Henry Kissinger on Vision: Seeing Through a Glass Darkly
HENRY KISSINGER, then U.S. Secretary of State, explained in an interview with Los Angeles Times concerning the risky restoration of U.S. diplomatic relations with China, the dynamics of vision. “What a national leader has to do at such a time, is to take his society and the world, insofar as the issues are international, from where it is to where it has never been. This means he cannot prove the destination is desirable until the society or the world gets there.”
Nixon himself once told professor Joan Hoff in an interview that the mark of a leader “is whether he can give history a nudge.” Nixon recognized that a leader should be inclusive. He wrote in a 1967 Foreign Affairs article, “Taking the long view, we simply cannot afford to leave China forever outside the family of nations, there to nurture its fantasies, cherish its hates and threaten its neighbors.”
Related Interest: Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World
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