Kissinger and Foreign Policy During the Nixon Administration

Seymour Hersh

Monday, 11 Apr 1983 at 12:00 am – Benton Auditorium, ISU Center

Mr. Hersh won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the My Lai massacre. He was a New York Times investigative reporter, press secretary and speech writer for Eugene McCarthy in 1968, and has just finished a book on Henry Kissinger and foreign policy during the Nixon administration. From the University Lectures Program archive.

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