Andrei Gromyko
 Andrei Gromyko    ( politician, diplomat) | ||||||||||
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| Born | 5 July 1909 Staryye Gromyki, Russian Empire | |||||||||
| Died | 2 July 1989 (Age 79) | |||||||||
| Children | • 2 • including • Anatoly | |||||||||
| Spouse | Lydia Grinevich | |||||||||
Soviet politician and diplomat who was Minister of Foreign Affairs for almost 3 decades.
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Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko was a Soviet politician and diplomat during the Cold War. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs (1957–1985) and as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1985–1988).
JFK's enemies
“As I entered (JFK)'s study, I found him smiling and as usual in a good mood. He said, "Why don't we go out on to the terrace and talk one to one without interpreters?"
Naturally I agreed, and we left the room.
He immediately began to talk about the internal situation in the USA: "The fact is, there are two groups of the American population which are not always pleased when relations between our two countries are eased. One group consists of people who are always opposed to improvement for ideological reasons. They are quite a stable contingent. The other group are people "'of a particular nationality'" — he meant the Jewish lobby — who think that always and under all circumstances, the Kremlin will support the Arabs and be an enemy of Israel. This group has effective means for making improvement between our countries very difficult." He ended briefly: "That is the reality. But I think it is still possible to improve relations, and I want Moscow to know that."
...At the end of our conversation, Kennedy said, "I just wanted you to know some of the difficulties the President of the United States has to face when dealing with questions of Soviet-US relations."
...I don’t know why, but when I first heard the Tass report of Kennedy's murder it was that talk on the White House terrace that came into my mind - what he had said about there being opponents to his policy.”
Andrei Gromyko [1]
References
- ↑ Andrei Gromyko, Memoirs, Doubleday, 1989, pp. 181-182.
