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Acknowledgments | xv | |
Introduction | 3 | |
Before Washington | ||
I. | My Diplomatic Career Begins | 13 |
From Engineering to Diplomacy | 13 | |
Diplomacy from Litvinov: Table Manners from Princess Volkonsky | 16 | |
My Apprenticeship at the Ministry | 19 | |
II. | My First Look at the United States | 25 |
Learning the Diplomatic Ropes | 25 | |
Across the Country with Molotov | 28 | |
Back to Moscow as Molotov's Assistant | 31 | |
A Tour at the United Nations | 33 | |
III. | Summits: The View from the Other Side of the Peak | 36 |
The Geneva Summit: Eisenhower and Khrushchev | 36 | |
The Collapse of the Paris Summit | 39 | |
Khrushchev and Kennedy at Vienna | 42 | |
Surprise: I Am Appointed Ambassador to the United States | 46 | |
Washington | 49 | |
The Kennedy Presidency, 1961-1963 | 51 | |
I. | Finding My Way Around Washington | 51 |
Instructions from Moscow | 51 | |
The Confidential Channel | 52 | |
An Ambassador's Life | 55 | |
Meeting President Kennedy and the Washington Establishment | 58 | |
The Diplomatic Stalemate over Germany and Berlin | 63 | |
Cuba Looms | 68 | |
II. | The Cuban Crisis | 71 |
Khrushchev Offers Nuclear Missiles to Cuba: Castro Accepts | 71 | |
Soviet Embassies Are Left Out of the Loop | 74 | |
The Crisis Erupts: In the Center of the Settlement | 78 | |
A Timely Question and Answer Break the Deadlock | 86 | |
After the Crisis: Lessons and Footnotes | 91 | |
III. | Learning to Live Together | 96 |
Setting Up the "Hot Line" | 96 | |
The Old Problems Reappear | 98 | |
Negotiations on the Nuclear Test Ban | 99 | |
My Last Meeting with John F. Kennedy | 105 | |
President Kennedy's Assassination | 107 | |
The Kennedy Era Reconsidered | 110 | |
The Johnson Presidency, 1963-1969 | 115 | |
I. | Getting to Know the New President | 115 |
Johnson's Foreign Policy | 115 | |
My First Meeting Alone with Johnson | 119 | |
Life as a Soviet Diplomat | 122 | |
II. | Moscow and Vietnam | 128 |
A Palace Coup in Moscow | 128 | |
Johnson's Triumphant Election | 133 | |
Brezhnev versus Kosygin. Vietnam Escalates | 133 | |
The War Party in Washington | 136 | |
Our Own Vietnam Syndrome | 139 | |
III. | Trying to Juggle Peace and War | 141 |
Johnson Stakes His Presidency on Ending the War | 141 | |
Moscow's Concern about Vietnam | 143 | |
Mixed Results in Disarmament | 146 | |
McNamara, Nuclear Strategy, and the ABM | 151 | |
IV. | Soviet Policy Seeks a Steady Course | 155 |
Kosygin Tries to Mediate in Vietnam | 155 | |
The Politburo Outlines the Basis of Soviet Foreign Policy | 156 | |
The Six-Day War | 158 | |
The Glassboro Summit | 162 | |
V. | The Fall of Lyndon Johnson | 168 |
Vietnam Becomes "Johnson's War" | 168 | |
The Resignation Gambit Fails | 170 | |
Humphrey Declines Moscow's Secret Offer to Help His Election | 174 | |
Johnson Seeks a Summit to the Bitter End: It Dies in Prague | 177 | |
The Invasion in Czechoslovakia | 178 | |
Johnson Presses for a Summit to the Bitter End | 184 | |
The Nixon Presidency, 1969-1974 | 191 | |
I. | Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger | 191 |
Soviet-American Relations in the 1970s | 191 | |
Enter Nixon and Kissinger | 196 | |
Negotiating with the Nixon Administration | 201 | |
Washington and Moscow in 1970: A Year of Drift and Doubt | 206 | |
II. | Summit Foothills | 209 |
Gromyko and Andropov Want to Drive a Hard Bargain | 209 | |
SALT, ABM, and the Summit | 211 | |
Maneuvering Toward the Summit: China in the Wings | 216 | |
III. | A Geopolitical Triangle | 226 |
Enter China | 226 | |
Nixon Opens a Dialogue with Brezhnev | 228 | |
Pre-Summit Maneuvers | 233 | |
War Between India and Pakistan | 235 | |
IV. | To the Summit | 239 |
Kissinger and I Start Work on the Summit | 239 | |
Tripartite Diplomacy | 240 | |
Vietnam and the Summit | 243 | |
The Summit in Moscow | 251 | |
Basking in Detente | 257 | |
Moscow, Washington, and the End of the Vietnam War | 260 | |
V. | To the Summit Again, in America | 265 |
Detente and Its Problems | 265 | |
Jewish Emigration and the Coalition Against Detente | 266 | |
Nixon Reshapes His Government | 270 | |
Brezhnev Makes Kissinger "Sign for It" | 273 | |
Brezhnev in America | 276 | |
Aftermath of the Summit | 284 | |
VI. | The October War | 287 |
Moscow, Washington, and the Middle East | 287 | |
The War Begins | 289 | |
Kissinger's Maneuvers | 292 | |
A New Crisis | 294 | |
