[Moonman62]

The visit was not without its own share of diplomatic incidents. The First Couple took an unscheduled walk through the Arbat, a Moscow shopping pedestrian street, when security police rushed in and roughed up a throng of onlookers, including children. “It’s still a police state,” Reagan was heard to say. When the president’s advance team asked the Russian Orthodox Church to pave the way to the Danilov Monastery so that the president could arrive in the limousine, a clergyman retorted that “One does not ride to see God. One walks either upon his feet or upon his knees.” Because he wore no ID badge, White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater was pursued by security personnel on his way to a Kremlin dinner. The president dozed off during the performance at the Bolshoi and Secretary Gorbachev had to wake him with a tap on the shoulder as the curtains were coming down.

Yet Reagan still exposed the Soviet Union for what it was and brought it to its knees. Funny how everyone misses that, but remembers every other detail.

[JimBianchi11]

Excellent point.

[smoothsailing]

Another version puts it this way:

“An apparently younger looking Putin is dressed as a tourist in this photo below, taken in 1988 at Red Square. At the time the Reagan administrations relationship with Russia was warming as the US courted the leadership of what nobody would have thought at the time would soon become the former USSR.”

http://newsbizarre.com/2009/03/picture-vladimir-putin-meets-ronald.html

Nobody but Reagan, that is.

[enduserindy]

“but remembers every other detail.”

Like Poland and Pope John Paul?