Office of the Historian

Index

References are to document numbers

  • Abdul Salam Jalloud, 74
  • ABMs (anti-ballistic missiles). See SALT .
  • Abrams, Gen. Creighton, 38, 102, 111, 144, 147, 151, 153, 183, 191, 192, 204
    • Vietnam War:
      • Assessments, 177
      • Nixon’s orders not carried out, 246
  • Africa, 30
  • Agnew, Spiro, 126, 142, 204, 209, 245, 250
  • Albert, Carl, 2
  • Alexandrov-Agentov, Andrey, 39, 134, 139, 159, 259, 262, 263, 265, 271, 284, 299, 300
  • Algeria, 12, 74
  • Alkhimov, V. S., 268
  • Allen, Richard V., 1
  • Alon, Yigal, 198
  • Alsop, Joseph, 82, 225
  • Alsop, Stuart, 228, 237
  • Aluminum, 12
  • American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 11
  • American Society of Newspaper Editors, 142
  • Anderson, Adm. George, 197
  • Andrews, John, 237, 251
  • Antonov, Gen. Alexei, 288
  • Arab-Israeli dispute:
    • Brezhnev-Sadat meetings, 43
    • Congress (U.S.), Nixon’s annual (third) report on foreign affairs to, 47
    • Demilitarization, 62
    • Diplomatic activity, Soviet, 74
    • Haig-Rabin meetings, 77
    • Hussein (King) trip to U.S., 84
    • Israeli elections, 46
    • Jarring mission, 45
    • Kissinger-Alon meetings, 198
    • Kissinger-Dobrynin meetings:
      • Border issues, 4, 10, 13, 51, 54, 62, 84
      • Demilitarization, 62
      • Egypt, Soviet troop withdrawals from, 4
      • Egyptian settlement separate from others, 10
      • Hussein’s (King) trip to U.S., 84
      • Interim settlement, possibilities of, 45, 46, 51
      • Kissinger-Gromyko meetings, 150
      • Meir’s trip to U.S., 13
      • Military presence in Arab world, Soviet, 62
      • Negotiations, reviewing progress of, 10
      • Nixon-Brezhnev communications, 4
      • Paper, Soviet, 239, 243
      • Sharm El-Sheik, 13, 62
      • Sisco, concerns about, 4, 8, 41
      • Solution, different views on, 8, 13
      • Soviet Summit (proposed), 239
      • Soviet–U.S. relations, 39
      • Talks between Egypt and Israel, 45
    • Kissinger-Gromyko meetings, 4
    • Kissinger-Hussein (King) meetings, 84
    • Kissinger-Rabin meetings, 77
    • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (actual):
      • Kissinger-Brezhnev meetings, 141, 159
      • Kissinger-Gromyko meetings, 150, 152
    • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (proposed), 125
    • Military equipment/presence, Soviet, 5
    • NIE 11–72, 133
    • Nixon-Brezhnev communications, 4, 6, 39, 72
    • Nixon-Hussein (King) meetings, 84, 150
    • Nixon-Kissinger communications, 5
    • Nixon-Meir meetings, 16, 150
    • Nixon-Rogers communications, 44, 178
    • Roger’s assessments, 178
    • Sadat’s trip to Soviet Union, 5, 43
    • Sonnenfeldt’s assessments, 33, 74, 75
    • Sonnenfeldt’s Soviet Union trip, 29
    • Soviet Summit (actual):
      • Brezhnev-Sadat communications, 256
      • Kissinger-Gromyko meetings, 293, 295
      • Nixon-Brezhnev meetings, 257, 284
      • Nixon-Kissinger communications, 272, 296
      • Rogers-Gromyko meetings, 298
    • Soviet Summit (proposed):
      • Discussion levels before, lowering, 58
      • National Security Council, 231, 236
      • Nixon-Brezhnev communications, 72
      • Nixon-Kissinger meetings, 63
      • Nixon-Rogers communications, 11
      • NSC’s assessments, 240
    • UN Security Council Resolution 242, 150
    • Vietnam War and, parallels between, 113
  • Arends, Les, 2
  • Arms control (see also SALT ), 129
  • Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 51, 279
  • Armstrong, Willis C., 268, 285
  • Asia, stability in South (see also Vietnam War), 122, 130
  • Atherton, Alfred L., 217
  • Bahr, Egon, 139, 172, 206
  • Baibakov, Nikolai, 276, 300
  • Baker, William, 197
  • Ballistic missiles. See SALT .
  • Baltimore News, 142
  • Barzel, Rainer, 86, 172
  • Batitskiy, P. F., 115, 117
  • Beam, Jacob D., 300
    • Brezhnev-Butz meetings, 101
    • Brezhnev’s hostility to Nixon, 123
    • Chou En-lai’s visit to North Vietnam, 115
    • Hanoi/Haiphong, bombing strikes against, 108, 109, 114
    • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (actual), 160
    • Maritime/incidents at sea issues, 7
    • Soviet protests against Haiphong bombing, 108, 114
    • Soviet Summit (actual), 259
    • Spring offensive, North Vietnamese, 115
    • U.S.–Soviet Exchange Agreement, 93
  • Before the Fall (Safire), 125
  • Belgium, 29
  • Belousovitch, Igor N., 90
  • Bergus, Donald, 62
  • Beria, Lavrenti, 7
  • Bilateral issues. See Environmental issues; Lend-Lease talks; Maritime/incidents at sea issues; Scientific/technical cooperation; Space cooperation; Trade, U.S.-Soviet.
  • Blee, David, 48
  • Blockading/mining North Vietnamese ports, U.S. See under Vietnam War.
  • Boggs, Hale, 2
  • Bowden, Lewis, 268
  • Brandt, Willy, 139, 167, 172, 206, 207, 253
  • Bratchikov, A., 277, 281, 288, 292, 293, 295
  • Brezhnev, Leonid I.:
    • Arab-Israeli dispute:
      • Nixon, communications with, 4, 6, 39, 72
      • NSC’s assessment, 231
      • Sadat, meetings with, 43
      • Sadat’s trip to Soviet Union, 5
    • Asia, collective security in, 122
    • Beam’s assessments, 123
    • Blockading/mining North Vietnamese ports, U.S.:
      • Nixon, communications with, 207, 214
      • Sonnenfeldt’s assessments, 193
    • Czechoslovakia, Soviet military intervention in, 163
    • European security arrangements, 7, 39
    • India-Pakistan War (1971):
      • Nixon, communications with, 19, 22, 24, 25
    • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (actual):
      • Announcement of the trip, 139, 159, 160, 163
      • Arab-Israeli dispute, 141, 159
      • China, 134, 141
      • European security arrangements, 139
      • Kissinger, meetings with, 134, 139, 141, 148, 159, 163
      • Nixon, communications with, 170
      • Nixon-Kissinger communications, 128
      • Nuclear non-aggression pact, 159
      • Principles of mutual relations, basic, 134, 139, 169
      • SALT negotiations, 139, 148
      • Soviet Summit, preparations for, 141, 159
      • Spring offensive, North Vietnamese, 134, 139, 141, 148, 159, 163
      • Summary memorandum of trip, Kissinger’s, 169
      • Trade, U.S.-Soviet, 139, 141, 148, 159
    • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (proposed), 126
    • SALT negotiations (see also Soviet Summit (actual) below), 65, 72
    • Scientific/technical cooperation, 56
    • Sonnenfeldt’s assessments of letter written by, 75
    • Sonnenfeldt’s assessments of Soviet behavior, 33
    • Soviet Summit (actual):
      • Arab-Israeli dispute, 256, 257, 284
      • Bureaucratic coordination, 259
      • China, 286, 299
      • Communiqué, joint U.S.-Soviet, 299
      • Economic Commission, Joint, 276
      • European security arrangements, 257, 265
      • Exit after signing ceremony, 269
      • Hostilities between U.S. and Soviet sides, 271
      • Kissinger, meetings with, 262, 284, 286
      • Kissinger’s assessments, 254, 255
      • Last formal meeting, 300
      • Lend-Lease talks, 299
      • Nixon, meetings with, 257, 259, 262, 263, 265, 269, 271, 284, 286, 299, 300
      • Nixon-Kissinger communications, 253, 296
      • Nuclear weapons, 299
      • Principles of mutual relations, basic, 257, 299
      • Russian people, Nixon’s televised address to, 294
      • Sadat, communications with, 256
      • SALT negotiations, 257, 259, 262, 263, 284, 286
      • Space cooperation, 269
      • Trade, U.S.-Soviet, 259, 265, 299
      • Vietnam War, 271, 299
    • Soviet Summit (proposed):
      • Chinese, resentment of the, 232
      • Negotiation style, 232
      • Nixon, communications with, 6, 51, 72, 181, 182
      • NSC’s assessments, 233, 234, 236, 240
      • SALT negotiations, 65, 72
      • Soviet Trade Union Congress, speech to, 65
    • Spring offensive, North Vietnamese:
      • Butz, meetings with, 101, 120
      • Honecker’s visit to Soviet Union, 92
      • Kissinger-Xuan Thuy/Le Duc Tho private meetings in Paris, 200
      • Nixon, communications with, 181, 190, 200
      • Protests against bombing of Haiphong, 110
      • Soviet reaction, Kissinger’s assessment of, 120
    • Statements from the U.S., Soviet concerns over, 53
    • Trade, U.S.–Soviet:
      • Butz, meetings with, 101, 120
      • Kissinger, meetings with, 259, 265, 299
      • Nixon, communications with, 6, 56
      • Sonnenfeldt’s assessments, 29
      • Statements by U.S. officials, concerns about, 53
    • United States trip (proposed), 46
    • Vietnam War (see also Blockading/mining North Vietnamese ports, U.S. and Spring offensive, North Vietnamese above), 6, 16, 40, 46
  • Brosio, Manlio, 15, 29, 45, 136
  • Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 37
  • Buckley, William F., Jr., 87
  • Bunker, Ellsworth, 111, 147, 153, 162
  • Bureau of Intelligence and Research, 65, 210
  • Burke, Gerald, 197
  • Butz, Earl, 51, 75, 91, 92, 123
    • Brezhnev, meetings with, 101, 120
    • Nixon, meetings with, 101
  • Cambodia, 29, 186
  • Canada, 4
  • Carson, James, 222
  • Carver, George, 118, 122, 172, 199, 216
  • Central Intelligence Agency (CIA):
    • Blockading/mining North Vietnamese ports, U.S., 199, 201
    • Spring offensive, North Vietnamese, 113, 117, 124, 158
  • Ceylon, 32
  • Chancellor, John, 209
  • Chapin, Dwight, 60, 135, 141, 146
  • China:
    • Airspace, U.S. violating Chinese, 123
    • Chou En-lai’s negotiation style, 232
    • Chou En-lai/Xuan Thuy meetings, 225
    • Haig-Huang Hua meetings, 167
    • India-Pakistan War (1971):
      • Haig-Huang Hua meetings, 24
      • Nixon-Kissinger communications, 18, 21, 24, 31, 32
      • Soviet-Chinese relations, 24
    • Kissinger-Dobrynin meetings, 54, 56, 88, 141
    • Kissinger-Huang Hua meetings, 97, 116, 123
    • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (actual), 134, 141
    • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (proposed), 116, 125
    • Kissinger’s visit (actual), 8, 52, 88
    • Kissinger’s visit (proposed), 1
    • Mansfield’s visit, 96, 116
    • NIE 11–72, 133
    • Nixon-Kissinger communications, 96
    • Nixon’s visit (actual), 52, 87
    • Nixon’s visit (proposed):
      • Congress, U.S., 2, 52
      • Haig-Chou En-lai meetings, 35
      • Kissinger-Dobrynin communications, 52
      • Kissinger-Dobrynin meetings, 8
      • Maritime/incidents at sea issues, 7
      • Nixon-Rogers communications, 11
      • Sonnenfeldt’s assessments, 37
      • U.S.–Soviet relations, 49, 50
    • Ping-Pong diplomacy, 121
    • SALT negotiations, 13
    • Scott’s (Hugh) visit, 96, 116
    • Shanghai Communiqué, 54
    • Soviet Summit (actual):
      • Kissinger-Brezhnev meetings, 286
      • Nixon-Brezhnev meetings, 299
    • Soviet Summit (proposed):
      • Brezhnev’s resentment of the Chinese, 232
      • Kissinger-White House staff meetings, 1
      • Nixon-Congressional leaders meetings, 2
      • Nixon-Kissinger communications, 225
      • NSC’s assessments, 234, 236, 240
      • Sonnenfeldt’s Soviet Union trip, 29
    • Spring offensive, North Vietnamese:
      • Chinese blamed for, 115
      • CIA’s assessment, 117
      • Hanoi/Haiphong, bombing strikes against, 123
      • Nixon-Kissinger communications, 95
      • Washington Special Actions Group, 92, 118
    • Vietnam War (see also Spring offensive, North Vietnamese above):
      • Blockading/mining North Vietnamese ports, U.S., 195, 212, 225
      • Buildup, massive U.S., 38
      • Kissinger-Dobrynin meetings, 8, 13, 39, 41, 46
      • U.S.-Chinese relations, 8
  • Chou En-lai:
    • Beam’s assessments, 115
    • Blockading/mining North Vietnamese ports, U.S., 207
    • Haig, meetings with, 35
    • Kissinger, meetings with, 8, 52
    • Negotiation style, 232
    • Nixon’s China visit (actual), 52
    • Nixon’s China visit (proposed), 49
    • North Vietnam, trip to, 115
    • Xuan Thuy, meetings with, 225
  • Chrone, Melvin, 225
  • CIA. See Central Intelligence Agency.
