Morton H. Halperin — Making a Difference: My Role in Shaping National Security Policy and Civil Liberties from Kennedy to Clinton — at Conn Ave

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A front row memoir of power, war, diplomacy, and dissent from one of the most influential national security insiders of the twentieth century. From the Pentagon Papers to the Nixon White House, from Vietnam and nuclear arms negotiations to civil liberties battles at the ACLU and diplomacy in the Clinton administration, Morton H. Halperin has spent more than half a century at the center of America's most consequential political and foreign policy struggles. In this sweeping memoir, Halperin pulls readers inside the rooms where history was made—working alongside figures like Robert McNamara, Henry Kissinger, Clark Clifford, and Lyndon Johnson during the height of the Cold War. A brilliant young Harvard scholar who entered government expecting to stay only briefly, Halper…

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