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For just as the Cold War had frozen the results of World War II in place, so détente sought to freeze the Cold War in place. Its purpose was not to end that conflict—the differences dividing its antagonists were still too deep for that—but rather to establish rules by which
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
The disproportion between the offense and its consequences left Nixon incredulous: “[A]ll the terrible battering we have taken,” he commiserated with himself shortly before leaving office, “is really pygmy-sized when compared to what we have done, and what we can do in the future not only for peace in the world but, indirectly, to effect the well-being of people everywhere
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
American practices were isolationist: the nation had not yet concluded that its security required transplanting its principles
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
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