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...Graham hired Bill Bradlee as the paper?s deputy managing editor; he later became executive editor. In 1971, she made the final decision to publish the Pentagon Papers, a choice that effectively sealed President Nixon?s fate - and her own. Two years later, the Watergate scandal surfaced, and, steeling herself for what appeared to be inevitable political backlash, Graham gave the green light to Woodward and Bernstein?s now-famous series...
After Principal Dreier whisked me out of the auditorium and toward my car as if I was Nixon in Venezuela, I was racked by images of being a dirty old man and hearing a woman I was sleeping with say, "I think you spoke at my high school graduation." I saw this happening in about two hours, after a light lunch...
Kissinger includes the required argument in favor of a national ballistic missile shield here, but it is not his best effort. His explanation of why he urged Nixon to sign the anti-ballistic missile treaty sounds fishy (he says he was against it but the administration was backed into the treaty by domestic pressure), and he does a far better job of outlining the arguments against a shield than in rebutting them...
...event would have been Kissinger’s first public appearance in Harvard Square since the former professor left over four decades ago to join the Nixon administration. Harvard’s prodigal son is said to have held a grudge against Harvard ever since his former colleagues turned into vocal critics of Nixon’s Vietnam policies...
...State Henry Kissinger has been even more direct, calling for limits on "universal jurisdiction" prosecutions. Kissinger, of course, has some personal cause for concern - a French judge recently tried (unsuccessfully) to interrogate him over Washington's relationship to human rights abuses in Latin America during his tenure as President Nixon's National Security Adviser, and others have mooted indicting him over the bombing of Cambodia. But his concerns are more generally related to the transaction of geopolitics...