Foreign Relations of the United States: 1969-1976, V. 1: Foundations of Foreign Policy, 1969-1972Government Printing Office NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRINT PRODUCT--OVERSTOCK SALE --Significantly reduced list price while supplies last This volume is part of a subseries of volumes of the Foreign Relations series that documents the most important issues in the foreign policy of the administration of Richard M. Nixon. The subseries will present a documentary record of major foreign policy decisions and actions of President Nixon's administration. This volume documents the intellectual assumptions underlying the foreign policy decisions made by the administration. President Nixon had a strong interest in foreign policy and he and his assistant for National Security Affairs, Henry Kissinger managed many of the more important aspects of foreign policy from the White House. Nixon and Kissinger shared a well-defined general perception of world affairs. The editors of the volume sought to present a representative selection of documents chosen to develop the primary intellectual themes that ran through and animated the administration's foreign policy. The documents selected focus heavily upon the perspectives of Nixon and Kissinger but also include those of Secretary of State Rogers, Secretary of Defense Laird, Under Secretary of State Richardson and others. High school students and above may be interested in this volume for research on U.S. foreign policy and the Richard Nixon administration. Additionally, political scientists, and international relations scholars may also be interested in this volume. High School, academic, and public libraries should include this primary source reference in foreign policy, social studies, and U.S. history collections. |
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... fact , you don't have to leave the United States to find examples . This is a gloomy picture ; but there is a much brighter side as well . Communism is losing the ideological battle with freedom in Asia , Africa , Latin America as well ...
... fact that the U.S. had continued its aid programs to countries like the U.A.R. , Algeria and Guinea when their leaders never missed a chance to condemn the United States in world forums had the effect of discouraging our friends ...
... fact contain it by themselves , in which case the United States is spared involvement and thus the world is spared the consequences of great - power action ; or , if they cannot , the ultimate choice can be presented to the United ...
... fact being achieved by an evolutionary process . This offers a dramatic opportunity to draw the distinction between the fact of a revolutionary result and the process of revolutionary change . The Asian nations are showing that evo ...
... fact it is central both to the kind of Asia we want and to the effectiveness of the means of achieving it . The central pattern of the future in U.S. - Asian relations must be American support for Asian initiatives . The industrial ...