Word: summits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...breakthrough came in the Soviet Union after the North Vietnamese launched their Easter offensive in 1972. The Communist onslaught created "a sense of panic in the White House" that the Saigon regime might collapse. Kissinger, who went to Moscow in April to set up Richard Nixon's May summit with Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev, tried to enlist Russian aid in containing the North Vietnamese drive. During his visit, Kissinger told the Russians that the U.S. would no longer insist on withdrawal of all North Vietnamese troops from the South after a cease-fire-a stunning reversal...
...Kissinger returned to Moscow with Nixon for the summit. Viet Nam dominated one long, frosty session. At one point, Premier Aleksei Kosygin turned to Nixon and said: "You have Henry Kissinger. He's a smart man. Why don't you get him to find the right solution for the war?" As the meeting dragged on, Nixon turned to Kissinger and whispered: "God, this cannot go on like this...
...signified the importance he puts on relations with West Germany by naming France's Ambassador to Bonn, Jean Sau-vagnargues, as his Foreign Minister. At week's end the new French President received the Federal Republic's new Chancellor, Helmut Schmidt, in Paris for their first summit. The two merely outlined strategies for coping with economic and political problems, but nonetheless the modest effort raised guarded hopes in France that the flagging European Community might be revitalized. Reaction was similar in West Germany. TIME Bonn Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan reports...
...With what did Nixon reportedly occupy himself in 1959, while Eisenhower was reaching key summit decisions...
...didn't?you know?as I was?one of the problems here?I have always run my campaigns. I didn't run this one I must say. I was pretty busy. Or?maybe ?handling the Russian Summit. And you know, after the election?we were right in the middle of the Dec. 8th bombing?and holding meetings...