The Chinese, on the other hand, were in the position of having an American military spy plane on a Chinese military base and they had their own internal problems to deal with. At first, the Chinese weren't all that belligerent. They were just stalling to get their own bureaucracy in line.

The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen.

One of the hardest things for the president is to distinguish the routine issues that come through from the essential issues that affect the long term, and not to let himself get sucked into the battles of the bureaucracy for marginal issues, and to keep them focused and to keep his mind clear on what the fundamental things are that he has to accomplish.

The Russian empire under czars and commissars has been hard to deal with for other countries.

Iraq has to be made an international, and not just a national American problem.