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Day: July 25, 2016
Did Henry Kissinger ever usurp the function of Richard Nixon, taking executive decision without assent?
I can’t recall an instance where Kissinger did, though there were plenty of instances where he undermined Nixon or disobeyed instructions. I am reading Dallek’s Nixon and Kissinger right now though, and will update if I find an instance. Haldeman came closer by routinely failing to pass on Nixon’s enraged instructions to fire everybody. In […]