Word: dobrynin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kissinger adjusted to the shift. Says a participant: "All along, Henry had believed that it was not possible to handle this sort of thing with legislative language." Ford and Jackson showed him how, and he accepted the lesson. It was Kissinger who kept in touch with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin and carried on the delicate negotiations for Soviet acquiescence...
...informally controlling grain exports, the Administration hopes to forestall such embarrassments as the "holding in abeyance" on Oct. 5 of $500 million worth of corn and wheat contracted for by the Soviet Union. Having too hastily assumed, on the basis of talks between Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin and Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz in late September, that the Russians were interested only in "modest" purchases of a million tons or so, the White House was startled to learn early this month that between 5 million and 10 million tons of grain might soon be heading to the U.S.S.R. Ford promptly called...
...NATO allies, Greece and Turkey, but he was also anxious to follow up on his assurances that he would pursue the Nixon Administration's foreign policy. Toward that end, Ford had lunch with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy, then met with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, who cut short a vacation to return to Washington after Nixon resigned. Among other things, Ford and Dobrynin discussed the trade reform bill, which has been stalled in the Senate. The bill would confer "most-favored-nation" (in effect, normal) trading status on the Russians and was eagerly sought by the Nixon Administration...
...Dobrynin meeting led in turn to one of Jerry Ford's most remarkable accomplishments of the week. A day later, he sat down to breakfast with three of the trade bill's staunchest critics, Senators Henry Jackson of Washington, Jacob Javits of New York and Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut. Richard Nixon had never met directly with Jackson or the other Senators to discuss the bill, and Ford's face-to-face meeting seemed to have paid off. White House sources said later that some sort of compromise appears to be in the works...
Throughout his first week in the Oval Office, Ford handled U.S. foreign relations with more assurance and subtlety than many observers at home and abroad had expected. He held White House talks with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, Egypt's Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy and South Viet Nam's Ambassador Tran Kim Phuong; all left-considerably reassured about the depth of the new Administration's commitment to promises made earlier by Richard Nixon...