The US-European relationship remains the closest and most important alliance in the world. Since 1945, successive American presidents each put their own touches on transatlantic relations, but the literature has reached only into the presidency of Lyndon Johnson (1963–9). This first study of transatlantic relations during the era of Richard Nixon shows a complex, turbulent period during which the postwar period came to an end, and the modern era came to be on both sides of the Atlantic in terms of political, economic, and military relations.
'In his extremely well-researched, well-written, and carefully balanced account of Richard Nixon’s significant political and economic relations with Europe, Luke A. Nichter has brilliantly filled a major gap in our understanding of the administration’s foreign policy.'
Melvin Small - Wayne State University
'Steeped in transatlantic archives and written for a general audience, Richard Nixon and Europe is a landmark contribution that provides the first sophisticated analysis of how President Richard Nixon fit the Western European alliance into American foreign policy and how the Nixon Doctrine extended far beyond Vietnam to Western Europe.'
Irwin F. Gellman - Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania
'Impressively researched and persuasively argued, Luke A. Nichter’s book fills an important gap in the literature of the Nixon presidency. Overshadowed by China, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam, Europe was nevertheless an important arena in which Nixon sought to change American policies. Nichter has written a fascinating narrative of Nixon’s efforts, using the White House tapes to detail the end of the Bretton Woods system, and provided an insightful account of the divisions created between the United States and Europe over the Yom Kippur War.'
Thomas Schwartz - Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
'This is the first monograph that attempts to evaluate comprehensively President Richard Nixon’s impact on US-European relations … The book is based on extensive multi-archival research in the US, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, as well as the NATO, Council of Europe, and European Economic Community (EEC) archives. The author has consulted a huge spectrum of published sources, while he places special emphasis on the White House tapes, a large part of them published and co-edited by him in 2014–15. Thus, he is in a position to present an authoritative interpretation of Nixon’s European policies.'
Evanthis Hatzivassiliou Source: H-Diplo Roundtable Review
'History does not offer repeat performances, but themes in relations between nation states and alliances nonetheless recur in modified forms. That is not the least of the lessons to be drawn from Nichter’s searching and intelligent account of US foreign policy towards Europe during Nixon’s Presidency.'
Nigel Bowles Source: H-Diplo Roundtable Review
'This book is a very welcome addition to the literature of contemporary transatlantic relations. It is a detailed archival-based study of the Nixon administration’s policy towards Europe and it presents a rich account of how Nixon and Kissinger worked to put relations between the United States of America and Western Europe on a new footing.'
Mark Gilbert Source: Journal of Contemporary History
Historical Archives of the European Commission (HAEC), Brussels:
Commissions of the European Economic Community, 1957–1975 (BAC)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Archives Division, Brussels:
North Atlantic Council (C-)
Verbatim Records (C-VR)
North Atlantic Military Committee (MC)
Centre d’accueil et de recherche des Archives Nationales (CARAN), Paris:
Papiers des Chefs de l’État:
Présidence de la République, Georges Pompidou (5 AG 2)
Entretiens franco-américains, conférences des chefs d’état de la CEE, notes, télégrammes, correspondance, voyages officiels, 1969–1974
Council of Europe Archives Division (COE), Strasbourg:
United Nations (889/031/2)
United States of America (889/031/1)
Politisches Archiv des Auswärtigen Amts (PAAA), Berlin:
Economic Policy: B52, IIIA2
North American File:
B31, 1968–1971
B32, 1955–1969
B32/204, 1971–1975
ZA (various)
Historical Archives of the European Union (HAEU), Florence:
Papers of Emanuele Gazzo (EG)
Papers of Edoardo Martino (EM)
Papers of Klaus Meyer (KM)
Papers of Robert Triffin (RT)
National Archives (Public Record Office), Kew Gardens, Surrey:
Cabinet Papers (CAB)
Papers of the Prime Minister (PREM)
Papers of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)
Bentley Historical Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan:
Papers of Paul W. McCracken
Hoover Institution Archives (HIA), Stanford University, Palo Alto, California:
Papers of John Ehrlichman
Papers of Milton Friedman
Richard M. Nixon Notes (1968 Campaign)
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.:
Manuscript Division:
Papers of Stephen Hess
Papers of Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Papers of Elliot Richardson
Papers of William L. Safire
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA):
Archives II, College Park, Maryland:
Record Group 59, State Department: Central Foreign Policy Files (CFPF)
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan:
Papers of Arthur Burns: Handwritten Journals, 1969–1974
Papers of Melvin Laird
National Security Adviser:
Chronological File
Memoranda of Conversations
Outside the System Chronological File
Presidential Correspondence with Foreign Leaders
Presidential Country Files for Europe and Canada
Presidential Speeches, Reading Copies:
White House Central Files:
Name File
Subject File
White House Photographic Office
Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library, Austin, Texas:
National Security File (NSF)
Oral History Interviews
Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library, Yorba Linda, California:
National Security Council Files:
Henry A. Kissinger Telephone Conversation Transcripts (Telcons)
Country Files, Europe:
France
Germany
United Kingdom
Henry A. Kissinger Office Files: Country Files
Presidential Correspondence
Presidential/HAK Memcons
President’s Trip Files
Subject Files:
European Common Market
National Security Decision Memoranda
National Security Study Memoranda
VIP Visits
National Security Council Institution Files (H-Files):
Study Memorandums: National Security Study Memorandums
White House Central Files:
Name File: Papers of Paul W. McCracken
Presidential Daily Diaries
White House Photographic Office
White House Special Files:
President’s Office Files
President’s Personal File
White House Tapes (also accessed at http://nixontapes.org)
United States Air Force Museum, MUA Research Division, Wright Patterson Air Force Base and Archive, Dayton, Ohio:
Papers of Stanley Goodwin
1969: Rainer A Blasius; Franz Eibl; Hubert Zimmermann.
1971: Ilse Dorothee Pautsch; Martin Koopmann
1973: Ilse Dorothee Pautsch; Matthias Peter; Hans-Peter Schwarz
1974: Ilse Dorothee Pautsch; Daniela Taschler; Fabian Hilfrich; Michael Ploetz
1975: Ilse Dorothee Pautsch; Michael Kieninger; Mechthild Lindemann; Daniela Taschler
Volumes
I: Foundations of Foreign Policy, 1969–1972 (2003)
III: Foreign Economic Policy, 1969–1972 (2001)
XLI: Western Europe, NATO, 1969–1972 (2012)
E-15, Part 2: Documents on Western Europe, 1973–1976 (2014)
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