Kissinger’s Shadow (35 page)

Friends, family, and colleagues helped with this book, including reading all or parts of the manuscript, answering questions, assisting with the research, or just talking about the topic. I owe a large debt to Marilyn Young, Ben Kiernan, Bob Wheeler, Carolyn Eisenberg, Chase Madar, Corey Robin, Jim Peck, David Barreda, Matt Hausmann, Cos Tollerson, Rachel Nolan, Christy Thornton, Barbara Weinstein, Philip Gourevitch, Ada Ferrer, Sinclair Thomson, Josh Frens-String, Maureen Linker, Kate Doyle, Esther Kaplan, Nick Arons, Richard Kim, Roane Carey, Jean Stein, Katrina van den Heuvel, Tom Hayden, Arno Mayer, Bev Gage, Chris Dietrich, Kirsten Weld, Peter Kornbluh, Susan Rabiner, Mario del Pero (for his helpful book on Kissinger,
The Eccentric Realist
), Mark Healey, Ernesto Semán, Tannia Goswami, and Toshi Goswami.

I don't know if there is a devil theory of publishing, but there should be, for Sara Bershtel explains it all. Or at least she does for me. Sara's intense reading and much needed skepticism turned a jumble of a manuscript (“I think you are saying something important,” she remarked about the first draft, “I just don't understand what it is.”) into a passable finished product. Thank you. Thanks also to all the others at Metropolitan Books, including Connor Guy, Roslyn Schloss, Riva Hocherman, Maggie Richards, and Grigory Tovbis.

This book is for Manu Goswami and Eleanor Goswami Grandin. Eleanor will be three when it is published.

 

INDEX

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Abrams, Creighton

Abu Ghraib

Afghanistan; Soviet war in; U.S. war in

Agee, Philip

Agent Orange

Agnew, Spiro

Albright, Madeleine

Allen, Richard

Allende, Salvador

Al Qaeda

Ambrose, Stephen

Amchitka

Angleton, James

Angola

antiwar movement

apartheid

Arab-Israeli War

Arendt, Hannah
; The Origins of Totalitarianism

Argentina

Aristide, Jean-Bertrand

AUMF

Austin, J. L.

Bachelet, Michelle

Baghdad

Bangladesh

Bay of Pigs invasion

Beirut

Berlin Wall, fall of

Berman, Larry

Bernstein, Carl

Bhopal disaster

bin Laden, Osama

Bolivia

Bolton, John

Bordaberry, Juan María

Bosnia

Boykin, William

Brandt, Willy

Brazil

Brezhnev, Leonid

Brinkley, David

Brinkley, Douglas

Brooks, David

Bruschtein, Santiago

Brzezinski, Zbigniew

Buckley, William F.

Bush, George H. W.; Gulf War; Panama invasion

Bush, George W.; Freedom Agenda; Iraq War

Bush, Jeb

Cambodia; bombing of; casualties and; Khmer Rouge-Nazi analogy;
Mayaguez
raid; Menu; 1970 invasion of; refugees

Capell, Frank, “The Kissinger Caper”

Carter, Jimmy

Carvajal, Patricio

Casey, William

Castro, Fidel

chemical warfare

Cheney, Dick

Cherne, Leo

Chile; Condor

China; Communism; Tiananmen massacre

Chomsky, Noam

Christmas Bombing

Churchill, Winston

CIA; Team B

Cienfuegos

civil rights movement

Clements, William

Clinton, Bill; bombing of Iraq

Clinton, Hillary

cluster bombs

Colby, William

Condor

Confluence

Congress; oversight of national security and covert action

containment

Cronkite, Walter

Cuba; missile crisis

Czechoslovakia

Dallek, Robert,
Nixon and Kissinger

Davidson, Daniel

Dean, John

Defense Department

Democratic Party

Desert Storm

détente

Dobrynin, Anatoly

domino theory

Drinan, Robert

drones

drug trafficking

Eagleburger, Lawrence

Eastern Europe

East Timor

Ecuador

Egypt

Ehrlichman, John

Einaudi, Luigi

Eisenberg, Carolyn

Eisenhower, Dwight D.; nuclear policy; Vietnam policy

Elliott, William Y.

