Historic Photo Signed by Nixon and all SALT Delegates USSR and US Military Disarmament Treaty Start Price USD 1,399.00 Current Price USD 1,399.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, July 23, 2008 End Time Saturday, August 02, 2008 Location Poughkeepsie, New York See more about 'Historic Photo Signed by Nixon and all SALT Delegates' Description Important Photo Signed by Nixon and all SALT Delegates AN IMPORTANT PHOTO!  Historic, untouched original photograph of President Nixon with U.S. delegation that negotiated the unprecedented Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) with the Soviet Union.  The photo was taken just prior to the start of SALT negotiations in Vienna which started April 1970.  The photo is signed by the president and by each member of the delegation, including Harold Brown, who was absent when the picture was taken. SALT I and II negotiations lasted from November 17, 1969 until May 1972 in a series of meetings beginning in Helsinki and alternating with Vienna. After a long deadlock, the first results of SALT I came in May 1971 This photo is from the estate of Ambassador J. Graham Parsons: United States Foreign Service officer, 1936-72, with service during the Truman Administration as assistant chief, Division of British Commonwealth Affairs and Department member of the Permanent Joint Board on Defense, U.S. and Canada, Department of State, 1945-47; assistant to the personal representative of the President of the United States to the Pope, the Vatican, 1947-48; 1st secretary, consul, New Delhi, India and Kathmandu, Nepal, 1948-50; assigned to the National War College, 1950-51; and deputy director, Office of European Regional Affairs, State Department, 1951-53. Later served as Ambassador to the Kingdom of Laos, 1956-58, and to Sweden, 1961-67. Pictured from left:  Philip J. Farley, Acting Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA), deputy, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA)            Llewellyn E. (Tommy) Thompson, Jr. Deputy, US State Department, former ambassador to USSR.  Throughout the post-war years, Thompson, was present at almost every conference concerning the Soviet-Western Relations, beginning at Potsdam in July 1945. Gerard C. Smith, ACDA Director, (l969-72) head of US SALT Delegation President Richard Nixon Paul H. Nitze, OSD delegate, expert on military power and strategic arms whose roles as negotiator, diplomat and Washington insider spanned the era from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan and helped shape America's cold war relationship with the Soviet Union. J. (Jeff) Graham Parsons, US Department of State.  Mr. Parsons was Ambassador to Sweden from 1961 to 1967. He was deputy chairman of the United States delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks from 1970 to 1972. Lt. Gen. Royal R. Allison, Joint Chiefs of Staff  Signed, but not pictured:  Harold Brown, President Cal Tech, later Secretary of Defense under President Carter.   SERIOUS BUYERS ONLY.  ITEM WILL BE CANCELED WITHOUT EARLY INTEREST Place a Bid!