Rafael Mendez Rubel

ENG 105-H1
October 27st, 2020
“Peace at Last” by Henry Kissinger and “Summer 1974” by Elizabeth Drew. 
Elizabeth Drew’s writing “Summer 1974,” talks about the premature departure of Nixon from presidency
and how the perspective portrayed this situation by Henry Kissinger writing “Peace at Last,” that talks
about President Nixon’s inauguration. According to Kissinger writing, important achievements occurred
before Nixon's second inaugural, between those the end of the Vietnam war. Two years after, during
Nixon's last words as a president. Drew made a flashback to 1970 when the president just ignored the
demonstrations against the invasion of Cambodia by talking about football to the, a fact that could put in
doubt his real intentions. Kissinger portraited the lack of motivation that Nixon felt about this achieving,
“he knew that every success brings a terrific letdown,” and said that result was not what he expected.
Drew described how Nixon assumed that he has done some things wrong on his Administration and that
he said that he took the responsibility, and never ducked it. Based on a private phone call, Kissinger
explains how concerned Nixon's sense of honor and responsibility about proving that the United States
was the strongest country who had no right to abdicate. The problems and crises were the things that
made Nixon have a purpose on his administration, as Kissinger stated. When Drew says that Nixon’s
character was his fate and how affected it the country and his political career taking to the end, we can
understand what Kissinger tried to explain when he stated that the crises and problems were Nixon’s
motivation on the political career.