Summit Meetings Quotes
The Prime Minister was visiting the United States and was staying at the White House. President Roosevelt had a spontaneous thought and wheeled himself into Churchill's room. The Prime Minister was stark naked, having just emerged from the bath. Roosevelt apologized but Churchill was unfazed and known for his nudity in his private quarters. He even used what might have been an awkward moment into an opportunity to make a political point.
Kennedy was a new, young President, and the more experienced Nikita Khrushchev was soon to be facing a Communist Party Congress in Russia and wanted to demonstrate his prowess. He therefore went after Kennedy diplomatically and got the better of him at that meeting. Kennedy was a fast learner and never again had such a poor foreign policy performance.
The first non-PRI President in over 70 years.
Netanyehu was one of the more frustrating heads of state to deal with. He had a personality that even annoyed his friends and supporters. His English was perfect and he could really annoy people he was meeting or negotiating with.
Rice was Secretary of State at a time when the United States was at a low point in its relations with other nations. She was a very beautiful woman who dressed beautifully and spoke eloquently but served at a time when few “deals” were made and U. S. foreign policy was under much criticism.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, it is claimed by some right wing conservatives was very ill at the famed 1945 Yalta Conference with Churchill and Stalin. They argue that he gave Stalin too much as he was too ill to stand up to Stalin. Their myth is that “The Soviets got Eastern Europe because FDR was sick.” However Churchill was in fine physical shape and he and Roosevelt had worked out a style of dealing with Stalin where Churchill was the aggressive one and Roosevelt was the nice guy. The President’s physician did not observe any deterioration however—see 643318—and viewed FDR as behaving normally, Lord Moran, not as familiar with Roosevelt, made this famous statement which is used by those arguing that FDR was impaired as their main source of evidence other than the result.
The meeting between Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler in September 1938 marked a marked a change in diplomacy. For one, most diplomacy in the past had been conducted through diplomats and secondly the ability to meet quickly was enhanced through advances in communication and transportation technology.
He was referring to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt negotiations with Churchill and Stalin at the Teheran Conference of 1943. Roosevelt insisted upon, and got his way of including China as one of the major allied powers to be among the main “Allies”. of WWII. Another factor that motivated FDR to push for China’s inclusion was that there was a very strong “China Lobby” led by Time/Life publisher Henry Luce in America that were urging such a policy.
