The Best Minds of Kissinger's Generation, Starving Hysterical Naked

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The National Security Archive at George Washington University, after protracted legal and bureaucratic wrangling, has released 15,502 documents and more than 30,000 pages of transcripts of telephone conversations between Henry A. Kissinger, who served as national security adviser and secretary of state, and other notables, including Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford, other senior U.S. and foreign officials, and media and show-business figures.

The material sheds light on some of the more important diplomatic events from 1969, when Kissinger was in the White House, until early 1977, when Kissinger left the State Department.

In one conversation in November 1975, after White House Chief of Staff Donald H. Rumsfeld allegedly engineered the Cabinet shake-up known as the "Halloween Massacre" so he would become defense secretary and his pal Dick Cheney would move up to be chief of staff, Kissinger chats with Treasury Secretary William Simon.

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