... approach of Nixon. Anti-Communism had been an American staple for the past twenty-five years, and for a country with such a steeped ideology, détente was a sweeping change. As Henry Kissinger observed, "the proposition that to some extent we had to collaborate with our adversary while resisting him found a constituency only with great difficulty; the emotional bias was with ... eacute;tente. Although the Nixon administration was ever more vulnerable, it should not be misconstrued that the opposition he faced was not formidible. The key player in this resistance was Henry Jackson, a senat...

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