Public Images - Private Interests : Kissinger's Foreign Policy Strategies in Vietnam

by Paolucci, Henry

• ISBN13: 9780918680983
• ISBN10: 0918680980
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Isi Books

Table of Contents

Preface	5	(2)
Anne Paolucci
About The Walter Bagehot Research Council On National Sovereignty	7	(10)
Henry Paolucci
PART ONE (13-56) Who is Kissinger?
Publisher's Foreword to the 1980 Edition	17	(2)
Author's Preface to the First Edition (1972)	19	(3)
``Nixon's Most Astute Appointment''	22	(9)
Critic of the Eisenhower-Dulles Strategy	23	(2)
The Limited-War Strategy	25	(2)
Beyond the Nation State	27	(1)
The Kissinger Riddle	28	(3)
Nixon's Supreme Strategist	31	(6)
Our Captive President: The Ascendancy of a Supranationalist Professor	37	(6)
The Last War	43	(5)
Kissinger, Poor Richard, and National Review	48	(6)
Conclusion	54	(5)
PART TWO (57-164) Kissinger's War: 1957-1975
Note to the 1980 Edition	58	(1)
Introduction: The Kissinger Legacy	59	(23)
The War in Theory: Kissinger's Apprenticeship	60	(6)
Back Door to Nixon	66	(3)
The Buckley ``Passport''	69	(2)
The Clark Clifford Connection	71	(4)
Nixon's Inaugural: The Pledge to Negotiate	75	(3)
What Price Kissinger?	78	(4)
The Detente Power-Vacuum	82	(9)
Kissinger's ``Detente or Bust'' Policy	83	(2)
C. B. Marshall on the Logic of Detente	85	(6)
Our Vietnam Defeat: Why the Six-Year Delay?	91	(4)
Kissinger's Limited-War Doctrine	93	(2)
The Crime of No-Win Belligerency	95	(9)
Angola and Watergate	96	(3)
The Soft Core	99	(1)
Kissinger's Protracted Deception	100	(4)
An Exemplary Debate on Angola: Tunney, Stevenson, Goldwater, and Helms	104	(10)
Senator Byrd on the Role of Congress	106	(2)
Tunney Cites Taft	108	(1)
The Stevenson-Goldwater Resolution	108	(2)
Garn and Domenici	110	(1)
Helms' Rejection of Negotiated Settlements	111	(3)
The ``Secret'' Kremlin Speech	114	(10)
A ``Nixon'' Profile for the Kremlin Leaders	115	(4)
The Carrot and the Stick	119	(1)
Euphoria in Warsaw	120	(4)
Kissinger's War: A Revisionist Perspective	124	(9)
Theory in Action: The Moscow Summit of 1972	126	(3)
The Incredible Credibility Doctrine	129	(2)
False Counselors, Benighted Presidents	131	(2)
Carter and Moynihan vs. Kissinger: Freedom or Peace?	133	(9)
George Will: The Detente Drunk Has Ended	133	(2)
``How Much Does Freedom Matter?''	135	(4)
Johnson's Fall, Nixon's Rise	139	(2)
Kissinger or Moynihan?	141	(1)
From Kant to Kissinger and Brzezinski	142	(14)
Kant's Imperative for Peace	142	(2)
Carl Friedrich's Marxist Transformation	144	(1)
From Friedrich to Rostow	145	(2)
Kissinger and Kant at the U.N.	147	(2)
Brzezinski and Gardner	149	(3)
The Peace and Freedom of Peers	152	(4)
Conclusion: The Fixed Fight	156	(11)
PART THREE (165-204) More on Kissinger
Vietnam: Mask of Peace	167	(5)
The Atrocities of March 1968	172	(5)
Camouflaged Surrender in Vietnam: Nixon Must Dismiss Kissinger or Kissinger Must Voluntarily Resign	177	(4)
A Red-China Puppet Show: Nixon Kowtows, Kissinger Pulls the Strings	181	(4)
``However Vague, However Elusive, However Indirect'': Kissinger's Plea for a Face-Saving Formula	185	(4)
National Reviews's White House Contact: The Kissinger-Buckley Odyssey	189	(9)
Will America Surrender?	198	(7)
Appendix (From the Congressional Record, August 4, 1971)	205	(6)
About . . Who is Kissinger?''	211	(1)
Henry Paolucci	212