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Nixon and Europe Nixon and Europe
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Thinking about Global and European Affairs Thinking about Global and European Affairs
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Kissinger and Europe before Nixon Kissinger and Europe before Nixon
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Increasing Preoccupation with Vietnam Increasing Preoccupation with Vietnam
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Nixon, Kissinger, and the 1968 Presidential Election Nixon, Kissinger, and the 1968 Presidential Election
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Kissinger and Europe: The Looming Decline of the United States? Kissinger and Europe: The Looming Decline of the United States?
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European Difficulties in the 1960s European Difficulties in the 1960s
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2 Thinking of Europe and Beyond: Nixon and Kissinger’s Priorities
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Published:November 2021
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This chapter recounts how Richard Nixon became depressed when surveying the left-leaning governments that held power in a number of European countries in March 1973. It details how Nixon angrily unburdened himself in a memorandum to Henry Kissinger, his national security adviser and alter ego. Nixon's interest largely concerned the geopolitics of the European continent, Cold War matters, the manifold problems with the Soviet Union, and allied relations within NATO. The chapter mentions that Nixon and Henry Kissinger thought relations with Europe were still largely conducted within a traditional bilateral framework with the individual European countries. By the late 1960s and early 1970s, the United States had begun to lose interest in guiding and actively helping to shape the future of western Europe and the European integration process as Washington had done for the past decade and a half.
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