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National Defense Advisory Commission, 233–34

National Defense University, Brazil, 517

National Guardian, 778 n

national identity, HAK on, 296

nationalism, 254, 541

globalization and, 621

National Liberation Front, Vietnamese (NLF), see Vietcong

National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, 787

National People’s Party, German, 59, 124

National Review, 395, 823

National Security Action Memorandums (NSAMs), 475

National Security Council (NSC), 261–62, 345, 349, 363, 475–76, 480, 484, 494–95, 509, 794–95, 819, 847–48

Eisenhower and, 808

Executive Committee (ExComm) of, 550, 551–53, 554–55, 559

HAK and, 495, 539

JFK and, 808

LBJ and, 808

NSC-1/1 of, 263

NSC-4–A of, 263–64

NSC-68 of, 255, 343

NSC-162/2 of, 346

NSC-5412 of, 411

overhaul of, 849, 854, 855, 859

National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP), see Nazism, Nazi Party

National Strategic Target List, 444

National Student Association, 280

National Union for Social Justice (NUSJ), 92, 100

National War College, 390

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), 248, 254, 320, 345, 350, 357, 404, 427, 430, 445, 490, 491, 512, 530, 531, 533, 554, 566, 567, 568, 569, 598, 622, 703, 704, 705, 709, 710, 717, 718, 721, 851

conventional forces of, 538, 540–41

de Gaulle and, 722–23

France and, 527–28, 573

HAK on, 537, 713–14

nuclear weapons and, 534–35

NATO in Transition (Stanley), 719

Navasky, Victor, 4

Nazism, Nazi Party, 124, 158

persecution of Jews by, 64–65, 160

in postwar Germany, 158, 159–60, 163, 177–91, 196, 198, 200, 867

rise of, 56–57, 58–61

see also Germany, Nazi

Necessity for Choice, The (Kissinger), 448–54, 465, 468, 724

policy recommendations in, 450–51

Negroponte, John, 648, 791

Nehru, Jawaharlal, 520

Nehru, R. K., 519

Neisse River, 170, 171

neoconservatism, 125

Nes, David, 705

Netherlands, 38, 254

Neto, Agostinho, 22

Neuburger, Albert, 75

Neuengamme concentration camp, 164

Neues Deutschland, 505

Neumann, John von, 247, 257

Neustadt, Richard, 15–16, 475, 476, 809, 859

Neutrality Acts, 233

neutron bomb, 472

New Belief in the Common Man, The (Friedrich), 228–29

New British Empire, The (Elliott), 232

New Deal, 83, 84, 220

New Hampshire, 1964 primary in, 598, 602

New Image of the Common Man, The (Friedrich), 228–29, 259

New Left, 789

New Republic, 6, 340–41, 374, 815

Newsday, 480

Newspaper Publishers Association, 571

Newsweek, 2, 507

New York, N.Y., 104

anti-Semitism in, 89

ethnic enclaves in, 88

German-Jewish immigrants in, 87–91

Roman Catholics in, 89

synagogues in, 96

see also Washington Heights

New York, 854

New Yorker, 468

New Yorker Staats-Zeitung, 93

New York Herald Tribune, 374, 382, 425

New York Post, 35–36, 491

New York Review of Books, 4

New York Times, 11, 277, 311, 374, 379, 434, 439, 446, 449, 488, 491, 599, 670, 799, 811, 816–17, 857, 862–63

