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...Moscow summer finally arrived with Nixon Thursday afternoon, and warm, 82° sunshine sparkled off the presidential plane as it rolled up the runway at Vmukovo Airport. A huge banner said WELCOME PRESIDENT NIXON in English. Together with Premier Aleksei Kosygin, President Nikolai Podgorny and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, Brezhnev himself was there to voice it, a considerable honor since he had never before appeared at the airport for a Western visitor, not even Charles de Gaulle or Willy Brandt. "It was a helluva plus," said one Nixon aide of Brezhnev's airport greeting...
Shaking hands warmly with the President, the ebullient Brezhnev led him by the arm to a position in front of the honor guard and coached him to say "Spasibo, soldat [Thank you, soldiers]." For Mrs. Nixon, Mrs. Brezhnev had a bouquet of roses. Nixon spent five minutes shaking hands with a smiling crowd of about 500, most of them bused in from nearby offices, and then rode with Brezhnev in a black Zil limousine the 15 miles to the Kremlin. The route, mainly along Lenin Avenue, was decked with American flags, as it had been in 1972, but crowds were...
Very Tough. The first working meeting came that evening, when the President was ushered into Brezhnev's Kremlin office for an hour-and-ten-minute session under a picture of Lenin, with Brezhnev's interpreter as the only extra person. Later the two men went to St. Vladimir Hall for a reception attended by top Soviet and American officials. The Russians were lined up on one side of the room, the Americans on the other, and Brezhnev took Nixon first down the Russian side and then down the American. Kissinger stood at the end, and when...
...summit, Nixon maintained the outward show of friendliness that Brezhnev established with his airport greeting. The President's first stop Friday was the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow, where he placed a wreath of red, white and blue flowers. On the way back to the Kremlin talks, Nixon persuaded his Soviet security guards to allow him to get out of his car to greet the several hundred Muscovites standing behind the steel barricades near Red Square. The guards reluctantly let him out in front of the State Historical Museum, and he strode over to the barricades, touching...
...unscheduled stopover made the President 15 minutes late for his first substantive meeting with Brezhnev in the Kremlin's St. Catherine Hall, which once served as the Empress's throne room. But Brezhnev, who had been chatting with reporters, appeared as good-natured as he had the day before. After two hours, the two delegations broke for lunch, then moved to St. Vladimir Hall, an ornate room of pink, white and gold, where they signed agreements to share research into energy, housing and heart disease...