subject of serious discussion and in moving toward a more realistic policy toward it.

I pause here to note another Council-related publication around which a considerable mythology has grown up, namely an article by Richard Nixon, published in Foreign Affairs in October 1967, to which he and others were later to point as clearly foreshadowing the Kissinger visit of 1971 and the general opening to China at that time. On close examination, this myth has no real basis. In the article as a whole a perfectly solid and respectable analysis of the situation in East Asia at the time the discussion of China is overwhelmingly in terms of the threat it presented and the need for new groupings to contain China, with only one very late paragraph suggesting thatperiod from 1965 to 1968. This was surely the progression in the mind of Ham Armstrong himself, who after printing several generally supportive articles, published in July 1969 a strong article by Clark Clifford urging early withdrawal, and then in his own final issue in 1972 deplored in intense and emotional terms the effect of the war on the reputation of the United States abroad as well as on domestic feeling. No more heartfelt article has ever appeared in the magazine.

In short, the Council was for a time riven and shaken. If there was an upside, it lay in a significant measure of re-thinking, reflected in a decision to admit women as members (about in tune with what several universities were then doing), a new project to bring