President Nixon Welcomes Leonid Brezhnev to the United States

June 18, 1973: Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev made his first visit to the United States. Naval Photographic Center footage of Brezhnev’s stay in the United States includes remarks by President Nixon and Brezhnev following a White House entertainment performance at the State Dinner, the signing ceremony for treaties on scientific cooperation and negotiation on strategic offensive arms, and remarks by President Nixon and Brezhnev at San Clemente.