Word: nixon
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...until this week has Richard Nixon spoken out publicly on the subject. In a 90-minute interview at his Manhattan office with TIME Deputy Chief of Correspondents John F. Stacks and Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott, the former President elaborated on an article that he and his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger were writing for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. In it they propose what Nixon calls a "good negotiating position" for turning the zero option from a blunder into a "major step for peace." Kissinger had earlier been a scathing critic of the zero option; now that...
...TIME interview, Nixon also gave his own recommendations of how the summit might be used to re-establish "linkage" between the "big issues" of strategic offense and strategic defense. Excerpts...
Most Americans older than 13 already know more about Richard Milhous Nixon than they may realize or, in many cases, appreciate. To a remarkable extent, his life has been led in public, his up-and-down and then up-again-and-down- again career a long-running soap opera that played on all the networks. The ubiquitous male lead was regularly humiliated (Who can forget the Checkers episode in 1952 or the "last press conference" in 1962?), but he always bounced back, a new Nixon, ready for another crisis that would again display his anguish before a dumbfounded public...
...compromise had taken shape. The interior decoration and finishing of each compound would be overseen by the country's own teams, but the major construction would be the responsibility of the host country. The intelligence community balked at allowing the Soviets to build the embassy's walls. But President Nixon, who was pursuing a policy of detente with Moscow, instructed the State Department to cut the deal...
...Richard Nixon, having a conspiratorial bent himself, knew he had to take some precautions on his 1972 visit to Moscow, so he asked to have his limousine with its secure cabin shipped in. The Soviets hassled the Americans, but Nixon was tougher. The car was flown in, and Nixon and his aides repaired there for their discussions...