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In a late addition to the media fuss about the 25 th anniversary of Richard Nixon's resignation, the cover story highlights his achievements, including creating the Environmental Protection Agency, increasing Social Security benefits, opening China, and seeking détente with the Soviet Union.
Likewise, today's idealistic conservatives still despise Kissinger and detect in Years of Renewal 's détente argument an excuse to coddle China.
The fight over whether détente helped win the Cold War is not simply academic.
Ha'aretz , which led its front page Wednesday with a report that Barak is planning to seek détente with Israel's "enemy number one," Iran, against strong objections by his own military intelligence, also pointed out in its Wednesday editorial that Barak has "achieved his fundamental goal--a government unthreatened by a sword of Damocles over its head."
They focus, as one might expect, on the big issues--containment, détente, China, Vietnam--and on the day-to-day contingencies of democratic politics and imperial diplomacy.