President Clinton and former President Richard Nixon huddled upstairs at the White House Monday to talk about world and domestic affairs.
The face-to-face session followed a 30-minute telephone conversation last week between the two after Nixon returned from a visit to Russia."The president (Clinton) wanted to find out from him his impressions of the state of the Russian economy and his specific ideas on what the U.S. and its allies might do to help Russia at this time," White House communications director George Stephanopoulos said Monday.
The two men met in Clinton's private residence. Press coverage was not allowed.
Clinton meets Russian President Boris Yeltsin at an April 3-4 summit in Vancouver, British Co-lum-bia.
Nixon said last week that Yeltsin's government will not survive without a substantial increase in aid from the West, and that the United States must take the lead in providing it. Clinton said he generally agreed with Nixon.