Kissenger's Exceptional Degree of Control Over the Situation Was Possible

Kissenger's extraordinary degree of control over the situation was possible because he had literally reformed the entire national security apparatus around himself. Nixon wanted a buffer from his own secretary of state, which provided henry with the opportunity to take as much power and centralize it around the national urity adviser. And he could do this as long as he kept nixon happy. Under kissenger, the national security council, which he headed, became the centre of us. A mass of bureaucracy fed piles of information, embassy cables, cables, intelligence reports,. et cetera, straight to henry kissenger. He decided he as, again, henry is were all the information from this vast