DefCon III

Secretary of State Henry Kissinger briefs President Nixon on the Middle East Peace talks. On October 21, 1973 Henry A. Kissinger, President Nixon’s Secretary of State arrived in Moscow to conduct secret negotiations with the Soviet Union to bring an end to the war in...

The Berlin Agreement

Richard Nixon at the East-West border of Berlin in 1963, showing his papers to an East German officer for entry into East Berlin.  Before President Nixon took office, stalemate defined the condition of East-West negotiations. A slight reprieve in the stalemate...