Word: advisor
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Shortly after President-elect Nixon chose Henry Kissinger as his national security advisor late in 1968, Kissinger phoned a number of prominent journalists and declared, "Everything I said is off the record...
Kissinger was referring to the remarks he had made about Nixon while serving as foreign policy advisor to Nixon's chief rival, Nelson Rockefeller, in the earlier Republican presidential campaign...
...point in the campaign, Kissinger was asked why he had decided to become Rockefeller's foreign policy advisor. He replied that serving Rockefeller was the best way to keep Nixon out of office. And after Nixon had won the nomination in Miami, an indignant Kissinger is said to have remarked, "He is not fit to be President...
...clear that, in such a scheme, the White House would hold predominance in the policy field. How much influence Kissinger would have-as opposed to Nixon's other advisors-was not yet evident. As the "options" man, Kissinger would be expected to give a fair, objective account of each alternative; as confidential advisor to the President, his strength would rest more on his personal relationship with Nixon than on his policymaking abilities-a relationship that would have been very difficult to predict. "I suppose what really was clear was that Henry Kissinger did not intend to become...
...last stretch of his teaching career. Kissinger became Nelson Rockefeller's chief foreign policy advisor during the 1968 RepublicanPresidential campaign. During the campaign, Kissinger had made a number of highly caustic remarks about Richard Nixon; in Miami, he went so far as to declare that he doubted Nixon's fitness to be President. It must have later been a shock to many people that Nixon would have appointed this man to a top foreign policy post; Kissinger had been a Rockefeller man from way back, and he had publicly scorned the President-elect. And yet even as he continued...