Word: kosygin
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Fedorenko told me what happened next. Mikhail Suslov and Alexei Kosygin were the prime movers against Khrushchev. Suslov seemed satisfied to be the party patriarch and main ideologist. Kosygin was happy to be Chairman of the Council of Ministers and play the major role in both domestic economic and foreign policies. But it was hard for them to agree on who should be First Secretary of the Central Committee...
...Kosygin retained his role as Kremlin spokesman on foreign affairs, although his position was much weakened by Brezhnev's expanded authority in the field. Kosygin had risen and survived by pursuing a technocrat's career. Dry even by Soviet standards, free of personal foibles or idiosyncrasies, he was so ascetic that in New York, his daughter Ludmilla, armed with a long shopping list of her own, could not think of anything to buy that her father would want or need...
Lyndon Johnson used his eyeball-to-eyeball technique on Alexei Kosygin at Glassboro in 1967. He locked eyes with Kosygin and vowed he would not look away. Minutes passed with neither man bunking. Johnson got a terrible urge for coffee. He walked his fingers across the table until they collided with his cup. He picked it up. Eyes locked. He drank. Eyes locked. He put the cup down. Kosygin looked away. Aha, thought Johnson. He had won. But later that night he confessed to friends, "I don't understand it. I could make any decision I wanted...
...indicated that the agenda could be "general," but he repeated his insistence that it could not be open-ended and that the meeting must "hold out the promise then that something might be accomplished." Reagan believes that "get-acquainted" meetings between Khrushchev and Kennedy in 1961 and Johnson and Kosygin in 1967 produced no results, and indeed heightened tensions.* The Soviets could, of course, call Reagan's bluff and offer to sit down before November. "We'd say, 'Let's have a summit,' " says a White House aide. But the Reaganauts are confident that...
Although the new program will introduce some changes in the Soviet Union's rigidly centralized economy, it falls well short of the reforms that have made Hungary a model of efficiency by Communist standards. Nor does the policy break new ground when compared with Premier Alexei Kosygin's largely unsuccessful effort to decentralize Soviet industry in the 1960s. It might take years before the changes could be applied outside the factories that were singled out last week. Said a Western diplomat: "Andropov is gently approaching the tricky question of how to decentralize a state-run economy...