Richard Nixon and Europe The Reshaping of the Postwar Atlantic World

The US-European relationship remains the closest and most important alliance in the world. Since 1945, successive American presidents each put their own touches on transatlantic relations, but the literature has reached only into the presidency of Lyndon Johnson (1963?9). This first study of transatlantic relations during the era of Richard Nixon shows a complex, turbulent period during which the postwar period came to an end, and the modern era came to be on both sides of the Atlantic in terms of political, economic, and military relations.

Introduction; 1. A new dimension of NATO; 2. Closing the gold window; 3. The European response; 4. The year of Europe; 5. Europe coalesces; 6. Britain is out; 7. Britain is in; Conclusion.

Luke A. Nichter is an Associate Professor of History at Texas A & M University, Central Texas, and a noted expert on the Nixon tapes. Nichter's books include The Nixon Tapes: 1971–1972 (co-authored with Douglas Brinkley) and book-length biographies of Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and George W. Bush for the First Men, America's Presidents series. Nichter is a former founding executive producer of C-SPAN's American History TV and his work is periodically reported on by the New York Times, Washington Post, and the Associated Press. His website, www.nixontapes.org, offers free access to all 3,000 hours of publicly released Nixon tapes as a public service.