In Confidence: Moscow's Ambassador to America's Six Cold War Presidents (1962-1986)
by Anatoly Dobrynin
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SALT, ABM, and the Summit Vietnam Becomes "Johnson's War"--The Resignation Gambit Fails -- Humphrey Declines Moscow's Secret Offer to Help His Election -- Johnson Seeks a Summit to the Bitter End: It Dies in Prague -- The Invasion in Czechoslovakia -- Johnson Presses for a Summit to the Bitter End -- THE NIXON PRESIDENCY, 1969-1974 -- I. Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger -- Soviet-American Relations in the 1970s -- Enter Nixon and Kissinger -- Negotiating with the Nixon Administration -- show more Washington and Moscow in 1970: A Year of Drift and Doubt -- II. Summit Foothills -- Gromyko and Andropov Want to Drive a Hard Bargain A Palace Coup in Moscow -- Johnson's Triumphant Election -- Brezhnev versus Kosygin. Vietnam Escalates -- The War Party in Washington -- Our Own Vietnam Syndrome -- III. Trying to Juggle Peace and War -- Johnson Stakes His Presidency on Ending the War -- Moscow's Concern about Vietnam -- Mixed Results in Disarmament -- McNamara, Nuclear Strategy, and the ABM -- IV. Soviet Policy Seeks a Steady Course -- Kosygin Tries to Mediate in Vietnam -- The Politburo Outlines the Basis of Soviet Foreign Policy -- The Six-Day War -- The Glassboro Summit -- V. The Fall of Lyndon Johnson The Crisis Erupts: In the Center of the Settlement -- A Timely Question and Answer Break the Deadlock -- After the Crisis: Lessons and Footnotes -- III. Learning to Live Together -- Setting Up the "Hot Line"--The Old Problems Reappear -- Negotiations on the Nuclear Test Ban -- My Last Meeting with fohn F. Kennedy -- President Kennedy's Assassination -- The Kennedy Era Reconsidered -- THE JOHNSON PRESIDENCY, 1963-1969 -- I. Getting to Know the New President -- Johnson's Foreign Policy -- My First Meeting Alone with Johnson -- Life as a Soviet Diplomat -- II. Moscow and Vietnam The Collapse of the Paris Summit -- Khrushchev and Kennedy at Vienna -- Surprise: I Am Appointed Ambassador to the United States -- WASHINGTON -- THE KENNEDY PRESIDENCY, 1961-1963 -- I. Finding My Way Around Washington -- Instructions from Moscow -- The Confidential Channel -- An Ambassador's Life -- Meeting President Kennedy and the Washington Establishment -- The Diplomatic Stalemate over Germany and Berlin -- Cuba Looms -- II. The Cuban Crisis -- Khrushchev Offers Nuclear Missiles to Cuba: Castro Accepts -- Soviet Embassies Are Left Out of the Loop Cover -- IN CONFIDENCE -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- BEFORE WASHINGTON -- I. My Diplomatic Career Begins -- From Engineering to Diplomacy -- Diplomacy from Litvinov: Table Manners from Princess Volkonsky -- My Apprenticeship at the Ministry -- II. My First Look at the United States -- Learning the Diplomatic Ropes -- Across the Country with Molotov -- Back to Moscow as Molotov's Assistant -- A Tour at the United Nations -- III. Summits: The View from the Other Side of the Peak -- The Geneva Summit: Eisenhower and Khrushchev show lessTags
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I enjoyed this read, but it is not a true history. It is a more or less chronological compilation of Dobrynin's recollections from his time as Soviet Ambassador. Because there is no real narrative linkage to this book, I found that it was easy to pick up and put down again. I dnf'd it since I had to return it to the library, but I will ultimately probably buy a copy of this book and finish it that way where I can leave it on my shelf for a year and pick it up 20-50 pages at a time.
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- In Confidence: Moscow's Ambassador to Six Cold War Presidents
- Original publication date
- 1995
- People/Characters
- Anatoly Dobrynin; Leonid Brezhnev; Zbigniew Brzezinski; George H. W. Bush; Jimmy Carter; Gerald Ford (show all 19); Mikhail Gorbachev; Lyndon Baines Johnson; John F. Kennedy; Robert F. Kennedy; Andrei Gromyko; Nikita Khrushchev; Henry Kissinger; Alexei Kosygin; Richard M. Nixon; Ronald Reagan; Dean Rusk; George Shultz; Cyrus Vance
- Important places
- USA; USSR
- Important events
- Cold War
- Original language
- English
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- Nonfiction, History, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
- DDC/MDS
- 327.2092 — Society, government, & culture Political science International Relations: Spies Diplomacy Biography And History Biography
- LCC
- DK275 .D63 .A3 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics – Poland History of Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics History Soviet regime, 1918-1991
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