  • CIA’s Analysis of the Soviet Union 1947–1991: A Documentary Collection (Haines & Leggett), 133
  • Clift, Dennis, 48
  • Cline, Ray, 158
  • Colson, Charles W., 1, 144, 302
  • Commission on Scientific and Technical Cooperation, 48
  • Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), 45, 240, 253, 288
  • Computers, 12
  • Conference on European Security (CES), 11, 15, 29, 125, 172
  • Congress, U.S., 2, 47, 52, 208, 225, 248, 264, 294, 297, 302
  • Connally, John, 102, 126, 128, 143
    • Blockading/mining North Vietnamese ports, U.S., 192, 204, 205
    • Judgment of, Nixon’s assessment of, 194
    • Soviet Summit trip, Nixon’s, 302
    • Spring offensive, North Vietnamese, 176, 205
  • Cox, Ed, 168
  • Cuba, 4, 30, 33, 91, 186
  • Cuban missile crisis, 66
  • Current Digest of the Soviet Press, 5, 118, 120, 125, 134
  • Cyprus, 51, 74
  • Czechoslovakia, 150, 153, 163
  • David, Edward, 48, 57, 173, 244
  • Davies, Richard, 45, 91, 211, 222
  • Davis, Jeanne, 173, 216
  • Deane, Gen. John R., 222
  • Disarmament (see also SALT ), 129
  • Dobrynin, Anatoli:
    • Arab-Israeli dispute (see also Kissinger-Dobrynin meetings under Arab-Israeli dispute):
      • Nixon, meetings with, 62
      • Sonnenfeldt’s assessments, 74
    • Blockading/mining North Vietnamese ports, U.S.:
      • Kissinger, meetings with, 207, 239
      • U.S.-Soviet negotiations, 211
    • China:
      • Kissinger, meetings with, 54, 56, 88, 141
      • SALT negotiations, 13
    • Communiqué, joint U.S.-Soviet, 56, 62
    • Cuba, 4
    • European security arrangements, 39, 45, 46
    • Germany, West, 172
    • Greece and Cyprus, conflict between, 51
    • India-Pakistan War (1971), 4, 13, 39
    • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (actual):
      • Kissinger, meetings with, 129
      • Kissinger-Brezhnev meetings, 134, 139, 141, 159
      • Kissinger-Gromyko meetings, 150, 160
      • Principles of mutual relations, basic, 159
    • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (proposed), 13, 97, 126
    • Lend-Lease talks, 123
    • Maritime/incidents at sea issues:
      • Fishing trawlers (Soviet) seized in Alaskan waters, 51
      • Kissinger, meetings with, 45, 191, 221, 224, 226
      • Nixon, meetings with, 191
    • Nixon-Rogers communications, 44
    • Nixon’s China visit (proposed), 8, 52
    • Nuclear weapons, U.S.-Soviet treaty (proposed) renouncing, 221, 223
    • Poland, Nixon’s desire to visit, 76, 77
    • Rogers, meetings with, 46, 67
    • SALT negotiations (see also Kissinger-Dobrynin meetings under SALT ):
      • Breakthrough, Nixon’s public announcement of, 220
      • Haig, communications with, 202
      • Kissinger, communications with, 51, 179, 214
      • Rogers, meetings with, 67, 76
    • Scientific/technical cooperation, 173
    • Soviet Summit (actual):
      • Arab-Israeli dispute, 293
      • Communiqué, joint U.S.–Soviet, 283, 295
      • Kissinger-Gromyko meetings, 273, 277, 281, 283, 292, 293, 295
      • Maritime/incidents at sea issues, 292
      • Nixon-Brezhnev meetings, 259, 265, 284, 300
      • Nixon-Kosygin meetings, 276
      • Rogers-Gromyko meetings, 298
      • SALT negotiations, 277
      • Trade, U.S.-Soviet, 39, 41, 45, 46, 51, 56, 62
    • Soviet Summit (proposed):
      • Announcements, joint, 59
      • Bureaucratic coordination, 57, 182
      • Kissinger, meetings with, 4, 39, 41, 45, 46, 62, 119, 214, 220, 224, 239, 243
      • McCloskey, communications with, 56
      • Nixon, meetings with, 62, 242
      • Nixon-Brezhnev communications, 6
      • Peterson, meetings with, 70
      • Principles of mutual relations, basic, 220
      • Public statements, keeping a lid on, 223
    • Space cooperation, 51
    • Spring offensive, North Vietnamese:
      • Kissinger, meetings with, 80, 84, 88, 94
      • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (proposed), 94, 100, 104
      • Kissinger-Xuan Thuy/Le Duc Tho private meetings in Paris, 190
      • Nixon’s televised address to the nation, 89
      • Plenary sessions in Paris, opening up, 226
      • Soviet protests against Haiphong bombing, 109
    • Trade, U.S.-Soviet:
      • Joint ventures, 70
      • Kissinger, meetings with, 13, 39, 41, 45, 46, 51, 56, 62
      • Peterson, meetings with, 62, 70, 75
      • Rogers, meetings with, 67
    • U.S.-Soviet relations, 39
    • Vietnam War (see also Blockading/mining North Vietnamese ports, U.S. and Spring offensive, North Vietnamese above):
      • Kissinger, meetings with, 4, 8, 13, 39, 41, 46
      • Kissinger-Le Duc Tho meeting canceled, 13
      • Nixon-Kissinger communications, 38
    • Wedding anniversary, 30 th, 56
  • Dobrynin, Irina, 95
  • Dominick, Peter, 250
  • Doyle, James H., 48
  • Eagleburger, Lawrence, 48, 91
  • Economic Commission, Joint, 276
  • Economic issues concerning Soviet Union (see also Lend-Lease talks; Trade, U.S.–Soviet), 34
  • Egeberg, Roger, 57
  • Egypt (see also Arab-Israeli dispute), 74
  • Ehrlichman, John D., 1, 302
  • Eisenhower, Dwight D., 125, 126, 183, 196
  • Eliot, Theodore, 61, 65, 173, 222
  • Ellender, Allen, 2
  • Environmental issues:
    • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (actual), 169
    • Nixon-Rogers communications, 67
    • Senior Review Group, 48
    • Sonnenfeldt’s assessments, 75, 93, 125, 173
    • Soviet Summit (proposed), 227, 244
  • European security arrangements:
    • Brezhnev’s assessments, 7
    • Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, 45, 240, 253, 288
    • Conference on European Security, 11, 15, 29, 125, 172
    • Congress (U.S.), Nixon’s annual (third) report on foreign affairs to, 47
    • Kissinger-Dobrynin meetings, 39, 45, 46
    • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (actual):
      • Kissinger-Brezhnev meetings, 139, 159, 169
      • Summary memorandum of trip, Kissinger’s, 169
    • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (proposed), 125, 126
    • Most Favored Nation Status, 125, 139
    • Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions in Europe, 11, 15, 29, 45, 93, 125, 172, 240, 253
    • National Security Council, 15
    • Nixon-Brezhnev communications, 39
    • Nixon-Kissinger communications, 15
    • Nixon-Rogers communications, 44
    • Nixon-Rogers meetings, 15
    • Quadripartite Agreement on Berlin (1971), 6, 15, 39, 50, 239, 253
    • Sonnenfeldt’s assessments, 75, 93, 125
    • Sonnenfeldt’s Soviet Union trip, 29
    • Soviet Summit (actual):
      • Kissinger-Gromyko meetings, 288
      • Nixon-Brezhnev meetings, 257, 265
      • Nixon-Kissinger communications, 252, 253
      • West German treaties with Soviet Union/Poland, 238, 253
    • Soviet Summit (proposed):
      • Nixon-Rogers communications, 11
      • NSC’s assessments, 240
    • Trade, U.S.-Soviet, 12
    • Washington Special Actions Group, 172
    • West German treaties with Soviet Union/Poland, 238, 253
  • Evans, Rowland, 93
  • Export-Import Bank, 12, 29, 56, 75, 125, 141, 150, 169, 265, 276
  • Farley, Philip J., 229
  • Fiat Company, 276
  • First Circle, The (Solzhenitsyn), 225
  • Flanigan, Peter M., 1
    • Lend-Lease talks, 67, 83
    • Soviet Summit (actual):
      • Grain talks, 268, 276
      • Lend-Lease talks, 268, 276
      • Natural gas, 276
      • Nixon, communications with, 265
      • Nixon-Brezhnev meetings, 259, 300
      • Nixon-Kosygin meetings, 276
      • Rogers-Patolichev meetings, 268
      • Trade, U.S.–Soviet, 56, 70, 215, 265
    • Soviet Summit (proposed), 1
    • Spring offensive, North Vietnamese, 122
    • Trade, U.S..–Soviet:
      • Grain sales, 91
      • Joint ventures, commercial, 70
      • Kissinger, communications with, 56, 215
      • Kissinger and Peterson, meeting with, 70
      • Nixon, communications with, 265
      • Peterson, communications with, 67
    • Vietnam War:
      • Blockading/mining North Vietnamese ports, U.S., 216
      • Spring offensive, North Vietnamese, 118
  • Ford, Gerald, 2, 95
  • Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, 197
  • Formation of the Soviet Union (Pipes), 225
  • France, 4, 56, 298
  • Fulbright, J. William, 2
  • Furtseva, Ekaterina A., 38
  • Gallagher, Neil, 216
  • Gandhi, Indira, 24, 50
  • Garment, Leonard, 1
  • Garthoff, Raymond, 167, 284
  • Gas, natural, 12, 70, 276
  • Gavilov, 284
  • General Advisory Committee On Arms Control and Disarmament, 66
  • Geneva Accords in 1954, 271, 292
  • Germany, East, 92, 253
  • Germany, Quadripartite Agreement on Berlin (1971) and East/West, 6, 15, 39, 50, 239, 253
  • Germany, West:
    • Kissinger-Rush communications, 86
    • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (actual):
      • Kissinger-Brezhnev meetings, 139, 159
      • Kissinger-Haig communications, 167
    • Sonnenfeldt’s assessments, 29
    • Soviet Summit (proposed), 206
    • Treaties with Soviet Union/Poland, 238, 253
    • United Nations, admission into the, 253
    • Washington Special Actions Group, 172, 216
  • Gibson, Andrew E., 91
  • Gold, 12
  • Goldwater, Barry, 87, 250
  • Gorky Auto Plant, 276
