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...He maintained an upright morality and unfeigned belief in public service that did not chime particularly well with the Washington of Nixon or Clinton....
...George F Kennan: An American Life, by John Lewis Gaddis, Penguin Press, RRP£30 A biography of the man who devised America’s strategy of “containment” to deal with the Soviet Union after 1945 also serves...
...But Mao, for the Russians, was worse: an unreliable ally who eventually made overtures to Nixon and whose armies clashed militarily with the Soviets....
...The Bush administration has undertaken nothing analogous to the efforts made to understand the Soviet Union in the time of Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and...
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