LEON FRIEDMAN is the Joseph Kushner Professor of Civil Liberties Law at the Hofstra University Law School. WILLIAM F. LEVANTROSSER is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Colloquim on the American Presidency at Hofstra University. The editors have collaborated on two previous volumes: Richard M. Nixon: Politician, President, Administrator (1991) and Watergate and Afterward: The Legacy of Richard M. Nixon (1992), both available from Greenwood Press.

• Preface Foreign Policy Initiatives Overall Assessment The Nixon Foreign Policy by Henry A. Kissinger, Introduced by Han Xu The Opening to China President Nixon and Sino-U.S. Relations by Han Xu The Asian Balance and Sino-American Rapprochement during the Nixon Administration by Robert G. Sutter Discussant Jerome A. Cohen Ending the Vietnam War The American Withdrawal from Vietnam: Some Military and Political Considerations by William M. Hammond Secret Commitments in President Nixon's Foreign Policy: The National Security Council and Nixon's Letters to South Vietnam's President Nguyen Van Thieu by Nguyen Tien Hung and Jerrold L. Schecter Discussants Frances FitzGerald Guenter Lewy Robert Miller Detente and the Soviet Union The Rise and Stall of Detente, 1969-1974 by Robert D. Schulzinger Discussants Aleksandr M. Belonogov Hedrick Smith Helmut Sonnenfeldt The Middle East and Energy Policy Peace or Oil: The Nixon Administration and Its Middle East Policy Choices by Gideon Doron Discussants Alfred L. Atherton Hermann Frederick Eilts Jo-Ann Hart Dale R. Tahitnen The Foreign Policy Process Defense and National Security The Defense Policies of the Nixon Administration: A Decade of Neglect or Prudent Readjustment? by Lawrence J. Korb The Making of the All-Volunteer Armed Forces by Martin Anderson Discussants Martin Binkin Adam Yarmolinsky Foreign Policy Development The Nixon Doctrine as History and Portent by Earl C. Ravenal Richard Nixon as Summit Diplomat by Elmer Plischke Continuities and Contradictions in the Nixon Foreign Policy by Kenneth Thompson Discussants Lloyd S. Etheredge Roger Morris The War Powers Resolution Nixon vs. the Congress: The War Powers Resolution, 1973 by Philip J. Briggs The War Powers Resolution: An Intersection of Law and Politics by Nathan N. Firestone Discussants Harold H. Koh Burt Neuborne

LEON FRIEDMAN is the Joseph Kushner Professor of Civil Liberties Law at the Hofstra University Law School. WILLIAM F. LEVANTROSSER is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Colloquim on the American Presidency at Hofstra University. The editors have collaborated on two previous volumes: Richard M. Nixon: Politician, President, Administrator (1991) and Watergate and Afterward: The Legacy of Richard M. Nixon (1992), both available from Greenwood Press.

• Preface Foreign Policy Initiatives Overall Assessment The Nixon Foreign Policy by Henry A. Kissinger, Introduced by Han Xu The Opening to China President Nixon and Sino-U.S. Relations by Han Xu The Asian Balance and Sino-American Rapprochement during the Nixon Administration by Robert G. Sutter Discussant Jerome A. Cohen Ending the Vietnam War The American Withdrawal from Vietnam: Some Military and Political Considerations by William M. Hammond Secret Commitments in President Nixon's Foreign Policy: The National Security Council and Nixon's Letters to South Vietnam's President Nguyen Van Thieu by Nguyen Tien Hung and Jerrold L. Schecter Discussants Frances FitzGerald Guenter Lewy Robert Miller Detente and the Soviet Union The Rise and Stall of Detente, 1969-1974 by Robert D. Schulzinger Discussants Aleksandr M. Belonogov Hedrick Smith Helmut Sonnenfeldt The Middle East and Energy Policy Peace or Oil: The Nixon Administration and Its Middle East Policy Choices by Gideon Doron Discussants Alfred L. Atherton Hermann Frederick Eilts Jo-Ann Hart Dale R. Tahitnen The Foreign Policy Process Defense and National Security The Defense Policies of the Nixon Administration: A Decade of Neglect or Prudent Readjustment? by Lawrence J. Korb The Making of the All-Volunteer Armed Forces by Martin Anderson Discussants Martin Binkin Adam Yarmolinsky Foreign Policy Development The Nixon Doctrine as History and Portent by Earl C. Ravenal Richard Nixon as Summit Diplomat by Elmer Plischke Continuities and Contradictions in the Nixon Foreign Policy by Kenneth Thompson Discussants Lloyd S. Etheredge Roger Morris The War Powers Resolution Nixon vs. the Congress: The War Powers Resolution, 1973 by Philip J. Briggs The War Powers Resolution: An Intersection of Law and Politics by Nathan N. Firestone Discussants Harold H. Koh Burt Neuborne

LEON FRIEDMAN is the Joseph Kushner Professor of Civil Liberties Law at the Hofstra University Law School. WILLIAM F. LEVANTROSSER is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Colloquim on the American Presidency at Hofstra University. The editors have collaborated on two previous volumes: Richard M. Nixon: Politician, President, Administrator (1991) and Watergate and Afterward: The Legacy of Richard M. Nixon (1992), both available from Greenwood Press.

• Preface Foreign Policy Initiatives Overall Assessment The Nixon Foreign Policy by Henry A. Kissinger, Introduced by Han Xu The Opening to China President Nixon and Sino-U.S. Relations by Han Xu The Asian Balance and Sino-American Rapprochement during the Nixon Administration by Robert G. Sutter Discussant Jerome A. Cohen Ending the Vietnam War The American Withdrawal from Vietnam: Some Military and Political Considerations by William M. Hammond Secret Commitments in President Nixon's Foreign Policy: The National Security Council and Nixon's Letters to South Vietnam's President Nguyen Van Thieu by Nguyen Tien Hung and Jerrold L. Schecter Discussants Frances FitzGerald Guenter Lewy Robert Miller Detente and the Soviet Union The Rise and Stall of Detente, 1969-1974 by Robert D. Schulzinger Discussants Aleksandr M. Belonogov Hedrick Smith Helmut Sonnenfeldt The Middle East and Energy Policy Peace or Oil: The Nixon Administration and Its Middle East Policy Choices by Gideon Doron Discussants Alfred L. Atherton Hermann Frederick Eilts Jo-Ann Hart Dale R. Tahitnen The Foreign Policy Process Defense and National Security The Defense Policies of the Nixon Administration: A Decade of Neglect or Prudent Readjustment? by Lawrence J. Korb The Making of the All-Volunteer Armed Forces by Martin Anderson Discussants Martin Binkin Adam Yarmolinsky Foreign Policy Development The Nixon Doctrine as History and Portent by Earl C. Ravenal Richard Nixon as Summit Diplomat by Elmer Plischke Continuities and Contradictions in the Nixon Foreign Policy by Kenneth Thompson Discussants Lloyd S. Etheredge Roger Morris The War Powers Resolution Nixon vs. the Congress: The War Powers Resolution, 1973 by Philip J. Briggs The War Powers Resolution: An Intersection of Law and Politics by Nathan N. Firestone Discussants Harold H. Koh Burt Neuborne