Henry Kissinger, Great Britain and the ‘Year of Europe’: The ‘Tangled Skein’Footnote

  [1] The term used to describe the US–European relationship in NSSM 164. See ‘NSSM 164: US Relations with Europe’, attached to Memorandum for Mrs Jeanne Davies from A.M. Christopher, 29 December 1972, NSCIHF (hereafter: NSCIHF), Senior Review Group Meetings, Box H-066, Nixon Presidential Materials Project, National Archives II, College Park, Maryland, United States of America (hereafter: NPMP).

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