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Diptych: Reagan

President Reagan greets a young boy while touring Moscow’s Red Square with Mikhail Gorbachev during their summit meeting in the Soviet Union. Gorbachev had escorted the President to groups of Russian “tourists” stationed in the Square. They all asked very pointed questions of the President, including about human rights violations in the United States. I mentioned later to a Secret Service agent how surprised I was that the tourists had asked such issue-oriented questions. The agent informed me that they weren’t tourists at all, they were all KGB officers and their families. Fifteen years later, I received an email from someone who claimed that the man with the camera around his neck was a young...
May 31, 1988
20.0 x 24.0in
Image courtesy of Pete Souza, 1988