Ellsberg, Daniel; Pentagon Papers

Ellsberg's paradox

El Salvador

existentialism

Fallaci, Oriana

FBI

Feinstein, Dianne

Feith, Douglas

Foley, Thomas

Ford, Gerald; Kissinger and;
Mayaguez
raid; 1976 presidential campaign

Freedom Deal

Fulbright, William

Gaddafi, Muammar

Gaddis, John Lewis

Gaffney, Frank

Gandhi, Indira

Gavin, James

Gelb, Leslie

Germany; fall of Berlin Wall; Nazi; World War II

Gerson, Michael

Giant, Lance

Goldwater, Barry

Graham, Billy

Great Britain; World War II

Great Society

Grenada; invasion of

Gromyko, Andrei

Guatemala

Gulf War

Guzzetti, César Augusto

Haig, Alexander

Haiti

Halberstam, David

Haldeman, Bob

Halperin, Morton

Hammadi, Sa'dun

Hanoi

Harriman, Averill

Harvard University

Havana

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

Helms, Jesse

Helsinki Accords

Hersh, Seymour;
The Price of Power

Hitchens, Christopher

Hitler, Adolf

Ho Chi Minh

Hoffmann, Stanley

Holbrooke, Richard

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Holocaust; Khmer Rouge-Nazi analogy

Hook, Sidney

Hoover, J. Edgar

Hope, Bob

Hughes, Ken

Humphrey, Hubert

Hunt, Howard

Huntington, Samuel

Hussein, Saddam; Gulf War; Iraq War

India

Indonesia

Iran; -Iraq war; 1979 revolution; 1979–81 hostage crisis; SAVAK

Iran-Contra

Iraq; Clinton's bombing of; Gulf War; -Iran war; sanctions; 2003 invasion of; WMDs

Isaacson, Walter

Islamic fundamentalism

Israel

Jackson State killings

Japan

jihadism

Johnson, Lyndon B.; Vietnam policy

Just Cause

Kabul

Kagan, Robert

Kalb, Marvin and Bernard

Kant, Immanuel

Kennan, George

Kennedy, John F.; Cuban missile crisis; Vietnam policy

Kennedy, Robert F.

Kent State killings

Kerry, John

Khmer Rouge-Nazi analogy

Khrushchev, Nikita

Kiernan, Ben

Kimball, Jeffrey P.

King, Martin Luther

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

Kissinger, Henry; Africa and; becomes secretary of state; George H. W. Bush and; Cambodia policy; charm of; Chile and; consulting firm of; on containment; Cuba and; on democracy and diplomacy; détente and;
Diplomacy
; existentialism of; Ford and; foreignness of; Gulf War and; at Harvard; Iraq War and; Kennedy and; Khmer Rouge-Nazi analogy; last years in office; Latin America and; legacy of; “The Meaning of History”; Middle East and; 9/11 investigation and; 1968 presidential election and; Nixon and; NSC and; on nuclear policy; political rise of; post-Cold War policy; post-Vietnam policy; racism of; Reagan and; secrecy and; shuttle diplomacy; “tar baby” policy; Team B and; Vietnam War and;
The White House Years;
World Order
; World War II service;
Years of Renewal

Kissinger Associates

Kissingerism

Knight, Hal

Koh, Harold

Koppel Ted

Korea

Kosovo

Kraemer, Fritz

Krauthammer, Charles

Kristol, William

Kurds

Kuwait

Laird, Melvin

Lake, Anthony

Lansdale, Edward

Laos; bombing of; 1971 invasion of

Lebanon

Le Duc Tho

LeMay, Curtis

Letelier, Orlando

Libya

Liddy, G. Gordon

Logevall, Fredrik

Lon Nol

Machiavelli, Niccolo

madman theory

Mao Zedong

Marcos, Ferdinand

Marxism

Mayaguez
raid

McCarthyism

McCloskey, Paul

McCord, James W.

