President Ford signs the Final Act
In the summer of 1975, Gerald Ford traveled to Helsinki, Finland to join the leaders of 30 other nations to sign the Helsinki Accords. The accords, or “Final Act,” was the result of two years of negotiations.
While U.S. participation was heavily criticized at home from both the left and the right, Ford believed it was his most significant foreign policy achievement. The agreements reached at Helsinki are widely credited as the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union and their reach into Eastern Europe.
Photo: President Ford and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev raise their glasses in a toast after the Signing of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Accords) . Also present are Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko (left), possibly Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin (far left), and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (right). 8/1/75.
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