Nixon conversations, friendship with, 90–94
Nixon’s reinstatement resolution in Senate, 98–99
“North Atlantic isolationism” and, 101, 316
personality and character, 85–89, 329
and Philippines, 88, 101–102, 130–31, 275–76
and the Presidency, 128–29
quotes and comments:
Army defense budget in 1934, 101
importance of Asia in U.S. policy, 101
when dismissed without notice, 99
Eisenhower, 91
FDR, 96
Inchon landing reinforcements, 97
Kennedy, 92–93
“Old soldiers never die” speech, 84
prostitute’s election in Japan, 116
Nixon’s gubernatorial campaign in California, 94
soldiers pray for peace, 131
relations with Presidents, 96, 101
thought balanced with action, 337
Truman on, 89, 96
Wake Island meeting, 89, 99
as West Point superintendent, 88–89, 101, 131
World War I, 86–88
World War II, 86–87, 95, 101–102, 108–109, 279
Yoshida as partner, 81–85, 103–104, 113–16, 131–32, 253
MacArthur, Mrs. Douglas, 91, 95
MacArthur, Pinky, 17, 88
“MacArthur seats,” 86
McCarthy, Joseph, 13, 174
MacDonald, James Ramsey, 13
Machiavelli, 246
McCloy, John J., 138, 144–45, 149–50, 161–62, 321
Macmillan, Harold, 177, 199, 215
Maginot Line, 46–47, 323
Magsaysay, Ramon, 251, 274–79
quotes and comments:
American values in Philippines, 279
fight against communism, 277
giving hope to youth, 277
Makino, Count, 105–106, 110, 125
Malayans, 310–11
Malaysia, 9
Malenkov, Georgi, 184
Malraux, André:
and de Gaulle, 60, 74, 78–79
on Mao, 237, 240
Managers vs. leaders, 4–5
Manchester, William, 115
Mao Zedong, 59, 116, 195, 199, 217–19, 230–31, 236–41
Brezhnev on, 210
character, 238–40
cf. Chiang, 241–42, 244
conversational style, 235, 238
Cultural Revolution and, 230, 237
cf. de Gaulle, 58
and Deng’s memorial speech for Zhou, 228
history’s verdict, 301–302
illness, 237–39
killing of countrymen and cruelty, 11, 172, 228, 240, 322
Lee’s prediction, 318
and Long March, 220, 222, 240
Marxism-Leninism revised, 240
Nixon meetings with (1972), 231, 237–39, 241–42
(1976) 239
poetry of, 233, 235, 247
quotes and comments:
Chiang, 242
his changing of the world, 238–39
his writings, 238
Ping-Pong teams and improved
relations, 223
rightists, 238
Zhou and foreign affairs, 231
untidiness, 237, 244, 281
and U.S. negotiations, 234, 237
wife, 228, 242–43
working habits, 239–40
cf. Zhou, 218–19, 231, 238, 246–48
Mao (Terrill), 239
Maoism, 95
Maotai, 221–22
Marlborough (Churchill), 27
“Marseillaise, The,” 80
Marshall, General George, 95–96
Marshall Plan, 99–100, 136, 145, 163
for Third World, 264
Martin, Joe, 98–99
Marx, Karl, 178, 194, 219
Marxist-Leninist theory, 178–79, 229, 273
Media. See Television.
Meiji, Emperor of Japan, 104
Meiji reformers, 104–107, 109, 132
Meir, 251, 283–89, 341
cf. Gandhi, 286
grudges, 282, 287
Nixon’s last meeting with (1974), 288–89
personality, 283–85
Pompidou on, 283, 286
quotes and comments:
Arab neighbors, 288
becoming Prime Minister, 286
being a woman Foreign Minister, 286
détente, 288
Kissinger’s accent, 288
Yom Kippur War and, 207, 285
Memoirs (Yoshida), 84
Memoirs de Guerre (de Gaulle), 61
Menzies, Sir Robert, 251, 308–10, 312–18
artificial lake incident and Cabinet, 313–14
eloquence and repartee, 314–16
cf. Lee, 308–310, 316–18
quotes and comments:
love for America, 312
Australia’s resistance to communism, 317–18
businessmen, 315
Churchill’s speeches, 20–21
Lyndon Johnson, 315–16
Nixon-Kennedy debates, 316
press “abuse,” 316
Sukarno, 265
Vietnam, 317
reading time allocation, 337
Merdeka, 266, 269
Middle East. See also names of leaders of Middle East.
