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...went, he also talked as the peacemaker, probing especially for ideas on how to maintain the precarious ceasefire in the Middle East and how to get U.N.-mediated negotiations going. All of the leaders Nixon visited, including Pope Paul, Italy's President Giuseppe Saragat, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, Spain's General Francisco Franco and Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath, applauded the effort and urged its continuation -though Nasser's death and the Jordanian war make the prospect for progress more tenuous than ever (see THE WORLD...
...visit continued through other dinners, private meetings and motorcades, the two men seemed to draw closer. Nixon was the first U.S. President to visit Belgrade, and the six hours he spent with Tito was a longer period than he has devoted to any foreign leader in a single day since becoming President. Tito described Nixon to aides as "intelligent, pragmatic, competent and in some areas tough." Nixon drew heavily on Tito's continuing knowledge of both Soviet Communism and the Arab world-the two concerns at the focus of his trip...
...mood of the two men became ever more amiable. When Nixon twitted Tito for ordering a Scotch and soda at a morning meeting, Tito, 78, replied: "When you get older, whisky is much better for the blood than milk." Tito even changed his own plans and decided to accompany Nixon on a visit to Kumrovec, where Tito and his 14 brothers and sisters (none of whom survive) were all born in the same bed in a white stucco house. Asking Tito to walk among the villagers while photographers and newsmen watched, Nixon said: "We've got to get this...
Dick and Pat will spend two nights in Belgrade with President Tito, lunch with Queen Elizabeth, and briefly visit Prime Minister Edward Heath outside London. They will see Pope Paul VI at the Vatican, spend a night with Italian President Giuseppe Saragat, visit Spain's Francisco Franco in Madrid. Before flying home, the Nixons will seek grave sites of ancestors in the Irish countryside southwest of Dublin. Perhaps the biggest symbolic point of the trip is that it takes the President in and near the ancient regions where Western culture has its roots, and where U.S. security interests...
...week were coping with the central dilemmas of their trade: once having gained power, how to hold on to it-and how to yield it gracefully. Sweden's Olof Palme, in a poor showing at the polls, managed to hang on to it; Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, after a remarkably long run of 25 years in full control, took the first steps toward relinquishing it; and Malaysia's Tunku Abdul Rahman did the hardest thing of all: he gave it up of his own accord...