Cold War/Germany: White House conversation record (1930Z-2100Z) (Bush-Kohl meeting at NATO Summit in Brussels) [German unification - Bush: "Gorbachev said you are in too much of a hurry"; Kohl explained his Ten Point plan, said Andreotti the most difficult about it; Bush thinks unification in two years 'nonsense', "the economic imbalance is too great", need "to avoid things which would make the situation impossible for Gorbachev"; Kohl on MT "Her ideas are simply pre-Churchill. She thinks the postwar era has not come to an end. She thinks history is not just. Germany is so rich and Great Britain is struggling"; French pride] [declassified Jul 1999]
| Document type: | Declassified documents |
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| Venue: | Chateau Stuyvenberg, Brussels |
| Source: | Bush Library: FOIA 1999-0393-F CTF01729-12 |
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| Importance ranking: | Key |
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| Themes: | MT contacts with Helmut Kohl, British relations with the US, British relations with the Soviet Union, British relations with the Federal Republic of Germany, German unification, 1989-90, British relations with Italy, Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Foreign policy (Western Europe - non-EU), Foreign policy (Central & Eastern Europe), European Union (general), Economic, monetary & political union, Defence (general), Defence (arms control) |
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