Ngo Dinh Diem, 515, 584, 590, 591

coup against, 591–94, 822

Ngo Dinh Nhu, 584, 590, 591

coup against, 591–94

Nguyen Cao Ky, 634, 651, 658, 678, 685, 686, 813, 830, 832

Nguyen Chi Thanh, 752

Nguyen Co Thach, 744

Nguyen Dinh Phuong, 742

Nguyen Duy Trinh, 741–42, 744, 778 n, 781

Nguyen Huu Co, 685

Nguyen Khac Huynh, 781

Nguyen Khanh, 614

Nguyen Ngoc Loan, 684–85

Nguyen Van Chuan, 654

Nguyen Van Lem, 786

Nguyen Van Thieu, 685, 688, 689, 690, 793, 813, 815, 830, 831–32, 833

Nha Trang, Vietnam, 652

Nhu, Ngo Dinh, see Ngo Dinh Nhu

Niebuhr, Reinhold, 286–87

“Night of the Long Knives,” 66

Ninth Army, U.S., 138

Ninth Marine Regiment, U.S., 683

Nitze, Paul H., 255, 264, 286, 332, 343, 344, 350, 352, 353, 470 n, 484

Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy critiqued by, 375–76

Nixon, Richard Milhous (RMN), 2, 16, 20, 260, 261, 262, 327–29, 346, 349, 379, 415, 417, 438, 546, 583, 597, 598, 747, 786

as anti-Communist, 438

background of, 437

in choice of HAK as national security adviser, 809, 834, 838, 850–56, 866

civil rights and, 455–56

conservative foreign policy of, 438

deviousness of, 441

Elliott and, 439–41

HAK as national security adviser for, 9, 11, 32, 262, 440, 583

HAK’s longstanding aversion to working with, 441–42, 456, 826, 834

HAK’s meetings with, 851–52

Harvard Study Group recommendations to, 845–50, 855, 864

hypersensitivity of, 438

and invasion of Cambodia, 15

in “kitchen debate” with Khrushchev, 21

on LBJ foreign policy dysfunction, 799–800

liberal policies of, 438

as loyal to Eisenhower, 448, 454

1959 Moscow trip of, 21, 424, 433, 434

in 1960 presidential campaign, 432, 445, 448, 454–55, 457, 465–66, 515

in opening to China, 10, 726, 784–85, 802

Paris peace talks and, 832–33

as perennial outsider, 439

press and, 858

as realist, 462, 866

Rockefeller and, 455, 850, 853

secret peace negotiations and, 792–93, 795–96, 810

as self-described idealist, 437–38

social awkwardness of, 441

“Southern strategy” of, 827

temper of, 438

on U.S. policy in East Asia, 802–3

as vice president, 424, 440

Watergate scandal and, 833

Nixon, Richard M., 1968 presidential campaign of, 800–801, 809, 816, 824, 826, 844–45

HAK and, 827–28

HAK’s alleged leaks to, 791–97, 810, 833

Nixon, Thelma Catherine Ryan “Pat,” 3

Nobel Peace Prize, 9

nonintervention, results of policy of, 23

Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), 9–10, 451, 714–15, 717, 723, 737, 837

HAK on, 715–16

Normandy, Allied invasion of, 130, 133

Norstad, Lauris, 484, 506, 562, 809

North Africa, 29

North Atlantic Nations, The (CFIA report), 404

North Atlantic Treaty Organization, see NATO

North Korea, 22, 23, 249

South Korea invaded by, see Korean War

North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam), 23, 409, 586, 602, 630, 631–32, 637–38

Four Points peace plan of, 632, 677

People’s Republic of China and, 599, 602, 615, 676, 703, 704–5, 744

in secret peace negotiations, see Vietnam War, secret peace negotiations in

Soviet Union and, 602, 676, 703, 737, 746, 783

unification as goal of, 632

U.S. bombing of, 614, 615, 632, 643, 653, 655, 674, 732, 737, 742, 748, 750, 753, 755–56, 758, 759–60, 764–65, 769–70, 772–74, 792, 811, 812–13, 821, 825–26, 828–29, 832

U.S. lack of intelligence on, 735–36

Norton, Charles Eliot, 214

Novak, Robert, 825

November Action Committee, 788

Noyes, Charles P., II, 350 n, 353

NSDAP, see Nazism, Nazi Party

Nuclear Science Service, 374

nuclear strategy, 349, 360–61, 444–45, 529, 566, 569, 865

containment and, 866

deterrence in, see deterrence

disarmament and, 335, 343, 362, 369, 425, 444, 446

of Eisenhower administration, 344–48

HAK’s proposal for independent European force in, 534–35, 538–39

lack of coherent U.S. doctrine of, 366

limited war and, see limited nuclear war