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WITH those words, Presidential Negotiator Henry Kissinger concluded last week his consummate one-hour briefing on the imminent prospects for a settlement in Viet Nam. After so many false starts and unfulfilled promises for so long, Kissinger's very act of revelation of the secret dealings with Hanoi implied a...
Could it have come sooner than this year? No, snapped Henry Kissinger in response to that inevitable first question following his briefing last week. There was "no possibility" for a deal until now because Hanoi, he said, "consistently refused to discuss the separation of the political and military issues" and...
Despite the crisp briefing style that runs through his analysis and schedule of possible options, Farber shows some remarkable lapses in political sophistication. For example, after noting the low security precautions at the Gulf concession in Cabinda, Farber advances several of what he describes as "conspiratorial theories" to explain why...
At a press briefing marking the first anniversary of President Nixon's New Economic Policy, Donald Rumsfeld, the Cost of Living Council director, paid tribute to an unsung hero of wage-price control, a man "who without question has contributed as much to the design and development and establishment...
After years of trying, he now has no trouble raising funds for Richard Nixon from wealthy Jewish sources. Appearing before groups of top Jewish leaders in as many as four cities a week, he makes a quiet approach, scarcely even mentioning money. Sometimes Henry Kissinger has been in tow to...