Word: metternichs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon announcement once again dramatized the President's remarkable reliance on the diverse talents, energy and intellect of the brilliant, German-born former Harvard academic who is variously referred to by his governmental colleagues as "Henry the K," "Henry the Kiss," "Herr Doktor" and "the Metternich from Yonkers." Kissinger, 48, dominates U.S. foreign policy far more than any White House aide in recent memory, playing a role unequaled since John Foster Dulles ran a virtually one-man State Department for Dwight Eisenhower?and Dulles was, in fact, the Secretary of State. Kissinger has seized total control of the White House...
...Marxist Metternich. Still vigorous at 79, Tito comes to the U.S. from a couple of the world's most sensitive spots: India and Egypt, two countries that recently signed treaties of friendship with the Soviet Union, despite their professed allegiance to Tito's policy of nonalignment. In some respects a sort of Marxist Metternich, the Yugoslav President has done a shrewd balancing act between the major powers with which Belgrade must deal. Recognizing that a triangular rivalry was inevitable among the U.S., the Soviet Union and China, he has tried to work himself into a livable relationship with...
...Metternich would say, that policy is worse than a crime. It is a mistake...
...When the unity of Europe came to pass, it was not because of the self, evidence of its necessity, as Castlereagh had imagined, but through a cynical use of the conference machinery to define a legitimizing principle of social repression; not through Castlereagh's good faith, but through Metternich's manipulation...
...central policy recommendations. Nor were many aspects of the policy startling or innovative in themselves; the considerations surrounding the bomb and limited war had already been outlined in part by the work of Bernard Brodie, James Gavin, and Edward Teller, and the sections on diplomatic flexibility borrowed heavily from Metternich and the conferees at Vienna. The book's real departure was its fusing of diplomatic concerns with the theory of nuclear war: the result was a potent, hard-line combina-tion of cajolery, threat, and physical force...