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Source Material: The Truth Is Out There: The Recently Released NSC Institutional Files of the Nixon Presidency
Author(s) -
Siniver Asaf
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
presidential studies quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.337
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1741-5705
pISSN - 0360-4918
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-5705.2004.00054.x
Subject(s) - presidential system , presidency , political science , public administration , law , library science , national security , security council , politics , computer science
This article reviews the recent release of material concerning the National Security Council by the Nixon presidential material staff in NARA. The new collection covers a wide array of issues relating not only to the structural and procedural developments of the council during the Nixon‐Kissinger years, but also to the activities of its many interagency groups. Following an evaluation of the collection's sub‐series, the article will demonstrate the significance of the findings by analyzing a particular document, suggesting that the new NSC series offers researchers a unique opportunity to reconstruct the story of the Nixon‐Kissinger dyad and their control of the foreign policy machinery between 1969 and 1974.