Kissinger, Volume 1 by Niall Ferguson

Author:Niall Ferguson
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2015-09-13T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

Crisis

The American Presidency is . . . formidable because it represents the point of ultimate decision in the American political system. It is exposed because decision cannot take place in a vacuum: the Presidency is the center of the play of pressure, interest, and idea in the nation; and the presidential office is the vortex into which all the elements of national decision are irresistibly drawn. And it is mysterious because the essence of ultimate decision remains impenetrable to the observer—often, indeed, to the decider himself. . . . There will always be the dark and tangled stretches in the decision-making process—mysterious even to those who may be most intimately involved.

—JOHN F. KENNEDY, 19631

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