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“... He had picked his Secretary of State from among the small group of men who had made the Nixon-Ford-Kissinger foreign policy. Such a person could hardly be expected to accommodate himself to the atavism of the Radical Right. Haig must have thought that the situation was tailor-made for him. Under Nixon’s Presidency he had become ...”

“... in the Middle East end up on the same side as the Israelis. In America there are many voices – Henry Kissinger, Richard Perle, Congressman Les Aspin, among many others – who are today demanding openly what Eden, in the case of Nasser, and his colleagues could only resolve in most secret conclave: the destruction of Saddam Hussein, the old war aim of ...”

“... recapture those of Kuwait in the war against Iraq. Even in the depths of the Cold War, in 1968, Henry Kissinger came out with an intriguing three-point dictum which suggested that Israel could not rely on unconditional US assistance: ‘The main aim of any American President is to prevent World War Three. Second, no American President would risk World ...”

“... newsletters and seeding stories in radio broadcasts. As meeting transcripts show, Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger personally sanctioned Suharto’s invasion of East Timor in 1975. More than a hundred thousand people were killed with the help of US arms. For many artist-activists in Indonesia, as elsewhere in the global south, the brutality exercised by ...”

“... an unreasonable question. Nixon had flirted with using nuclear weapons in conversations with Henry Kissinger during the North Vietnamese offensive of spring 1972. When Kissinger told him it ‘would just be too much’, Nixon was outraged: ‘I just want you to think big, ...”

“... illustration of the law of unintended consequences. The pro-Israeli forces, and thinkers such as Henry Kissinger, have been saying for years that Eisenhower should have sided with the British and French. And Caspar Weinberger once gave an interview to the Washington Post in which he blamed the debacle on the then Labour Government’s refusal to stand ...”

“... places of his soul.’ Machiavelli is there, but so are F.P. Ramsay, Poincaré, Bertrand Russell, Henry Kissinger, La Rochefoucauld. One might almost say that poetry has no place; there is a quotation from Shakespeare, apparently there for the sake of the crack ‘Hotspur about a Welsh Nationalist’. Wordsworth appears, but also for a superficial ...”

“... of this or that loan. His open right-wing allegiances and his employment of ex-CIA men (and Henry Kissinger), and the help he gave the deposed Shah which led to the taking of the hostages, made him a target for liberal criticism. On top of that, he was not a very successful banker. He lost out in the competition with Citibank, in terms both of size ...”

“... Metternich was an intellectual in politics of a kind now rare in the modern world (his disciple Henry Kissinger and the German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt are possible comparators). And Siemann is as good on his subject’s emotional life as on his intellectual life. In one of the most compelling chapters, he undertakes a fascinating, almost ...”

“... the two states. It was the product of an unlikely partnership between Richard Nixon (flanked by Henry Kissinger) and Leonid Brezhnev. There were ‘hawks’ and ‘doves’ in the foreign policy establishments of both countries by this time, but in the Soviet Union détente also had support from non-doves such as Yuri Andropov, head of the KGB (who ...”

“... from carpet-bombing Hanoi to assassinating Salvador Allende – as the self-proclaimed realist Henry Kissinger made clear. But realism is a richer tradition than Kissinger’s example suggests. Stretching from Randolph Bourne and William James to George Kennan and William Fulbright, the pragmatic realist tradition ...”

“... the kind of people who don’t flower Until their shrivelled roots taste fame and power. Take Henry Kissinger as an example. The man personifies megalomania. He’s back in action with another sample Of foreign policy from Ruritania. On Poland Reagan’s harsh words have been ample But Henry hankers after something ...”

“... It would be too much to say that Brandt liked him, but at least he saw the joke. His antipathy to Henry Kissinger, by contrast, returns Willy Brandt to his cigar-store Indian mode: all is implied rather than openly stated. The best part of the book is about his youth. The ‘mysteries’ about his birth, which gave rise to so much unkindness and ...”

“... in the emerging Cold War as against Japan in the World War Two endgame. He accuses Time editor Henry Luce, the man who coined the expression ‘the American century’, of proceeding in the manner of a Fascist in his role as leader of the post-World War Two pro-Nationalist China lobby. Although he sides with the United States in the Cold War, Evans comes ...”

“... everyone who is granted unrestricted access to secrets beyond top secret. He remembers telling Henry Kissinger in a briefing after Kissinger had become Nixon’s National Security Adviser: After you’ve started reading all this daily intelligence input and become used to using what amounts to whole libraries of ...”