Kissinger felt increasingly estranged from his former colleagues at Harvard. While distaste for Richard Nixon was endemic at the university, the national security advisor had managed to remain on positive terms with its leading lights, meeting informally with a small group—Thomas Schelling, George Kistiakowsky, Richard Neustadt, Adam Yarmolinsky, and others.11 But during the week following the Kent State deaths, this contingent arrived in Washington declaring they had lost all confidence in the ability of the White House to conduct foreign policy wisely. Therefore, “we are no longer at your
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