Word: nixon
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...place the Soviet side of the triangle by promising to accept the principle of equality between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. This was the most powerful boost to Soviet egos, suffering for years under an inferiority complex. Moscow would have been happy if the summit meeting with Nixon had produced nothing more than a declaration of principles including equality...
...following pages, TIME presents the first of two excerpts from Breaking with Moscow, carrying Shevchenko from his early days as a diplomat through his participation on the edges of the summit meeting between Brezhnev and Richard Nixon...
When Khrushchev left New York in mid-October 1960, the U.S. was nearing its presidential election. Publicly, Khrushchev claimed to be indifferent to the outcome. He had called Richard Nixon and John Kennedy "a pair of boots," explaining: "You can't say which is better, the left or the right." In private he had a different attitude. At a luncheon before his departure, he became angry at the mention of Nixon's name: "He's a typical product of McCarthyism, a puppet of the most reactionary circles in the U.S. We'll never be able to find a common language...
...budget will be not the President but the Secretary of Defense. It was Weinberger who persuaded Reagan to reject pleas that the Administration pare its military-spending requests sharply before presenting them to Congress. Consequently, the man once known as Cap the Knife (when he was President Nixon's Budget Director) has become the target of congressional budget cutters. After a meeting last week at which Republican Senators could not get the Secretary to yield a dollar, Mark Hatfield of Oregon termed Weinberger "a draft dodger" in the war against deficits...
...Pentagon and Churchill's lonely crusade in the 1930s, when he strove to rearm an unwilling Britain against the onslaught of Nazism. Weinberger was never viewed as a hawk in earlier phases of his public career, notably as Budget Director and Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Nixon and Ford Administrations. Yet when Weinberger returned to Washington in 1981, almost overnight he began sounding Cassandra-like warnings about the Soviet Union's impending military threat. What shocked him most, according to associates, was a series of intelligence briefings that documented the extent of Soviet technological progress during...