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...returned to his preoccupation. China's growing might was a menace to everybody. Any military assistance by the U.S. would lead to war. I warned that history proved America would not be indifferent to an attack on China. (The next day the Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., Anatoli Dobrynin, stressed that the China portion of the discussion was not to be treated as social. Brezhnev had meant every word...
...Soviet Ministry of Defense, according to Anatoli Dobrynin, Moscow's Ambassador to the U.S., did not have much use for the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT). It consistently put its most unimaginative and unenterprising general on the SALT delegation, he said, with instructions to block any initiative put forward by the Foreign Ministry, which was technically in charge of the negotiations. The Defense Ministry's attitude was allegedly summed up in a remark on SALT by Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Grechko to Dobrynin: "If you want my personal opinion, I'll give...
Shortly after 8 a.m. on Wednesday, Dobrynin called me with a message that the Soviet Union would now acquiesce in a ceasefire in place, provided someone else introduced it in the Security Council. The timing was the worst possible for our strategy because the status quo ante had not been achieved; a victory of Soviet arms would be assured on all fronts. I stalled, telling Dobrynin we needed time to consider the proposal. Agnew's resignation as Vice President was due to be announced at 2 p.m.; this would prevent the President from turning to the Soviet proposal for hours...
...Friday, Oct. 12, the Soviet embassy requested an immediate appointment for Dobrynin, who was said to have an "urgent" message. Since Nixon was going to announce his choice for Vice President at 9 p.m., I said I could see Dobrynin for 15 minutes at the State Department...
Things were clearly getting tense. When Dobrynin arrived, he had two messages. The first assailed the "barbaric bombing [by Israel] of peaceful population centers in Egypt and Syria." It warned that Israeli population centers would not remain immune indefinitely. That message