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...even a chorus of Swanee River, in both English and Russian. The couples, together with Kissinger, Kosygin and Podgorny, watched the performance from a flag-draped box at the rear of the theater, and during the intermission gathered for a light buffet. Toasting the women at the table, Brezhnev gallantly reached into a bouquet of roses and handed one to Pat Nixon. Talking to the performers backstage after the curtain, Nixon said that he had seen "a combination of variety, vitality and beauty-and that represents the whole [Soviet] nation." He invited all the performers to visit...
Saturday morning Nixon had been scheduled to visit Star City, the Soviet space center outside Moscow. Instead, he and Brezhnev decided to continue their talks in St. Catherine Hall before flying that afternoon for a weekend of rest and talks at Brezhnev's Yalta villa on the Black Sea. After that the two men were to spend several hours in Minsk, which was 80% destroyed by the Germans in World War II, and then return to Moscow for concluding talks and a grand send-off that would get Nixon home just in time for Independence...
While no fireworks were expected during the summit itself, the third Nixon-Brezhnev meeting seemed to be a landmark of another kind. It was the first of the quiet summits, the start of dull, workaday meetings that offered the possibility that the nuclear-arms competition some day might be ended...
...perspiring in the frenzied moment, Photographer Dirck Halstead squinted through his telephoto lens last Thursday at the animated face of Richard Nixon and squeezed off what may have been his 25,000th shot of the famous visage in six years. As he zoomed in and out to include Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet boss, it suddenly crossed Halstead's busy mind that he had rarely-certainly not for years-seen Nixon so happy...
...President and Brezhnev raised and clinked small glasses of tomato juice, toasting each other. They traded quips, squeezed one another's elbows and floated down the lines of dignitaries on their special cloud of power and personal rapture. It was a curious sight, this American President, whose relationship with his own people is so fragile and distant, so joyously in the embrace of a Communist dictator, so transported in the grandeur of the Kremlin, where the Czars once walked...