The Superpower Stakes Rise: A U.S. Combat Alert Is Declared | 297 | |
The End of the War: Nixon Becomes Apologetic | 298 | |
VII. | The Fall of Richard Nixon | 302 |
Nixon's Last Friend | 302 | |
Rumblings in the White House | 305 | |
Summit Preparations Again | 308 | |
Watergate, the White House, and the Kremlin | 310 | |
The Last Summit | 312 | |
Nixon's Last Days | 315 | |
The Ford Presidency, 1974-1977 | 319 | |
I. | Searching for the Real Gerald Ford | 319 |
Starting Out with the New President | 319 | |
My Dinner with Nelson Rockefeller: The Middle East | 323 | |
My Granddaughter and Ford Divide the Globe | 325 | |
On to Vladivostok with Ford | 327 | |
Jewish Emigration and Detente | 334 | |
Ford versus Nixon | 339 | |
II. | The Erosion of Detente | 342 |
Thunder on the Right | 342 | |
The Fall of Saigon | 343 | |
The Helsinki Conference and Its Aftermath | 345 | |
The Difficult Road to the Summit | 347 | |
Intelligence Wars | 352 | |
III. | How Appeasing the Right Helped Ford Lose the Presidency | 360 |
Angola | 360 | |
Turmoil in the White House over Detente | 365 | |
Henry Kissinger's Swan Song | 367 | |
Ford versus Carter, as Moscow Saw Them | 370 | |
Ford Loses the Election | 372 | |
The Carter Presidency, 1977-1981 | 374 | |
I. | The Contradictions of Jimmy Carter | 374 |
Jimmy Who? | 374 | |
Friendly First Soundings | 376 | |
Carter's New Team | 380 | |
Face to Face with Carter | 383 | |
The Carter Crusade | 386 | |
SALT and Human Rights | 388 | |
Moscow Stands Firm | 390 | |
The Price for Trying Too Much | 392 | |
Trying to Pick Up the Pieces | 394 | |
Sounding Out a Summit | 397 | |
II. | Carter's Muddled Priorities | 402 |
Hung Up on the Horn of Africa | 402 | |
Confusion Grows about Detente: Cooperation or Confrontation? | 408 | |
Downhill into Deadlock | 412 | |
III. | The Summit with Carter | 415 |
Reviving the Arms Race | 415 | |
Carter Pushes for a Summit | 417 | |
The Ascent to Vienna | 419 | |
The Summit in Vienna | 422 | |
Down from the Summit into the SALT Marshes | 427 | |
The Cuban Mini-Crisis | 428 | |
Europe as an Arena of Confrontation | 429 | |
IV. | Afghanistan | 434 |
The Background of Intervention | 434 | |
The Die Is Cast | 437 | |
Afghanistan and Soviet-American Relations | 443 | |
Diplomacy and Presidential Emotion | 448 | |
V. | Carter's Defeat: An Epitaph for Detente | 455 |
Deadlock on the Eve of the Elections | 455 | |
Courting Moscow Before the Election | 457 | |
Carter's Defeat | 465 | |
VI. | The Dismantling of Detente | 467 |
The Reagan Presidency, 1981-1989 | 477 | |
I. | The Paradox of Ronald Reagan | 477 |
The Cold War Returns | 477 | |
A Break with the Past | 480 | |
Brezhnev Tries a Breakthrough and Fails | 488 | |
Reagan Writes to Brezhnev from the Hospital | 491 | |
Moscow's Annoyance Mounts | 495 | |
II. | The Reagan Crusade | 499 |
Impervious to Diplomacy | 499 | |
At the White House | 503 | |
Haig Is Replaced by the Sphinx | 506 | |
Brezhnev and Andropov | 511 | |
III. | "More Deeds, Less Words" | 517 |
A Personal Discussion, with Reagan, at Last | 517 | |
Did the Soviet Union Fear an American Nuclear Attack? | 522 | |
The Evil Empire and Star Wars, the Elections, and the Summit | 526 | |
Diplomatic Oxymoron | 532 | |
The KAL007 Incident: Bitter Memories | 535 | |
Andropov: Illusions Dispelled | 540 | |
IV. | The Thaw | 544 |
How Reagan's Belligerence Backfired | 544 | |
Reagan as Peacemonger? | 546 | |
Transition: Andropov Dies; Chernenko Succeeds Him | 550 | |
Gromyko Returns to the White House | 555 | |
A New Atmosphere in Outer (and Inner) Space | 558 | |
V. | The Beginning of the End of the Cold War | 564 |
What the Geneva Summit Meant | 564 | |
Washington Decides to Do Business with Gorbachev | 565 | |
Gorbachev Addresses Soviet Foreign Policy | 570 | |
The Turn Begins | 574 | |
A Frustrating Climb Toward the Summit | 577 | |
The Geneva Summit | 586 | |
VI. | Goodbye to Washington | 594 |
Goodwill and Diplomacy | 594 | |
My Life Changes | 600 | |
A Round of Farewells | 602 | |
Ronald Reagan and Soviet-American Relations | 605 | |
After Washington | 613 | |
I. | Gorbachev: The First and Last President of the Soviet Union | 615 |
Life as a Secretary | 615 | |
The Summit at Reykjavik | 619 | |
Gorbachev in a Hurry | 622 | |
Gorbachev, Bush, and Germany | 627 | |
Gorbachev's Political Bankruptcy | 632 | |
Instead of an Epilogue | 638 | |
Appendix | 640 | |
Index | 645 |
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