Richard Nixon, like Donald Trump, soured on his national security adviser. But repairing the relationship was costly.
that Bolton had been cut out of a briefing on the U.S. plan to end the war in Afghanistan by way of a peace deal he has opposed.As a cruel summer turns to autumn, Bolton can take heart that many of his predecessors have spent time in the president‘s harsh glare. Some might be surprised to learn that even Henry Kissinger, who made the title “national security adviser” a household name, was in the doghouse with Richard Nixon 50 years ago.
As he considers his options—and, perhaps more importantly, the fate of the country—Kissinger’s return from the cold is a cautionary tale.professor, did not have much government experience. That did not mean he lacked strong opinions about how government should work, however.
Kissinger with establishing a “very exciting new procedure” for managing the bureaucracy. During the transition period, Kissinger devised a plan—what became known as the “coup d’état at the Hotel Pierre,” where the Nixon transition offices were in New York—that called on the national security adviser to replace the secretary of state as chair of key foreign policy meetings.
But it was not an easy partnership. Despite sharing a worldview, distrust of the bureaucracy and certain paranoias, Kissinger was not a natural Nixon man. The president and his inner circle, including White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman, were staunchly conservative. According to recollections from aides and
In the face of what Nixon considered the national security adviser’s tendency to overreact, he created a “Henry-Handling Committee,” which included Haldeman and a few others. Their task, according to, was to keep the national security adviser from blowing his top, or at least to keep the eruption away from Nixon. It was a novel bureaucratic technique, but such redirection tended to just make Kissinger, who was already insecure about access to the president, overreact even more.
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