changes in, 279, 289–90
de Gaulle on, 65–66
Egypt and, 289–98
Israel and, 279–88
modernizing monarchs in, 299–307
Nixon-Brezhnev talks (1973), 206–207
transfer of power, 305
Yom Kippur War and, 207–209
Mikoyan, Anastas, 177, 181, 188–89, 200
Missiles. See Antiballistic Missile Treaty; Nuclear weapons.
Mohammed Ayub Khan, 4
Mohammed Naguib, 290
Mohammed Riza Pahlevi. See Shah of Iran.
Molotov, Vyacheslav, 172, 184, 233
Molotov-Ribbentrop pact (1939), 156
Modernizing monarchies, 299–308
Monnet, Jean, 4, 149
Montgomery, Ruth, 159
Moran, Lord, 11, 34
Morgenthau Plan, 32, 163
Morocco, 300, 306
Moscow summit (1972), 75
Mozambique, 204
Mubarak, Hosni, 297
Muñoz Marin, Luis, 48
Muslims. See Islam.
Mussolini, 254
Myths, and leadership, 329–30
Nagasaki, 104
Napoleon, 3, 45, 51
bathtub, 68
Napoleonic Code, 51
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 251, 290–95
and Aswan High Dam, 291, 293
death and funeral, 292, 293, 297–98
foreign adventures and Yemen, 262, 291, 293, 298, 303
history’s verdict, 301–302, 339
and Israel, 65, 285, 287, 291, 293
Nixon and, 290, 292–93
personality and character, 291–92
cf. Sadat, 294–95, 297, 307–308
cf. Shah, 299, 307–308
Nation-building leaders, 269–89, 293–98, 319
NATO alliance, 64–65, 134–35, 165–66
and de Gasperi, 257
and de Gaulle, 125
Nazis:
and Adenauer, 107, 140–41, 153–54
American image of Germans and, 146
atrocities in Russia, 155–56
Churchill on Soviet allies and, 32
and Poland, 28, 165
postwar German leaders and, 137
Negev Desert, 281
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 261, 269–74
and democracy for India, 271–74
Kashmir obsession, 269–70
leadership style, 251, 259, 273–74, 337
cf. Lee, 311
“nonalignment policy,” 272
Pakistan threat, 272
socialism and economic problems, 273–74
Neutralis
m, 165
Newsweek, 171
New World (since World War II), 249–50, 316, 319, 339
New York Times, 28, 152, 179
Nixon, Richard M. See also names of leaders.
advice to political candidates, 22, 60, 338
airlift to Israel, military alert (1973), 207–210, 285
American bureaucracy and, 19
on American financial aid to Third
World, 264–65
American relations with Germany, 146–47
Asia trip (1953), 9, 100
on campaigning, 142
on China’s future role, 248
Chinese-American relations and, 74, 126–27, 218, 233–36
congressional investigation (1947), 211
on decision making, 53–54, 328–29
discussions with de Gaulle, 65–66, 72–77
on détente, 161, 288
on Eastern European countries, 172
electoral defeats and, 26, 58–59, 61–62, 124, 316, 329
and Ghana’s independence, 259–61
resemblance to Gromyko, 139
Herter committee trip to Europe (1947), 136, 250, 259
and Japan’s rearmament, 119–21
on leaders selected for inclusion, 3–4
reflections on leadership, 320–45
on Clare Boothe Luce, 341
and Moselle wine, 144
on nuclear freeze proposal, 213–14
on peace, 191, 239
reception in Poland, 192
on power, 31, 320–24
on presidency, 51, 321–22, 341; and de
Gaulle’s prediction, 61
presidential election (1960), 61, 92, 196–97, 316
on press, 325
on psychobiography and “science,” 16–17
reading time and, 337
on risks in politics, 21–22, 321, 329
on Soviet Union and American policy, 211–16
