Uncertain greatness: Henry Kissinger and American foreign policy

by Roger Morris

312 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

There is more than one author with this name. For the novelist, see R.N. Morris. Further disambiguation:

[1 space] American historian
[2 spaces] Food & wine (page: Roger Morris)
[3 spaces] Northumberland (page: Roger Morris)
[4 spaces] Artist & maritime historian (page: Roger Morris)

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Roger Morris is an American public servant, historian, and political writer.

Roger Morris earned his doctorate in government from Harvard University. He entered government service in 1966 as an aide to former United States Secretary of State Dean Acheson. He first joined the National Security Council staff under the administration of Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson. When Republican Richard Nixon won the presidency in 1968, he appointed Henry Kissinger as his National Security Advisor, and Kissinger asked Morris to remain on the NSC staff as a senior staff member. However, Morris resigned in April 1970, when Nixon ordered the Cambodian Campaign.

Morris has served as a university lecturer, but is best known as a writer. He serves as a senior fellow of the Green Institute.

Reviews

[Ray · Rating 4 out of 5]

Few books better capture the details of the creation of the Nixon administration's National Security Council than this one. Morris dubbed it a coup, and he's not wrong. It funneled all decision making through the White House and left many who had once helped shape policy on the outside looking in.