Adrian Taylor (producer) He also produced pieces for CNBC, ESPN and Fox News during his career. Clem Taylor spent nearly twenty years with CBS News. He worked as a CBS producer based in Washington D.C., Dallas, and New York City. He was assigned as a producer based in the White House during the Reagan administration during the 1980s. Taylor covered the Reykjavík Summit between Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in Iceland in 1986. In the late 1990s, he was named a senior producer of "The Early Show" during the late 1990s. Taylor spent his last four years at CBS News as a producer
Foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration that they would no longer intervene in the affairs of allied states in Eastern Europe. In 1989, Soviet forces withdrew from Afghanistan. Reagan's Secretary of State George P. Shultz, a former economics professor at Stanford University, privately instructed Gorbachev on free market economics. At Gorbachev's request, Reagan gave a speech on free markets at Moscow University. When Reagan visited Moscow, he was viewed as a celebrity by the Soviets. A journalist asked the president if he still considered the Soviet Union the evil empire. "No," he replied, "I was talking about another time, another era." In his autobiography "An American