on Suez crisis and Eisenhower’s intervention, 291
on need for summit meetings, 210
on vice presidential nomination, 341
and end of Vietnam War, 75–76, 329
on Western alliance, 258–59
Nixon, Mrs. Richard, 61, 100, 146, 175, 203
Adenauer and rosebushes, 158–59
and dinner for Adenauer, 153
and Caracas mob attack, 190, 211
on Churchill, 11
and de Gaulle, 68
on Yvonne de Gaulle, 71
foreign visits, 179, 260, 273, 280, 294–95
and Khrushchev, 188–89
and Yoshida, 113
Nixon, Tricia, 280, 282
“Nixon shock,” 127
Nkrumah Kwame, 251, 259–65, 274
cf. Nehru and Sukarno, 265, 269
“Nonalignment” policy, 272
“North Atlantic isolationism,” 101, 316
North Korea, 97, 120, 211
North-South economic development, 264–65
North Vietnam, 75–76, 211, 316
Novak, Michael, 342
Nuclear weapons:
and China, 210, 231
Churchill on “saturation,” 10
de Gaulle on, 73–74
freeze proposal, 213–14
Germany and, 76–77
military superiority argument, 211–14
missile treaty (1972), 210
and nature of war, 250
nonproliferation treaty, 163
Soviet buildup under Khrushchev, 171
test-ban treaty, 160, 171
“Ode to a Plum Blossom” (Mao), 235
Okinawa, 121
One World (Willkie), 249
“One-Man Yoshida,” 105, 111
Opinion polls, 334
Organization for African Unity, 262
Ostpolitik, 164–66
Pakistan, 270, 272–74
Palestinians, 298
Pan-Africanism, 261–62
Pan-Arabic movement, 292–93
Paris Peace Agreement, 76
Parliamentary system, 47–48
Parnell, Charles, 221
Patton, General George, 86
Paul VI, Pope, 4
Peace, 37–38, 120, 162, 239
“Peaceful coexistence” policy, 171, 178, 198
Pearl Harbor, 31, 104, 131
Pearson, Lester, 3
Peck, Gregory, 86
Peel, Sir Robert, 29
Pentagon, 95, 207–208
“Pentagon Junta,” 96
Pentagon Papers, 28
People’s Republic of China. See Communist China.
Perry, Commodore Matthew, 104
Pershing, General John J., 95
Pétain, Marshal Henri Philippe, 46
Peter the Great, Czar of Russia, 3, 199
Philippines:
reverence for MacArthur, 109, 130–31
and Magsaysay government, 251, 274–79
politics, 278
World War II and, 86–88, 95, 100–102, 276
Ping-Pong team exchange, 223
Pius XII, Pope, 4, 154, 255–57
Plume, Christian, 55
Podgorny, Nikolai, 77, 205
Poland, 74, 183
and communism, 32, 211
1970s détente and Solidarity, 212
Nixon visit to (1959), 192–93
Soviets in 1959, 173
Soviets and, 1981–1982 crisis, 165–66, 258, 296
Political candidates, 21–22, 60, 331–32, 333–34, 338
Politics, 324–27
in Philippines, 278
Pol Pot, 340
Polk, James, 30
Pompidou, Georges, 55, 76, 78, 283, 286
Population:
Indonesia, 266
Singapore, 310–11
of United Nations member nations, 250
Potsdam Conference, 33–34
Power, political:
effect on aging, 36
Churchill exercise of, 38–39
enjoyment of, 321
happiness and, 324
realist vs. theorists, 323
and will, 320, 323, 328
Presidency, France, 50–51
Presidency, United States, 51, 321–22, 341
Presidential election of 1960, 61, 73, 196–97, 316
Presidents (American):
and direct contact with Soviet leaders, 77, 210
and Israel, 283
and sense of privacy, 52
Press:
Adenauer’s use of, 159
Krushchev’s use of in 1960
U.S. election, 197
and MacArthur, 82, 86
and Menzies, 314–15
on Nixon-Adenauer friendship, 159
and Nixon speech on Japanese rearmament, 120
Yoshida and, 113
Prince, The (Machiavelli), 326
