From a letter to Joseph Stromberg: "Gore Vidal quotes you in The Nation, June 2, 2003, p. 12: 'Last September Congress received from the Administration a document called the National Security Strategy of the United States. As the historian Joseph Stromberg observed, "It must be read to be believed." The doctrine preaches the desirability of the United States becoming -- to use Adams' words -- dictatress of the world.'"
