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...patient was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the date was March 27, 1944-four months before the President was to be nominated for his fourth term, eleven months before he was to attend the crucial Big Three conference at Yalta, 13 months before he was to die in Warm Springs, Ga., of the massive stroke that, based on the medical evidence, seemed all too likely...
...book also makes it clear that once reelected, F.D.R. was derelict when he failed to brief Vice President Harry Truman on even the most major elements of American policy, including the Yalta agreements...
Nixon and Brezhnev settled down to the hard talks on arms limitations in an unsettling locale for the U.S. President-Yalta, the Black Sea site of the Big Three conference in 1945. Nixon and other Republicans had long charged that Franklin Roosevelt gave away postwar Eastern Europe to the Soviet Union during those talks. Hoping that Nixon would agree to meeting in the Livadiya Palace where F.D.R. had stayed, the Russians had refurbished the old summer residence of the czars. But when the White House objected, the meetings were moved to Brezhnev's handsome dacha, which was nearby...
Senseless Race. The Yalta meetings broke up without a decision. The next day, while flying back to Moscow, Kissinger and Gromyko searched for a way out of the impasse. The two devised a proposal that was soon accepted by Nixon and Brezhnev; their only other choice would have been to admit their failure to the world...
Saturday morning Nixon had been scheduled to visit Star City, the Soviet space center outside Moscow. Instead, he and Brezhnev decided to continue their talks in St. Catherine Hall before flying that afternoon for a weekend of rest and talks at Brezhnev's Yalta villa on the Black Sea. After that the two men were to spend several hours in Minsk, which was 80% destroyed by the Germans in World War II, and then return to Moscow for concluding talks and a grand send-off that would get Nixon home just in time for Independence...