George H.W. Bush: “Well, as I said yesterday, we're still talking to our allies about this. President Gorbachev has not presented me with…”

“Well, as I said yesterday, we're still talking to our allies about this. President Gorbachev has not presented me with this proposal. We will be having Mr. Primakov and another gentleman here--I think it's this week--to discuss this, or to discuss what Gorbachev told me would be some new ideas on economic reform. But what I want to do-- and I expect this is true of President Mitterrand, I know it's true of Kohl and certainly of John Major--is to get together, talk about it, and see what we can do to help genuine reform in the Soviet Union. So, I'm not prepared to comment on a proposal that has not been brought to my attention.”