List of Illustrations

Over a pontoon bridge into Hanoi, February 1973. (White House Photo)

Meeting Pham Van Dong in Hanoi, February 1973. (DRV Photo)

With Le Duc Tho at the Guest House, Hanoi, February 1973. (White House Photo)

Zhou Enlai, November 1973. (Official Chinese Photo)

With Premier Zhou Enlai and Chairman Mao Zedong in Peking, February 1973. (Official Chinese Photo)

A flock of Peking ducks at a commune near Peking, November 1973. (Official Chinese Photo)

Dinner for Edward Heath at Camp David, February 1973. (White House Photo)

Meeting with President Georges Pompidou in Reykjavik, May 31, 1973. (White House Photo)

With Chancellor Willy Brandt after meeting in Bonn, March 4, 1974.

The Big Four Foreign Ministers before dinner in Brussels, December 9, 1973.

With Helmut Schmidt in Munich after Schmidt’s accession to the Chancellorship, July 7, 1974. (Presse- und Informationsamt der Bundesregierung)

French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert at the Washington Energy Conference, February 1974. (US State Department Photo)

Being greeted in Tokyo by Japanese Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira, November 14, 1973. (Official Japanese Photo)

The guest house at Zavidovo, May 1973. (Helmut Sonnenfeldt)

Dobrynin, Gromyko, Brezhnev, Sukhodrev, and Korniyenko at Zavidovo, May 1973. (Helmut Sonnenfeldt)

With Brezhnev at the hunting tower, Zavidovo, May 1973. (Novosti from SOVPHOTO)

Brezhnev, HAK, Sukhodrev in hunting garb at Zavidovo, May 1973. (Novosti from SOVPHOTO)

Brezhnev’s arrival in Washington, June 1973. (White House Photo)

On the Presidential yacht Sequoia on the Potomac, June 19, 1973. (White House Photo)

Actress Jill St. John, Leonid Brezhnev, and Andrei Vavilov (interpreter) at San Clemente, June 1973. (Newsweek—McNamee)

Nixon, Brezhnev, and HAK at San Clemente, June 1973. (White House Photo)

Len Garment and Ron Ziegler answer press questions on Watergate, May 22, 1973. (White House Photo)

New White House Team, June 1973: Melvin Laird, President Nixon, Alexander Haig. (White House Photo)

After being sworn in as Secretary of State, September 22, 1973. (United Press International Photo)

Luncheon in the White House Mess after the swearing in, September 22, 1973. (White House Photo)

Waiting for a ride at the White House With Brent Scrowcroft. (ABC News)

First day at the State Department after being sworn in, September 1973. (Wide World Photo)

The traveling State Department press corps. (White House Photo by David Hume Kennerly)

Testifying before Congress as Secretary of State, September 1973. (Congressional News Photo by Dev O’Neill)

With the House Congressional Leadership, 1973. (Congressional News Photo by Dev O’Neill)

Opening of the Washington Energy Conference, February 11, 1974. (United Press International Photo)

Walking in the garden with President Sadat’s national security adviser, Hafiz Ismail, Paris, May 20, 1973. (Eugenie Trone)

With King Hassan of Morocco in Rabat, on HAK’s first trip to the Middle East, November 5, 1973.

With President Habib Bourguiba in Tunis, November 6, 1973. (Agence Tunis Afrique Presse Photo)

Meeting President Houari Boumedienne in Algiers, December 12, 1973. (Wide World Photo)

With King Hussein in Amman, November 8, 1973.

A call on King Faisal in Riyadh, February 1975.

With President Hafez al-Asad in Damascus, January 20, 1974. (United Press International Photo)

The US delegation at the Geneva Middle East Peace Conference, December 21, 1973. (United Nations Photo)

Geneva Middle East Peace Conference, December 1973: The Man in the Middle. (Henri Bureau-SYGMA)

Cocktails at Abba Eban’s house, Jerusalem, January 13, 1974. (Peter W. Rodman)

Negotiating the Egyptian-Israeli disengagement agreement, Aswan, January 1974. (Photo Department, Egyptian Presidency — Cairo)

Vice President Hosni Mubarak and President Sadat. (White House Photo by David Hume Kennedy)

Anwar el-Sadat. (White House Photo by David Hume Kennedy)

Completion of the Egyptian-Israeli disengagement, at the Prime Minister’s Residence in Israel, January 18, 1974. (K. Weiss) (Tova Weiss-Lynch, 1974)

Signing the Egyptian-Israeli agreement at Kilometer 101, January 18, 1974. (United Nations Photo by Y. Nagata)

Ismail Fahmy and Omar Saqqaf say goodbye after a visit to the White House, February 19, 1974. (White House Photo)

“Photo opportunity” on the veranda at Giza. (Peter W. Rodman)

Shuttle scene: working in the compartment on SAM 86970. (White House Photo by David Hume Kennedy)

Poster presented by the traveling journalists on the Syrian shuttle, May 1974. (United Press International Photo)

Getting ready to board King Hussein’s helicopter, Aman, May 6, 1974. (Peter W. Rodman)

Arriving home after the thirty-four-day shuttle, at Andrews Air Force Base, May 31, 1974. (Ron Hall)

With Nancy on a shuttle. (White House Photo by David Hume Kennedy)

Verification Panel meeting in the Situation Room, 1974. (ABC News)

Chatting with Senator Henry M. Jackson before delivering testimony to Jackson’s Armed Services subcommittee, June 24, 1974. (Wide World Photo)

With Brezhnev in Moscow, March 1974. (Novosti from SOVPHOTO)

The June 1974 Nixon-Brezhnev Summit:

At Brezhnev’s villa in Oreanda. (White House Photo)

Getting ready for a cruise on the Black Sea. (Peter W. Rodman)

At Oreanda, by Brezhnev’s swimming pool, waiting for Nixon and Brezhnev to emerge from their tête-à-tête in the grotto. (White House Photo)

Nixon’s tumultuous reception in Egypt, June 1974. (Photo Department, Egyptian Presidency — Cairo)

Nixon’s visit to Egypt, June 1974. (Photo Department, Egyptian Presidency — Cairo)

Nixon departing the White House, August 9, 1974. (Wide World Photo)