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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... meeting with Dobrynin over the exit fee issue . Haig wrote that " I have brutalized Rogers after clearing it with the President , and there will be no contacts whatsoever with the Soviets . " He continued : " The meeting with Rogers and ...
... meeting was to review outstanding issues prior to Dobrynin's departure for Moscow . Vietnam Dobrynin opened the meeting by reading me a long account of the report that Le Duc Tho had given summing up our three Paris meetings ( July 19 ...
... meetings with the Soviets . It was announced that Kissinger would then proceed to Paris where he would brief President Georges Pompidou . " But habits of secrecy are hard to break . In order to gain the six hours needed for meeting Le ...
... meeting turned to other subjects . ] 4 * Kissinger subsequently wrote to Haig regarding the meeting in message Hakto 18 , September 12 : " After further ninety minutes of discussion today , tentative agreement was reached on lend ...
... meeting . This the spirit of our meeting and I wish to reaffirm that on this basis we are prepared to go ahead . I hope you will convey this spirit to the President . ( Brezhnev makes an aside in Russian to Gromyko and then says :) I ...