19671776 Club
Johnson and Kosygin meet at a New Jersey college; no deals, but the two men talk
With Vietnam bleeding and the Six-Day War just over, the leaders of both nuclear powers convene at Hollybush Mansion in Glassboro, a compromise between Washington and New York.
The Six-Day War had just ended, Vietnam bled on, and two nuclear powers had not met face-to-face in years. When Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin came to New York to address the United Nations in June 1967, U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson and Senator J. William Fulbright pushed for a meeting — and got one. Johnson and Kosygin convened June 23–25 at Hollybush Mansion, the home of the Glassboro State College president in New Jersey, a compromise site roughly equidistant between Washington and New York. No major agreements came out of those three days, but the warmth of the talks earned its own name: the "Spirit of Glassboro."…
