NOVEMBER 23, 1974 During the Vladivostok summit President Ford and staff huddle outside the Okeansky Sanitarium for a midnight meeting in sub-zero temperatures to avoid Soviet listening devices indoors. “Inside the Vladivostok meeting rooms, U.S. officials deployed devices called “warblers,” which were the recordings of hundreds of people speaking at once. They were used to overcome the Soviet listening devices, and they were both annoying and distracting. President Ford said, ‘I can’t talk or think with these things on.’ So they all went outside into the sub-zero night to confer. The president later said, ‘It was a good meeting, but it was one of the shortest I ever had.’” – David Hume Kennerly