman’s book, In The Nation’s Service. That night, as dinner was served, the Reagans quizzed Shultz about his trip to Asia before the discussion turned to the Soviet Union. Immediately, Shultz realized that he was right that Reagan wanted to develop a relationship with the Kremlin. He even offered to sneak then-Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin in for a chat. Reagan eagerly agreed.
Also, it is the first time a biographer has been given so much access to Shultz, who died in 2021 at 100, and a secret diary written by Shultz’s right-hand man, Raymond Seitz. Taubman, who became friendly covering Shultz, said he was asked to write the biography, which turned into a 10-year project.And it is the first to show how much Nancy Reagan, and her favorite aide, communications pro Michael Deaver, worked to get the Gipper and Shultz on the same page.
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