A Diplomatic Tour de Force in Middle Eastern Affairs

A Diplomatic Tour de Forcein

Middle Eastern Affairs

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Statements by and Question and Answer Session with President

Bush and Chairman

Gorbachev

Press Release

December 3, 1989

(Group 1)

April 3, 1990

Letter to President Bush from Arlen

Specter and Richard C. Shelby

June 2, 1990

Remarks by President Bush and President Gorbachev

Press Release

Summit Meetings of Presidents Bush and

Gorbachev

July 25, 1990

Saddam Hussein's

Message of Friendship to

President Bush

Cable

August 2, 1990

President Bush, King Hussein, & President Mubarak

Telephone Conversation

Press Release

(Group 2)

President Bush and King Fahd

August 2, 1990 Telephone Conversation (Group 3)

August 3, 1990

President Bushand President

Mitterrand

Telephone Conversation

August 5, 1990

President Bush and Prime Minister Mulroney

Telephone Conversation

August 7, 1990

President Bush and President

Mubarak

Telephone Conversation

August 10, 1990

Cairo Domestic Service in Arabic

Report

National Security Council Directive

45

August 20, 1990

(Group 4)

September 9, 1990

President Bush and President

Gorbachev

Memorandum of Conversation

September 29, 1990

President Bush and Prime

Minister Kaifu

Memorandum of Conversation

(Group 5)

October 1, 1990

President Bush and Eduard

Shevardnadze

Memorandum of Conversation

Letter from President Gorbachev to President Bush

October of 1990

October 24, 1990

President Bush and President Ozal

Telephone Conversation

November 10, 1990

James A. Baker, III to President Bush

Memorandum

President Bush to President Hussein

January 5, 1991 letter

January 9, 1991

Baker and Aziz

Memorandum of Conversation

Persian Gulf Conflict

January 18, 1991

President Gorbachev and President Bush

Telephone Conversation

January 21, 1991

President Bush and Minister Lee Kuan Yew

Memorandum Conversation

Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney, General Powell, General

Norman Schwarzkopf, and Lt. General Waller

meeting in U.S. Central Command

during Desert Storm

Undated

USAF Desert Storm Photographs

Highway of DeathUndated

USAF Desert Storm Photographs

U.S. Troops in Saudi Arabia

Undated

USAF Desert Storm Photograph

February 23, 1991

President Bush and

President Gorbachev

Telephone Conversation

(Group 6)

President Bush receives a salute

from Gen. Norman

Schwarzkopf during the Desert

Storm Homecoming

Parade, Washington, DC

June 8, 1991

October 1, 1991

President Bush and Amir of Kuwait

Memorandum Conversation

1991 Gulf War Chronology

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