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Acknowledgments A book such as this would not be possible without the assistance of the researchers and document specialists of the National Archives of the United States. I am grateful to the Archives staff in Washington, D.C. College Park, Maryland and Kansas City, Missouri, and to their colleagues at the Eisen- hower Presidential Library in Abilene, Kansas, for their prompt and patient responses to my requests. I am especially indebted to Valoise Armstrong, of the Eisenhower Library staff, who unearthed material I needed, and to Sydney Soderberg, who sorted and organized those files. The indefatigable researchers at the independent, nonprofit National Security Archive in Washington, D.C., are a national treasure. One of them, my daughter-in-law Autumn Kladder, deserves a special word of thanks. I am grateful also for the prompt assistance I received from the staff of the Minnesota Historical Society in St. Paul. The late Timothy J. Barger, a true “Aramco brat” whose father was chief executive of the oil consortium in Saudi Arabia, provided indispensable material from his personal library. So did the family of Abdullah Sulaiman, Saudi Arabia’s longtime finance minister and a major character in this book. My wife, Sidney, edited the manuscript in draft and improved it immensely, as did my agent, Janet Reid. I thank them all.