Word: gromyko
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...Greeting Gromyko...
Reagan concluded that Gromyko could not talk...
...maybe, Reagan thought, they do have problems that nobody here can imagine. Maybe, Reagan told Gromyko, there were reasons for the Soviets to distrust and fear the U.S., though this country had never proclaimed its desire to export its system around the globe. The fact was, said Reagan, the superpowers now just had to set aside all their accumulated suspicions and prevent nuclear...
Still nothing from Gromyko. No thaw. No acknowledgment of shared humanity. Gromyko plainly could say nothing, and he did it very well...
...dacha outside Moscow in 1972. Brezhnev talked about his boyhood, his father and peace. Brezhnev had mastered Kremlin politics as Nixon had mastered U.S. politics. Secure in their power, they could go beyond the set agenda. After taking on a little vodka, they made a deal: SALT I. For Gromyko and Reagan, there may not have been enough vodka, because there was no deal...