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Just when anticipation is keenest (Has the President fallen gravely ill? Has Brezhnev delivered a nuclear ultimatum? Has Agnew staged a coup d'etat?), Nixon emerges with a fistful of notes and a gleam in his eye. To an astonished public, he announces a bold, new, precedent-shattering program that will give the nation the "lift of a driving dream" he has talked about, even though much of it amounts to an ideological reversal of his past positions. Drawing on the best advice of a wide range of Americans-including, for openers, Jesse Jackson and Ralph Nader, Cesar Chavez...
After the glitter, the ceremonies, the maneuvering and the hard work of a summit, there is usually some letdown, a return to a kind of normality. Both Nixon and Brezhnev have domestic matters to deal with. The President will find skeptics on the left pointing out that the Viet Nam War is still not over; skeptics on the right are already questioning the new amity with the Communists, including the SALT agreement and what it does to American security. But on balance, the summit can only be a vast political asset for Nixon...
...Brezhnev's problems may be more complicated. He will be strengthened against the Kremlin hard-liners who oppose his policy of detente. Not wasting any time, he demoted Pyotr Shelest before the summit began. As the party chief of the Ukraine, Shelest had once crushed an apple in his hand to demonstrate how he thought Czechoslovakia should be treated. He is said to have consistently opposed any steps toward coming to terms with the U.S. and he reportedly urged military action to break the blockade of North Viet Nam. He opposed Brezhnev on domestic matters as well...
...domestic policy Brezhnev himself is a hardliner. He will probably still deal harshly with dissenters: on the eve of the summit, five Jewish leaders were arrested, and Writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn was once again denounced as an "opponent of Soviet reality." Many Americans have long hoped that an opening to the West and a better life for the Soviet consumer would bring about a more liberal political climate in Russia. But detente with the West does not necessarily mean detente within Russia. In fact, in cooperating with the West, the Soviets will have to face the problem of how to keep...
Nixon walked the Kremlin grounds in the first mists of morning, laid a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, talked hunting with Brezhnev and fishing with Kosygin. He rode a hydrofoil on the Moscow River, saw the Bolshoi dance Swan Lake and told those around him that when he gets back to Washington, "I will close my eyes and see it all again...