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Non-Americans who did not live during the Cold War era would not understand, but this is Richard Nixon's way of saying, “I support big military expenditure and profit in America. I stand firmly by our friends in the Soviet Union to support their status as an Atomic Superpower behemoth posing threat to world peace, so that we may continue to work together in a mutual comradery to keep the illusion of wars and threats of wars, alive in the minds of the American people, to divide and conquer. To shatter the illusion of Soviet Supremacy is a threat to job security for all our arms and ammunitions manufacturers, their lobbyists who have labored, so diligently, rewarding myself and our fellow career politicians, to advocate their interests in Washington.
This would-be impeached Nixon, who shared conversations with Kissinger expressing fondness for Soviet gas chambers (see Nixon's antisemitic conversations), had plenty of time on hand to give chess gifts to the Soviet Union. The so-called “enemy”, but Nixon had no time to invite the American national chess champion, Robert J. Fischer, to the White House. This chessboard was a prelude, a confirmation to Moscow that he would offer no interference, and wholeheartedly betray Bobby Fischer. The greatest “Enemy” has almost always been the best of friends to the commander-in-chief and almost always an excuse to keep the arms industry assembly lines rolling in the manufacture of military stockpiles, necessary to generate revenue and job security for corporations, while assuaging the fears of the petty American people [fears which the commander of chief is responsible for putting into their minds, in the first place!]
Breathtaking Porcelain Chess Set Sat, Jun 17, 1972 – 29 · Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah) · Newspapers.com
Breathtaking Porcelain Chess Set by Harold Lundstrom
Not only has Robert (Bobby) Fischer, the American ace, put chess in the public eye by his forthcoming world championship match with the current champion, Boris Spassky, USSR, but also now President Nixon has given chess another boost.
The President's encouragement and acknowledgement of the ancient game has been given emphasis by his recent “Presidential Gift of State” to the USSR.
The gift is a magnificent porcelain chess set, created by the famed and prestigious porcelain Cybis Studio of Trenton, New Jersey.
The inscription reads:
“Presented to the people of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from President and Mrs. Richard Nixon and the people of the United States of America.” …
