Soviet Union, June 1972-August 1974The Foreign Relations of the United States series presents the official documentary historical record of major foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity of the United States Government.
This volume is part of a subseries of the Foreign Relations of the United States that documents the most significant foreign policy issues and major decisions of the administrations of Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford. Five volumes in this subseries, volumes XII through XVI, cover U.S. relations with the Soviet Union. This specific volume documents United States policy toward Soviet Union from June 1972 until August 1974, following closely the development of the administration's policy of Détente and culminating with President Nixon's resignation in August 1974.
This volume continues the practice of covering U.S.-Soviet relations in a global context, highlighting conflict and collaboration between the two superpowers in the era of Détente. Chronologically, it follows volume XIV, Soviet Union, October 1971- May 1972, which documents the May 1972 Moscow Summit between President Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. This volume includes numerous direct personal communications between Nixon and Brezhnev covering a host of issues, including clarifying the practical application of the SALT I and ABM agreements signed in Moscow. Other major themes covered include the war in Indochina, arms control, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSE), commercial relations and most-favored-nation status, grain sales, the emigration of Soviet Jews, Jackson-Vanik legislation, and the October 1973 Arab-Israeli war. |
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... hope to enlist our help both on hardware and diplomatically . This ought for now to be permitted to stand on its own without encourage- ment from us . ) Tab D Draft of the Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War14 DECLARATION Guided ...
... hope that by the time the General Secretary comes to the United States you will be able to have a ride in it . Brezhnev : That would not be a bad idea and you could fill me with meat pies . Kissinger : I will bring some of my own but ...
... hope we won't disappoint all those who hope for favor- able developments toward peace and tranquility in the world . I have said it before but I wanted to repeat it . I hope that we will have frank and forthright discussions and that ...
... hope to get all of these issues settled more or less simultaneously , at least in principle . Let me explain our attitude toward the lend lease agreement . We know what you suffered in World War II . We know that the fact that you have ...
... hope you will convey this spirit to the President . ( Brezhnev makes an aside in Russian to Gromyko and then says :) I have my contradictions with Gromyko . Mr. Gromyko : Within this government . Mr. Brezhnev : Because I said what he ...