Prittie, Terence, 151, 163
Prussians, 146, 149–50, 167
Public opinion, 215
and Adenauer, 146
Johnson obsession with, 315
leaders and, 324
and MacArthur, 98–99, 129–30
Queen’s Bedroom, 14–15
Radford, Admiral Arthur, 9–10
Radio Free Europe, 192
Rally of the French People (RPF), 48–49, 59
Reagan, Ronald, 212, 296
Real War, The (Nixon), 211
Red Guards, 230
Reminiscences (MacArthur), 83
Renner, Heinz, 144–45
Republican governments, 306–307
Republican party (U.S.), 238
Republic of China (Taiwan), 99, 235
Chiang and economy, 217–18, 244–45
Revolutions:
American, 222, 244
Faisal on, 302
French, 244
leaders of, 265–74, 289–93, 307
Rhineland, 149–50, 167
Riza, Crown Prince of Iran, 300
Robinson, Walter, 225
Rogers, William
, 223–25, 286
Romania, 211
Romulo, Carlos, 278
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 31, 69
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 8
and Churchill, 14–15, 32–33
Churchill on last months of, 10
and decolonialization, 30, 37, 260–61
on de Gaulle, 63
and Hoover, 29
leadership style, 284, 321, 324
and MacArthur, 86, 96, 101–102
MacArthur on, 128
and Stalin, 201, 215
and Truman, 78, 158
Roosevelt, Theodore, 321, 345
Rosebery, Lord, 2, 333
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 132
Ruiz Cortines, Adolfo, 3, 253
Russell, Richard, 339
Russia, Czarist, 287
Russian people, 176, 179, 199, 215
el-Sadat, Anwar, 261, 290, 293–99, 306
assassination and funeral, 296–98
and Carter, 299
cf. Faisal, 303
and peace with Israel, 295, 298
as leader, 251, 294–95, 307
cf. Nasser, 294–95, 297–98, 307
on Nasser’s self-deception, 291
quotes and comments:
Egyptians cf. Russians, 295
just ruler and opposition, 344
refuge for Shah, 299
Soviet expansion, 296
and Yom Kippur War, 208–209, 295
Salisbury, Harrison, 179
Saragat, Giuseppe, 66
Sato, Eisaku, 121–23
Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, 302, 304, 308
Saudi Arabia, 300, 303–306
and democracy, 306–307, 340
kings, and modernization, 308
Nasser and Yemen, 291, 303
Scelba, Mario, 257
Schuman, Robert, 4, 148, 151
Scott, George C., 86
SEATO, 318
Sebald, William, 103, 111
Senate, United States, 98, 122, 126
Shah of Iran (Mohammed Riza Pahlevi), 58, 334
on China and India, 271
as leader, 251, 290, 299, 307–308
modernization of Iran, 300–302
Nixon visit (1979), 271, 299
reasons for fall, 302
and Sadat’s refuge, 298–99
Shakespeare, William, 38
Shanghai Communiqué of 1972, 218
Shaw, George Bernard, 13
Simpson, Wallis, 15, 27
Singapore, 251, 308–11, 317–19
Sino-Soviet split, 171, 231–32, 250, 294–95
Six Crises (Nixon), 316
Six Day War (1967), 282, 291
Smith, Walter Bedell, 234, 335
Snow, C.P., 24, 30
Snow, Edgar, 214, 230
Socialism, 23, 261, 270, 273–74
Soong, Ai-ling, 243
Soong, Charles, 243
Soong, Ch’ing-ling, 243
Soong, Mei-ling. See Chiang Kai-shek, Madame.
Sophocles, 345
South Korea, 89, 130
South Vietnam, 162, 204, 316
South Yemen, 204
Soviet Union, 17, 109, 150, 160, 177, 192, 224, 248, 250, 318. See also Brezhnev, Leonid
Chinese-American rapprochement; Khrushchev, Nikita; Sino-Soviet split; Stalin, Joseph.
Adenauer and, 147–48, 154–56, 160, 162–64
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