The Washington Post, December 13th, 1987
Not many people-say about 322, plus President Ronald Reagan and a few stray visitors to the National Air & Space Museum-know that King Olaf of Norway came to town just before Mikhail Gorbachev. No motorcycles screeched ahead of him, Massachusetts Avenue wasn't closed in front of the Norwegian Embassy, the world's journalists didn't engage in gang warfare to get his picture or capture every word, and his discussions with the president were not revealed to the evening news. King Olaf, like all heads of state on private visits to Washington, received what Timothy Towell, U.S. deputy chief of prot...
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