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Real War

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by Richard Nixon


  Netherlands, 98, 130, 187

  Newsweek, 115

  New Yorker, The, 240

  New York Times, 10, 108, 109, 110, 228, 239, 258–59

  New York Tribune, 54

  New Zealand, 271

  Nicaragua, 35, 39, 301

  Nicolson, Harold, 253, 264–65

  Niebuhr, Reinhold, 239

  Nimiery, Gafar, 215

  Nigeria, 31

  1960s: see United States Nisbet, Robert, 227, 242

  Nitze, Paul, 159, 173, 175

  Nixon, Pat (Mrs. Richard), 21

  Nixon, Richard

  on communism, 14, 15, 42, 46–49

  as Congressman, 248

  and détente, 15, 48–49, 266–67

  energy policy, 222–23

  Foreign Affairs article (1967), 137

  and Israel, 93

  on Khruschev, 48, 49, 292

  “linkage” policy, 267–68

  on military draft, 201

  on negotiating with Soviet Union, 293–95

  1953 trip to China, 129, 213

  1956 trip to Austria, 22

  1958 speech before English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth, 311

  1958 trip to Venezuela, 47

  1959 trip to Poland, 48

  1972 trip to Soviet Union, 48–49, 290–91

  1972 trip to China, 127, 132, 133, 136–37, 141, 158–60, 266–67, 290–91, 301

  1974 trip to Soviet Union, 49, 208

  1976 trip to China, 127, 139

  1979 trip to China, 127, 130, 139, 148–49

  as President, 48–49, 116, 117, 162–63, 201, 206, 219, 249, 258–60, 290–91

  and “Project Independence,” 222–23, 225

  and SALT I, 167, 173

  on Shah of Iran, 274–76

  and Soviet leaders, 2, 47–49, 291–92

  and Vietnam War, 97, 106–109, 113

  on wage and price controls, 219, 220

  on “windfall profits” tax, 224

  and Yom Kippur War, 265

  Nixon Doctrine, 106–107, 123, 197–99, 284

  Nol: see Lon Nol

  North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 30, 33, 44, 66, 146, 164, 191, 255, 281

  defense capability of, 176–85 passim

  France in, 186

  oil and, 187–89

  Spain in, 186

  North Korea, 4, 12, 37, 190, 192, 254; see also Korean War

  North Vietnam, 4, 8, 40, 45, 101–106, 115, 117, 118, 121, 282; see also Paris peace conference; Vietnam War

  North Yemen, 82, 86, 87

  Norway, 181

  Novak, Michael, 199, 242

  Novak, Robert, 35

  Nuclear weapons

  ABMs, 167, 168

  control of, 153, 158, 160, 167–76 passim

  ICBMs, 158, 159–60, 171, 176, 180, 183

  “mutual assured destruction” (MAD), 161–62, 163, 167

  and NATO, 180–85

  neutron bomb, 182

  strategic vs. theater, 183–85

  SLBMs, 158

  U.S. vs. Soviet, 2, 12, 151–66 passim, 197

  See also SALT

  Nunn, Sam, 179

  Obstructionists, 2

  Ogaden: see Ethiopia Ohira, Masayoshi, 270

  Oil

  of Iran, 78, 80

  of Latin America, 35–36

  of Persian Gulf, 23, 71–75, 85, 187, 188, 222

  Suez crisis and, 78–79

  U.S. dependency on, 29, 72, 74, 80, 223

  Oman, 24, 75, 83, 84, 86, 87, 89, 95, 301

  On Thermonuclear War (Kahn), 150

  OPEC: see Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

  Opium Wars, 130

  Organization of African Unity, 241

  Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), 38, 72, 74, 79–80, 81, 205, 221, 225

  Ottoman Empire, 65, 66

  Pahlevi: see Riza Pahlevi; Riza Shah Pahlevi

  Pakistan, 9, 10, 11, 78, 83, 89, 259

  Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), 37, 38, 40, 86–87

  Palestinians, 86, 87, 93

  Panama, 35

  Panama Canal, 36

  Paris peace conference (1972–73), 113, 114, 116, 117, 118–19, 252

  Patrice Lumumba Friendship University (Moscow), 37, 38

  Patton, George S., 73

  Pentagon Papers, 258–59

  People’s Republic of China, 2, 8, 9, 12, 13, 31, 89

  agriculture, 203

  Cultural Revolution, 134

  “Gang of Four,” 144, 145

  Great Leap Forward, 134

  leaders of, 2, 127, 132, 133, 142, 144

  Long March, 134

  natural resources, 143

  RN’s 1972 visit to, 127, 132, 133, 136–37, 141, 266–67, 290–91, 302

  RN’s 1976 visit to, 127, 139

  RN’s 1979 visit to, 127, 130, 139, 148–49

  Republic of China and, 145–46

  Soviet Union and, 13–14, 15, 21, 58, 134–36, 140, 146–47, 178, 283, 284, 302, 303

