| Popis: |
Over the course of succeeding years, first the Johnson and, later, the Nixon administration grappled with how to bring about desired change in Athens while maintaining a close security relationship with Greece. This chapter further illustrates the development of the United States’ two-pronged approach—one advocating for the return of democracy, on the one hand, while prioritizing the importance of Greece to US and NATO strategic interests in the Eastern Mediterranean, on the other. However, the chapter also shows that the relative balance between these two objectives was neither static nor uniform. Instead, the relative weight of each prong varied between the two administrations. Particularly under the Nixon administration, the first of these prongs—the emphasis on a good relationship with Greece as a key to security and NATO influence in the Eastern Mediterranean—came to predominate, so much so that the White House would come to specifically declaim constitutional progress as an important aspect of US policy and in which its ambassador to Athens would come close to playing the role of apologist for the colonels. |
