"The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it."
-Henry A. Kissinger
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"It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.“
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