The Vice President of the U.S. sat down gravely in a straight-backed, upholstered chair in a Moscow television studio one night last week. He placed a manuscript on the oval table before him, and on signal, began to read to a Soviet Union television and radio audience of millions the most remarkable speech they had ever heard from a foreigner.
Back from his swing through the Urals and Siberia, Nixon had gone into seclusion at the U.S. embassy for two days to draft the speech for what he saw as an unprecedented opportunity to speak...
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