asspVolume 43, Numberrt3, January 2013 PThe Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review Inside... A Roundtable on Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War The Art of Teaching Biography A Roundtable Discussion on MatthewThe Sheridan Press Jacobs’ Imagining the Middle East ...and much more! Passport The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review Editor Andrew L. Johns, Brigham Young University Consulting Editor Mitchell Lerner, The Ohio State University Production Editor Julie Rojewski, Michigan State University Editorial Assistant David Hadley, The Ohio State University Editorial Advisory Board and Terms of Appointment George White, Jr., York College/CUNY (2011-2013) Kimber Quinney, California State University-San Marcos (2012-2014) Seth Jacobs, Boston College (2013-2015) Cover Photo: “Now, as I was Saying Four Years Ago” by Herb Block. A 1972 Herblock Cartoon. Copyright Permission Granted by The Herb Block Foundation. 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Carland, and Jeffrey P. Kimball 36 PHOENIX and the Drones John Prados 39 Spiderman, Shakespeare, and Kennan: The Art of Teaching Biography John Lewis Gaddis 44 Roundtable DiscussioN on Matthew F. Jacobs’ Imagining the Middle East: The Building of an American Foreign Policy, 1918-1967 Mary Ann Heiss, Kent F. Schull, Nancy Stockdale, Babak Rahimi, W. Taylor Fain, Jeffrey James Byrne, and Matthew F. Jacobs 56 “And Perhaps a Little More”: The George C. Marshall Secretary of State Papers Mark A. Stoler 59 Minutes of June 2012 SHAFR Council Meeting 63 The Diplomatic Pouch 75 Dispatches 78 The Last Word: How I Spent (Part of) My Summer Vacation: The SHAFR Summer Insitute 2012 Andrew Rotter The Sheridan Press Passport September 2012 Page 3 Contributors Passport 43/3 (January 2013) Michael J. AlleN is Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University. He is the author of Until the Last MaN Comes Home: POWs, MIAs, and the Unending Vietnam War (2009), which examines the political legacy of American defeat in Vietnam through the lens of the POW/MIA movement. He is currently at work on a book titled, The Confidence of Crisis: Confronting the Imperial Presidency, 1968-1992, which treats the rise and fall of efforts to restrict presidential war powers. David L. Anderson is Professor of History at California State University, Monterey Bay, and Senior Lecturer of national security affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School. His most recent book is The Columbia History of the Vietnam War (2011). He is a past president of SHAFR. Mark Philip bradley is Bernadotte E. Schmidt Professor of U.S. International History at the University of Chicago, where he also chairs the Committee on International Relations. He is president of the Society for Historians of American ForeigN Relations in 2013. Jeffrey James byrne is Assistant Professor of History at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He has writteN in Diplomatic History, the International Journal of Middle East Studies, and other publications on the modern international history of the developing world. His first book, With the Invulnerable Tide: Revolutionary Algeria and the Closing of the Third World, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2013. JohN M. Carland is an American military historian specializing in the study of the United States and the Vietnam War. He worked at the Army’s Center of Military History (1985-2002) and the Office of the Historian, Department of State (2002-2011), from which he retired in 2011. He is now a part-time consultant in the Historical Office of the Secretary of Defense. In addition to compiling and editing multiple ForeigN Relations of the United States volumes, he is the author of Combat Operations: Stemming the Tide, May 1965-October 1966, a volume in the Center of Military History’s United States Army in Vietnam series. W. taylor Fain is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. He is the author of American Ascendance and British Retreat in the PersiaN Gulf Region (2008). JohN Lewis Gaddis is Robert A. Lovett Professor of History at Yale University, where he teaches courses in Cold War history, grand strategy, international studies, and biography. He has published numerous books, including The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947 (1972); Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security (1982); and George F. KeNNan: An American Life (2011). David i. GoldmaN is a historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History. He has served as a professional historian for over twenty years, working on myriad issues concerning the federal government, most related to the Cold War. He has edited major documentary editions on arms control and science issues during the Johnson, Nixon, and Ford administrations; prepared a wide array of internal government studies for senior government officials; and is currently writing a volume for the CMH Cold War series on the U.S. Army in Europe from 1963 to 1976. Jussi M. Hanhimäki is Professor of International History and Politics at The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. He is the author and editor of numerous books and articles, including The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American ForeigN Policy (2004) and The Rise and Fall of Détente: American ForeigN Policy and the Transformation of the Cold War (2012). Mary AnN Heiss is Associate Professor of History at Kent State University. Her publications include Empire and Nationhood: The United States, Great Britain, and IraniaN Oil, 1950-1954 (1997) and co-edited volumes on the recent history/ future of NATO, U.S. relations with the Third World, and intrabloc conflict within NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Her current research focuses on the United Nations and decolonization. Matthew F. Jacobs is Associate Professor of U.S. and International History in the Department of History at the University of Florida, where he teaches courses on twentieth-century U.S. foreigN relations, U.S.-Middle East relations, and contemporary international and world history. Jeffrey P. Kimball is Professor Emeritus of History at Miami University and the author of articles, reviews, book chapters, blogs, and books on diplomacy, war, peace, politics, popular culture, and historiography from the War of 1812 to the Vietnam and AfghanistaN wars. He is currently completing a co-authored book on the history and legacy of nuclear threat-making. The Sheridan Press Page 4 Passport September 2012 robert J. McMahoN is Ralph D. MershoN Professor of History at The Ohio State University and the MershoN Center for International Security Studies. He is the author of several books on U.S. foreigN relations including, The Limits of Empire: The United States and Southeast Asia since World War II (1999) and DeaN AchesoN and the Creation of an American World Order (2009). He is a past president of SHAFR. JohN Prados is a Senior Research Fellow of the National Security Archive, where he directs the Iraq DocumentatioN Project and the Vietnam Project. He holds a Ph.D. in international relations from Columbia University and is the author of more than twenty books and numerous articles on national security, intelligence, military, and diplomatic history. His most recent book is Islands of Destiny: The Solomons Campaign and the Eclipse of the Rising SuN (2012). babak rahimi is Associate Professor of IraniaN and Islamic Studies at the University of California, SaN Diego. He has writteN numerous articles on culture, religion, and politics, and regularly writes on contemporary Iraqi and IraniaN politics. He was a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., where he conducted research on the institutional contribution of Shi’i political organizations in the creation of a vibrant civil society in post-Baathist Iraq. Andrew rotter is Charles A. Dana Professor of History at Colgate University, where he has taught since 1988. He has writteN on U.S. relations with Asia and is interested in broadly cultural approaches to the field. His current project concerns the five senses and encounters of empire in India and the Philippines. He is a past president of SHAFR. Kent F.