the person who does get traction is, is george kennan writing his long telegram, which better written. and for younger scholars out. i think one takeaway from this book that you know nixon was not as good a writer as kissinger and kennan and so you always work on your writing. but, you know, nixon was very annoyed that james forrestal was the great, great champion of the long telegram, didn't the same about that. nixon. but he stuck with it and. that's, i think, a really important point. the book he is passed over for promotion originally when acheson acheson doesn't doesn't accept him at first he's initially passed over to be the deputy to george kennan, the policy planning staff. he's passed over for seven or eight other really big jobs throughout, his career and i think that there's something inspiring about his resilience and willingness to with it. but in terms of the profession retire the military officers at the end of world war two moved up in rank foreign service moved on to their next posting. nixon had no real career set for him and the national security act of 1947 doesn't

oh, wonderful scholar at the university of connecticut, about george kennan's diaries and george kennan, russia writ large. and there were several moments where frank talked, you know, kennan said this. kennan thought that kennan wrote this or the other thing about vietnam, about the imf missile deployment in the early 1980s. and, you know, i then working as i am now on the foreign relations of the united states series, and i'm supposed to state my views in my own and not those of the government, but i thinking to myself, if each of these moments i that paul nitze is intimately involved in these negotiations and kennan is writing in a way that reinforces what i think a lot of critics, american foreign policy were already inclined to believe. and he wrote beautifully i mean really a great and historian but did it actually change the policy and that kind of got b interested in it and his longevity and the kind of point i'm making the book is, you from roosevelt to the title from roosevelt to reagan paul nitze ackerman's white house pension to the most important matters of u.s. security an

when nato expansion happened, george kennan, the man who designed containment theory, wrote an op ed in the new york times saying, you can't let nato expand too close to russia's borders. um, obviously putin was unhappy as more and more former soviet states did exactly that. the president didn't quite have his history with. right, with the vice, with then vice president biden and then later president biden. um, in those positions, biden took the position, took the position that at some point ukraine might qualify to join nato, but that it wasn't ready because of internal corruption. it hadn't yet met the standards that were there. and so biden has never pushed for ukraine to join nato. in fact, he's slowed down the effort. um, but that's all, you know, sort of water under the bridge for, uh, president-elect trump, who was basically setting himself up to say, okay, part of this will be a commitment that ukraine doesn't join nato for 20 years or 30 years or so forth, where i really was trying to push him was was he willing to provide some other kind of security guarantee to ukraine? so

when nato expansion happened, george kennan, the man who designed containment theory, wrote an op ed in the new york times saying, you can't let nato expand too close to russia's borders. um, obviously putin was unhappy as more and more former soviet states did exactly that. the president didn't quite have his history with right, with the vice, with then vice president biden and then later president biden. um, in those positions, biden took the position, took the position that at some point ukraine might qualify to join nato, but that it wasn't ready because of internal corruption. it hadn't yet met the standards that were there. and so biden has never pushed for ukraine to join nato. in fact, he slowed down the effort. um, but that's all, you know, sort of water under the bridge for, uh, president elect trump, who was basically setting himself up to say, okay, part of this will be a commitment that ukraine doesn't join nato for 20 years or 30 years or so forth, where i really was trying to push him was was he willing to provide some other kind of security guarantee to ukraine? so th