TWENTY-THREE ? PROPHET OF THE APOCALYPSE: 1968–1980
1 GFK memorial service address, February 25, 1967, GFK Papers, 264:10; GFK interview by Labalme, August 30, 1989, p. 3: GFK,
2 GFK interview, September 4, 1984, pp. 21–22; “Global Nuclear Stockpiles, 1945–2006,”
3 Schlesinger interview, p. 6. Kennan’s elections are reported in
4 GFK Diary, December 21, 1967; GFK opening address, American Academy of Arts and Letters and National Institute of Arts and Letters, May 28, 1968, GFK Papers
5 GFK Diary, undated but August 1968, also October 4, 1968; Henry Raymont, “Kennan Book Recalls 1938– 1939 Crisis,”
6 GFK to JEK, October 31, 1968, JEK Papers.
7 GFK Diary, May 6, 1966, November 7 and December 4, 1968.
8 “Kennan Analysis Coolly Received,”
9 GFK to JEK, September 21/22, 1968, JEK Papers; GFK interview by Labalme, August 30, 1989, pp. 13–14; George Urban, “From Containment to. . . Self-Containment: A Conversation with George F. Kennan
10 GFK Diary, March 6 and 29, 1969.
11 GFK to JEK, January 31, 1969, JEK Papers; Crossman Diary, January 31, 1969, in Crossman,
12 GFK,
13 GFK, “Interview with George F. Kennan,” conducted by Charles Gati and Richard Ullman,
14 GFK to Kissinger, September 19, 1973, GFK Papers, 26:11. See also the transcript of a GFK-Kissinger telephone conversation, September 14, 1973, Kissinger Telephone Conversations KA 10845, Digital National Security Archive.
15 “Kennan Decries Talk of Detente,”
16 GFK interview, October 31, 1974, pp. 6–7. See also GFK Diary, March 9, 1973. I have discussed the analogies between the Nixon-Kissinger strategy and Kennan’s concept of five vital power centers in
17 “Kennan Says ABM Could Peril Talks,”
18 For background on the Helsinki Conference, see Gaddis,
19 GFK to Patricia Davies, August 9, 1975, GFK Papers, 10:12.
20 GFK, “United States and the Soviet Union, 1917–1976,”
21 Galbraith’s review appeared in
22 GFK interview by Labalme, February 27, 1990, pp. 2–19; Dilworth interview, p. 13; GFK to Edwin O. Reischauer, March 12, 1973, and David Riesman, March 27, 1973, GFK Papers, 149:1. See also, Israel Shenker, “Dispute Splits Advanced Study Institute,” and “Foes at Institute Dig In For a Fight,”
23 GFK Diary, March 13, 1978; GFK interview, September 5, 1984, pp. 4–7; GFK to Harriman, October 8 and 28, 1972, Harriman Papers, Box 1012.
24 Ullman interview, pp. 19–20.
25 Undated Harriman note; Harriman to GFK, November 3, 1972; GFK to Harriman, November 18, 1972, all in Harriman Papers, Box 1012.
26 GFK to Harriman, December 4, 1975,
27 GFK to Harriman, May 10, 1978, Harriman to GFK, May 22, 1978,
28 GFK interview, September 5, 1984, pp. 4, 6; Black interview, p. 28. See also Taplin interview, pp. 28–32. Of