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Strangely, considering the pressure of the clock, the conversation bogs down in minutiae: the choice of a chamber in which to hold a congressional briefing on the grain embargo issue, and the distribution of seats in Nancy Reagan's box when the President addresses Congress Wednesday night. The staff has already chosen the wives of several important congressional leaders. Reagan adds: "You know somebody else who ought to be in there? Paul Laxalt's wife...
...same tune, he was setting up his own business, Agricultural Energy Resources, intending to sell gasohol manufacturing equipment to grain farmers...
...Richard Nixon, even though he had just ordered bombing raids on Haiphong harbor in which Soviet ships were damaged. Soviet intentions then were no more benign and altruistic than they are now. But the Kremlin was willing to play by a few limited rules in order to get American grain, technology and financial credits...
...also because some promised American carrots were not delivered. (For example, Congress overrode the Nixon Administration's recommendation on most-favored-nation trading status for the U.S.S.R.) When American inducements were made less tempting to the Kremlin, many of the same benefits became available elsewhere-technology from Japan, grain from Argentina, electronic products and computer equipment from France. Today Soviet officials say privately that the Politburo's decision to step up its African activities in 1975 was made easier by the fiasco over the Jackson Amendment, and that the decision to invade Afghanistan in December 1979 was made...
...have a situation where they have said, 'We're going to lift the grain embargo against the Soviets, the Panama Canal treaty was awful, the SALT treaty should be rejected, no aid for New York City, no aid for Chrysler, that kind of thing. You follow through on that attitude, you've got chaos," he adds...