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The night before his departure, Brezhnev spoke on television, as Nixon had done in Moscow. "The Soviet Union and the U.S. are self-sufficient, but to remove cooperation is to turn down substantial benefits," he told Americans. "Mankind has outgrown the cold-war armor which it was once forced to wear. It wants to breathe freely and peacefully." The U.S. and Russia are only at the "beginning of a long road" that will require "constant care, tireless efforts and patience."