Nixon, of course, was a seething cauldron of ressentiment.
Kissinger was also a professor at Harvard, not a place where he was likely to rub up against a Nixon supporter. Kissinger was a protégé and associate of Nelson Rockefeller, Nixon’s chief competition for the Republican nomination, and he shared Rockefeller’s opinion: that Nixon was an opportunist without vision. “The man is unfit to be President,” Henry Kissinger said of Richard Nixon during the 1968 Presidential campaign.
The United States and China both had excellent reasons for wishing to establish better relations in 1972.
