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In Confidence: Moscow's Ambassador to Six Cold War Presidents / Edition 1 available in Paperback, eBook
In Confidence: Moscow's Ambassador to Six Cold War Presidents / Edition 1
by Anatoly Dobrynin
Anatoly Dobrynin
- ISBN-10:
- 0295980818
- ISBN-13:
- 9780295980812
- Pub. Date:
- 02/01/2001
- Publisher:
- University of Washington Press
- ISBN-10:
- 0295980818
- ISBN-13:
- 9780295980812
- Pub. Date:
- 02/01/2001
- Publisher:
- University of Washington Press
In Confidence: Moscow's Ambassador to Six Cold War Presidents / Edition 1
by Anatoly Dobrynin
Anatoly Dobrynin
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Overview
Anatoly Dobrynin arrived in Washington, D.C., in 1962 at 43 the youngest man ever to serve as Soviet Ambassador to the United States and remained through the presidencies of Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan. Dobrynin became the main channel for the White House and the Kremlin to exchange ideas, negotiate in secret, and arrange summit meetings. Dobrynin writes vividly of Moscow from inside the Politburo, but In Confidence is mainly a story of Washington at the highest levels.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780295980812 |
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Publisher: | University of Washington Press |
Publication date: | 02/01/2001 |
Pages: | 688 |
Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.80(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
Table of Contents
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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