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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... leaders by the President and Secretary of State , and memoranda of conversations between the President and Secretary of State and foreign officials ; and the files of overseas diplomatic posts . All the Department's indexed central ...
... leaders . The Office Files also include Patrick Buchanan's summaries of Nixon's meetings with leaders of Congress on foreign policy issues . In the National Security Council Files , the Agency Files , the Subject Files , the President's ...
... leaders . True , De Gaulle , Mao Tse - tung and Chiang Kai - shek are still with us ; but Churchill , Adenauer , Stalin , Khrushchev , Nehru , Sukarno - the other giants of the post - war period have all left the world stage . It is a ...
... leaders never missed a chance to condemn the United States in world forums had the effect of discouraging our friends , confusing the neutrals and bringing contempt from our enemies . I would like to illustrate my last point with an ...
... leaders . Some Soviet experts on both sides of the Atlantic saw the new Soviet leaders turning 180 degrees from past policies and seeking permanent peace with the United States and Europe as well as using their influence to end the war ...