Volume 24, Number 17 · October 27, 1977
A Matter of Character
By Anthony Lewis
Uncertain Greatness: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy
by Roger Morris
Harper & Row, 312 pp., $10.95
When they returned from lunch on January 20, 1969, senior officials of the State and Defense departments and the CIA found on their desks a top secret paper from the new White House. Entitled National Security Study Memorandum No. 1, it ordered prompt answers to a long list of questions for a review of Vietnam policy. The more perceptive of those who read it that afternoon, Roger Morris says, recognized the memorandum as the signal of a coup d'état—'a seizure of power unprecedented in American foreign policy.'
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