  • Gray, Gordon, 191, 197
  • Great Britain, 25, 26
  • Grechko, Andrei, 74, 210, 226
  • Greece, 51
  • Green, 114
  • Grinevsky, Oleg, 284
  • Gromyko, Andrei A.:
    • Arab-Israeli dispute:
      • Kissinger, meetings with, 4, 150
      • Kissinger-Dobrynin meetings, 41
      • Nixon-Brezhnev communications, 6
      • NSC’s assessments, 231
      • Sonnenfeldt’s assessments, 74
    • Johnson (Lyndon)-Kosygin meeting, 56
    • Kissinger-Dobrynin meetings, 39
    • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (actual):
      • Announcement of the trip, 150
      • Arab-Israeli dispute, 150, 152
      • Kissinger, meetings with, 129, 150, 152, 160, 163
      • Kissinger-Brezhnev meetings, 134, 139, 141, 159
      • Lend-Lease talks, 150
      • Nixon-Kissinger communications, 128
      • Principles of mutual relations, basic, 150
      • SALT negotiations, 150, 160, 163
      • Spring offensive, North Vietnamese, 150, 160
      • Trade, U.S.-Soviet, 150
    • Nixon, meetings with, 126, 150
    • Soviet Summit (actual):
    • Soviet Summit (proposed):
      • Invitation brought, 2
      • Negotiation style, 232
      • Nixon-Brezhnev communications, 6
    • Vietnam War, meeting with Nixon on, 40
  • Guay, George, 103, 162
  • Gventsadze, German, 259
  • Hague Convention on Mining of 1907, 216
  • Haig, Alexander M., Jr.:
    • Arab-Israeli dispute:
      • Rabin, meeting with, 77
      • Sonnenfeldt’s assessments, 75
    • Blockading/mining North Vietnamese ports, U.S.:
      • Kissinger-NSC staff/CIA official meeting, 199
      • Nixon, communications with, 184
      • Nixon’s televised address to the nation, reactions to, 210
      • Sonnenfeldt’s assessments, 193
      • Washington Special Actions Group, 216
    • Brezhnev’s concerns over statements made by U.S. officials, 53
    • Chou En-lai, meeting with, 35
    • Germany, West, 172
    • India-Pakistan War (1971):
      • Huang Hua, meeting with, 24
      • Nixon-Brezhnev communications, 22
      • Vorontsov, communications with, 17
      • Vorontsov, meeting with, 25
    • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (actual):
    • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (proposed), 97
    • Lend-Lease talks, 83
    • Maritime/incidents at sea issues, 7
    • SALT negotiations:
      • Dobrynin, communications with, 202
      • Kissinger, communications with, 179
      • Kissinger-Moorer communications, 273
      • Nixon, communications with, 136, 153, 202
      • Rogers, distrust of, 187
      • Rogers-Smith (Gerard) communications, 229
      • Smith (Gerard)-Semenov meetings, 136
    • Soviet Summit (actual):
    • Soviet Summit (proposed):
      • Bureaucratic coordination, 69, 146
      • Cancellation of, discussions on, 183, 184, 186, 195
      • Instructions from Nixon while he is away, 250
      • Nixon-Brezhnev communications, 6, 181
      • Nixon-Rogers communications, 11
      • Nixon’s concerns about impact of Summit, 162
      • Rogers-Haldeman communications, 60
      • SALT negotiations, 250
      • Sonnenfeldt’s assessments, 93
      • Trade, U.S.–Soviet, 12
    • Spring offensive, North Vietnamese:
      • B-52 strikes, 138, 142, 144
      • Contingency plans for U.S. military operations, 85
      • Domino theory, 186
      • Haldeman, meetings with, 154
      • Hanoi/Haiphong, bombing strikes against, 109, 137, 186, 271
      • Kissinger, communications with, 162
      • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (proposed), cancellation of, 103
      • Kissinger-Xuan Thuy/Le Duc Tho private meetings in Paris, 183, 185
      • Nixon, communications with, 186
      • Nixon, meetings with, 126, 158
      • Nixon and Kissinger/Haldeman, meetings with, 195
      • Protest against the war, American, 144
      • Saigon trip to prepare assessment, 111, 113
      • Soviet protests against Haiphong bombing, 109
      • Soviet Summit’s importance vs. honorable conclusion of the war, 144
      • Troop withdrawals, American, 147
      • Washington Special Actions Group, 92, 99
    • Trade, U.S.–Soviet:
      • Nixon and Rogers/Stans, meetings with, 12
      • Nixon-Stans meetings, 20
    • Vietnam War (see also Blockading/mining North Vietnamese ports, U.S. and Spring offensive, North Vietnamese above), 4
  • Haldeman, H.R. (Bob):
    • Blockading/mining North Vietnamese ports, U.S.:
      • Nixon, communications with, 208
      • Nixon, meetings with, 212
      • Nixon-Cabinet meeting right after televised address, 209
      • Nixon-Connally meetings, 192
      • Nixon-Kissinger meetings, 202
      • Nixon’s televised address to the nation, reactions to, 210
    • Butz trip to Soviet Union, 123
    • Kissinger and Rogers, lack of communication between, 36
    • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (actual):
      • Announcement of the trip, 158
      • Nixon, meetings with, 128, 154, 168
      • Nixon’s concerns about impact of trip, 145
      • Nixon’s concerns with Kissinger’s negotiating style, 145
      • SALT negotiations, 168
    • Ottawa address, Nixon’s, 100
    • Poland, Nixon’s desire to visit, 68
    • Rogers, concerns about actions of, 42
    • Soviet Summit (actual):
      • Congress, Nixon’s post-summit address to, 294, 302
      • Exit after signing ceremony, Nixon-Brezhnev, 269
      • Hawks in the Senate, Nixon’s concerns about the, 264
      • Kissinger and Smith, hostilities between, 286
      • Leaving the Soviet Union, 301
      • Leaving Washington, 251
      • Leningrad, Nixon’s trip to, 287
      • Listening devices, 301
      • Nixon-Brezhnev meetings, 257
      • Rogers, Nixon’s/Kissinger’s lack of trust in, 260
      • Russian people, Nixon’s televised address to, 294
      • SALT negotiations, 286
    • Soviet Summit (proposed):
      • Bureaucratic coordination, 71, 145, 147, 182
      • Cancellation of, discussions on, 183, 185, 187, 188, 189, 192, 195, 205, 212, 217, 221
      • Kissinger, communications with, 60
      • Nixon, communications with, 64
      • Nixon-Cabinet meetings, 3
      • Press, dealings with the, 225, 245
      • Protests on Vietnam War, American, 217
      • Rogers, communications with, 60
      • Rogers, Nixon’s/Kissinger’s lack of trust in, 55, 64
      • Spring offensive, North Vietnamese, 176
    • Spring offensive, North Vietnamese:
      • Haig, meetings with, 154
      • Hanoi/Haiphong, bombing strikes against, 185
      • Kissinger, communications with, 101, 188
      • Kissinger-Xuan Thuy/Le Duc Tho private meetings in Paris, 185
      • Nixon, meetings with, 126, 154, 192
      • Nixon and Kissinger/Haig, meetings with, 195
      • Soviet protests against Haiphong bombing, 109
      • Soviet Summit (proposed), 176
      • Toughness, need for, 192
    • Vietnam War (See Blockading/mining North Vietnamese ports, U.S.; Spring offensive, North Vietnamese above)
  • Haldeman Diaries (Haldeman), 51, 102, 128, 145, 154, 158, 168, 176, 188, 269, 287, 294, 301
  • Health cooperation, 67, 227
  • Heath, Edward, 207
  • Hebert, Eddie, 250
  • Helms, Richard, 92, 99, 118, 122, 158, 204, 217, 225
  • Henkin, Daniel Z., 216
  • Henry, David, 115
  • Hicks, Sander, 83
  • Hillenbrand, Martin, 48, 60, 67, 227, 259, 265, 288, 298, 300
  • Hinton, Deane, 48, 268
  • Hirohito (Emperor), 1
  • Hodgson, James, 67
  • Holdridge, John, 122, 199, 216
  • Home, Alec, 217
  • Honecker, Eric, 92
  • Hoover, J. Edgar, 191, 192
  • Howe, Jonathan T., 126, 199
  • Howe, William, 106
  • Huang Hua, 24, 97, 116, 123, 167
  • Humphrey, Hubert H., 1, 191, 196
  • Hungary, 12
  • Husayn, Saddam, 74
  • Hussein (King) of Jordan, 84, 150, 256
  • Hyland, William, 48, 259, 273, 277, 281, 300
  • ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles). See SALT .
  • Ikle, Fred C., 222
  • In Confidence (Dobrynin), 126
  • India-Pakistan War (1971):
    • British Resolution, 25, 26
    • Climax reached with multiple messages between U.S./Soviet leaders, 24
    • Cutting off assistance to India, U.S., 31
    • Haig-Chou En-lai meeting, 35
    • Haig-Huang Hua meeting, 24
    • Haig-Vorontsov communications, 17
    • Haig-Vorontsov meetings, 25
    • Hot line message from U.S. to Moscow, 24
    • Kissinger-Dobrynin meetings, 4, 13, 39
    • Kissinger-Vorontsov communications, 16
    • Kissinger-Vorontsov meetings, 17, 24, 25, 26
    • Nixon-Brezhnev communications, 19, 22, 24, 25
    • Nixon-Kissinger communications, 18, 21, 24, 31, 32
    • Nixon-Matskevich meeting, 23
    • Nixon-Rogers communications, 11
    • Polish Resolution, 26
    • Sonnenfeldt’s assessments, 74
    • Soviet-Chinese relations, 24
    • Soviet-Indian Treaty of Peace, Friendship, and Cooperation, 50
    • Soviet response to U.S. after, 38
    • Surrender, Pakistani, 32
  • Indochina, 292, 295
  • Indonesia, 186
  • Iran, 51
  • Irwin, John N., II, 48, 81, 92
  • Israel. See Arab-Israeli dispute.
  • Ivanov, Igor, 276
  • Izvestia, 118
  • Jackson, Henry, 248, 249, 250, 289
  • Jalloud Abdul Salam, 74
  • Japan, 1, 4, 50, 196
  • Jarring, Gunnar, 41, 45, 244, 298
  • Jay, Edward, 56
  • JCS. See Joint Chiefs of Staff.
