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Behind the Bastards
Christopher Hitchens' book, 'The Trial of Henry Kissinger', was referenced in the context of Kissinger's alleged treasonous actions during the Vietnam War negotiations and the Nixon campaign.
In the trial of Henry Kissinger, Christopher Hitchens writes, quote, from his seat in the Pentagon, Clifford, who's again the secretary of defense, had actually been able to read the intelligence tran...
— Episode: Part Two: Kissinger
Episode: Part Two: Kissinger
Christopher Hitchens' book, 'The Trial of Henry Kissinger', was referenced in the context of Kissinger's alleged treasonous actions during the Vietnam War negotiations and the Nixon campaign.
In the trial of Henry Kissinger, Christopher Hitchens writes, quote, from his seat in the Pentagon, Clifford, who's again the secretary of defense, had actually been able to read the intelligence transcripts that picked up and recorded what he terms a secret personal channel between President Thieu in Saigon and the Nixon campaign.
It was more unusual even that he than he acknowledged. Kissinger had until then been a devoted partisan of Nelson Rockefeller, the matchless, the wealthy prince of liberal republicanism. His contempt for the person and policies of Richard Nixon was undisguised.
He had made himself helpful as Rockefeller's cheap foreign policy advisor by supplying French intermediaries with their own contacts in Hanoi.
