Word: academia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This attitude, however, was not entirely visible on the eye of Kissinger's accession, because in 1967 and 1968 he had privately put forward a position on the war that made him look far more dovish than anyone in academia, let alone government: the notion of the "decent interval." According to this scheme, an agreement permitting the collapse of the Saigon regime would be negotiated privately with the North Vietnamese. The plan was for the United States to begin removing forces at a rapid rate; after all of them had finally departed, the rebel forces would sit tight...
...advisor on foreign policy, Kissinger has embodied the role of the 19th-century balance-of-power diplomat. He is cunning, elusive, and all-powerful in the sprawling sector of government which seeks to advise the President on national security matters. As Nixon's personal emissary to foreign dignitaries, to academia, and-as "a high White House official"-to the press, he is vague and unpredictable-yet he is the single authoritative carrier of national policy besides the President himself...
...group of internationally minded members of the academic and journalistic communities, disturbed at their lack of influence in the government, produced the first issue of foreign Policy magazine, a quarterly whose purpose is "to affect the actions, or at least the thinking, of those in government, academia, business, or elsewhere who shape our foreign policy...
...Labor-University Alliance," which seeks to create a large political constituency from the ranks of labor and academia, will try to initiate basic political and economic changes within...
...little of it was fact, how much of it was theory, and how much of that theory was distorted. I have begun to see, too, the power of the human mind, and how much that mind is limited, inhibited, and retarded by submitting to the authority of our present academia...