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Macmillan suggested that Llewellyn ("Tommy") Thompson. U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, sound out Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to see what is on Khrushchev's mind. If Khrushchev sincerely wants to negotiate-and not just to generate propaganda-Macmillan said that the next step might be a meeting of the foreign ministers in late February or March to prepare the way for an eventual climb to the summit. President Kennedy readily agreed to the plan. A fervent believer in summitry, Macmillan would dearly like to attend a conference...
...Mirror, Llewellyn 10. Mothers and Daughters...
Nervously, he paced the halls, conferring with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Ambassador to Moscow Llewellyn Thompson. Then Khrushchev came. While photographers wrestled desperately for shots, Kennedy stood back from his guest, bluntly and openly surveying him from head to toe. But Kennedy also offered a dab of graceful deference. When cameramen shouted for another handshake, Kennedy turned to his interpreter: "Say to the Chairman that it is all right to shake hands if it is all right with him." Khrushchev beamed wider than ever, stuck out a fleshy hand for the pose. The formalities...
Before the Boiling. On Feb. 11, 1961-a time when the Congo was aflame but neither the Laos nor the Cuba crisis had yet boiled over-U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Llewellyn ("Tommy") Thompson was in Washington for top-level consultations on U.S.-Russian relationships. He met lengthily in the White House with President Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon Johnson, State Secretary Dean Rusk, and three of his predecessors in Moscow: Averell Harriman, George Kennan and Charles Bohlen. The question of a Kennedy-Khrushchev meeting came up-and the consensus was that it might be worthwhile. Thompson returned to Russia with...
...than the risk of military forces. To reporters the President seemed casual about the Soviet delay in replying to Britain's request for a ceasefire. "I'm hopeful that we're going to get an answer," he said. At week's end Ambassador to Moscow Llewellyn Thompson sought out Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to express U.S. "concern" over the silence. But the Russians could not lose: a neutralized Laos clearly meant major Communist participation in that nation's government...