ANNOUNCER: Bringing you the world for 20 years, this is CNN.</s>CHARLES BIERBAUER, CNN SR. WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: President Reagan and Mr. Gorbachev got together for the first time in Geneva. There was a warmth that sparked at that particular summit and was carried on even through difficult times. It began to thaw some of the ice that had surrounded this Cold War relationship between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.</s>RONALD REAGAN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: These two days of talks should inject a certain momentum into our work on the issues between us, a momentum we can continue at the meeting that we have agreed on for next year.</s>BIERBAUER: Secretary Schultz and Foreign Minister Shevardnadze signed the only formal agreement on cultural and educational exchanges. U.S. officials describe it as a step towards the people- to-people proposal of the president. In all, Reagan and Gorbachev spent some six hours in private dialogue here. And while agreements are measurably small and disagreements large, U.S. officials attribute whatever momentum may have been gained in Geneva to the personal warmth generated by the fireside.</s>REAGAN: There's hard work ahead. We're ready for it. General- Secretary Gorbachev, we ask you to join us in getting the job done, as I'm sure you will.</s>BIERBAUER: It wasn't a failure if you look at it in the longer spectrum, because they went on to further agreements and they did sign arms reductions here in Washington, and subsequently in Moscow.
CNN 20: Geneva Summit, November 1985