Volume 19, Number 8 · November 16, 1972
Nixon's Plan to Save the World
By Richard J. Barnet
Open Secret: The Kissinger-Nixon Doctrine in Asia
edited by Virginia Brodine, edited by Mark Selden
Harper and Row, 218 pp., $1.50 (paper)
War Without End: American Planning for the Next Vietnams
by Michael Klare
Knopf, 450 pp., $2.95 (paper)
Army in Anguish
by Haynes Johnson, by George C. Wilson
Pocket Books, 192 pp., $1.25
Richard Nixon once remarked that the nation did not really need a president to conduct its domestic business. And indeed, it is not as the man who cleaned the air, made the streets safe, balanced the budget, found enough jobs, or made Americans feel better about their country that Nixon has sought re-election and a place in history, but as the architect of a new 'structure of peace' designed to last a generation. This promised generation of peace is to come from a radically revised vision of the world, a modernized military strategy, and an updated political rhetoric. All reflect the official lessons of the Vietnam war.
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