--- title: This Week in History: President Meets Russian Counterpart description: In 1967, TIME took a look at what happened at a landmark meeting between the Lyndon Johnson and his Soviet counterpart. canonical: https://time.com/4823442/1967-glassboro-summit/ author: Lily Rothman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-26T13:00:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T16:12:33.502Z article:section: History og:title: This Week in History: President Meets Russian Counterpart og:description: Also in this issue: James Bond and the world's smallest nation og:url: https://time.com/4823442/1967-glassboro-summit/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte088419aea8dc10b/6988d25897cdff5f346b13e2/june-30-1967.jpeg?branch=production&width=828&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: June 30, 1967 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Week in History: President Meets Russian Counterpart twitter:description: Also in this issue: James Bond and the world's smallest nation twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte088419aea8dc10b/6988d25897cdff5f346b13e2/june-30-1967.jpeg?branch=production&width=828&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 50 Years Ago This Week: The President Meets the Russians  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Jun 26, 2017 1:00 PM UTC  The June 30, 1967, cover of TIME The June 30, 1967, cover of TIMECover Credit: ARTHUR SCHATZ  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Jun 26, 2017 1:00 PM UTC _Milestone moments do not a year make. Often, it’s the smaller news stories that add up, gradually, to big history. With that in mind, in 2017 TIME History will revisit the entire year of 1967, week by week, as it was reported in the pages of TIME._ [_Catch up on last week’s installment here._](http://time.com/4819051/1967-college-yale-finances/) [**Week 26: June 30, 1967**](http://time.com/vault/issue/1967-06-30/pages/) It was a somewhat strange place for the first U.S.-USSR summit in six years: Glassboro, N.J., a college town that boasted a convenient location between New York and Washington and a fancy enough house (the college president’s) to host President Lyndon Johnson and Soviet Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin. As TIME [noted](http://time.com/vault/issue/1967-06-30/page/16/) in a cover story on the meeting, “neither side was going to open the way to a major breakthrough” but the meeting was still significant. When the two discussed the joys of grandfatherhood — Johnson’s daughter had given birth that week— it was not mere small talk. Rather, it was in hopes of securing a more peaceful world for future generations. As Johnson put it, “You don’t want my grandson fighting you, and I don’t want you shooting at him.” For all that, the meeting almost never happened, as TIME explained: --- > “” --- But there was clearly more work to be done. “One meeting,” Johnson told the press, “does not make a peace.” **Rare Censure:** The case of Connecticut Senator Thomas Joseph Dodd, who had been accused of improperly using campaign funds and of double-billing for travel expenses,[ reached a rare conclusion](http://time.com/vault/issue/1967-06-30/page/26/) in a formal censure for the first charge — only the seventh the Senate had ever issued. **News from Nauru:** It was 50 years ago that the U.N. trust territory of Nauru became its own nation, the Republic of Nauru. [TIME noted](http://time.com/vault/issue/1967-06-30/page/37/) that the new country, the smallest in the world, was unusually wealthy thanks to phosphate deposits that were being mined at a rate of 1.5 million tons a year. Decades later, however, it’s become clear that such natural resources were a mixed blessing for Nauru: a more recent _This American Life_ investigation [explored](https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/253/the-middle-of-nowhere?act=1) how Nauru became a surprising center of world-changing events. **Minds Blown at Monterey:** TIME’s somewhat square review of the famous Monterey Pop Festival at least recognized that something special was happening musically. You can[ read more about it ](http://time.com/4813011/monterey-pop-festival-anniversary/)here. **Next for Jerusalem:** Many questions lingered in the wake of the Six-Day War, but one was of particular interest for religious people all over the world. Now that Israel had conquered the portion of Jerusalem previously controlled by Jordan, did that mean it was time for the building of the Third Temple, the hope for which was one of the motivating factors in the Jewish return to Palestine? “Learned Jewish opinion has long debated when and how the Temple can be rebuilt,” the magazine [explained](http://time.com/vault/issue/1967-06-30/page/64/), but for centuries “most rabbis have gloomily concluded that the restoration of the Temple would have to wait until the coming of the Messiah.” **Bad News Bond:** This review of _You Only Live Twice_ pulls no punches, [observing](http://time.com/vault/issue/1967-06-30/page/83/) that James Bond was “the victim of the same misfortune that once befell Frankenstein: there have been so many flamboyant imitations that the original looks like a copy.” **Great vintage ad:** This [ad for a speed-reading course](http://time.com/vault/issue/1967-06-30/page/85/) boasts that one of its graduates could have read the whole magazine five times before you even finished once. **Coming up next week:** [All about hippies](http://time.com/vault/issue/1967-07-07/pages/) This Week in History: President Meets Russian Counterpart ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4823442/1967-glassboro-summit/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4823442/1967-glassboro-summit/"},"headline":"50 Years Ago This Week: The President Meets the Russians","datePublished":"2017-06-26T13:00:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T16:12:33.502Z","description":"Also in this issue: James Bond and the world's smallest nation","url":"https://time.com/4823442/1967-glassboro-summit/","keywords":["Media"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte088419aea8dc10b/6988d25897cdff5f346b13e2/june-30-1967.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lily Rothman","jobTitle":"Rothman is managing editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte088419aea8dc10b/6988d25897cdff5f346b13e2/june-30-1967.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"June 30, 1967","caption":"June 30, 1967","creditText":"Cover Credit: ARTHUR SCHATZ","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/media/","name":"Media"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4823442/1967-glassboro-summit/","name":"50 Years Ago This Week: The President Meets the Russians"}}]}] ```