  U.S. normalization of relations with, 147

  and Vietnam War, 112–13, 138, 304

  See also Imperial China; Republic of China

  People’s Will: see Narodnaya Volya

  Persia, 52, 53

  Persian Gulf, 11, 13, 23, 38, 67, 71–75, 80, 81–83, 121, 187, 189, 191, 268, 271, 305

  oil supplies of, 11, 71–75, 85, 187, 188, 222

  Soviet Union and, 13, 71–73, 78, 82–85, 89, 305–306

  strategic position of, 23, 71, 74, 75, 81–82, 86–89, 90–91, 296

  Peru, 34, 35, 301

  Peter I (“the Great”), 53, 55–56, 60, 63

  Petroleum: see Oil Pfaff, William, 240

  Philippines, 67, 301

  Pipes, Richard, 163–64

  “Pirate Coast”: see United Arab Emirates

  PLO: see Palestine Liberation Organization

  Podhoretz, Norman, 242

  Poland, 18, 19, 53, 54, 56, 209, 210

  John Paul II’s trip to, 311

  RN’s 1959 trip to, 48

  Polish Home Army, 18

  Politburo, 32, 234, 295

  Pol Pot, 121, 146

  Pompidou, Georges, 270

  Pope: see John Paul II

  Popular Front for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), 28

  Portugal, 19, 187, 302

  and Africa, 27–28, 29

  Potsdam Conference, 18

  Presidency, of U.S.

  and allies, 271–72

  Commander-in-Chief, 248–49, 269

  diplomacy, 250–53, 269

  and secrecy, 257–60

  and security of West, 1–2

  uses of power, 4–5, 269

  “Project Independence,” 222–23, 225

  Prussia, 54

  Pushkin, Alexander, 59

  Qaddafi, Muammar el-, 80

  Qatar, 24, 75, 87

  Quemoy, 255

  Qian Long, Emperor, 128

  Qin Shihuang-di, Emperor, 133

  Radio Free Europe, 310

  Radio Liberty, 310

  “Radish communists,” 25

  Red Brigades, 40, 205

  Red Sea, 27

  Reed, John, 240

  Republic of China, 57–58, 129, 132, 137, 138, 140–41, 203

  RN’s 1953 visit to, 129

  People’s Republic of China and, 145–46

  Quemoy and Matsu, 255

  See also Imperial China; People’s Republic of China

  Reston, James, 74, 255–56

  “Revolutionary war,” 97, 123, 124, 197, 199, 239

  Rhodesia: see Zimbabwe Rhodesia

  Rinfret, Pierre, 120

  Riza Pahlevi, Mohammed, 10, 38, 239, 272–76

  RN on, 274–76

  Riza Shah Pahlevi, 275

  Rockefeller, John D., 72

  Romania, 19, 209, 210, 213

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 69, 283

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 138, 193, 272

  Royster, Vermont
, 218–19

  Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayatollah, 90, 239, 275

  Russia, pre-Muscovite, 50–52, 53;

