Soviet Union cannot be marginalized in international affairs except must continue to maintain singular claim on American interests and attention. ..…

For three decades Soviet power has obsessed American foreign policy. By it we have judged our own; because of it we have committed ourselves far from home and justified our commitment in terms of the menace it represents; around it we have made a world order revolve. ..…

What was new, perhaps, was its use with relation to Soviet Union and Soviet-American relations. ..…