Trade was going to open the way toward conciliation with Russia. More than a year ago, President Nixon negotiated a major new agreement designed to step up commerce between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The President pledged, subject to congressional approval, to confer most-favored-nation status on the U.S.S.R., giving it the same trade position as almost all other countries and eliminating the discriminatory tariffs that Congress imposed on certain Communist states in 1951. "M.F.N." was to be a cornerstone of new Soviet-American economic relations and thus a cornerstone of detente...
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