The purpose of our twenty-third class is to examine the challenges that confronted U.S. policymakers after withdrawal from Vietnam. We will start by analyzing Henry Kissinger’s step-by-step, or shuttle, diplomacy in the Middle East. Then, we will ask how did the Carter Administration’s foreign policy sail a very different tack from those of its predecessors? What was the Camp David peace process? How did President Jimmy Carter incorporate human rights concerns directly into U.S. foreign policy, and with what consequences? How did the U.S. become further embroiled in Middle Eastern politics with the hostage crisis in Iran? What was the importance of Henry Kissinger and Jimmy Carter as American foreign policymakers? What, in particular, are they remembered for? Did they have foreign policy triumphs?