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NIXON AND KISSINGER By Robert Dallek 740 pages...
...ROBERT DALLEK History professor, Boston University Bush is in a situation where you have the whiff of Vietnam and the smell of Watergate, and there are few examples of Presidents who got into trouble this deep and worked out of it. Reagan ran into a firestorm over Iran-contra, and he was rescued by his relationship with Gorbachev and dealing with the Soviet Union. For Bush, the Iraq war is a burden he won't be able to shake until he can end the conflict. All the rhetoric about democracy, the Iraqi constitution--I think the public is skeptical since...
Donahue led a panel consisting of Warren Professor of American History Ernest R. May, Kennedy biographer Robert Dallek and Steve Gillon, the History Channel’s resident historian...
...don’t think Kennedy would have escalated the war [in Vietnam] as Johnson did,” said Dallek, adding that he believed the next president to reintroduce the kind of “moral fervor” exemplified by Kennedy was likely to be a woman. This comment met a long round of applause from the audience...
Mimi surfaced in a roundabout way. At the Kennedy Library, author Robert Dallek, when writing his new J.F.K. biography, An Unfinished Life, came across an oral history done in 1964 by one of the gentlest, most ardent Kennedy supporters in existence, Barbara Gamarekian. In it Gamarekian, who had worked in the White House press office and later became a reporter for the New York Times, talks about Mimi; but she had embargoed that section of her reminiscences. Dallek persuaded her to release...