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mahatmakanejeeves

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Wed Jun 16, 2021, 01:32 PM Jun 2021

At Camp David, Nixon presented Leonid Brezhnev with gift of Lincoln Continental, June 1973.

At Camp David, Nixon presented Leonid Brezhnev with gift of Lincoln Continental, June 1973. Brezhnev then insisted on recklessly driving them both in his new car at high speed on narrow, curving mountain routes, a trip which understandably terrified Nixon:


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At Camp David, Nixon presented Leonid Brezhnev with gift of Lincoln Continental, June 1973. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2021 OP
i love that joe gave putin a pair of aviators samnsara Jun 2021 #1
The event was recreated in the 1989 TV movie "The Final Days." John1956PA Jun 2021 #2

John1956PA

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2. The event was recreated in the 1989 TV movie "The Final Days."
Wed Jun 16, 2021, 01:59 PM
Jun 2021

Actor Lane Smith portrayed Nixon. Brezhnev was portrayed by actor Boris Sichkin, who also portrayed Brezhnev in Oliver Stone's 1995 "Nixon."



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