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...majority of Southerners still seem to fear impeachment more than they resent Nixon. Joe Feinberg, who supplied the decorative ceramic tiles for the Key Biscayne homes of both the President and Bebe Rebozo, thinks Nixon is "guilty as sin." But he worries about "who is going to talk to Brezhnev and Mao. How is Carl Albert going to be able to carry on a dialogue with the big powers? They'll kill...
Despite White House assessments that Nixon's knowledge of Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev had averted an even more scarifying crisis, there were other signs of strain in Washington's relationship with Moscow. Although the U.S. and the Soviet Union had jointly hammered out the basis for the United Nations' resolution establishing a ceasefire, the two powers clashed repeatedly at the Security Council over the makeup of the U.N. Emergency Force...
...question that can properly be asked is whether a worldwide alert, with all the inevitable anxieties that attended it, was necessary. In view of the Brezhnev letter, obviously some response seemed called for. While Lyndon Johnson got away with calling the Soviet bluff, Nixon might not have. And Nixon's policy did work, in the sense that the Russians did not send troops to the Middle East. That pragmatic measure does not, however, rule out the possibility that perhaps some less dramatic action might have ended the crisis, particularly if Brezhnev and Nixon understand each other as well...
...diplomatic front, the week began with a 40-hour visit to Moscow by Kissinger, who was dispatched by President Nixon at the Russians' request. Kissinger and Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev in six hours of talks hammered out the terms of a joint resolution aimed at stopping the war. At 10 Sunday evening, delegates and staff members of the U.N. Security Council-some still dressed in tuxedos or sports clothes-hastily assembled to hear the terms of the draft resolution and vote on it. The U.S.-Russian measure called for an immediate cease-fire in place on both...
...Moscow, addressing a Soviet-sponsored World Congress of Peace Forces, Brezhnev announced that Russia was also sending its own force of a hundred or so civilian "representatives" to keep watch on the ceasefire, and he invited the U.S. to follow suit. Later the same day President Nixon at his press conference indicated that the U.S. would do so, but only under U.N. auspices...