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...pledged that Warnke will conduct "real negotiations" on disarmament. Warnke's strength is the fact that he is so solidly plugged into the Washington power structure. He is now a senior partner in Clark Clifford's law office, and spent 18 years with the late Dean Acheson's firm. Warnke, moreover, has kept his close personal relations with Iwo men he previously worked with in the Pentagon and who now occupy top national security posts: Vance and Defense Secretary Harold Brown...
America found within itself extraordinary capacities of vision and creativity. Leaders of both parties and many backgrounds−Truman and Eisenhower, Vandenberg and Marshall, Acheson and Dulles−built a national consensus for responsible American world leadership based on both principle and pragmatism. The recovery of Western Europe and Japan, the creation of peacetime alliances, the shaping of the global trade and monetary system, the economic advance of newer and poorer nations, the measures to control the nuclear arms race−these constitute an enduring record of American statesmanship...
Washington law partner of Clark Clifford, venerable Democratic powerbroker . . . Age 56 . . . Yale ('41), Columbia Law, Dean Acheson's law firm . . . Joined McNamara's Pentagon in 1966, became Assistant Secretary for International Security . . . Had "misgivings about Viet Nam" from the start, considered quitting after Tet '68 but decided to work within to halt bombings, open negotiations . . . Was "very firmly aligned" with George McGovern's defense policies in 1972 ... Calls for reduced arms sales abroad, tighter controls on nuclear proliferation . . . After hearing Warnke's plan for deeply cutting defense spending, Carter told him that he sounded...
...into Yugoslavia to counter a Soviet attack in the wake of President Tito's eventual death. Ford declared firmly that "it's unwise for a President to signal in advance what options he might exercise if any international problem arose." He recalled that Secretary of State Dean Acheson had drawn a U.S. defense perimeter in 1950 that did not include South Korea and suggested ("I can't prove it's true or untrue") that it may have invited the North Koreans to invade. Carter also flubbed by saying that a Soviet move into Yugoslavia involved...
...inevitable," he says about the accumulation of bitterness toward him in much of the press and in Congress. "When you live at this elevation of power for seven years, you gain many critics and very few permanent supporters. There have been no exceptions-Acheson, Dulles, Rusk." His relations with Ford remain as close and open as they have been -though Donald Rumsfeld, from his Pentagon post, is soon likely to be vying with Kissinger for Ford's time. Every day last week, while reporters were writing that he would no longer be able to spend so much time with...