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Still, once the Republicans had nominated Nixon and the Democrats had nominated Kennedy, we had to make a choice in our own minds. We thought we would have more hope of improving Soviet-American relations if John Kennedy were in the White House. We knew we couldn't count on Nixon in this regard: his aggressive attitude toward the Soviet Union, his antiCommunism, his connection with McCarthyism-all this was well known to us. In short, we had no reason to welcome the prospect of Nixon as President...
...United States addressed itself to us, officially asking for the release of [U-2 Pilot] Francis Gary Powers. The timing of Powers' release had great political significance. At that time, voices in the press were saying that whichever candidate could show himself more able to improve Soviet-American relations stood a better chance in the election. In fact, they weren't just talking about America's relations with the Soviet Union, but with me, personally -by name. That's typical of the bourgeois press: it always plays up the individual leader...
What if the capitalists drag their feet in agreeing to disarmament? I believe that even if a Soviet-American agreement on bilateral reduction in military spending were impossible, we should go ahead and sharply reduce our own expenditures-unilaterally. If our enemies want to go on inflating their military budgets, spending their money right and left on all kinds of senseless things, then they'll be sure to lower the living standards of their own people...
...Americans organized an exhibition in Sokolniki Park. Mr. Nixon, the Vice President of the United States, came to Moscow for the opening. He and I went together to see a display supposedly showing a typical American kitchen. I began to inspect the appliances. There were some interesting things, but there were also a number of things which seemed purely for show and of no use. Once I'd commented on this I had swallowed the hook and was caught in a lengthy conversation with Nixon which newsmen would refer to for years to come as characterizing Soviet-American relations...
...formal communiqué at the end of the meetings, both sides pledged to pursue "the established policy aimed at making the process of improving Soviet-American relations irreversible." Nevertheless, before his departure, Kissinger also used one exchange of lunchtime felicities to issue a careful warning: "If we attempt to take advantage of each other, attempt to blackmail each other or deal with each other from a strong position, there can be no peace. We can bring about lasting peace if we deal with each other cooperatively and recognize that neither can gain a permanent strategic advantage, either militarily or politically...