Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Leonid Brezhnev. By invading Czechoslovakia, he showed that the Russian plan for world domination has not been given up for peaceful coexistence; showed De Gaulle that he needs to study Russian history; demonstrated that the purported will of Peter the Great still defines Russian foreign policy; convinced the world that the need for NATO still exists; woke up the U.S. and made most of its citizens grateful for the election of Nixon...
...economist, a University of Michigan professor of business administration, and a member of Dwight Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers, will become chairman of Nixon's CEA (see BUSINESS). Harvard Government Professor Henry A. 'Kissinger, 45, who has served as a Government consultant and was a foreign-policy adviser to Governor Nelson Rockefeller during the preconvention period, will be Nixon's assistant for national-security affairs...
...Relevant Choices. During the presidential campaign, Nixon frequently criticized the Democrats for handling the foreign field on a crisis-to-crisis basis without sufficient advance planning. Talking of the Eisenhower years, Nixon said that the NSC had been "the con- trolling element in our success in keeping the peace." He attributed "most of our serious reverses abroad since 1960 to the inability or disinclination of President Eisenhower's successors to make effective use of the council...
While still President-elect, contemplating both foreign and domestic affairs and the shape of his Administration, Nixon is enjoying the exertion of power without the pressure of urgent responsibility. "He's not under the gun," says one aide, "not in his own mind. He's going to be damned sure it's put together right, and with the right people." The announcement of Cabinet officers was due this week, but Nixon was not rushing matters. He was not even in a hurry to nominate a new Chief Justice, although he has frequently criticized the Supreme Court...
...asked Kissinger last week if he would characterize himself as a hard-or soft-liner, he replied: "I have tried to avoid labels like 'hard' or 'soft.' " Moreover, he has vigorously criticized those who wear such labels. "Soft-liners [and] left-wing critics of American foreign policy seem incapable of attacking U.S. actions without elevating our opponent to a pedestal," he wrote in the Brookings Institution's recently published Agenda for the Nation. "If they discern some stupidity or self-interest on our side, they assume that the other side must be virtuous...