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The Wounded Presidency, Part One

The untold story of U.S. foreign policy during the Nixon impeachment crisis.

Timothy Naftali

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Presidential Impeachment Jan 28, 2020 Comment

The Wounded Presidency, Part One

The untold story of U.S. foreign policy during the Nixon impeachment crisis.

Timothy Naftali

Nixon Administration March/April 2015 Review Essay

The World According to Kissinger

With the existing world order under assault, Henry Kissinger still champions the traditional building blocks of the international system—sovereign states—even as he...

Reviewed by Wolfgang Ischinger

Humanitarian Intervention July/August 2014 Comment

What Really Happened in Bangladesh

In 1971, the Pakistani government orchestrated a brutal military crackdown against the Bengali population in East Pakistan -- while the United States stuck by its ally...

Harold H. Saunders

The forgotten: refugees in East Pakistan, 1971.

Intelligence July/August 2014 Comment

What Really Happened in Congo

Newly available evidence shows that the CIA engaged in pervasive political meddling and paramilitary action in Congo during the 1960s—and that the local CIA station...

Stephen R. Weissman

Partner in crime: Mobutu in Léopoldville, September 1960.

Political Development July/August 2014 Comment

What Really Happened in Chile

The 1973 coup in Chile is often included in indictments of U.S. covert action during the Cold War, during which the United States, at the direction of a number of...

Jack Devine

Nixon Administration November/December 2012 Review Essay

What Really Happened in Vietnam

A pathbreaking history of the Vietnam War reveals that the Northern government was far more divided and discouraged than commonly believed. Yet the fact remains that...

Reviewed by Fredrik Logevall

Nixon Administration March/April 2007 Review Essay

Chinese Lessons:Nixon, Mao, and the Course of U.S.-Chinese Relations

Margaret MacMillan's engaging narrative history shows how Nixon's trip to visit Mao helped end the Cold War. But neither leader anticipated how fast China would rise...

Reviewed by Warren I. Cohen

War & Military Strategy November/December 2005 Essay

Iraq: Learning the Lessons of Vietnam

During Richard Nixon's first term, when I served as secretary of defense, we withdrew most U.S. forces from Vietnam while building up the South's ability to defend...

Melvin R. Laird

Nixon Administration March/April 2004 Letter

Crisis Prevention

To the Editor:...

William D. Rogers

U.S. Foreign Policy January/February 2004 Response

Fleeing the Chilean Coup: The Debate Over U.S. Complicity

Former Assistant Secretary of State William D. Rogers disputes charges of U.S. complicity in the rise and rule of Pinochet; Kenneth Maxwell replies.

William D. Rogers & Kenneth Maxwell

Nixon Administration November/December 2003 Review Essay

The Other 9/11: The United States and Chile, 1973

Thirty years after the overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile, The Pinochet File, a "dossier" of declassified documents, lays out the true U.S. role.

Reviewed by Kenneth Maxwell

U.S. Foreign Policy May/June 1999 Essay

Between the Old Left and the New Right

After Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election, a new political force -- the neoconservatives, former anti-Nixon liberals now bent on total victory over the Soviet Union --...

Henry A. Kissinger

U.S. Foreign Policy May/June 1998 Review Essay

All the President's Acumen: The Paradox of Nixon's Foreign Policy

William Bundy's indictment of Nixon and Kissinger's deceptions ignores the philosophical sophistication they brought to American foreign policy.

Reviewed by David C. Hendrickson

War & Military Strategy Winter 1991/92 Essay

America and Vietnam: The Unending War

The summary victory over Iraq was hailed by no less a figure than President Bush as a once-and-for-all elimination of the 'Vietnam syndrome' -- which shows how...

George C. Herring

U.S. Foreign Policy Summer 1984 Essay

Reconsiderations: The Last Dozen Years: What Might We Learn?

This article is a reflective look at the period from mid-1972 and early 1973 to the present, in terms of the evolution in the world situation and the course of U.S....

William Bundy

Political Development Fall 1982 Essay

Reconsiderations: A Decade of Sino-American Relations

While the past decade of Sino-American relations has been largely constructive, the ten years have not been on a steady incline. Rather, there have been two strong...

Michel Oksenberg

Institutions Winter 1979/80 Essay

Reconsiderations: Vietnam, Watergate and Presidential Powers

One of the most important questions about the working of the United States government is the nature and location of the authority to use the armed forces of the...

McGeorge Bundy

Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of the Watergate tapes, April 29, 1974.

Nixon Administration April 1974 Essay

The Legitimate Claims of National Security

National security, once a trumpet call to the nation to man the ramparts and repel invaders, has fallen into disrepute. A victim of complications arising from the...

Maxwell D. Taylor

Presidential Impeachment July 1974 Essay

Foreign Policy Under a Paralyzed Presidency

When the scandal that now goes by the generic term Watergate first broke two years ago as what the White House called "a third-rate burglary," those who live in the...

Chalmers M. Roberts

Trade April 1974 Essay

The Year of Economics: US Trade Policy: The New Political Dimensions

New tremors in the world economy threaten to put a stop to the painstaking efforts by which American trade policy is being, with much uncertainty, adapted to modern...

William Diebold, Jr.

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The Wounded Presidency, Part One

The World According to Kissinger

What Really Happened in Bangladesh

What Really Happened in Congo

What Really Happened in Chile

What Really Happened in Vietnam

Chinese Lessons:Nixon, Mao, and the Course of U.S.-Chinese Relations

Iraq: Learning the Lessons of Vietnam

Crisis Prevention

Fleeing the Chilean Coup: The Debate Over U.S. Complicity

The Other 9/11: The United States and Chile, 1973

Between the Old Left and the New Right

All the President's Acumen: The Paradox of Nixon's Foreign Policy

America and Vietnam: The Unending War

Reconsiderations: The Last Dozen Years: What Might We Learn?

Reconsiderations: A Decade of Sino-American Relations

Reconsiderations: Vietnam, Watergate and Presidential Powers

The Legitimate Claims of National Security

Foreign Policy Under a Paralyzed Presidency

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