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...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...
...officials went to Jackson and the press with a complaint. Their charge: Kissinger had not told Congress about some supplemental clarifications he made with the Soviets after the SALT I treaty was signed. The main worry was that the supplemental agreements that Kissinger had reached with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin could be interpreted to allow the Soviets to build up their force of submarine missiles not to 950, as announced after SALT...
...Deter. On Oct. 24 at 9:25 p.m., while still trying to keep the Israelis in line, Kissinger received a phone call from Dobrynin, relaying the now-famous Brezhnev message. It warned that if the big powers could not act jointly, "we should be faced with the necessity urgently to consider the question of taking appropriate steps unilaterally." The Kalbs relate that Kissinger called the President and told him that the "U.S. might have to alert its military forces as one way to deter any unilateral Soviet move. The President concurred...