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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... requires an entirely new order of political creativity . Coordination is especially necessary in East - West relations . The conventional view is that NATO can be as useful an instrument for détente as for defense . This is doubtful ...
... require a form of consultation much more substantial than that which now exists and a far more effective and coherent European contribution . To be sure , events in Czechoslovakia demonstrate the limits of Eastern European autonomy that ...
... requires a system of values which makes the sacrifices involved in capital formation tolerable and which furnish- es some integrating principles to contain psychological frustrations . Communism is able to supply legitimacy for the ...
... requires some clarity as to our destination . Confusing foreign policy with psychotherapy deprives us of criteria by which to judge the political foundations of international order . The obsession with Soviet intentions causes the West ...
... requires a different kind of creativity and another form of patience than we have displayed in the past . Enthusiasm , belief in progress , and the invincible conviction that American remedies can work everywhere must give way to an ...