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Vienna Summit

Vienna Summit
Washington, D.C.: United States Department of State, Bureau of Public Affairs
1979
John Seigenthaler Papers, Vanderbilt University Special Collections

It is the cover of a report by United States Department of State, Bureau of Public Affairs on the Vienna Summit of 1979. The cover presents a photograph of President Jimmy Carter while attending the summit. At the summit, President Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed Salt II, the first arms-reduction treaty between the two superpowers, marking an important step toward international arms control.