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Nixon had, according to Kissinger, “played it very cold with Dobrynin, giving him one back for each he dished out.”
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Dobrynin warned Soviet leaders that “Nixon is unable to control himself even in a conversation with a foreign ambassador.”
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In 1995, Dobrynin published a surprisingly candid autobiography, "In Confidence: Moscow's Ambassador to America's Six Cold War Presidents," that is a remarkable document, particularly for a Soviet diplomat.
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Dobrynin sent this cable to Kremlin leaders, quoting U.S. attorney general (and semi-secret negotiator) Robert F. Kennedy: "If that is the only obstacle ... then the President doesn't see any insurmountable difficulties in resolving this issue."
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Given the record of upheaval in the Kremlin, it was amazing that Dobrynin held on to his position in Washington as long as he did.
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Dobrynin and the Kennedy brothers -- John and Robert -- personally negotiated the settlement to the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, and Dobrynin had a long association with Henry Kissinger, which led to nuclear arms talks in the 1970s.
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During a strange summit meeting between Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in 1973, Brezhnev got drunk and began spilling Kremlin secrets that Dobrynin claimed not to translate in full to Nixon.
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Dobrynin and the Kennedys negotiated a settlement to the crisis by suggesting that the United States remove its missiles from Turkey in return for a Soviet withdrawal from Cuba.
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In it, Dobrynin describes what he thought of Soviet -- and his American counterparts.
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What no one knew until Dobrynin wrote about it more than 30 years later was that the Soviet embassy (which happens to sit across an alley from The Washington Post) evidently didn't have capability to transmit messages back to Moscow.
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