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...because they have to look realistically at the alternative. It was summed up in a cartoon that I love to cite, when Brezhnev was portrayed as saying to a Soviet general, "I liked the arms race better when we were the only ones in it." They have to know that we are not going back to our window of vulnerability that existed before we did our military refurbishing. They have to know that whatever they do is going to dictate our course in that regard. And they also have to know that industrially they cannot compete...
...have channels open. This, again, is part of the misperception out there-that, somehow, we are incommunicado, we are not speaking to each other. We have been in communication with them, and intend to continue. [Reagan at this point recalled his first letter to Brezhnev, written in April 1981, while convalescing from the assassination attempt.] I wrote that letter to Brezhnev in longhand, and it was sent to him in longhand. I said to him that I have long believed that his people and our people wanted the same things: that those people out there on the street, in their...
...have tried to get this kind of correspondence, but it has been difficult. I understand the situation with the new regime coming in after the death of Brezhnev...
...feel a little hard put because of the lack of information and knowledge that we have about where he stands. It isn't like dealing with Brezhnev after years in the Kremlin. You knew where he was and felt you knew how to reach him. But we do have contacts, we can get our views there and solicit theirs. We have discussed specific issues between our two countries and have had some results from them...
During the Moscow summit in 1972, Nixon and Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev signed the SALT I pact and in a joint communiqué pledged to refrain from "efforts to obtain unilateral advantage at the expense of the other, directly or indirectly." The high point of détente, in a literal sense, came in 1975, when Soviet and American spacemen linked up and shook hands 140 miles above the globe during a joint space mission. Meanwhile, troubles back on earth threatened to end the era of good feeling...