  • Johnson, Lyndon B., 56, 126, 175
  • Johnson, U. Alexis, 99, 118, 122, 172, 210, 216, 219
  • Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), 79, 280
  • Joint ventures, commercial, 70
  • Jordan (see also Arab-Israeli dispute), 84
  • Kalinkin, B. N., 115
  • Kama River Purchasing Commission, 70
  • Karhos, Fred, 92, 99
  • Kasatonov, Adm. V. A., 7, 211
  • Kashmir frontier (see also India-Pakistan War (1971)), 4
  • Katushev, Konstatin, 169, 172
  • Keegan, Maj. Gen. George J., Jr., 133
  • Kehrli, Bruce, 67
  • Kendall, Don, 12
  • Kennedy, Edward M., 87, 196
  • Kennedy, John F., 2, 194
  • Kennedy, Richard, 48, 92, 110, 114, 118, 122, 199, 216
  • Khrushchev, Nikita, 1, 2, 75, 101, 125, 194, 236, 254
  • Kim II-Sung, 299
  • Kishilov, Nikolai, 147, 167, 284
  • Kissinger, Henry A.:
    • Arab-Israeli dispute (see also Kissinger-Dobrynin meetings under Arab-Israeli dispute):
      • Alon, meeting with, 198
      • Brezhnev-Sadat meeting, 43
      • Gromyko, meetings with, 4, 150
      • Hussein (King), meeting with, 84
      • Nixon, communications with, 5
      • Rabin, meeting with, 77
      • Sadat’s trip to Soviet Union, 5
      • Sonnenfeldt’s assessments, 74
    • Blockading/mining North Vietnamese ports, U.S.:
      • Bombing vs., discussion of pros/cons of, 196
      • CIA’s assessments, 201
      • Congress, U.S., 225
      • Dobrynin, meetings with, 207, 239
      • Le Duc Tho’s willingness to resume private talks, 223
      • Nixon, communications with, 102, 105, 113, 121, 196
      • Nixon, meetings with, 195, 202, 205, 212
      • Nixon-NSC meetings, 204
      • Nixon’s televised address to the nation, 206
      • NSC staff/CIA official, meeting with, 199
      • Plenary session in Paris, discussions about, 228
      • Press, dealing with the, 225
      • Reactions to, 213, 221
      • Sonnenfeldt’s assessments, 193
      • Soviet non-response, 221
      • Soviet Summit (proposed), 237
      • Washington Special Actions Group, 216, 219
    • Brezhnev’s concerns over statements made by U.S. officials, 53
    • China:
      • Airspace, U.S. violating Chinese, 123
      • Chou En-lai, meetings with, 8, 52
      • Dobrynin, meetings with, 54, 56, 88, 141
      • Huang Hua, meetings with, 97, 116, 123
      • Moscow, secret trip to (proposed), 116, 125
      • Nixon, communications with, 96
      • SALT negotiations, 13
      • Visit to (actual), 8, 52, 88
      • Visit to (proposed), 1
    • Communiqué, draft, 56, 62
    • Congress (U.S.), Nixon’s annual (third) report on foreign affairs to, 47
    • European security arrangements:
      • Conference on European Security, 15
      • Dobrynin, meetings with, 39, 45, 46
      • Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions in Europe, 15
      • Nixon, communications with, 15
      • Quadripartite Agreement on Berlin (1971), 239
      • West German treaties with Soviet Union/Poland, 238
    • Germany, West, 86, 172, 206
    • India-Pakistan War (1971):
      • Cutting off assistance to India, 31
      • Dobrynin, meetings with, 4, 13, 39
      • Hot line message from U.S. to Moscow, 24
      • Nixon, communications with, 18, 21, 24, 31, 32
      • Nixon-Matskevich meeting, 23
      • Surrender, Pakistani, 32
      • Vorontsov, communications with, 16
      • Vorontsov, meetings with, 17, 24, 25, 26
    • Lend-Lease talks, 83, 123
    • Maritime/incidents at sea issues:
      • Dobrynin, meetings with, 45, 191, 221, 224, 226
      • Fishing trawlers (Soviet) seized in Alaskan waters, 51
      • Hillenbrand, communications with, 227
      • Nixon, communications with, 228, 237
      • Nixon and Rogers, meetings with, 217
    • Moscow, secret trip to (actual):
    • Moscow, secret trip to (proposed):
      • Briefing book sent to Nixon, 125, 127
      • China, 116, 125
      • Dobrynin, meetings with, 13, 97
      • Nixon, communications with, 98
      • Nixon, meetings with, 126
      • Non-communist countries, prohibition of Soviet liberation of, 126
      • Toughness, need for, 126
    • Nixon’s China trip (proposed):
      • Congressional leadership, briefing, 52
      • Dobrynin, communications with, 52
      • Dobrynin, meetings with, 8
      • Nixon, meetings with, 49
      • U.S.– Soviet relations, 49
    • NSC Study Memorandum 143, 27
    • Nuclear fuel supply, 173
    • Nuclear weapons, U.S.–Soviet treaty (proposed) renouncing, 221, 223
    • Other Large Phased Array Radars, 147
    • Ottawa address, Nixon’s, 100
    • Poland, Nixon’s desire to visit, 68, 76, 77
    • Rogers, concerns about actions of, 42
    • Rogers, lack of communication with, 36
    • Rush, meetings with, 86
    • SALT negotiations (see also Kissinger-Dobrynin meetings under SALT ):
      • Breakthrough, Nixon’s public announcement of, 220
      • Haig, communications with, 179
      • Jackson (Henry), meeting with, 248
      • Lord, communications with, 177
      • Moorer, communications with, 273
      • Nixon, communications with, 174, 225
      • Rogers, communications with, 179
      • Rogers-Dobrynin meetings, 76
      • Rogers-Smith (Gerard) communications, 229
      • Smith (Gerard), communications with, 51, 147, 167, 174
      • Smith (Gerard)-Semenov meetings, 28, 136
      • Verification Panel, 9
    • Scientific/technical cooperation, 48, 125, 169, 227
    • Senior Review Group, 48
    • Soviet behaviors, Sonnenfeldt’s assessments of, 33
    • Soviet Summit (actual):
    • Soviet Summit (proposed):
      • Announcements, jointBilateral agreements, 227
      • Books read by Nixon in preparation for, 225
      • Bureaucratic coordination, 57, 71, 182, 198, 237
      • Cancellation of, discussions on, 183, 187, 188, 189, 191, 192, 194, 195, 205, 212, 217, 218, 221, 225
      • Congressional (U.S.) leaders, meetings with, 248
      • Dobrynin, meetings with, 4, 39, 41, 45, 46, 62, 119, 214, 220, 224, 239, 243
      • Environmental issues, 244
      • Gift exchanges, 225, 228
      • Haldeman, communications with, 60
      • Hanoi/Haiphong, bombing strikes against, 239
      • Maritime/incidents at sea issues, 227, 244
      • McCloskey, communications with, 56
      • Metropolitan Club, speech at, 191
      • Moscow, secret trip to (actual), 141, 159
      • Negotiation styles of participants, 232
      • Nixon, communications with, 51, 71, 78, 95, 119, 222, 227, 248
      • Nixon, meetings with, 62, 63, 248
      • Nixon-Brezhnev communications, 6
      • Nixon-Congressional leaders meetings, 2
      • Nixon-Rogers communications, 11
      • Press briefings, Nixon’s, 245, 246, 249
      • Principles of mutual relations, basic, 220, 238, 244
      • Protests on Vietnam War, American, 217
      • Public statements, keeping a lid on, 223
      • Rogers, communications with, 61
      • Rogers, lack of trust in, 55, 63, 64, 228, 237, 238, 242
      • Russian people, Nixon’s televised address to, 238
      • SALT negotiations, 63, 244, 245, 247, 248, 249
      • Scientific/technical cooperation, 227
      • Smith (Gerard), hostilities with, 286
      • Sonnenfeldt, communications with, 56
      • Sonnenfeldt’s assessments, 93
      • Space cooperation, 244
      • Spring offensive, North Vietnamese, 176
      • Vietnam War, 243
      • White House staff, meetings with, 1
    • Space cooperation, 48, 51, 227, 244
    • Spring offensive, North Vietnamese:
      • Arab-Israeli dispute, drawing parallels with, 113
      • B-52 strikes, 87, 138, 151, 212
      • Bombing cessation, discussions on, 112, 126
      • Contingency plans for U.S. military operations, 85
      • Dobrynin, meetings with, 80, 84, 88, 94
      • Election concerns/strategies, discussing, 102
      • Haig, communications with, 162
      • Haig in Saigon to prepare assessment, 113
      • Haldeman, communications with, 101, 188
      • Hanoi/Haiphong, bombing strikes against, 121, 123, 151, 175
      • Joint Chiefs of Staff, 79
      • Laird, criticisms of, 194
      • Lord, communications with, 177
      • Military leaders’ failure to carry out Nixon’s orders, 246
      • Moscow, cancellation of proposed secret trip to, 103, 104
      • Moscow, secret trip to (proposed), 94, 100, 102, 113, 116, 119, 121, 126, 141, 159
      • Nixon, communications with, 73, 78, 79, 84, 95, 113, 116, 119, 123, 175, 176, 180, 182, 187, 191
      • Nixon, meetings with, 73
      • Nixon and Haldeman/Haig, meetings with, 195
      • Nixon-Soviet leadership communications, 107
      • Nixon’s televised address to the nation, 89
      • Nuclear weapons, discussing, 126
      • Plenary sessions in Paris, opening up, 226
      • Private talks, 89, 102
      • Recklessness, encouraging appearance of, 82
      • Sonnenfeldt’s assessments, 91
      • Soviet/North Vietnam/West Germany linkages, 86
      • Soviet protests against Haiphong bombing, 109, 114, 121
      • Soviet reaction to, assessment of, 120
      • Toughness, need for, 113, 126, 191, 192
      • Vorontsov, meetings with, 103, 106
      • Washington Special Actions Group, 81, 92, 99, 111, 118, 122
      • Xuan Thuy/Le Duc Tho, private meetings in Paris with, 183, 185, 190, 200, 290
    • Trade, U.S.–Soviet:
      • Brezhnev-Butz meetings, 101
      • Dobrynin, meetings with, 13, 39, 41, 45, 46, 51, 56, 62
      • Flanigan, communications with, 56, 215
      • Moscow, secret trip to (proposed), 126
      • Nixon, communications with, 21, 29, 296
      • Nixon-Brezhnev communications, 56
      • Peterson and Flanigan, meeting with, 70
      • Sonnenfeldt, communications with, 29, 56
      • Stans, communications with, 39
      • Stans’ trip to Soviet Union, 14
    • Vietnam War (see also Blockading/mining North Vietnamese ports, U.S. and Spring offensive, North Vietnamese above):
      • Buildup, massive U.S., 38
      • Dobrynin, meetings with, 4, 8, 13, 39, 41, 46
      • Haig, communications with, 4
      • Le Duc Tho meeting, cancellation of, 13
      • Nixon, communications with, 38
      • Nixon-Brezhnev communications, 16
    • Wallace (George), assassination attempt on, 228
  • Knowles, Richard, 122
  • Korea, 265, 276, 299
  • Korniyenko, Georgi, 29, 160, 259, 276, 277, 281, 283, 288, 290, 292, 295, 298
  • Kosygin, Aleksey N.:
    • Arab-Israeli dispute, 5
    • Cuba visit (proposed), 4
    • Johnson (Lyndon), meeting with, 56
    • SALT negotiations, 13
    • Sonnenfeldt’s assessments of Soviet behavior, 33
    • Soviet Summit (actual):
      • Arab-Israeli dispute, 284
      • Economic Commission, Joint, 276
      • Last formal meeting, 300
      • Lend-Lease talks, 276, 285
      • Natural gas, 276
      • Nixon, meetings with, 276, 285
      • Nixon-Brezhnev meetings, 259, 265, 271, 284, 300
      • SALT negotiations, 259, 284
      • Trade, U.S.-Soviet, 265, 276
      • Vietnam War, 271
    • Soviet Summit (proposed), 232
    • Trade, U.S.-Soviet, 14, 29, 276
    • Xuan Thuy, meeting with, 216
  • Kovalev, Nikolay, 114
  • Kraft, Joseph, 87, 93, 123
  • Kreisky, Bruno, 226
  • Krimer, William, 259, 285
  • Kuriles, Southern, 50
  • Kusnetsov, Vasily V., 24, 130, 259, 300
  • Laird, Melvin, 250
    • Blockading/mining North Vietnamese ports, U.S., 204
    • Brezhnev’s concerns over statements made by, 53
    • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (proposed), 126
    • Soviet Summit (proposed):
      • Cancellation of, discussions on, 225
      • Maritime/incidents at sea issues, 244
      • Sonnenfeldt’s assessments, 93
    • Spring offensive, North Vietnamese:
      • Abrams’ assessments, 177
      • Air capabilities, U.S., 135
      • B-52 strikes, 142, 151
      • Contingency plans for U.S. military operations, 85
      • Criticized by Nixon/Kissinger, 194
      • Hanoi/Haiphong, bombing strikes against, 121, 137, 151
      • Military leaders’ failure to carry out Nixon’s orders, 246
      • Nixon-Kissinger communications, 79
      • Soviet Union, blaming the, 91
      • Troop withdrawals, American, 147
  • Laos, 186
  • Latimer, Thomas, 197
  • Law of the Sea negotiations, 48
  • Le Duc Tho, 134, 139, 181
    • Kissinger, cancellation of meeting with, 13
    • Kissinger, meetings with, 183, 185, 191, 200, 290
    • NSC’s assessments, 234
    • Private talks, willingness to resume, 223
  • Lend-Lease talks:
    • Kissinger-Dobrynin communications, 123
    • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (actual), 150
    • Nixon-Rogers communications, 67
    • Peterson’s assessments, 67
    • Sonnenfeldt’s assessments, 83, 91, 93
    • Soviet Summit (actual):
      • Flanigan-Armstrong communications, 268
      • Kissinger-Gromyko meetings, 292
      • Nixon-Brezhnev meetings, 299
      • Nixon-Kissinger communications, 296
      • Nixon-Kosygin meetings, 276, 285
  • Libya, 74
  • Lincoln, Franklin, 197, 204
  • Lord, Winston, 8, 79, 85, 134, 139, 150, 164, 177, 199, 201, 265, 271, 276, 283, 288, 290, 292, 293, 295
  • Low, George, 48
  • Luns, Joseph, 75
  • MacGregor, Clark, 1, 2, 302
  • Machine tools, 12
  • Mahon, George, 2
  • Mansfield, Mike, 2, 96, 116, 125
  • Manzhulo, A., 45, 268
  • Mao Tse-tung, 236
  • Marder, Murrey, 172
  • Maritime/incidents at sea issues:
    • Beam’s assessments, 7
    • Fishing trawlers (Soviet) seized in Alaskan waters, 51
    • Kissinger-Dobrynin meetings, 45, 191, 221, 224, 226
    • Kissinger-Hillenbrand communications, 227
    • Law of the Sea negotiations, 48
    • Nixon-Dobrynin meetings, 191
    • Nixon-Kissinger communications, 228, 237
    • Nixon-Kissinger/Rogers meetings, 217
    • Rogers-Dobrynin meetings, 67
    • Senior Review Group, 48
    • Sonnenfeldt’s assessments, 48, 83, 91, 93
    • Soviet ships in North Vietnamese ports, 224
    • Soviet Summit (actual), 274, 292
    • Soviet Summit (proposed):
      • Kissinger-Laird meetings, 244
      • Nixon-Kissinger communications, 227
      • Nixon-Kissinger meetings, 244
    • U.S.–Soviet Exchange Agreement, 93
  • Mark, David E., 90
  • Markelov, 226
  • Matlock, Jack, 114, 211, 259, 298, 300
  • Matskevich, Vladimir, 23, 24, 38, 101
  • Mazurov, Kiril, 74
  • McCloskey, Robert, 56, 81, 93, 217, 245
  • McCloy, John, 66, 197
  • McGinnis, John, 48
  • McGovern, George, 83, 191, 196
  • Meir, Golda, 13, 16, 150
  • Middle East (see also Arab-Israeli dispute), 30
  • Minerals, 12
  • Missiles. See SALT .
