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Acknowledgments
xv
Introduction
3
10
BEFORE WASHINGTON
My Diplomatic Career Begins
13
12
From Engineering to Diplomacy
13
3
Diplomacy from Litvinov: Table Manners from Princess Volkonsky
16
3
My Apprenticeship at the Ministry
19
6
My First Look at the United States
25
11
Learning the Diplomatic Ropes
25
3
Across the Country with Molotov
28
3
Back to Moscow as Molotov's Assistant
31
2
A Tour at the United Nations
33
3
Summits: The View from the Other Side of the Peak
36
13
The Geneva Summit: Eisenhower and Khrushchev
36
3
The Collapse of the Paris Summit
39
3
Khrushchev and Kennedy at Vienna
42
4
Surprise: I Am Appointed Ambassador to the United States
46
3
WASHINGTON
49
591
The Kennedy Presidency, 1961-1963
51
64
Finding My Way Around Washington
51
20
Instructions from Moscow
51
1
The Confidential Channel
52
3
An Ambassador's Life
55
3
Meeting President Kennedy and the Washington Establishment
58
5
The Diplomatic Stalemate over Germany and Berlin
63
5
Cuba Looms
68
3
The Cuban Crisis
71
25
Khrushchev Offers Nuclear Missiles to Cuba: Castro Accepts
71
3
Soviet Embassies Are Left Out of the Loop
74
4
The Crisis Erupts: In the Center of the Settlement
78
8
A Timely Question and Answer Break the Deadlock
86
5
After the Crisis: Lessons and Footnotes
91
5
Learning to Live Together
96
19
Setting Up the ``Hot Line''
96
2
The Old Problems Reappear
98
1
Negotiations on the Nuclear Test Ban
99
6
My Last Meeting with John F. Kennedy
105
2
President Kennedy's Assassination
107
3
The Kennedy Era Reconsidered
110
5
The Johnson Presidency, 1963-1969
115
76
Getting to Know the New President
115
13
Johnson's Foreign Policy
115
4
My First Meeting Alone with Johnson
119
3
Life as a Soviet Diplomat
122
6
Moscow and Vietnam
128
13
A Palace Coup in Moscow
128
5
Johnson's Triumphant Election
133
1
Brezhnev versus Kosygin. Vietnam Escalates
133
3
The War Party in Washington
136
3
Our Own Vietnam Syndrome
139
2
Trying to Juggle Peace and War
141
14
Johnson Stakes His Presidency on Ending the War
141
2
Moscow's Concern about Vietnam
143
3
Mixed Results in Disarmament
146
5
McNamara, Nuclear Strategy, and the ABM
151
4
Soviet Policy Seeks a Steady Course
155
13
Kosygin Tries to Mediate in Vietnam
155
1
The Politburo Outlines the Basis of Soviet Foreign Policy
156
2
The Six-Day War
158
4
The Glassboro Summit
162
6
The Fall of Lyndon Johnson
168
23
Vietnam Becomes ``Johnson's War''
168
2
The Resignation Gambit Fails
170
4
Humphrey Declines Moscow's Secret Offer to Help His Election
174
3
Johnson Seeks a Summit to the Bitter End: It Dies in Prague
177
1
The Invasion in Czechoslovakia
178
6
Johnson Presses for a Summit to the Bitter End
184
7
The Nixon Presidency, 1969-1974
191
128
Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger
191
18
Soviet-American Relations in the 1970s
191
5
Enter Nixon and Kissinger
196
5
Negotiating with the Nixon Administration
201
5
Washington and Moscow in 1970: A Year of Drift and Doubt
206
3
Summit Foothills
209
17
Gromyko and Andropov Want to Drive a Hard Bargain
209
2
SALT, ABM, and the Summit
211
5
Maneuvering Toward the Summit: China in the Wings
216
10
A Geopolitical Triangle
226
13
Enter China
226
2
Nixon Opens a Dialogue with Brezhnev
228
5
Pre-Summit Maneuvers
233
2
War Between India and Pakistan
235
4
To the Summit
239
26
Kissinger and I Start Work on the Summit
239
1
Tripartite Diplomacy
240
3
Vietnam and the Summit
243
8
The Summit in Moscow
251
6
Basking in Detente
257
3
Moscow, Washington, and the End of the Vietnam War
260
5
To the Summit Again, in America
265
22
Detente and Its Problems
265
1
Jewish Emigration and the Coalition Against Detente
266
4
Nixon Reshapes His Government
270
3
Brezhnev Makes Kissinger ``Sign for It''
273
3
Brezhnev in America
276
8
Aftermath of the Summit
284
3
The October War
287
15
Moscow, Washington, and the Middle East
287
2
The War Begins
289
Kissinger's Maneuvers
282
12
A New Crisis
294
3
The Superpower Stakes Rise: A U.S. Combat Alert Is Declared
297
1
The End of the War: Nixon Becomes Apologetic
298
4
The Fall of Richard Nixon
302
17
Nixon's Last Friend
302
3
Rumblings in the White House
305
3
Summit Preparations Again
308
2
Watergate, the White House, and the Kremlin
310
2
The Last Summit
312
3
Nixon's Last Days
315
4
The Ford Presidency, 1974-1977
319
55
Searching for the Real Gerald Ford
319
23
Starting Out with the New President
319
4
My Dinner with Nelson Rockefeller: The Middle East
323
2
My Granddaughter and Ford Divide the Globe
325
2
On to Vladivostok with Ford
327
7
Jewish Emigration and Detente
334
5
Ford versus Nixon
339
3
The Erosion of Detente
342
18
Thunder on the Right
342
1
The Fall of Saigon
343
2
The Helsinki Conference and Its Aftermath
345
2
The Difficult Road to the Summit
347
5
Intelligence Wars
352
8
How Appeasing the Right Helped Ford Lose the Presidency
360
14
Angola
360
5
Turmoil in the White House over Detente
365
2
Henry Kissinger's Swan Song
367
3
Ford versus Carter, as Moscow Saw Them
370
2
Ford Loses the Election
372
2
The Carter Presidency, 1977-1981
374
103
The Contradictions of Jimmy Carter
374
28
Jimmy Who?
