CHAOS UNDER HEAVEN.(Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon )

"The man is unfit to be President," Henry Kissinger said of Richard Nixon during the 1968 Presidential campaign. Kissinger was a protege and associate of Nelson Rockefeller, Nixon's chief competition for the Republican nomination, and he shared Rockefeller's opinion: that Nixon was an opportunist without vision. Kissinger was also a professor at Harvard, not a place where he was likely to rub up against a Nixon supporter. And he was a Jew. Nixon, of course, was a seething cauldron of ressentiment. He hated Harvard professors; he loathed rich East Coast establishment types like Rockefeller; he was suspicious of Jews. He despised these people because he believed that they ...