President Bush met with and called hundreds of foreign leaders during his four year presidency. A number of Memoranda of Conversations ( memoranda of face-to-face conversation or Memcons) and Telephone Conversations (memoranda of telephone conversation or Telcons) have been declassified. Additional Memcons and Telcons will be added as they are declassified.

While we work to improve the table below, users can search within the collection finding aid for dates, participants, countries, and NAIDs.

Users may also view the entire series within the National Archives Catalog.


Release Status Column:
Full = total release
Partial = partial release
Denied = document withheld in full
Blank = no telcon or memcon associated with the meeting/phone call

Date Type Participants Country Status NAID
8/9/1989 Telcon Shamir, Yitzhak Israel Full 428080205
8/21/1989 Telcon Barco, Virgilio Colombia Full 428080207
8/22/1989 Telcon Manley, Michael Jamaica Full 428080209
8/22/1989 Telcon Perez, Carlos Andres Venezuela Full 428080211
8/24/1989 No Memcon Schluter, Poul Denmark 428080197
8/26/1989 Telcon Mitterrand, Francois France Full 428080213
8/28/1989 Telcon Barco, Virgilio Colombia Full 428080215
8/30/1989 No Memcon Mulroney, Brian Canada 428080199
9/1/1989 Memcon Kaifu, Toshiki Japan Partial 428080175
9/1/1989 Memcon Kaifu, Toshiki Japan Parital 428080177
9/5/1989 Telcon Kohl, Helmut Germany Full 428080217
9/5/1989 Telcon Thatcher, Margaret United Kingdom Full 428080219
9/9/1989 Telcon Lubbers, Ruud The Netherlands Full 428080221
9/11/1989 Memcon Major, John United Kingdom Partial 428080179
9/15/1989 Memcon Sanguinetti, Julio Maria Uruguay Full 428080181
9/16/1989 Memcon John Paul II, Pope Vatican Full 428080183
9/16/1989 Telcon Mitterrand, Francois France Full 428080223
9/20/1989 Memcon Sandiford, Lloyd Erksine Barbados Full 428080185
9/21/1989 Memcon Shevardnadze, Eduard Soviet Union Full 428080189
9/25/1989 Memcon Allied Representatives: Woerner, Manfred; Wilenski, Peter; Eyskens, Mark; Clark, Joseph; Ellemann-Jensen, Uffe; Dumas, Roland; Genscher, Han-Dietrich; Papoulias, George; de Michelis, Gianni; Nakayama, Taro; Poos, Jacques; van den Broek, Hans; Stoltenberg, Thorvald, de Deus Pinheiro, Joao; Fernandez-Ordonez, Francisco; Yilmez, Mesut; Major, John; Ho Joong, Choi NATO, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, South Korea Full 428080191

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