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...first visit to the U.S. of a Soviet party boss since Nikita Khrushchev's boisterous tour in 1959, Leonid Ilich Brezhnev spent eight days in America, apparently taking ebullient joy in almost every moment of his stay as Richard Nixon's guest. His mission was, of course, deadly serious: he wants U.S. money, technological know-how and hardware to develop the Soviet economy. In return, he implied future flexibility on arms control and proffered access to the Soviet Union's cornucopia of raw materials and a considerable amount of purposeful good will and bonhomie...
...Washington summit, regardless of the decisions reached, could not possibly match the drama of Richard Nixon's historic visit to the Middle Kingdom of Chairman Mao. Nor was it likely to repeat the cold-warring tension of John Kennedy's 1961 test of wills with Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna. Nonetheless, this summit had a drama of its own. Here was Leonid Brezhnev, a superconfident Soviet leader at the zenith of his power, who had staked much of that power and of his own reputation on the idea of revitalizing the Soviet economy by dealing with the West...
Brezhnev's eight-day visit-the first by a Soviet leader since Nikita Khrushchev was the guest of Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1959*-officially began on Monday with ceremonies on the White House lawn. The scheduled program...
...Washington can recall a time when John Foster Dulles could be casually talked into releasing the Yalta papers for the public good; or when John Kennedy, just back from the Vienna summit, would regale friends with stories of what it was like to sit across from the table-pounding Nikita Khrushchev; or when Lyndon Johnson, with his notebook of secret papers on the Six-Day War, would read from it of an evening to visiting Governors or favored millionaires. None of it seemed to do any harm, and some of the knowledge may have helped...
...after a long illness; in Moscow. A stern leader and wily strategist, Konev engineered Russia's first serious counterattack against the invading Nazis in 1941, three years later became the first Soviet army commander to penetrate German territory. Equally adept at political infighting, he allied himself with Nikita Khrushchev after the war and in 1953 presided over the tribunal that sentenced Stalin's Secret Police Chief Lavrenti Beria to death. Khrushchev appointed Konev commander of the Warsaw Pact armies, then, in 1961, shifted him to Berlin to take charge of Soviet forces during the building of the Berlin...