他也通过谈判为越南战争画上了一个尽管并不美好的句号；此外他还开启了与苏联缓和的进程，甚至甘愿付出惨遭列昂尼德•勃列日涅夫唇吻的代价。
He negotiated an end, though not a happy one, to the Vietnam war, and began the process of detente with the Soviet Union, even at the price of a kiss on the lips from Leonid Brezhnev.
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