The Best Of The Nixon Years
Newly Released Documents From Henry Kissinger's Time At The White House Supplement An Already Rich Record Of Tidbits About The 37Th President
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About 20,000 pages of memoranda and transcripts of telephone conversations conducted by Henry Kissinger as secretary of State and national-security adviser were released Wednesday by the National Archives in Washington, D.C. The documents are remarkable in that--much like a series of recently released White House tapes secretly recorded by the president himself--they provide a snapshot of the inner workings of the Oval Office, of the president's complex relationship with Kissinger and of Nixon's xenophobic view of the world. NEWSWEEK has compiled some of the more revealing quotes by and about the 37th president and his aides from the new and previously released transcripts. Excerpts:
"Can we tell them 'no?' When I talked to the president, he was loaded."
--Henry Kissinger to his aide in October 1973 when British Prime Minister Edward Heath's office tried to set up a telephone call with Nixon about the Arab-Israeli war
Kissinger in an exchange with the longtime ambassador from the Soviet Union, Anatoly Dobrynin before inviting him to a meeting:
Dobrynin: "I heard that you were sitting with a very nice girl ... and I guess I have her picture?"
Kissinger: "Oh, yes?"
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