  • Mitchell, John, 36, 51
  • Moorer, Adm. Thomas, 48, 99, 118, 121, 192, 204, 216, 223, 244, 248, 250, 264, 273, 279, 280
  • Morgan, Thomas, 2
  • Moscow Summit in 1972. See Soviet Summit in 1972 .
  • Mosely, Philip, 222
  • Murphy, Franklin, 197
  • Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions in Europe (MBFR), 11, 15, 29, 45, 93, 125, 172, 240, 253
  • Mutuality of interest between U.S. and Soviet Union, 34
  • National Intelligence Estimates:
    • NIE:
      • 11.–10.–71, 30
      • 11.–72, 133
  • National Security Council (NSC):
    • Arab-Israeli dispute, 150
    • Blockading/mining North Vietnamese ports, U.S., 199, 204, 234
    • Council on International Economic Policy Decision Memorandum 6, 60
    • Council on International Economic Policy Study Memorandum 20, 60
    • Decision Memorandums:
    • Environmental cooperation, 48
    • European security arrangements, 15
    • Maritime/incidents at sea issues, 48, 67
    • Meetings:
      • Interdepartmental Group for Europe, 27, 34
      • Senior Review Group, 27, 48
      • Standing Group, May 6, 1972, 199
      • Standing Group, May 8, 1972, 204
      • Verification Panel, 9, 273
    • SALT negotiations, 9, 66, 229, 273
    • Scientific/technical cooperation, 48
    • Soviet Summit (proposed):
      • Arab-Israeli dispute, 231, 236
      • China, 234, 236, 240
      • European security arrangements, 15
      • Principles of mutual relations, basic, 233
      • SALT negotiations, 234
      • Soviet objectives at Summit, 240
      • Trade, U.S.–Soviet, 230
      • Vietnam War, 234, 235, 236
    • Soviet Union, summary of interrelationships concerning the, 27, 34
    • Space cooperation, 48
    • Study Memorandums:
    • Trade, U.S.–Soviet, 48, 60
  • Natural gas, 12, 70, 276
  • Negroponte, John, 92, 99, 139, 164, 175, 199, 204, 271, 274, 290, 292
  • Neubert, Joseph, 48
  • New York Times, 142
  • Nguyen Thi Binh, Madame, 107, 136, 292
  • Nguyen Van Thieu, 138, 162, 187, 191, 290
  • NIE. See National Intelligence Estimates.
  • Nitze, Paul H., 147
  • Nixon, Richard M.:
    • Arab-Israeli dispute:
      • Brezhnev, communications with, 4, 6, 39, 72
      • Brezhnev-Sadat meeting, 43
      • Dobrynin, meetings with, 62
      • Hussein (King), meetings with, 84, 150
      • Kissinger, communications with, 5
      • Kissinger-Alon meeting, 198
      • Kissinger-Dobrynin meetings, 4, 10
      • Meir, meetings with, 16, 150
      • Rogers, communications with, 44, 178
      • Rogers’ assessments, 178
      • Sadat’s trip to Soviet Union, 5
      • Vietnam War and drawing a parallel between, 113
    • Blockading/mining North Vietnamese ports, U.S.:
      • Bombing vs., discussion of pros/cons of, 196
      • Brezhnev, communications with, 207, 214
      • Cabinet meeting following televised address, 209
      • Congress, U.S., 208, 225
      • Connally, meetings with, 192, 205
      • Haig, communications with, 184
      • Haldeman, communications with, 208
      • Haldeman, meetings with, 212
      • Kissinger, communications with, 102, 105, 113, 121, 196
      • Kissinger, meetings with, 195, 202, 205, 212
      • Le Duc Tho’s willingness to resume private talks, 223
      • NSC, meeting with, 204
      • Plenary session in Paris, discussions about, 228
      • Press, dealing with the, 225
      • Rogers, communications with, 203
      • Soviet Summit (proposed), 237
      • Televised address to the nation, 206, 208, 210
    • Brezhnev’s attitude towards, 123
    • Brezhnev’s concerns over statements made by U.S. officials, 53
    • China:
      • Airspace, U.S. violating Chinese, 123
      • Kissinger, communications with, 96
      • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (proposed), 116, 125
      • Visit to (actual), 52, 87
    • China visit (proposed):
      • Congressional leadership, briefing, 2, 52
      • Haig-Chou En-lai meeting, 35
      • Kissinger, meetings with, 49
      • Kissinger-Dobrynin communications, 52
      • Kissinger-Dobrynin meetings, 8
      • Maritime/incidents at sea issues, 7
      • Rogers, communications with, 11
      • Sonnenfeldt’s assessments, 37
      • U.S.–Soviet relations, 49
      • Vietnam War, 49, 50
    • Chou En-lai, meeting with, 52
    • Congress (U.S.), annual (third) report on foreign affairs to, 47
    • Connally’s judgment, assessing, 194
    • Cyprus and Greece, conflict between, 51
    • Environmental issues, 173
    • European security arrangements:
      • Brezhnev, communications with, 39
      • Kissinger, communications with, 15
      • Quadripartite Agreement on Berlin (1971), 239
      • Rogers, communications with, 44
      • Rogers, meetings with, 15
      • West German treaties with Soviet Union/Poland, 238
    • Germany, West, 206
    • Gromyko, meetings with, 126, 150
    • India-Pakistan War (1971):
      • Brezhnev, communications with, 19, 22, 24, 25
      • Cutting off assistance to India, 31
      • Hot line message from U.S. to Moscow, 24
      • Kissinger, communications with, 18, 21, 24, 31, 32
      • Kissinger-Vorontsov meetings, 24
      • Matskevich, meeting with, 23
      • Pakistan, tilt towards, 17
      • Soviet-U.S. relations, 39
      • Surrender, Pakistani, 32
    • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (actual):
      • Announcement of the trip, 145, 155, 157, 158
      • Asia, stability in South, 130
      • Brezhnev, communications with, 170
      • Bureaucratic coordination, 145
      • Communication outage, 135, 138
      • Concerns about impact of trip, 145, 149, 155, 164
      • Connally, meetings with, 128
      • Haig, communications with, 131, 137, 142, 145, 153, 168
      • Haig, meetings with, 128, 158, 168
      • Haldeman, meetings with, 128, 154, 168
      • Kissinger, communications with, 128, 137, 157, 161
      • Kissinger, meetings with, 168
      • Kissinger-Brezhnev meetings, 134
      • Kissinger-Haig communications, 148
      • Negotiating style, problems with Kissinger’s, 145
      • SALT negotiations, 153, 157, 168
      • Spring offensive, North Vietnamese, 128, 137, 157
      • Summary memorandum of trip, Kissinger’s, 169
      • Televised address to the nation, 208
      • Troop withdrawals, American, 153
    • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (proposed):
      • Briefing book from Kissinger, 125, 127
      • Kissinger, communications with, 98
      • Meeting with Kissinger before trip, 126
      • Non-communist countries, prohibition of Soviet liberation of, 126
      • Toughness, need for, 126
    • Lend-Lease talks, 67
    • Maritime/incidents at sea issues:
      • Dobrynin, meetings with, 191
      • Kissinger, communications with, 228, 237
      • Kissinger and Rogers, meetings with, 217
    • Ottawa address, 100
    • Poland, desire to visit, 68, 76, 77
    • Rogers-Dobrynin meetings, 67
    • SALT negotiations:
      • Breakthrough, public announcement of, 220
      • Brezhnev, communications with, 72
      • Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, meeting with, 197
      • Haig, communications with, 136, 153, 202
      • Kissinger, communications with, 174, 225
      • Kissinger-Jackson (Henry) meeting, 248
      • Kosygin, communications with, 13
      • Rogers, communications with, 44
      • Rogers, distrust of, 187
      • Rogers-Dobrynin meetings, 76
      • Smith (Gerard)-Semenov meetings, 28, 136
    • Scientific/technical cooperation, 56, 125, 169, 173, 227
    • Smith (Gerard), distrust of, 245
    • Soviet behaviors, Sonnenfeldt’s assessments of, 33
    • Soviet Summit (actual):
      • Arab-Israeli dispute, 257, 272, 284, 296
      • Brezhnev, meetings with, 257, 259, 262, 263, 265, 269, 271, 284, 286, 299, 300
      • Brezhnev, preparation for second meeting with, 258
      • Brezhnev-Sadat communications, 256
      • Brezhnev’s position, Kissinger’s assessment of, 255
      • Bureaucratic coordination, 259
      • China, 286, 299
      • Communiqué, joint U.S.–Soviet, 299
      • Congressional address following, 294, 297, 302
      • Economic Commission, Joint, 276
      • European security arrangements, 257, 265
      • Exit after signing ceremony, 269
      • Flanigan, communications with, 265
      • Grain talks, 276
      • Hawks in the Senate, concerns about the, 264
      • Hostilities emerge between U.S. and Soviet sides, 271
      • Kissinger, communications with, 252, 253, 270, 272, 275, 277, 296
      • Kissinger and Smith, hostilities between, 286
      • Kosygin, meetings with, 276, 285
      • Last formal meeting, 300
      • Leaving Washington, 251
      • Lend-Lease talks, 276, 285, 299
      • Leningrad, trip to, 287
      • Natural gas, 276
      • Negotiation preparations/tactics, 254
      • Nuclear weapons, 296, 299
      • Opening presentation, 259
      • Peterson, meetings with, 276
      • Podgorny, meetings with, 276
      • Press briefing, 251
      • Principles of mutual relations, basic, 257
      • Report on, deciding on location for the, 302
      • Rogers, lack of trust in, 251, 260
      • Russian people, televised address to, 294
      • SALT negotiations, 253, 257, 259, 262, 263, 284, 286
      • Space cooperation, 269
      • Talking points, Kissinger presents, 252, 253
      • Trade, U.S.–Soviet, 21, 29, 259, 265, 276, 296, 299
      • Vietnam War, 271, 299
    • Soviet Summit (proposed):
      • Bilateral agreements, 227
