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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... Vietnam , it is clear that it has greatly diminished American willingness to become involved in this form of warfare elsewhere . Its utility as a precedent has therefore been importantly undermined . The difficulty of forming a ...
... Vietnam ― more attention is paid to whether to get to the conference room than what to do once we arrive there . The dispute over Communist intentions has diverted attention from elabo- rating our own purposes . In some quarters , the ...
... Vietnam will be a strong American reluctance to risk overseas involvements . A new administration has the right to ask for compassion and understanding from the American people . But it must found its claim not on pat technical answers ...
... Vietnam has produced an ever - increasing dependen- cy in our ally . If South Vietnam's future is to be secure , this process must now be reversed . " At the same time , we need far greater and more urgent attention to training the ...
... Vietnam were halted , or Soviet assistance to the " more aggressive neighbors " of Israel were halted , the problems would be reduced to a level where they would not require any American intervention . Thus the Soviets did have the ...