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The Permanent Challenge of Peace: U.S. Policy Toward the Soviet Union
The U.S. national security adviser, a prominent proponent and initiator of detente with the Soviet Union, discusses relations between the Soviet and American governments.
February 3, 1976
Speakers
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Henry Kissinger
Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, 1969-75; U.S. Secretary of State, 1973-77; Chairman, National Bipartisan Commission on Central America, 1983–84