      • Books read in preparation for, 225, 237, 244
      • Brezhnev, communications with, 6, 51, 72, 181, 182
      • Bureaucratic coordination, 57, 58, 145, 146, 198, 237
      • Cabinet meetings, 3
      • Cancellation of, discussions on, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 191, 192, 194, 195, 205, 212, 217, 218, 221, 225
      • Cease-fire in Vietnam, 217
      • Clearances for meetings with representatives of Soviet Embassy, 36
      • Concerns about impact of Summit, 162
      • Congress, U.S., 2, 47, 248
      • Discussion levels before, lowering, 58
      • Dobrynin, meetings with, 62, 242
      • Environmental issues, 244
      • General Advisory Committee On Arms Control and Disarmament, 66
      • Gift exchanges, 225, 228
      • Haig given instructions for Nixon’s absence, 250
      • Haldeman, communications with, 64
      • Hanoi/Haiphong, bombing strikes against, 175, 239, 250
      • India-Pakistan War (1971), 25
      • Kissinger, communications with, 51, 71, 78, 95, 119, 222, 227, 248
      • Kissinger, meetings with, 62, 63, 248
      • Maritime/incidents at sea issues, 227, 244
      • Negotiation preparations/tactics, 222, 232
      • Opening Presentation, 241
      • Press briefings/conferences/dealings, 67, 171, 225, 245, 246, 249
      • Principles of mutual relations, basic, 244
      • Public statements, keeping a lid on, 223
      • Rogers, communications with, 11, 44, 178
      • Rogers, lack of trust in, 55, 63, 64, 228, 237, 238, 242
      • Rogers-Haldeman communications, 60
      • Russian people, Nixon’s televised address to, 238
      • SALT negotiations, 11, 63, 67, 72, 244, 245, 248, 249, 250
      • Scientific/technical cooperation, 227
      • Sonnenfeldt’s Soviet Union trip, 29
      • Space cooperation, 244
      • Spring offensive, North Vietnamese, 176
      • Trade, U.S.–Soviet, 12
      • Upper hand over Soviets, having the, 119
      • White House staff-Kissinger meetings, 1
    • Soviet Union speech (1959), 244
    • Soviet–U.S. relations, 39
    • Space cooperation, 51, 67, 227, 244
    • Spring offensive, North Vietnamese:
      • Abrams’ assessments, 177
      • Arab-Israeli dispute, drawing parallels with, 113
      • B-52 strikes, 87, 135, 142, 144, 151
      • Bombing cessation, opposition to, 126
      • Brezhnev, communications with, 181, 190, 200
      • CIA asked to leak information, 158
      • Connally, meetings with, 176
      • Contingency plans for U.S. military operations, 85
      • Domino theory, 186
      • Election concerns, 102
      • Haig, communications with, 186
      • Haig, meetings with, 126, 158
      • Haig in Saigon to prepare assessment, 113
      • Haldeman, meetings with, 126, 154, 192
      • Hanoi/Haiphong, bombing strikes against, 121, 123, 136, 151, 175, 176, 180, 185, 186
      • Kissinger, communications with, 73, 78, 79, 84, 95, 113, 116, 119, 123, 175, 176, 180, 182, 187, 191
      • Kissinger, meetings with, 73
      • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (proposed), 100, 102, 103, 113, 116, 119, 121
      • Kissinger-Xuan Thuy/Le Duc Tho private meetings in Paris, 102, 183, 185, 200
      • Laird, criticisms of, 194
      • Military leaders’ failure to carry out Nixon’s orders, 246
      • Nuclear weapons, discussing, 126
      • Press briefings/conferences/dealings, 89, 126, 171, 210
      • Private talks, 89
      • Protest against the war, American, 144, 186
      • Recklessness, encouraging appearance of, 82
      • Rogers, communications with, 182
      • Rogers, meetings with, 180
      • Soviet leadership, communications with, 107, 110
      • Soviet/North Vietnam/West Germany linkages, 84, 86
      • Soviet reaction to, Kissinger’s assessment of, 120
      • Soviet Summit’s importance vs. honorable conclusion of the war, 144, 154, 157
      • Televised address to nation, 89, 171, 210
      • Toughness, need for, 113, 126, 191, 192
      • Troop withdrawals, American, 147
    • Trade, U.S.–Soviet:
      • Brezhnev, communications with, 6, 56
      • Brezhnev, meetings with, 259, 265, 299
      • Brezhnev-Butz meetings, 101
      • Butz, meetings with, 101
      • Flanigan, meetings with, 265
      • Kissinger, communications with, 21, 29, 296
      • Kissinger-Sonnenfeldt communications, 29
      • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (proposed), 126
      • Kosygin, meetings with, 276
      • Matskevich, meeting, 101
      • Patolichev, meeting with, 215
      • Podgorny, meeting with, 215
      • Rogers, communications with, 203
      • Stans, meetings with, 20
      • Stans/Rogers/Haig, meetings with, 12
    • Vietnam War (see also Blockading/mining North Vietnamese ports, U.S. and Spring offensive, North Vietnamese above):
      • Brezhnev, communications with, 6, 16, 40, 46
      • Buildup, massive U.S., 38
      • Gromyko, meetings with, 40
    • Kissinger, communications with, 38
    • Wallace (George), assassination attempt on, 228
    • Yevtushenko, meeting with, 46
  • Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), 288
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 11, 221, 300
  • Novak, Robert, 93
  • NSC. See National Security Council.
  • Nuclear fuel supply, 173
  • Nuclear non-aggression pact (see also SALT ), 159
  • Nuclear weapons, 126, 221, 223, 296, 298, 299
  • Nutter, Warren, 48, 92, 216
  • Odeen, Philip A., 93, 147, 167
  • Okun, Herbert, 222
  • Other Large Phased Array Radars (OLPARs), 147, 234, 261
  • Pace, Frank, 197
  • Pakistan. See India-Pakistan War (1971).
  • Palmby, Clarence D., 83
  • Patolichev, Nikolay S., 62, 70, 75, 91, 93, 211, 215, 268, 276, 300
  • Pauls, Rolf, 86
  • Peace Process: American Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict since 1967 (Quandt), 150
  • Pegov, Nikolai M., 38
  • Peterson, Peter G., 1
    • Lend-Lease talks, 67, 285
    • Trade, U.S.–Soviet, 51
      • Dobrynin, meetings with, 62, 70, 75
      • Flanigan, communications with, 67
      • Joint ventures, commercial, 70
      • Kissinger and Flanigan, meetings with, 70
      • Patolichev, meeting with, 215
  • Petroleum, 12
  • Philpott, Lt. Gen. Jammie M., 133
  • Pineau, Julieene, 129
  • Ping-Pong diplomacy, 121
  • Podgorny, N. V., 5, 8, 50, 115, 120, 259
    • Soviet Summit (actual):
      • Arab-Israeli dispute, 284
      • Last formal meeting, 300
      • Lend-Lease talks, 276
      • Nixon, meetings with, 276
      • Nixon-Brezhnev meetings, 265, 271, 284, 300
      • SALT negotiations, 284
      • Trade, U.S.–Soviet, 215, 265
      • Vietnam War, 271
  • Poland, 26, 68, 75, 76, 119, 216, 238, 253
  • Polemics and Prophecies (Stone), 225
  • Pompidou, Georges, 24, 207
  • Pravda, 118, 120
  • Price, Raymond K., Jr., 1, 3, 209, 237, 238
  • Public Papers: Nixon, 1971, 7, 294
  • Public Papers: Nixon, 1972, 47, 171
  • Pugwash Group, 129
  • Quadripartite Agreement on Berlin (1971), 6, 15, 39, 50, 239, 253
  • Rabin, Yitzak, 13, 16, 77, 194
  • Rakhmanin, V. A., 268
  • Reagan, Ronald, 126
  • Rectanus, Rear Adm. Earl F., 133
  • Richardson, Elliot, 27, 211
  • Riland, W. Kenneth, 191
  • Rockefeller, Nelson, 150, 197
  • Rodman, Peter, 8, 47, 123, 139, 141, 150, 159, 160, 164, 277, 281, 283, 284, 288, 292, 293, 295
  • Rogers, William, 221
    • Arab-Israeli dispute, 44, 178
    • Blockading/mining North Vietnamese ports, U.S., 203, 204
    • Dobrynin, meetings with, 46, 67
    • European security arrangements, 15, 44
    • Kissinger, lack of communication with, 36
    • Kissinger and Haldeman concerned about actions of, 42
    • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (actual):
      • Haig, communications with, 143
      • Nixon’s concerns about impact of trip, 164
    • Lend-Lease talks, 83
    • Maritime/incidents at sea issues, 67, 217
    • Nixon’s China visit (proposed), 52
    • SALT negotiations:
      • Distrust from Nixon/Haig, 187
      • Dobrynin, meetings with, 76
      • Kissinger, communications with, 179
      • Nixon, communications with, 44
      • Nixon-Haig communications, 153
      • Smith (Gerard), communications with, 229, 266
      • Smith (Gerard)-Semenov meetings, 28, 136
    • Soviet Summit (actual):
      • Arab-Israeli dispute, 298
      • Economic Commission, Joint, 276
      • European security arrangements, 265
      • Grain talks, 268
      • Gromyko, meetings with, 298
      • Kissinger and Smith, hostilities between, 286
      • Last formal meeting, 300
      • Lend-Lease talks, 67, 285
      • Nixon and Kissinger’s mistrust of Rogers, 251, 260
      • Nixon-Brezhnev meetings, 259, 265, 300
      • Nixon-Kosygin meetings, 276
      • Patolichev, meeting with, 268
      • SALT negotiations, 266
      • Smith (Gerard), communications with, 266
      • Trade, U.S.–Soviet, 265, 268, 276
    • Soviet Summit (proposed):
      • Bureaucratic coordination, 57
      • Cancellation of, discussions on, 217, 225
      • Cease-fire in Vietnam, 217
      • Congress (U.S.), Nixon’s annual (third) report on foreign affairs to, 47
      • Haldeman, communications with, 60
      • Kissinger, communications with, 61
      • Nixon, communications with, 11, 44, 178
      • Nixon and Kissinger’s mistrust of Rogers, 55, 63, 64, 228, 237, 238, 242
      • Nixon-Cabinet meetings, 3
      • Nixon-Congressional leaders meetings, 2
      • Opening Presentation, Nixon’s, 241
      • Press briefing, 245
      • Sonnenfeldt’s assessments, 93
