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After being sworn in as president, Richard Nixon advised the assembled public that "government will hear...Those people who have been overlooked, we will try to generate." But that same day, he obliterated those pledges of higher resident control of federal by signing Country wide Security Decision Memorandum 2, a report that made sweeping changes to the national security power structure. Nixon's signature erased the impact that the Departments of Point out and Defense, as well as the CIA, experienced over Vietnam and the course of the Cold Battle. The new structure put Nixon at the guts, surrounded by devoted aides and a fresh national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, who coordinated policy through the Country wide Security Council under Nixon's order. Using many years of research and revelations from newly released documents, USA Today reporter Ray Locker upends much of the conventional knowledge about the Nixon supervision and its impact and shows the way the creation of the magic formula, unprecedented, extra-constitutional federal undermined US policy and prices. In doing so, Nixon sowed the seed products of his own damage by creating a weather of secrecy, paranoia, and reprisal that still affects Washington today.