McGovern, George

McNamara, Robert

McReynolds, David

McSherry, J. Patrice

Mekong Delta

Menu

Mitchell, John

Mitrione, Dan

Moffitt, Ronni

Morgenthau, Hans

Moynihan, Daniel Patrick

Mozambique

MPLA

Mujica, José

My Lai

NAFTA

Namibia

National Security Act (1947)

National Security Council (NSC); Congressional oversight; reorganized by Kissinger

NATO

neoconservatives; Team B

Newsom, David

New York Times

Nicaragua

Niebuhr, Reinhold

9/11 attacks

Nixon, Richard M.; Cambodia policy; domestic policy; Kissinger and; madman theory; 1968 presidential election; 1972 presidential election; nuclear policy; obsession with Communism; racism of; resignation of; secrecy and; Southern Strategy; style; tapes; Vietnam policy; Watergate scandal

Nobel Peace Prize

Noriega, Manuel

North, Oliver

North Vietnam.
See also
Vietnam War

Nunn, Sam

Obama, Barack

O'Neill, Tip

one percent doctrine

Organization of American States

Osgood, Robert

Owen, Taylor

Packard, David

Packer, George

Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza, Shah of Iran

Pakistan; ISI

Palestine

Panama; casualties; 1989 invasion of

Paraguay

Paris Peace Accords

Pathet Lao

Pentagon; torture manuals

Pentagon Papers

Perlstein, Rick

Peru

petrodollars

Philippines

Phnom Penh

Pickering, Thomas

Pike Committee

Pinochet, Augusto

Pipes, Richard

PLO

Pol Pot

positivism

Power, Samantha

Prague Spring

presidential elections; of 1960; of 1968; of 1972; of 1976; of 1980

Preston, Andrew

Proxmire, William

Ramat, Raúl Albert

RAND Corporation

Rather, Dan

Reagan, Ronald; covert wars; Grenada invasion; Iran-Contra scandal; Kissinger and; 1976 presidential campaign; 1980 presidential election; Soviet Union and

realism

relativism, 70,

religion

Republican Party

Rhodesia

Richardson, Elliot

Robin, Corey

Rockefeller, Nelson

Rodgers, Daniel,
The Age of Fracture

Rogers, William

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Rostow, Walt

Rousseff, Dilma

Rove, Karl

Rumsfeld, Donald

Safire, William

Saigon; fall of

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Saudi Arabia

Savimbi, Jonas

savings and loans scandal

Schelling, Thomas

Schlafly, Phyllis

Schlesinger, Arthur

Scowcroft, Brent

Senate Armed Services Committee

Senate Church Committee

Shawcross, William;
Sideshow

Shlaudeman, Harry

Shrum, Bob

Shultz, George

shuttle diplomacy

Sihanouk, Prince

Sitton, Ray

Slocombe, Walter

Somalia

South Africa

South Vietnam.
See also
Vietnam War

Soviet Union; Afghanistan war; collapse of; Communism; Cuban missile crisis; détente and; expansionism; nuclear policy; Reagan and; SALT; Team B and

Spengler, Oswald;
The Decline of the West

State Department

Stockwell, John

Suharto

Sullivan, William

Supreme Court

Suskind, Ron

Symington, Stuart

Syria

Taliban

Tanter, Raymond

“tar baby” policy

Taylor, Maxwell

Team B

Tet offensive

Thieu, Nguyen Van

Third World

Thurmond, Strom

Torricelli, Robert

torture; Feinstein report

Tower, John

Toynbee, Arnold

Trevor-Roper, Hugh

Truman, Harry

Turse, Nick

Union Carbide

United Nations

Urgent Fury

Uruguay

Vance, Cyrus

Vietcong

Vietnam syndrome

Vietnam War; Cambodia bombing and invasion; casualties; duel reporting system; end of; Johnson policy; Kennedy policy; Kissinger and; Nixon policy; nuclear policy and; Pentagon Papers; secrecy; Stone-Age strategy

Wallace, George

War on Terror

Washington Post

Watergate scandal

Watts, William

Wheeler, Earle

WikiLeaks

Will, George

Wilson, Woodrow

Wolfowitz, Paul

Woodward, Bob

World War I

World War II

Yale University

Yemen

Yhaya, Zahraa

Young, David

Yugoslavia

Zaire

Zhou Enlai

Ziegler, Ron

Zimbabwe

Zumwalt, Elmo

Zwillich, Todd

 

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