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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... reasons , European concern has lessened . There may be opportunities for cooperation in hitherto purely national efforts — for example , our space program . European participa- tion in it could help to remedy the " technological gap ...
... reasons for this . But the tendency of many in the West to be content with changes of Soviet tone and to confuse atmosphere with substance surely did not help mat- ters . It has enabled the Communist leaders to postpone the choice which ...
... reason for our difficulties is our reluctance to think in terms of power and equilibrium . In 1949 , for example , a State Department memorandum justified NATO as follows : " [ The treaty ] 3 obligates the parties to defend the purposes ...
... reason is the pragmatic , issue - oriented bias of our decision - makers . But the fundamental reason may be the persuasiveness of modern bureaucracy . What started out as an aid to decision - making has developed a momentum of its own ...
... reasons for announcing his policy up to this point . When he was inaugurated six weeks ago if he had announced that on the next day he was going to meet Kosygin and Brezhnev at the summit , the US press and the world would have ...