Craig Daigle is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at George Washington University and a historian in the Asia and Americas division at the U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Historian. Craig received a B.A. in history from the University of Maryland in 1998 and an M.A. in modern U.S. History from James Madison University in 2000. Craig is currently finishing his dissertation, “The Limits of Détente: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1969-1973,” under the direction of James G. Hershberg, and working on a study on William P. Rogers as Secretary of State in the Nixon administration. His article, “The Russians are Going: Sadat, Nixon, and the Soviet Presence in Egypt,” recently appeared in the Middle East Review of International Affairs.