Jimmy Carter on SALT II treaty

Title

Jimmy Carter on SALT II treaty

Genre

News report; Speech

TX Date

19 Jun 1979

Year of production

1979

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Duration

00:03:55

Description

Report on the return to the USA of President Jimmy Carter after the SALT II talks in Vienna with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. He receives a round of applause in Congress and makes a speech about the importance of the treaty. Andrew Manderstam? reports.

Contributors

Jimmy Carter; Andrew Manderstam?

Keywords

USA; USSR; International relations; Nuclear weapons; Arms control; International instruments; Summits (meetings); Leonid Brezhnev; Vienna; East West relations; Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) (1972-1979)

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