"Reagan, Gorbachev and Bush at Governor's Island" National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book

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#261 edited by Dr. Svetlana Savranskaya and Thomas Blanton
posted December 8th, 2008

"Previously secret Soviet documentation shows that Mikhail Gorbachev was prepared for rapid arms control progress leading towards nuclear abolition at the time of his last official meeting with President Reagan, at Governor's Island, New York in December 1988; but President-elect George H. W. Bush, who also attended the meeting, said 'he would need a little time to review the issues' and lost at least a year of dramatic arms reductions that were possible had there been a more forthcoming U.S. position."

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB261/index.htm

And, if memory serves me correct, George Walker Bush unilaterally withdrew from the ABM Treaty, among other things...