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...night before his departure, Brezhnev spoke on television, as Nixon had done in Moscow. "The Soviet Union and the U.S. are self-sufficient, but to remove cooperation is to turn down substantial benefits," he told Americans. "Mankind has outgrown the cold-war armor which it was once forced to wear. It wants to breathe freely and peacefully." The U.S. and Russia are only at the "beginning of a long road" that will require "constant care, tireless efforts and patience...
...address to American business leaders in Washington, Leonid Brezhnev presented a remarkably candid and winning rationale for the new Soviet attitude toward the U.S. Excerpts...
...able to perform? In the next weeks he could be destroyed by Watergate or so diminished that he could never again face the world from his pinnacle, having lost confidence and influence at home and prestige abroad. In another of those oddities of this time, the old Communist Leonid Brezhnev was in town doing what he could to shore up the President's prestige...
...awfully good at summitry. He was across the table from another tough leader who has knocked his way to the top and knows the destructibility of politicians and their dreams. The press and the public were far enough away not to bother, and Nixon could spar with Brezhnev even while signaling that as a member of the summit fraternity he understood Brezhnev's problems back home...
They signed all the papers and talked about all the subjects they were supposed to talk about and then they soared across the United States on smiles. But all of this could not dispel the doubts of Watergate, and in subtle ways even emphasized those doubts. Brezhnev had been briefed on Watergate. His heightened exuberance, his emphasis on personal rapport, were signals that he was trying to give his beleaguered host a bit of a boost in a tough time and, of course, protect the Brezhnev investment in Richard Nixon...