In confidence Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	3
	My Diplomatic Career Begins	13
	My First Look at the United States	25
	Summits: The View from the Other Side of the Peak	37
	The Kennedy Presidency, 1961-1963	53
	Finding My Way Around Washington	53
	The Cuban Crisis	74
	Learning to Live Together	100
	The Johnson Presidency, 1963-1969	119
	Getting to Know the New President	119
	Moscow and Vietnam	132
	Trying to Juggle Peace and War	146
	Soviet Policy Seeks a Steady Course	160
	The Fall of Lyndon Johnson	173
	The Nixon Presidency, 1969-1974	196
	Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger	196
	Summit Foothills	214
	A Geopolitical Triangle	231
	To the Summit	244
	To the Summit Again, in America	270
	The October War	292
	The Fall of Richard Nixon	307
	The Ford Presidency, 1974-1977	324
	Searching for the Real Gerald Ford	324
	The Erosion of Detente	347
	How Appeasing the Right Helped Ford Lose the Presidency	365
	The Carter Presidency, 1977-1981	379
	The Contradictions of Jimmy Carter	379
	Carter's Muddled Priorities	407
	The Summit with Carter	420
	Afghanistan	439
	Carter's Defeat: An Epitaph for Detente	461
	The Dismantling of Detente	473
	The Reagan Presidency, 1981-1989	483
	The Paradox of Ronald Reagan	483
	The Reagan Crusade	505
	"More Deeds, Less Words"	523
	The Thaw	550
	The Beginning of the End of the Cold War	570
	Good-bye to Washington	600
	Gorbachev: The First and Last President of the Soviet Union	621
	Appendix	649
	Index	653