The nixon and administration. Jeff had written a major book on nixon and the vietnam war, while i had written on kissinger and was trying to get documents on the alert declassified. More research and eventually had enough source material to write an article. Its published in cold war history in early 2003. We give the first full account of the alert and argued that the Readiness Test as it was officially known, was an exercise in the context of the stalled negotiations on the vietnam war. Warn wanted to end the quickly and was angry with the soviets and soviet leadership for not helping to arrange a settlement. By putting u. S. Nuclear forces and conventional forces on high readiness, nixon wanted to joel sovietsold jolk to end the war quickly. Those were some of the key elements of the argument we presented in the article. Later, with more sources become available, we decided there was enough material to justify a book on the october alert and the larger context of the next and white
Boosting americans economic ties with africa. Yesterday he announced 33 billion in Economic Development money headed to that continent. 14 billion from the private sector. Waiting on the president , and theres going to be a News Conference. Hell be taking questions from the press. Could be anything we hear from the president. Youll want to stay tuned for that. After todays press conference, president pax up for a twoweek long Vacation Getaway in marthas vineyard, obama is leaving behind a public that is none too happy. Approval rating plummeting to alltime low as americans blame washington for a punk economy. Plus a damning new report is out showing promise to be transparent, broken again were getting to outrage with rich lowry editor of the national review, and moodys economist john lonsky, economic anxiety at a high john, why is that . Not good jobs, very high Unemployment Rate given the july was the 61st month the current economic recovery. We just had a very severe recession, and w
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