Buch(elektronisch)2011

White House Years

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Abstract

Intro -- Dedication -- List of Illustrations -- List of Maps -- Foreword -- Part One: Beginnings -- I. An Invitation -- Nelson Rockefeller -- The Phone Call -- Meeting Richard Nixon -- Encounters at the Pierre Hotel -- II. Period of Innocence: The Transition -- Getting Acquainted -- The Uneasy Team -- Getting Organized -- Turning to Substance -- III. The Convictions of An Apprentice Statesman -- An Historian's Perspective -- The American Experience -- Problems of a New Equilibrium -- Part Two: 1969: The Start of the Journey -- IV. European Journey -- Nixon Visits Europe -- Malaise of the Western Alliance -- London and the "Special Relationship," -- Bonn and Berlin and the Enigma of Germany -- Rome Interlude -- The Colossus of de Gaulle -- V. Opening Moves with Moscow -- Introduction to Anatoly Dobrynin -- The Enduring Philosophical Problem of US-Soviet Relations -- Reflections during the Transition Period -- Public and Congressional Attitudes: A Spring Flurry -- The Channel -- Preparing for SALT -- East-West Trade -- Eastern Europe: Nixon's Visit to Romania -- Conclusion -- VI. First Steps toward China -- First Signals -- The Ussuri River Clashes -- Rumors of War -- Triangular Politics -- VII. Defense Policy and Strategy -- Defense and the Strategic Balance -- The Defense Debate -- Antiballistic Missiles (ABM) -- Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicles (MIRV) -- The Attack on the Defense Budget -- Strategic Doctrine -- Tactical Nuclear Weapons -- One and a Half Wars -- The Nixon Doctrine -- VIII. The Agony of Vietnam -- My Exposure to the Quagmire -- What We Found -- North Vietnamese Attacks and Cambodian Bombing -- Diplomacy for a Peace Settlement -- The Vance Mission -- Return to the Treadmill -- The Beginning of Troop Withdrawals -- A Secret Meeting with Xuan Thuy -- Another Reassessment -- The Unpacifiable Doves.