Clements Center: Reagan at Reykjavik: Forty-Eight Hours that Ended the Cold War

Event Status
Scheduled

The Clements Center is honored to host Ken Adelman, former Director of Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, for a talk on his new book Reagan at Reykjavik: Forty-Eight Hours that Ended the Cold War on Thursday, January 19, at 12:30pm in Salons A and B of the AT&T Center. This event is free and open to the public.

Ken Adelman is a Renaissance man, having been a U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Arms Control Director for Ronald Reagan, translator for Muhammad Ali during “The Rumble in the Jungle” in Africa, professor of Shakespeare at Georgetown University, and author of six books, most recently the critically-acclaimed Reagan at Reykjavik: Forty-Eight Hours that Ended the Cold War.  That story, of the historic superpower summit in Iceland in 1986, is being turned into an HBO feature film starring Michael Douglas as President Reagan. 

Adelman began working for the government in 1969 at the U.S. Department of Commerce, and then served in the Office of Economic Opportunity with a very young Donald Rumsfeld and even younger, 28-year-old Dick Cheney. From 1975 to 1977, he was an assistant to U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Adelman became a U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and then Arms Control Director for President Reagan, accompanying him on three superpower summits with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. He served on the Defense Policy Board during the George W. Bush Administration and the Board of the National Center for Counter-Terrorism during the Barak Obama Administration.

He is currently working on a film about Reykjavik with HBO and runs “Movers & Shakespeares", an executive leadership training and communication skill program. 

Date and Time
Jan. 19, 2017, All Day