374
2
Friendly First Soundings
376
4
Carter's New Team
380
3
Face to Face with Carter
383
3
The Carter Crusade
386
2
SALT and Human Rights
388
2
Moscow Stands Firm
390
2
The Price for Trying Too Much
392
2
Trying to Pick Up the Pieces
394
3
Sounding Out a Summit
397
5
Carter's Muddled Priorities
402
13
Hung Up on the Horn of Africa
402
6
Confusion Grows about Detente: Cooperation or Confrontation?
408
4
Downhill into Deadlock
412
3
The Summit with Carter
415
19
Reviving the Arms Race
415
2
Carter Pushes for a Summit
417
2
The Ascent to Vienna
419
3
The Summit in Vienna
422
5
Down from the Summit into the SALT Marshes
427
1
The Cuban Mini-Crisis
428
1
Europe as an Arena of Confrontation
429
5
Afghanistan
434
21
The Background of Intervention
434
3
The Die Is Cast
437
6
Afghanistan and Soviet-American Relations
443
5
Diplomacy and Presidential Emotion
448
7
Carter's Defeat: An Epitaph for Detente
455
12
Deadlock on the Eve of the Elections
455
2
Courting Moscow Before the Election
457
8
Carter's Defeat
465
2
The Dismantling of Detente
467
10
The Reagan Presidency, 1981-1989
477
136
The Paradox of Ronald Reagan
477
22
The Cold War Returns
477
3
A Break with the Past
480
8
Brezhev Tries a Breakthrough and Fails
488
3
Reagan Writes to Brezhnev from the Hospital
491
4
Moscow's Annoyance Mounts
495
4
The Reagan Crusade
499
18
Impervious to Diplomacy
499
4
At the White House
503
3
Haig Is Replaced by the Sphinx
506
5
Brezhnev and Andropov
511
6
``More Deeds, Less Words''
517
27
A Personal Discussion, with Reagan, at Last
517
5
Did the Soviet Union Fear an American Nuclear Attack?
522
4
The Evil Empire and Star Wars, the Elections, and the Summit
526
6
Diplomatic Oxymoron
532
3
The KAL007 Incident: Bitter Memories
535
5
Andropov: Illusions Dispelled
540
4
The Thaw
544
20
How Reagan's Belligerence Backfired
544
2
Reagan as Peacemonger?
546
4
Transition: Andropov Dies; Chernenko Succeeds Him
550
5
Gromyko Returns to the White House
555
3
A New Atmosphere in Outer (and Inner) Space
558
6
The Beginning of the End of the Cold War
564
30
What the Geneva Summit Meant
564
1
Washington Decides to Do Business with Gorbachev
565
5
Gorbachev Addresses Soviet Foreign Policy
570
4
The Turn Begins
574
3
A Frustrating Climb Toward the Summit
577
9
The Geneva Summit
586
8
Goodbye to Washington
594
19
Goodwill and Diplomacy
594
6
My Life Changes
600
2
A Round of Farewells
602
3
Ronald Reagan and Soviet-American Relations
605
8
After Washington
613
27
Gorbachev: The First and Last President of the Soviet Union
615
25
Life as a Secretary
615
4
The Summit at Reykjavik
619
3
Gorbachev in a Hurry
622
5
Gorbachev, Bush, and Germany
627
5
Gorbachev's Political Bankruptcy
632
6
Instead of an Epilogue
638
2
Appendix
640
5
Index
645