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...Secret Service will drive Andrei Gromyko through the gates of the White House to make sure he arrives safe and sound for his meeting with Ronald Reagan. Both the President's military aide and the chief of protocol will be out under the West Wing Portico to add dignity when Old Grom, as he is semiaffectionately called by some diplomats, sets his feet on White House ground again after a six-year absence...
...will be steered through the Roosevelt Room, where he will pass a portrait of F.D.R., the first President he called on. Gromyko could find his way in the dark, since he has logged dozens of visits to the Oval Office. When he sits down in front of the fireplace, in one of the Martha Washington chairs, to the President's left, Gromyko will find he is quite an attraction. At least six of the President's top men will be clustered around to weigh every word and interpret every gesture for some glint of the future relations between...
...Dining Room. There will be some chilled Stolichnaya vodka from Mother Russia to wash down Chesapeake blue crabs out of Chef Henry Haller's imaginative kitchen. Old Grom can demolish succulent rolled veal, served on Lyndon Johnson's china and set off with a California wine. Finally, Gromyko will be escorted to the diplomatic doorway in the back of the White House for his exit, far from probing cameras and obstreperous reporters. It is a vantage point with a magnificent panorama of the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Memorial. On a clear autumn day the air seems...
...Gromyko is the first top Soviet official Reagan has been able to get his hands on when he needed to. Old Grom cannot help mustering an inward smile about the royal treatment that follows a period of international sulking...
Reagan will not confront Gromyko. The President is tough in policy, in speeches, on paper. Eyeball to eyeball he softens, not hardens. He listens, smiles, talks softly, encouragingly. What will Gromyko hear? How will he size up the leader of the free world? We still wonder whether Nikita Khrushchev's assessment of John Kennedy launched the Cuban missile crisis and whether Leonid Brezhnev's contempt for Jimmy Carter encouraged the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...