Years of Renewal by Kissinger, Henry -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Dedication List of Maps Foreword Chapter 1: A Ford, Not a Lincoln

The Changing of the Guard The New President The Domestic Crisis Ford and Congress Ford and the National Interest

Part One: The Nixon Legacy

Chapter 2: The Man and the Organization

At the Edge of Greatness The President and His Adviser Nixon and the Establishment Nixon the Person The Taping System The Operation of the Nixon White House The National Security Council System Epilogue

Chapter 3: Controversy over Détente

What Was Détente? The Attack on Nixon’s Foreign Policy: The Liberal Challenge The Conservative Critique Senator Henry Jackson and Détente: Strategy and Arms Control

Chapter 4: Jackson, Arms Control, and Jewish Emigration

Arms Control Jewish Emigration from the Soviet Union

Chapter 5: China and Its Leaders

Two Styles of Diplomacy Mao Zedong Zhou Enlai Deng Xiaoping

Part Two: Ford at The Helm

Chapter 6: The New Presidency

The Transition The Ford Team Ford and His Secretary of State

Chapter 7: Cyprus, a Case Study in Ethnic Conflict

The Nature of Ethnic Conflicts Makarios: The Wily Archbishop Greek-Turkish Minuets Cyprus Erupts The Turkish Invasion The Second Turkish Intervention Congress and Cyprus Conclusion

Part Three: East-West Relations

Chapter 8: Ford Inherits the Debate over Détente

Hearings on Détente The Debate on Arms Control Resumes Jewish Emigration from the Soviet Union

Chapter 9: A Visit with Brezhnev

Brezhnev and the Kremlin Leaders The Kremlin’s Perspective on Détente In the Politburo Chambers A Step Toward a Breakthrough Nuclear Condominium

Chapter 10: Vladivostok and the Crisis in American-Soviet Relations

Arrival in Vladivostok First Plenary Meeting The Aftermath of Vladivostok: Détente Under Stress Jewish Emigration and the Collapse of the Trade Bill Final Note

Chapter 11: The Intelligence Investigations

Prelude to the Investigations Ford Charts a Course The Rockefeller Commission The Church Committee The Pike Committee Was There an Intelligence Scandal and What Was the Outcome?

Part Four: Breakthrough in the Middle East

Chapter 12: Ford and Middle East Diplomacy

The Cauldron Forging a New Strategy The Jordanian Option The Egyptian Option Hussein and the Peace Process Two More Arab Visitors: Syria and Saudi Arabia Rabin Visits Ford The Rabat Decision

Chapter 13: One Shuttle Too Many

Post-Rabat Blues The Exploratory Shuttle The Shuttle That Failed

Chapter 14: Sinai II and the Road to Peace

“Reassessment” The Resumption of Step-by-Step Policy Ford and Sadat Ford and Rabin: Another Encounter Forging a New Initiative Another Shuttle The Leaders and the Outcome

Part Five: Collapse in Indochina, Tragedy of the Kurds

Chapter 15: Indochina Tragedy—The Beginning of the End

The Strangulation of Vietnam Ford and Vietnam Hanoi’s Buildup Hanoi Resumes the Offensive The End of the Road

Chapter 16: The Collapse of Cambodia

The Myth of the Failure to Negotiate on Cambodia The Final Collapse

Chapter 17: The End of Vietnam

The Debate over Evacuation The Search for a Political Solution The Evacuation The Last Day

Chapter 18: Anatomy of a Crisis: The Mayaguez

How to Liberate a Ship The Freeing of the Mayaguez Postmortems

Chapter 19: Tragedy of the Kurds

Origins of the Program Internal Controversies The End of Kurdish Autonomy The Collapse of Kurdish Resistance

Part Six: The Atlantic Relationship

Chapter 20: The Restoration of Western Unity

Harold Wilson and James Callaghan: The Operation of the Special Relationship Helmut Schmidt and Hans-Dietrich Genscher: Alliance and Unification Valéry Giscard d’Estaing—France: Ally or Gadfly? Eurocommunism and the Atlantic Alliance

Chapter 21: The European Security Conference

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Prelude to Helsinki Helsinki Aftermath

Chapter 22: The Energy Crisis

An Emerging Strategy A Long-Term Strategy The Implementation of the Energy Program Consumer Solidarity: Meeting with Giscard at Martinique Separate Oil Deals The Rambouillet Summit The Consumer/Producer Dialogue

Part Seven: Latin America

Chapter 23: Panama, Mexico, and the “New Dialogue”

Nixon and the “Mature Partnership” Panama Canal Negotiations: First Phase Mexico and the New Dialogue The Conference of Tlatelolco The End of the New Dialogue

Chapter 24: Brazil, Chile, and Western Hemisphere Unity

First Visit to Latin America: Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, and Brazil Chile, Human Rights, and the Organization of American States Panama Conclusion

Chapter 25: Cuban Interlude

The Dialogue Sources of Cuban Conduct

Part Eight: Relations with the Communist World

Chapter 26: Civil War in Angola

Gathering Storm Clouds The Beginning of the Involvement Angola Strategy Discussions: The African Bureau The Angolan Strategy The Diplomatic Framework The Tunney and Clark Amendments

Chapter 27: Last Visit to Moscow

The Halloween Massacre The New Team in Action The End of East-West Negotiations The Doctrine That Never Was: Sonnenfeldt and Eastern Europe

Chapter 28: Preserving the Sino-American Relationship

A Visit to Beijing Dialogue with Deng and Mao Conversation with Mao Ford and Mao: The 1975 Summit Domestic Distractions

Part Nine: Southern Africa

Chapter 29: An African Strategy

The Challenge The World Looks at Angola Shaping of an Angolan Strategy Components of a Strategy African Policy and the Domestic Consensus

Chapter 30: First Visit to Africa

Anthony Crosland and the Role of Britain Jomo Kenyatta: The Extinct Volcano Julius Nyerere and Tanzania: The Ambivalent Intellectual Kenneth Kaunda: The Closet Moderate Mobutu: The Controversial Ally Liberia: History Without a Point Leopold Senghor: The Philosopher-King Nairobi: Meeting with Front-Line Ministers Return to Washington

Chapter 31: Toward Majority Rule in Southern Africa

South Africa and the United States Meeting South Africa’s Prime Minister Great Britain and the Front-Line States Another Sortie to Africa African Complexities A Political Program for Rhodesia

Chapter 32: Breakthrough to Majority Rule

Second Meeting with Vorster Another Round with Nyerere and Kaunda Another Visit to Lusaka Breakthrough with Vorster and Smith Reaction of Kaunda and Nyerere Blow-up with London Return to Washington

Part Ten: End of the Ford Presidency

Chapter 33: Civil War in Lebanon and Middle East Peace

The Lebanon Crisis Unfolds Back to the Peace Process Sadat and Rabin Visit Washington Syrian Intervention in Lebanon Return to the Peace Process

Chapter 34: Reflections

The End of the Ford Administration Morality and Pragmatism A Personal Note

Photographs Notes Index Copyright

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