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...very first communication addressed to the Soviets by the Reagan Administration, a letter from me to Andrei Gromyko on the day after the Inauguration, expressed American concern over the possibility of Soviet intervention in Poland. "We will stay out," I told Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin in the early spring of 1981, "and we want you to do the same." Dobrynin's somber reply: the Soviet Union would do what...
...March 23, in the Oval Office, I counseled the President to go slow. "Hold off, there's no rush," I said. "Let me meet with Dobrynin and feel the vibes. If we can't get a concession, then we can go ahead." It is an enduring truth that you can never negotiate successfully by making concessions that your negotiating partner knows about in advance...
Speaking to Dobrynin on this issue was the most distasteful thing I had to do since coming to Washington. After I notified him that the embargo would be lifted as a gesture of good will because the Soviets had restrained themselves so far in Poland, Dobrynin asked, "Are there any restrictions...
This was a flash point. Dobrynin said he could recall no such policy. It would be very unfortunate, he added, if the Soviet leadership formed the impression that the Reagan Administration was hostile to the U.S.S.R., because first impressions often persisted...
...Dobrynin complained, "All I ever hear from you is Cuba, Cuba, Cuba...