In 2022, the legacies of Reagan and Gorbachev couldn’t be more different. Gorbachev’s death inevitably reminds me of Reagan’s unprecedented popularity – which endures today.

First Reagan and then Bush came to view Mr. Gorbachev, who died at 91 on Tuesday, as an authentic agent of change and a trustworthy interlocutor who could at last help end the four-decade-old ...

Mikhail Gorbachev stepped onto a Washington street and began shaking hands to cheers and applause in 1990 — a bit of unaccustomed political showmanship worthy of his friend Ronald Reagan.

Joe DiMaggio only ever asked one person to sign a baseball for him — Mikhail Gorbachev. In 1987, the Yankee Clipper was invited by the Reagan White House to a state dinner honoring the Russian ...

On that day, Reagan stood 100 yards away from the concrete wall dividing East and West Berlin, challenging the Russian-born Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev by saying, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down ...

In hindsight, President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, the last ruler of the Soviet Union, were the two most unexpected people of the 1980s.Gorbachev’s passing Tuesday at age 91 represents ...

First Reagan and then Bush came to view Mr. Gorbachev as an authentic agent of change and a trustworthy interlocutor who could at last help end the four-decade-old, nuclear-armed Cold War.

Reagan had gotten the idea from the 1951 film “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” and invoked it for a speech before the United Nations. Members of his administration had tried to remove it from his ...

OPINION Reagan's plan defeated Gorbachev's communism. It can beat communist China, too A new Cold War with China can be won with Ronald Reagan’s 'Peace through Strength' ...

The second was on Dec. 11, 1987, when Mikhail Gorbachev — on his way to the White House to meet with President Ronald Reagan — suddenly ordered his driver to stop his Zil limousine downtown.

Mikhail Gorbachev, who died Tuesday at age 91, was a paradoxical Soviet leader when the world needed one. He had almost total power upon taking office but undertook reforms that undermined that power.

At a 1986 summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, Reagan became so frustrated with Gorbachev’s intransigence that he walked away. But that wasn’t the end. The two sides regrouped and kept the summits going.