      • Trade, U.S.–Soviet, 12
    • Spring offensive, North Vietnamese:
      • Nixon, communications with, 182
      • Nixon, meetings with, 180
      • Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, appearance before, 131
      • Soviet protests against Haiphong bombing, 109, 114
    • Trade, U.S.–Soviet:
      • Dobrynin, meetings with, 67
      • “Next Steps with Respect to U.S–Soviet Trading Relations,” 56
      • Nixon, communications with, 203
      • Nixon and Haig/Stans, meetings with, 12
      • Patolichev, meeting with, 268
  • Romania, 12
  • Roosevelt, Franklin D., 134
  • Rush, Kenneth, 86, 92, 99, 118, 122, 172, 216, 219, 246, 250, 264, 273
  • Rusk, Dean, 56
  • Russia After Khrushchev (Conquest), 225
  • Sadat, Anwar, 5, 43, 74, 231, 256
  • Safire, William, 87, 237
  • SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty) negotiations, 2, 3
    • Breakthrough, Nixon’s public announcement of, 220
    • China, 13
    • Haig-Dobrynin communications, 202
    • Helsinki, tentative agreements/last hours at, 261, 284
    • Interim Agreement, 277
    • Kissinger-Dobrynin meetings:
      • ABMs, 39, 54, 56, 76, 84
      • China, 13
      • Conversion, missile, 243
      • Defensive weapons, philosophy on, 13, 41
      • Deferral, U.S. opposed to, 214
      • ICBMs, 76, 83
      • Nixon-Kissinger communications, 198
      • Offensive weapons, philosophy on, 13, 41, 179
      • Rogers-Dobrynin meetings, 62
      • SLBMs, 51, 62, 76, 84, 174, 179, 224
      • Sonnenfeldt’s assessments, 83
      • Soviet–U.S. relations, 39
    • Kissinger-Haig communications, 179
    • Kissinger-Jackson (Henry) meetings, 248
    • Kissinger-Lord communications, 177
    • Kissinger-Moorer communications, 273
    • Kissinger-Rogers communications, 179
    • Kissinger-Smith (Gerard) communications, 51, 147, 167, 174
    • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (actual):
      • Kissinger-Brezhnev meetings, 139, 148
      • Kissinger-Gromyko meetings, 150, 160, 163
      • Kissinger-Haig communications, 156, 165, 166, 167
      • Nixon-Haig communications, 153
      • Nixon-Haldeman meetings, 168
      • Nixon-Kissinger communications, 157, 161
      • Nixon’s concerns about impact of trip, 164
      • Summary memorandum of trip, Kissinger’s, 169
    • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (proposed), 125, 126
    • National Security Council, 9, 66, 229, 273
    • Nixon-Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board meeting, 197
    • Nixon-Haig communications, 136, 153, 202
    • Nixon-Kissinger communications, 174, 225
    • Nixon-Kosygin communications, 13
    • Nixon-Rogers communications, 44
    • Other Large Phased Array Radars, 147, 234, 261
    • Rogers, Nixon/Haig’s distrust of, 187
    • Rogers-Dobrynin meetings, 67, 76
    • Rogers-Smith (Gerard) communications, 229, 266
    • Semenov presents Soviet proposal, 83
    • Smith (Gerard)-Semenov meetings, 28, 136, 147, 153, 156, 157, 267
    • Sonnenfeldt’s assessments, 33, 51, 75, 83, 91, 125
    • Sonnenfeldt’s Soviet Union trip, 29
    • Soviet Summit (actual):
      • Agreement reached, 281, 282, 284
      • Congressional address by Nixon following, 302
      • Jackson’s (Henry) criticisms, 289
      • Kissinger and Smith (Gerard), hostilities between, 286
      • Kissinger-Brezhnev meetings, 262
      • Kissinger-Gromyko meetings, 273, 277, 281, 288, 292
      • Kissinger-Haig communications, 279, 280
      • Kissinger-Moorer communications, 273
      • Kissinger-Smirnov meetings, 273, 277, 281
      • Kissinger-Smith (Gerard) communications, 247, 252, 262, 263, 266, 267, 273, 278, 281, 282
      • Kissinger-Sonnenfeldt communications, 261
      • Nixon-Brezhnev meetings, 257, 259, 263, 284, 286
      • Nixon-Kissinger communications, 253
      • Rogers-Smith (Gerard) communications, 266
      • Signing ceremony, 286
    • Soviet Summit (proposed):
      • Brezhnev’s speech to Soviet Trade Union Congress, 65
      • Discussion levels before, lowering, 58
      • General Advisory Committee On Arms Control and Disarmament, 66
      • Kissinger-Smith (Gerard) communications, 247
      • Nixon-Brezhnev communications, 72
      • Nixon-Haig communications, 250
      • Nixon-Kissinger communications, 249
      • Nixon-Kissinger meetings, 63, 244, 248
      • Nixon press conference, 67
      • Nixon-Rogers communications, 11
      • Nixon’s unhappiness with the situation, 245
      • NSC’s assessments, 234, 240
      • Sonnenfeldt’s assessments, 93
      • Trade, U.S.–Soviet, 12
      • Verification Panel, 9, 273
    • Submarines, 39, 54, 56, 76, 84
  • Samoteykin, 139
  • Samuels, Nathaniel, 91
  • Sato, Eisaku, 1
  • Saunders, Harold, 5, 25, 130, 243
  • Scali, John A., 1, 57, 58, 121, 185, 223
  • Schreiber, Taft, 198
  • Scientific/technical cooperation:
    • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (proposed), 125
    • Nixon-Kissinger communications, 169, 227
    • Nixon-Soviet leadership communications, 56
    • Senior Review Group, 48
    • Sonnenfeldt’s assessments, 91, 93, 173
  • Scott, Harold, 48, 51
  • Scott, Hugh, 2, 95, 96, 116
  • Scowcroft, Gen. Brent, 138
  • Seaborg, Glenn, 101
  • Seith, Louis, 92
  • Selden, Armistead, 99, 118
  • Semenov, Vladimir, 28, 83, 136, 147, 153, 156, 157, 267
  • Shah of Iran, 51
  • Shakespeare, Frank, 27
  • Shanghai Communiqué, 54
  • Shchedrov, Ivan, 115
  • Shelest, Pyotr, 253
  • Shevchenko, Leonid, 288, 290
  • Shultz, George, 1
  • Sindlinger, Albert E., 138, 144
  • Sisco, Joe, 4, 8, 10, 41, 150, 284
  • SLBMs (submarine-launched ballistic missiles). See SALT .
  • Smirnov, Leonid, 93, 273, 277, 281
  • Smith, Gerard C., 9, 58, 66, 83, 126
    • Nixon’s distrust of, 245
    • SALT negotiations:
      • Helsinki, tentative agreements/last hours at, 261, 284
      • Interim Agreement, 277
      • Kissinger, communications with, 51, 147, 167, 174
      • Other Large Phased Array Radars, 147
      • Rogers, communications with, 229, 266
      • Semenov, meetings with, 28, 136, 147, 153, 156, 157, 267
      • Soviet Summit (proposed), 247
    • Soviet Summit (actual):
    • Trade, U.S.–Soviet, 147, 156
  • Smith, Hedrick, 225
  • Smith, Wayne, 222
  • Sonnenfeldt, Helmut, 2, 5, 164
    • Arab-Israeli dispute, 29, 33, 74, 75
    • Blockading/mining North Vietnamese ports, U.S.:
      • Assessments, 193
      • Kissinger-NSC staff/CIA official meetings, 199
      • Nixon’s televised address to the nation, reactions to, 210
    • Brezhnev’s letter, 75
    • Communiqué, joint U.S.–Soviet, 62
    • Congress (U.S.), Nixon’s annual (third) report on foreign affairs to, 47
    • European security arrangements, 75, 93, 125, 173
    • India-Pakistan War (1971), 22, 74
    • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (actual):
      • Germany, West, 159
      • Kissinger-Brezhnev meetings, 134, 139
      • Principles of mutual relations, basic, 159
    • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (proposed), 125
    • Lend-Lease talks, 83, 91, 93
    • Maritime/incidents at sea issues, 48, 83, 91, 93
    • Nixon’s China trip (proposed), 37
    • Nuclear fuel supply, 173
    • Other Large Phased Array Radars, 147
    • Poland, Nixon’s desire to visit, 75
    • SALT negotiations, assessing the, 33, 51, 75, 83, 91, 125, 147
    • Scientific/technical cooperation, 173
    • Senior Review Group, 48
    • Soviet behaviors, assessing, 33
    • Soviet Summit (actual):
      • Gromyko, assessments of, 291
      • Kissinger, communications with, 261
      • Kissinger-Gromyko meetings, 273, 277, 281, 283, 288, 292
      • Nixon-Brezhnev meetings, 263, 265, 300
      • Nixon-Kosygin meetings, 276
      • SALT negotiations, 261, 281
      • Trade, U.S.–Soviet, 29, 56
      • Vietnam War, 291
    • Soviet Summit (proposed):
      • Assessments, 37, 75, 83, 91, 93
      • Brezhnev’s speech to Soviet Trade Union Congress, 65
      • Kissinger, communications with, 56
      • Principles of mutual relations, basic, 220
      • Rogers-Haldeman communications, 60
      • Soviet Union trip, 29
    • Spring offensive, North Vietnamese:
      • Assessments, 91
      • Bombing cessation, discussions on, 112
      • Soviet protests against Haiphong bombing, 114
    • Trade, U.S.–Soviet:
      • Brezhnev-Butz meetings, 101
      • Kissinger, communications with, 29, 56
      • Stans’ trip to Soviet Union, 14, 29
    • Vietnam War (see also Blockading/mining North Vietnamese ports, U.S. and Spring offensive, North Vietnamese above), 50
  • Soviet Summit in 1972 See under Arab-Israeli dispute; SALT ; Trade, U.S.-Soviet; Vietnam War
  • Space cooperation:
    • Agreement, 269
    • Nixon-Kissinger communications, 227
    • Nixon-Kissinger meetings, 244
    • Nixon-Rogers communications, 67
    • Nixon-Soviet leadership communications, 51
    • Senior Review Group, 48
    • Sonnenfeldt’s assessments, 93
  • Spiers, Ronald, 33, 67, 174
  • Spring offensive, North Vietnamese. See under Vietnam War.
  • Springsteen, George, 211, 222
  • Stalin, Joseph, 7, 226
  • Stans, Maurice:
    • Trade, U.S.–Soviet:
      • Kissinger, communications with, 39
      • Kissinger-Dobrynin meetings, 13, 41, 45
      • Kissinger-Sonnenfeldt communications, 29
      • Nixon, meetings with, 20
      • Nixon and Rogers/Haig, meetings with, 12
      • Soviet Union trip, 6, 13, 14, 20, 29
  • Stennis, John, 2, 248
  • Submarines. See SALT .
