Soviet Union, October 1970-October 1971This volume continues the practice established in the previous Foreign Relations volume on U.S.-Soviet relations and focuses on the relationship in the global context, highlighting the conflicts and collaboration between the two superpowers on foreign policy issues from October 1970 to October 1971. Beginning with the confrontation over the construction of a Soviet military base in Cuba, the volume documents the development of the Nixon administration's policy of détente and the crucial role of the private channel between Henry Kissinger, the President's Assistant for National Security Affairs, and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin. The backchannel was key to making progress on the most problematic issues in U.S.-Soviet relations: Berlin, the war in Indochina, strategic arms limitation talks, Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union, and trade. It also allowed the two nations to avoid conflict and to cooperate on managing crises around the world, such as the Middle East dispute and the Indo-Pakistani conflict. The volume also includes documentation on the internal and bilateral negotiations for the timing of a visit by Nixon to the Soviet Union and ends with the public announcement in October 1971 of the May 1972 summit between Nixon and Brezhnev, the first U.S.-Soviet summit since 1967. The era of détente and cooperation between the superpowers had begun |
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... Rogers ' Office Files , Entry 5439 ( Lot 73 D 443 ) Office Files of William Rogers , 1969–1973 Executive Secretariat , Briefing Books , 1958–1976 ( Lot 72 D 317 ) Executive Secretariat , Conference Files , 1966-1972 Records of the ...
... Rogers ' Office Files , Entry 5439 ( Lot 73 D 443 ) Office Files of William Rogers , 1969–1973 Executive Secretariat , Briefing Books , 1958–1976 ( Lot 72 D 317 ) Executive Secretariat , Conference Files , 1966-1972 Records of the ...
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... Rogers . P : Yes . Remember we shouldn't go about talking to Rogers ; that wouldn't be fair to Laird . K : Laird is dying to leak this . His intelligence picked them up on the high seas . P : Tell him to hold it . K : I have already ...
... Rogers . P : Yes . Remember we shouldn't go about talking to Rogers ; that wouldn't be fair to Laird . K : Laird is dying to leak this . His intelligence picked them up on the high seas . P : Tell him to hold it . K : I have already ...
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... Rogers was upset that " K [ issinger ] was meeting with Dobrynin about Cuba without telling him . He [ Rogers ] talked to Do- brynin and looked foolish because he didn't know . Asked me to tell P [ resident ] , because Rogers felt K was ...
... Rogers was upset that " K [ issinger ] was meeting with Dobrynin about Cuba without telling him . He [ Rogers ] talked to Do- brynin and looked foolish because he didn't know . Asked me to tell P [ resident ] , because Rogers felt K was ...
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... Rogers from 11:32 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. on October 15. ( Library of Congress , Manu- script Division , Kissinger Papers , Box 438 , Miscellany , 1968-76 ) No record of the meeting has been found . Rogers was not the only Department of ...
... Rogers from 11:32 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. on October 15. ( Library of Congress , Manu- script Division , Kissinger Papers , Box 438 , Miscellany , 1968-76 ) No record of the meeting has been found . Rogers was not the only Department of ...
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... Rogers ' October 16 , 1970 , 6:30 p.m. ( Secretary Rogers talked to General Haig for a few minutes , in Dr. Kissinger's absence . ) R : I have been tied up all day and haven't heard any news . I heard a report that the Pentagon made ...
... Rogers ' October 16 , 1970 , 6:30 p.m. ( Secretary Rogers talked to General Haig for a few minutes , in Dr. Kissinger's absence . ) R : I have been tied up all day and haven't heard any news . I heard a report that the Pentagon made ...
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