Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last week he made it official: on June 3, just after his visit to France's President Charles de Gaulle, President Kennedy will fly to Vienna for two days of informal, agenda-free talks with Nikita Khrushchev. Said the White House announcement, carefully worded to avoid raising any false hopes-or fears-of specific settlements: "The President and Chairman Khrushchev under stand that this meeting is not for the purpose of negotiating or reaching an agreement on the major international problems that involve the interest of many other countries. The meeting will, however, afford a timely and convenient opportunity...
...collapse of the Western position in Laos. Then Jack Kennedy had more than enough to cope with. On May 4 Ambassador Thompson reported from Moscow that the Russians wondered if Kennedy was still interested in seeing Khrushchev. With the report came hints that Khrushchev might even be willing to avoid talking about such embarrassing-to the U.S.-things as Cuba. Kennedy remained willing: he checked with Republican Richard Nixon, won Nixon's endorsement and the promise that Nixon would publicly approve a Kennedy-Khrushchev meeting even before it was officially announced
...public platform, Nixon fashioned his own criticism of the New Frontier-which, he announced, he would henceforth call the "Old Frontier," with its programs for "Government controls, pump priming, high taxes, bigger deficits and economic stagnation." He called for expression of a G.O.P. philosophy that would "avoid the ruts of reaction on the right and the ruts of radicalism on the other side." His main point was that it is time for the Kennedy Administration to substitute action for talk in the cold...
...clear now, and must be kept clear when the May and June meetings with De Gaulle and Khrushchev are taking place: a summit meeting is not to make decisions or even to reassure American, French, or Russian opinion. It is to take soundings, to make positions clear, and to avoid the sort of misunderstandings that result in fatal policies. The three nations must expect nothing further from these talks than the knowledge that their leaders have had an opportunity to appraise each other...
...Kennedy feels, things are much more tense now than at the time of Camp David, then it is all the more important that this zero level of public expectation continue. If Kennedy can avoid the kind of inflated optimism and subsequent letdowns that followed Geneva, Camp David, and Paris, then the summits can once again become useful in their own limited...