AThe Soviet Union, the “necessary enemy” of cold war politics, built by big American industrialists such as Henry Ford and Koch. The hows and whens wars get planned behind closed doors… over a nice dinner and tour of a movie studio. Americans do not question what their elected leaders do behind closed doors and usually find out thousands of lives too late. The Soviet Union was very much involved with sending troops to agitate the conflict in Asia, but it was kept secret from the Russian people until after the Iron Curtain fell. The United States and Soviet were orchestrating a century of war to peddle arms, ammunition and profiting from disposable human lives for big military profits. I'm sure that during these private talks in luxurious settings Nixon/Kissinger assured their guest that no invitation would be extended to challenger Robert Fischer…
Courier-Post Camden, New Jersey Thursday, July 13, 1972
San Clemente, California (UPI) -- President Nixon engaged in a bit of psychological warfare with Hanoi yesterday by holding a warm and friendly chat with the Soviet ambassador on the eve of the renewal of the Paris peace talks.
Presidential spokesman Ronald Ziegler said it was “only coincidental” that the meeting was held the day before the Vietnam talks resume.
But he did confirm that Vietnam was among the subjects discussed in Nixon's hour-and-a-half session with Anatoly Dobrynin and the White House took the unusual step of inviting photographers in to record the event.
TO ADD PRESSURE
This focus on the warm relations between the United States and Hanoi's chief military supplier appeared to be an effort to add some pressure on the North Vietnamese delegation to take a more flexible stand in the negotiations.
Ziegler said Ambassador and Mrs. Dobrynin had come west to inspect a recently opened Soviet consulate in San Francisco and had been invited to visit the Western White House by presidential adviser Henry A. Kissinger.
He said the talk involved “a general review of U.S.-U.S.S.R relations” following Nixon's Moscow summit in May and that Vietnam had come up “in the course of overall discussion of world affairs.” He said the ambassador's visit was not for the purpose of “talking about any one thing.”
STUDIO TOUR
Kissinger met Dobrynin in Los Angeles and gave him a taste of the Hollywood life by hosting a party in his honor at a Beverly Hills restaurant and leading him on a tour of move and television studios, including a wisecracking encounter with a comedy writers conference.
The President and Mrs. Nixon gave the ambassador and his wife a personal tour of the grounds of their residence before the talks began. The sessions, also attended by Kissinger, were held in the President's office, perched atop a bluff overlooking the Pacific.
The Soviet couple spent the night at a private residence in Cyprus Shores and were scheduled to return to Washington today.
Dobrynin, Nixon in Warm Chat 13 Jul 1972, Thu Courier-Post (Camden, New Jersey) Newspapers.com
