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...wants to see, we will show him," the Soviet leader said. Brezhnev noted that unlike the President's 1972 trip, when he visited Moscow, Kiev and Leningrad, this time they might go as far afield as Minsk in Byelorussia, Volgograd in Southern Russia, Lake Baikal in Siberia and Yalta in the Crimea, the site of the controversial summit meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin during World War II. Speaking of the agreements he hoped they might reach, Brezhnev said, "I think we shall please people both in the United States and hi our Soviet land...
Many Americans-Richard Nixon used to be one of them-still believe that Franklin Roosevelt, weakened by a fatal illness, sold out the U.S. at Yalta I by granting the Soviet Union hegemony over Eastern Europe. They are afraid that Nixon, weakened by a perhaps fatal political illness, might do the same at a Yalta II. In fact, a recently released Louis Harris survey showed 52% thinking that Nixon should stay at home until the impeachment question is resolved. Buttressing this feeling of suspicion was the sudden resignation two weeks ago of Paul Nitze, a top member of the American...
...resembles Kubek's not only in its vituperative writing style, but more importantly, in the questions it chooses to ask and the way it chooses to remain within the intellectual context of the fifties. Was Owen Lattimore the number-one Soviet espionage agent in America? Did Hiss maneuver the Yalta sell-out? Did the denial of a passport to W.E.B. DuBois uphold the principles or security of this nation? No. Granted. But...so what...
Lyndon Johnson's denunciation of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. In the years between, he served as interpreter (and sometimes adviser) to Franklin Roosevelt at the Teheran and Yalta conferences and to Harry Truman at Potsdam (where he tried without much success to explain the intricacies of American baseball to Joseph Stalin...
...more importantly, in the questions it chooses to ask and not ask. By writing a narrative of the American purge trials, Belfrage has opted to remain within the intellectual context of the fifties. Was Owen Lattimore the number one Soviet espionage agent in America? Did Alger Hiss maneuver the Yalta sell-out? Did the denial of a passport to W.E.B. DuBois uphold the principles or security of this nation? No. Granted. But...so what...