  • Suez Canal, 46, 150, 231, 284, 295
  • Sukhodrev, Viktor, 134, 139, 141, 150, 159, 160, 257, 259, 262, 263, 265, 271, 284, 300
  • Sullivan, William, 92, 99, 114, 118, 122, 172, 216, 219
  • Syria (see also Arab-Israeli dispute), 74
  • Teller, Edward, 250
  • “Ten Theories in Search of Reality” (Bell), 225
  • Thailand, 186
  • Thant, U, 29
  • Third World, assessing Soviet Union’s military involvement in the, 30, 133
  • Thomas, John, 60
  • Thompson, Llewllyn, 66, 222
  • Timerbayev, Roland, 29
  • Tower, John, 87, 250
  • Trade, U.S.–Soviet (see also Lend-Lease talks):
    • Brezhnev-Butz meetings, 101, 120
    • European security arrangements, 12
    • Grain talks, 67, 91, 101, 268, 276
    • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (actual):
      • Kissinger-Brezhnev meetings, 139, 141, 148, 159
      • Kissinger-Gromyko meetings, 150
      • Summary memorandum of trip, Kissinger’s, 169
    • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (proposed), 125, 126
    • Kissinger-Stans communications, 39
    • Most Favored Nation Status, 12, 29, 75, 215, 230, 265, 299
    • National Security Council, 48, 60
    • Nixon-Brezhnev communications, 56
    • Nixon-Brezhnev meetings, 259, 265, 299
    • Nixon-Butz meetings, 101
    • Nixon-Flanigan communications, 265
    • Nixon-Kosygin meetings, 276
    • Nixon-Matskevich meeting, 101
    • Nixon-Patolichev meeting, 215
    • Nixon-Podgorny meeting, 276
    • Nixon-Rogers communications, 203
    • Nixon-Stans meetings, 20
    • Nixon-Stans/Rogers/Haig meetings, 12
    • Peterson-Dobrynin meetings, 62, 70, 75
    • Peterson-Patolichev meetings, 215
    • Rogers-Dobrynin meetings, 67
    • Rogers-Patolichev meetings, 268
    • Soviet Summit (actual):
      • Kissinger-Dobrynin meetings, 39, 41, 45, 46, 51, 56, 62
      • Kissinger-Flanigan communications, 56, 215
      • Kissinger/Peterson/Flanigan meetings, 70
      • Kissinger-Sonnenfeldt communications, 29, 56
      • Nixon-Brezhnev meetings, 259, 265, 299
      • Nixon-Kissinger communications, 21, 29, 296
      • Nixon-Kosygin meetings, 276
    • Soviet Summit (proposed):
      • National Security Council, 230
      • Nixon-Kissinger communications, 227
      • Nixon-Rogers communications, 11
      • Nixon-Stans/Rogers/Haig meetings, 12
    • Stans’ trip to Soviet Union:
      • Kissinger-Dobrynin meetings, 13
      • Kosygin, meetings with, 14
      • Nixon-Brezhnev communications, 6
      • Nixon/Peterson/Haig, meetings with, 20
      • Sonnenfeldt-Kissinger communications, 29
  • Train, Russell, 27, 48, 67, 173
  • Trampczynski, Witold, 119
  • Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States of America, 216
  • TRUD, 50
  • Turkey, 66, 120
  • Unitary approach, 34
  • United Kingdom, 25, 26
  • United Nations:
    • German representation issue, 253
    • Security Council Resolution 242, 150
    • Vietnam, 205
  • University of Arkansas, 2
  • U.S.–Soviet Exchange Agreement, 93
  • Valenti, Jack, 93
  • Vietnam War:
    • Arab-Israeli dispute, parallels to, 113
    • Blockading/mining North Vietnamese ports, U.S.:
      • Bombing vs., discussion of pros/cons of, 196
      • CIA’s assessments, 201
      • Congress, U.S., 208, 225
      • Domino theory, 204
      • Kissinger-Dobrynin meetings, 207, 239
      • Kissinger-NSC staff members/CIA official meetings, 199
      • Le Duc Tho’s willingness to resume private talks, 223
      • Nixon-Brezhnev communications, 207, 214
      • Nixon-Cabinet meeting right after televised address, 209
      • Nixon-Connally meetings, 192, 205
      • Nixon-Haig communications, 184
      • Nixon-Haldeman communications, 208
      • Nixon-Haldeman meetings, 212
      • Nixon-Kissinger communications, 102, 105, 113, 121, 196
      • Nixon-Kissinger meetings, 195, 202, 205, 212
      • Nixon-NSC meetings, 204
      • Nixon-Rogers communications, 203
      • Nixon’s televised address to the nation, 206, 208, 210
      • NSC’s assessments, 199, 204, 234
      • Plenary session in Paris, discussions about, 228
      • Reactions to, 213
      • Russian ships remain in port, 212
      • Sonnenfeldt’s assessments, 193
      • Soviet non-response, 221
      • Soviet Summit (actual), 270, 274, 292
      • Soviet Summit (proposed), 237
      • U.S.–Soviet negotiations, 210
      • Washington Special Actions Group, 216, 219
    • Buildup, massive U.S., 38
    • Haig-Chou En-lai meeting, 35
    • Kissinger-Dobrynin meetings, 4, 8, 13, 39, 41, 46
    • Kissinger-Haig communications, 4
    • Kissinger-Le Duc Tho meeting canceled, 13
    • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (actual):
      • Haig-Bunker communications, 153
      • Kissinger-Brezhnev meetings, 134, 139, 141, 148, 159, 163
      • Kissinger-Gromyko meetings, 150, 160
      • Kissinger-Haig communications, 140, 146, 151
      • Nixon-Haig communications, 137
      • Nixon-Haig meetings, 128
      • Nixon-Kissinger communications, 157
      • Summary memorandum of trip, Kissinger’s, 169
      • Tan Hoa operation, 138
      • Troop withdrawals, American, 153
    • Nixon-Brezhnev communications, 6, 16, 40, 46
    • Nixon-Gromyko meetings, 40
    • Nixon-Kissinger communications, 38
    • Nixon’s China visit (proposed), 49, 50
    • Soviet Summit (actual):
      • Blockading/mining North Vietnamese ports, U.S., 270, 274, 292
      • Ceasefire, 274
      • Gromyko, Sonnenfeldt’s assessments of, 291
      • Hanoi/Haiphong, bombing strikes against, 271
      • Hostilities emerge between U.S. and Soviet sides, 271
      • Kissinger-Gromyko meetings, 290, 292
      • Negroponte’s assessments, 274
      • Nixon-Brezhnev meetings, 271, 299
      • Nixon-Kissinger communications, 270, 275
      • Prisoners of war, 270
      • Talks, resumption of public/private, 270
      • Troop withdrawals, American, 270, 290
    • Soviet Summit (proposed):
      • Cease-fire, Nixon-Rogers discussion of, 217
      • Hanoi/Haiphong, bombing strikes against, 175, 239, 250
      • Kissinger-Dobrynin meetings, 243
      • Nixon-Brezhnev communications, 181
      • Nixon-Kissinger meetings, 63
      • Nixon-Rogers communications, 11
      • NSC’s assessments, 234, 235, 236
      • Protests on Vietnam War, American, 217
      • Sonnenfeldt’s Soviet Union trip, 29
      • Trade, U.S.-Soviet, 12
    • Spring offensive, North Vietnamese (see also Blockading/mining North Vietnamese ports, U.S. and Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (actual) above):
      • Abrams’ assessments, 177
      • Arab-Israeli dispute, parallels to, 113
      • Beam’s assessment, 115
      • B-52 strikes, 87, 135, 138, 142, 144, 151, 212
      • Bombing cessation, discussions on, 112, 126
      • Brezhnev-Butz meetings, 101, 120
      • Brezhnev-Honecker communiqué, 92
      • Bunker-Thieu meetings, 162
      • Bureau of Intelligence and Research, 90
      • Central Intelligence Agency, 113, 117, 124, 158
      • Connally’s assessments, 205
      • Contingency plans for U.S. military operations, 85
      • Domino theory, 186
      • Election concerns/strategies, Nixon/Kissinger discuss, 102
      • Haig in Saigon to prepare assessment, 111, 113
      • Haldeman-Haig meetings, 154
      • Hanoi/Haiphong, bombing strikes against, 102, 108, 109, 110, 114, 121, 123, 136, 137, 151, 175, 176, 177, 180, 185, 186, 271
      • Honecker’s visit to Soviet Union, 92
      • Kissinger-Dobrynin meetings, 80, 84, 88, 94
      • Kissinger-Haig communications, 162
      • Kissinger-Haldeman communications, 101, 188
      • Kissinger-JCS meetings, 79
      • Kissinger-Lord communications, 177
      • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (proposed), 94, 100, 102, 113, 116, 119, 121, 126, 141, 159
      • Kissinger’s secret trip to Moscow (proposed), cancellation of, 103, 104
      • Kissinger-Vorontsov meetings, 103, 106
      • Kissinger-Xuan Thuy/Le Duc Tho private meetings in Paris, 102, 183, 185, 190, 200
      • Kosygin-Xuan Thuy meetings, 216
      • Laird criticized by Nixon/Kissinger, 194
      • Laird’s declarations, 91
      • Military leaders’ failure to carry out Nixon’s orders, 246
      • NIE 11-72, 133
      • Nixon-Brezhnev communications, 181, 190, 200
      • Nixon-Connally meetings, 176
      • Nixon-Haig communications, 186
      • Nixon-Haig meetings, 126, 158
      • Nixon-Haldeman meetings, 126, 192
      • Nixon-Kissinger communications, 73, 78, 79, 84, 95, 113, 116, 119, 123, 175, 176, 180, 182, 187, 191
      • Nixon-Kissinger/Haldeman/Haig meetings, 195
      • Nixon-Kissinger meetings, 73
      • Nixon-Rogers communications, 182
      • Nixon-Rogers meetings, 180
      • Nixon-Soviet leadership communications, 107, 110
      • Nixon’s televised address to nation, 89, 171, 210
      • Nuclear weapons, Nixon/Kissinger discuss, 126
      • Plenary sessions in Paris, opening up, 226
      • Private talks, 89, 102
      • Protest against the war, American, 144
      • Quang Tri falls to North Vietnam, 177, 191
      • Recklessness, Nixon/Kissinger encouraging appearance of, 82
      • Rogers’ appearance before Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 131
      • Russian ship sunk by mistake, 213
      • Sonnenfeldt’s assessments, 91
      • Soviet/North Vietnam/West Germany linkages, 84, 86
      • Soviet protests against Haiphong bombing, 108, 109, 110, 114, 121
      • Soviet reaction, Kissinger’s assessment of, 120
      • Soviet Summit’s importance vs. honorable conclusion of the war, 144, 154, 157, 158
      • Tan Hoa operation, 138
      • Toughness, need for, 113, 126, 191, 192
      • Troop withdrawals, American, 147
      • Washington Special Actions Group, 81, 92, 99, 111, 118, 122, 124
    • United Nations, 205
    • U.S.-Chinese relations, 8
  • Vodka, 259
  • Volgograd Tractor Plant, 276
  • Voronkov, Ye A., 268
  • Vorontsov, Yuli:
    • India-Pakistan War (1971):
      • Haig, communications with, 17
      • Haig, meetings with, 25
      • Kissinger, communications with, 16
      • Kissinger, meetings with, 17, 24, 25, 26
      • Nixon-Brezhnev communications, 22
      • Nixon-Matskevich meeting, 23
    • Nixon-Brezhnev communications, 170
    • Soviet Summit (proposed):
      • Chapin, meeting with, 60
      • Nixon-Brezhnev communications, 181
      • Sonnenfeldt’s assessments, 83
    • Spring offensive, North Vietnamese:
      • Kissinger, meetings with, 103, 106
      • Nixon-Soviet leadership communications, 110
  • Vo Thuc Dong, 120
  • Waldheim, Kurt, 205
  • Walker, Charles, 48
  • Wallace, George, 228
  • Wandler, Mark, 48, 92, 99, 118, 122, 216
  • Warner, John, 7, 211
  • Warsaw Pact, 29, 86
  • Washington Special Actions Group:
  • White House Years (Kissinger), 8, 130, 139, 208
  • Woods, Rose M., 127, 151, 157
  • Xuan Thuy:
    • Chou En-lai, meeting with, 225
    • Kissinger, meetings with, 183, 185, 190, 200, 290
    • Kissinger-Brezhnev meetings, 139
    • Kissinger-Dobrynin meetings, 13, 104
    • Kissinger-Haig communications, 136
    • Kosygin, meetings with, 216
  • Yeh Chiang, 8
  • Yevtushenko, Yevgeny, 46
  • Young, Milton, 2
  • Yugoslavia, 12
  • Zaitsev, Eduard, 198, 277
  • Zamyatin, Leonid, 259, 265, 276
  • Ziegler, Ron, 58, 146, 204, 217, 220, 223, 259, 276, 286
  • Zinov’yev, N. V., 268