White House Years

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book political memoir

White House Years is the first volume of Henry Kissinger’s memoirs, covering his tenure as U.S. National Security Advisor and Secretary of State during the Nixon administration.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book → political memoir →
author	Henry Kissinger →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
coversAdministration	Presidency of Richard Nixon →
coversPeriodEnd	1974 →
coversPeriodStart	1969 →
coversRole	United States National Security Advisor → United States Secretary of State →
depicts	high-level U.S. foreign policy decision-making →
followedBy	Years of Renewal → Years of Upheaval →
follows	N/A (first volume of memoirs) →
genre	memoir → non-fiction →
hasPart	accounts of back-channel negotiations → analysis of détente with the Soviet Union → discussion of Vietnam War strategy → narrative of U.S.–China rapprochement →
language	English →
mainProtagonist	Henry Kissinger →
mediaType	print →
narrativePerspective	first-person →
notableEventCovered	Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) → Vietnam peace negotiations → Yom Kippur War diplomacy → opening of relations between the United States and the People’s Republic of China →
originalLanguage	English →
pageCount	approximately 1500 →
portrays	Anwar Sadat → Golda Meir → Leonid Brezhnev → Mao Zedong → Richard Nixon → Zhou Enlai → various U.S. and foreign officials →
publicationDate	1979 →
publisher	Little, Brown and Company →
setting	White House →
subject	Cold War diplomacy → Middle East diplomacy → Nixon administration → U.S.–China relations → U.S.–Soviet relations → United States foreign policy → Vietnam War →
timeframeDescribed	early 1970s →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Years of Upheaval → Years of Upheaval →	follows
Henry Kissinger →	notableWork
Years of Upheaval →	precededBy
Years of Renewal →	prequel