Word: hersh
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...state--if Reagan makes it to the Oval Office again--is Kissinger, another refugee from the Nixon White House. He has been called the greatest diplomat in the world, but he earned that title at a terrible human and ethical cost, as journalists like William Shawcross and Seymour Hersh have shown in recent years. Kissinger is everything Shultz and Weinberger are not. Where the later are bureaucratically clumsy, the former is manipulative. Where Winberger and Shultz have their integrity intact, Kissinger is called unscrupulous...
...shrink from bitter infighting or who lacked driving ambition. Henry Kissinger was certainly in his element there. And seven years after he left the Government, he is still a significant figure on the public stage who draws fierce loyalists and unrelenting foes. A leader among the foes is Seymour Hersh, who won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting of the story of the My Lai massacre...
...book, The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House (Summit; $19.95), Reporter Hersh sets out, metaphorically, to massacre Kissinger. Hersh quit the New York Times four years ago to devote himself to this project. In 656 pages he blends some new versions of old rumors with some new research (especially about the Paris peace talks that ended the Viet Nam War and about the intricate negotiating leading up to SALT II) that add up to a most unflattering portrait...
Perhaps the nastiest of Hersh's charges is the assertion that during the 1968 presidential campaign, Kissinger secretly supplied the Nixon camp with inside information about the Paris peace talks, then being conducted by the Johnson Administration. At the same time, Hersh claims, Kissinger was also offering to turn over damaging files on Nixon that had been compiled by the Rockefeller campaign staff, for whom Kissinger had worked, to Zbigniew Brzezinski, then Hubert Humphrey's foreign policy coordinator. Kissinger has written in his memoirs that he was approached by both campaigns for advice. But Hersh, quoting some former...
...introduction to his book, Hersh takes dutiful note of Kissinger's and Nixon's "diplomatic triumphs": the opening of China, the SALT treaty, the end of American involvement in Viet Nam, most prominent among them. But Hersh denigrates even those accomplishments, concluding, for example, that Kissinger "cheated" his way to a summit and "lied" about the SALT treaty. Hersh adds scattershot allegations about a number of international events and situations, including charges that Nixon received a large cash contribution to his election campaign in 1968 from the military junta that ran Greece in the late 1960s and early...