Richard Allen was supposed to attend the celebration of what would have been the 100th birthday of Richard Nixon on Jan. 9, 2013. Allen, after all, had coordinated the foreign policy issues for Candidate Nixon in 1968 and briefly served as his first National Security Advisor in the White House.
But he proved to be a “no-show.” Laure Mandeville, U.S. bureau chief for the venerable French publication Le Figaro, had been invited by Allen to join him for the festivities at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington D.C. As the guests began to take their seats, she received an email from Allen informing her he would not attend because the main speaker was his arch-rival and the man who edged him out as National Security Adviser in the Nixon White House: Henry Kissinger.
Just as Allen refused to work under Kissinger in the White House back in 1969, the foreign policy expert would not sit through a speech by the man who would go on to hold the positions of national security adviser and secretary of state simultaneously.
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