  see also Imperial Russia; Muscovite Russia; Soviet Union

  Russian Revolution, 42, 49–50, 57, 232, 235

  Sadat, Anwar el-, 84, 89, 93, 94, 252

  Safire, William, 109–10

  Saigon: see Ho Chi Minh City; South Vietnam

  St. Lucia, 35

  Sakharov, Andrei, 72

  Sato, Eisaku, 190, 270

  Saudi Arabia, 27, 28, 74, 80, 82, 85, 86–88, 95, 178, 275

  siege of Grand Mosque at Mecca, 38–39, 83

  Savimbi, Jonas, 28, 32

  Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., 295

  Schlesinger, James, 180–81, 188

  Schmidt, Helmut, 178 Scientific American, 150

  Second World War: see World War II

  Selassie, Haile, 25, 26

  Seton-Watson, Hugh, 241

  Shaba: see Zaire

  Shah of Iran: see Riza Pahlevi, Mohammed

  Shaw, George Bernard, 240

  Shiites: see Islam Shoup, David M., 262

  Siad Barre, Mohammed, 23, 26

  Sidey, Hugh, 248

  Siemon-Netto, Uwe, 39

  Sieyés, Emmanuel Joseph, 309

  Sihanouk, Norodom, 107–108

  Simon, William, 223, 225

  Singapore, 75

  Sino-Soviet split: see People’s Republic of China; Soviet Union

  Six-Day War (1967), 79–80

  Slessor, John, 200

  Slim, William, 288

  Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 60, 244, 303

  Somalia, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 87, 301

  South Africa, 30, 32, 75, 241, 277

  mineral resources of, 30

  racial troubles in, 31, 33

  U.S. policy toward, 33

  Southern Africa

  mineral resources of, 23, 28, 30

  racial troubles in, 30–31

  strategic position of, 30–31

  South Korea, 101, 177, 192, 225, 254; see also Korean War

  South Vietnam, 3, 21, 34, 84, 101–108 passim, 110–11, 114

  Army of (ARVN), 105, 110

  See also Paris peace agreement; Vietnam War

  South Yemen, 3, 12, 19, 24, 35, 37, 38, 75, 82–83, 84–88 passim, 94

  Soviet Union

  and Afghanistan, 9–12, 45, 72, 85, 89, 90, 147–48, 256, 280, 306

  and Africa, 4, 9, 19, 24–29, 32, 152, 198, 206, 207, 308

  agriculture, 203–204, 239–40

  anti-Semitism, 22

  arms buildup of, 2, 4, 12, 19, 151

  dissidents in, 14

  and Eastern Europe, 19, 66, 209, 210, 303

  economy, 203–205

  emigration policy of, 22

  expansionism of, 3, 4, 8, 12, 15, 17–19, 36, 41–42, 54, 65, 66, 165, 301, 308, 310

  five-year plans of, 5

  foreign aid, 213

  and hegemony, 21, 22–23, 85

  and Iran, 98, 275

  Japan and, 13, 14, 176, 178, 189–93

  KGB, 38, 40, 55, 60, 64

  and Latin America, 4, 33–36

  leaders of, 2, 8, 41, 42, 44–45, 47–49, 60–64, 233–36, 267, 291–92, 295

  military capability of, 20, 49, 151–66 passim, 180, 228, 299–300, 304

  RN’s 1972 trip to, 48–49, 290–91

  RN’s 1974 trip to, 49, 208

  and North Vietnam, 4, 117, 118

  oil, 89, 94, 188, 204

  and People’s Republic of China, 13–14, 15, 21, 58, 134–36, 140, 146–47, 178, 283, 284, 302, 303

  and Persian Gulf, 71–73, 78, 82–85, 89, 305–306

  and Republic of China, 57–58, 132

  terrorism of, 37–38, 41

  totalitarianism, 236, 307

  trade with U.S., 207–209

  World War II, 17–19, 62, 66, 73, 235

  and “World War III,” 22–23, 44–45, 166, 215, 280, 297, 298

  See also Imperial Russia; Muscovite Russia

  Stalin, Joseph, 14, 17, 18, 19, 23, 47, 54, 55, 56, 60–64 passim, 66, 73, 166, 204, 234, 235, 236, 240, 241, 248

  Standard Oil, 72; see also Exxon

  State Department: see U.S. Department of State Steffens, Lincoln, 8

  Stennis, John, 189

  Straits of Hormuz, 24, 83, 88, 89, 196

  Straits of Malacca, 196

  Strategic Alternatives Team, 176

  Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), 174–75, 183, 200, 268

  Jackson Amendment, 153, 159

  SALT I, 153, 158, 167–70, 171, 173, 259, 268

  SALT II, 160, 165, 169, 171–73, 192

  Sudan, 215, 302

  Suez Canal, 78, 196

  Suez crisis (1956), 78–79, 93, 254–55, 283

  Sunnis: see Islam

  Sun Tzu, 105, 162, 300

  Sun Yat-sen, 57, 131, 132

  Sun Yat-sen, Madame, 132

  Sweden, 53, 261

  Switzerland, 261

  Syria, 86, 186

  Szamuely, Tibor, 51

  Taiwan: see Republic of China Taraki, Noor Mohammed, 10, 11

  Taylor, Maxwell, 100

  Tehran Conference, 18

  Teller, Edward, 225, 230

  Terrorism, 37–41, 86–87

  Thailand, 124

  Thatcher, Margaret, 216

  Thieu, Nguyen Van, 104, 114, 118, 119, 124, 239, 245

  Third World, 97, 189, 198, 215, 277, 298–99, 301, 303, 305–310

  nationalism in, 97

  “Third World War”: see “World War III”

  Thompson, Robert, 6, 43, 89, 96, 97, 100, 102, 107, 112, 228, 306

  Tibet, 65

  Tito, Josip Broz, 39

  Tocqueville, Alexis de, 46, 50, 70, 126

  Tolstoy, Leo, 47, 49, 59

  Tower, John, 175

  Treaty of Peking (1860), 57

  Trotsky, Leon, 233

  Truman, Harry S., 47, 73, 74, 82, 248, 254, 279

  Truman Doctrine, 66, 74, 281

  Turkey, 47, 53, 66, 73, 74, 78, 82, 89, 186, 213–14, 283

  Turkmenistan, 90

  Uganda, 241

  Ukraine, 22, 61

  Ulyanov, Alexander, 59, 60

  Ulyanov, Vladimir: see Lenin, V. I.

  Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR): see Soviet Union

  UNITA: see National Union of Angola

  United Arab Emirates, 75, 83, 85, 87

  United Nations, 44, 69, 283

  Korean War and, 98, 192

  United States (U.S.) arms sales, 197–98

  Cambodia and, 107–11

  Constitution of, 43

  economy of, 14, 203, 215, 216–21, 300, 305

  energy policy, 221–26

  inflation in, 217–21

  isolationism of, 66, 67, 69

  Israel and, 92–93

  military capability, 2, 12, 16, 49, 151–166 passim, 180, 228

  oil and, 23, 72, 74, 80, 187–88

  People’s Republic of China and, 2, 112, 134, 136–43 passim, 146–49, 211–12, 260, 283, 284, 285, 302–303

  space program, 314

  trade with Soviet Union, 207–209

  World War II, 65–68, 104, 206

  and “World War III,” 22–23, 166, 206, 215, 242, 279, 311–12

  U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 156

  U.S. Congress, 40, 111, 116, 117, 167, 219

  and energy policy, 222

  and inflation, 219

  and Vietnam War, 111, 116, 117, 118, 119, 123

  U.S. Constitution, 43

  U.S. Department of Defense, 262

  U.S. Department of Energy, 224

  U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 217

  U.S. Department of State, 68, 147, 177

  U.S. Presidency: see Presidency

  Uruguay, 34

  Utgoff, Victor, 150

  Van Cleave, William, 176

  Venezuela, 36, 38, 80

  Victoria, Queen, 68

>   Vienna Summit (1961), 255

  Vietcong, 39, 40, 107, 108, 109

  Vietnam, 2, 12, 21, 96, 111, 146, 203, 214, 240, 241, 245

  boat people of, 14, 21, 111, 121

  Buddhists in, 102, 103

  1954 partition of, 99, 100

  post-World War II, 98–99

  Vietnam War, 2, 8, 19, 39–40, 45, 82, 96–97, 104–105, 120–24, 238, 258, 284, 301

  Americanization of, 105, 106

  Cambodia in, 108–11

  in early 1960s, 100–104, 109

  1965 U.S. bombing in North, 104

  1968 Tet offensive, 115

  1969 U.S. bombing in Cambodia, 108–11

  1972 U.S. mining of Haiphong Harbor, 112–13, 116

  1972 Paris peace conference, 113

  1973 Paris peace agreement, 113–14, 116, 117, 118–19, 124

  RN and, 97, 106–109, 113

  People’s Republic of China and, 112–13, 138, 304

  Soviet Union and, 96, 112, 117, 118

  U.S. press and, 102–103, 115, 244

  U.S. Congress and, 111, 116, 117, 244

  Vietnamization of, 106–107, 109, 110

  Wall Street Journal, 276–77

  Walters, Vernon G., 257

  Warsaw Pact, 179, 180, 183, 184, 185, 200

  Washington, George, 237

  Watergate, 8, 116, 117, 123

  Weidenbaum, Murray L., 217

  Western Europe, 14, 33, 81, 90–91, 94, 152, 176–78, 179, 180, 184, 187, 308

  and Africa, 27–29

  Communist parties of, 308

  economies of, 14, 178

  and “World War III,” 22–23

  West Germany, 39, 40, 164, 203, 280, 304

  economy, 203

  Wilson, Arnold, 71

  Wilson, Harold, 270, 273

  Wilson, Woodrow, 15, 21, 253, 265, 312

  “Windfall profits” tax, 224

  Wolfe, Bertram, 59

  World Bank, 214

  World War I, 15, 60, 65, 68, 73, 245, 246, 269

  World War II, 14, 16, 47, 65, 66–69, 73, 98, 204, 245, 246, 269, 304, 307

  and genesis of “World War III,” 17–19

  “World War III”

  Africa and, 23–25

  and communism, 21

  defined, 17, 37

  economic strength and, 202, 212, 215

  issues of, 19–20

  origins of, 17–19

  Soviet aims in, 22–23, 43–15, 166, 205, 215, 280, 297, 298

  U.S. and, 22–23, 116, 206, 215, 229, 242, 244, 279, 295–99, 311–12

  Vietnam War and, 96, 244–45

  Xiaoping: see Deng Xiaoping

  Yalta Conference, 18, 293

  Yemen: see North Yemen; South Yemen

  Yom Kippur War (1973), 12, 80, 84, 93, 180, 187, 256, 265

  Young, Andrew, 121–22, 239

  Yugoslavia, 19, 209

  Zahedi, Ardeshir, 78

  Zahedi, Fazollah, 78, 272

  Zaire, 29, 30

  Shaba province, 29

  Zanzibar, 88

  Zhou Enlai, 127, 132, 136–37, 259, 291

  Zimbabwe Rhodesia, 29, 30, 32

 

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