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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Men sign a treaty.

Treaty Signing

President Gerald R. Ford and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev sign a joint communique on the SALT treaty at the Vladivostok Summit in the Soviet Union, Nov. 24, 1974.

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