What Richard Nixon’s Letter to Bill Clinton Revealed about Them Both, and Also about Jeffrey Sachs https://www.patreon.com/posts/president-nixons-86543361 https://archive.is/LZt6I [Here’s the original. It was ‘reported’ in the WSJ on 21 July 2023. Boldfacings are my emphases.] EYES ONLY RICHARD NIXON March 21, 1994 577 CHESTNUT RIDGE ROAD WOODCLIFF LAKE, NEW JERSEY Dear Mr. President, [[That’s a] Handwritten greeting.] I am sending this report to you directly, rather than through State Department channels, because I learned during my years in the White House that the best decisions I made, such as the ones to go to China in 1972, were made over the objections of or without the approval of most foreign service officers. If you have not already done so, you will find that foreign service officers are seldom ignorant, but almost always arrogant. When they see a report from an outsider, they invariably reply, “We knew that. There’s nothing new in it.” Or, at the other extreme, “This is interesting. We want to study it.”  (. . . ) which they proceed to do until it is forgotten. I would urge you always to remember that foreign service officers get to the top by not getting into trouble. They are … Meer lezen over Eric Zuesse – What Richard Nixon’s Letter to Bill Clinton Revealed about Them Both, and also about Jeffrey Sachs