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Johnson and European integration:
A Missed Chance for
Transatlantic Power
MAX. 'GUDERZO
Focqing on the dilemmas mnnened m baosnLvltic dlntions and Europeanimegrarion ib
the Johnson yrar9> ibis amdc argum &IS, Lhat Washingtondid nm neglect rhe Europm
siruati~nin 1964-68, hut a clear anplysir of Allies' polides fosrucd growing doobrs in
some sectomof the dmirrimatiod about the damof wpprorting them when they could
dirmty damngetha nationalinteren of she US; and mud, thm tbough,urch changes help
explnin Ule geinal ieamsmcor of Amaicanpolicica Europe carried out by the
Nixon administration, Johnson's policy rcwined pro-Emopean nnd gcndwly Llyoudle
cu .she imgrmion pmeess in rhe old corrrinmr, +pie the innrnpl doubts and the war
criticism muated both at home and &road.
Rdth fiom the historical and historiographical perspecsives, the
Vietnam disaster has oftea obscmed the wssive inmnntional activity
fostered by American policy makers during the Johnson,
administration. The gradual openiag of sources is making ever
dearer that data and evenrsmore relevant for inrerpreting those years
should be traced rather in the internal developments of rhe two Wocs
than in their bipolar dynamics of contact, meeti~g,and strife.
Needless to say, the conflict in South-East Asia gradually became an
obsession for rhwe men at the White House, the Department of
State, the Pentagon. and the Treasw, who had corutribnred to create
and direct American foreign palicy between 1963 and 1969. Bur the
fight at home and abroad had tlot bliided them to the point of
neglecting other traditional areas of American global action and
forgeeg that the bond witb old Europe conrinud to be the maio '
axis of US &,onil relations." I
Choosing 1967 as a key year with respect to the set ofAtlantic and
European issues the Johnson admidrstration had to cope with, this
ses on the problemsand dilemmas connected t