Word: advisor
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...Richard Nixon's most influential advisor on foreign policy, Kissinger has embodied the role of the 19th-century balance-of-power diplomat. He is cunning, elusive, and all-powerful in the sprawling sector of government which seeks to advise the President on national security matters. As Nixon's personal emissary to foreign dignitaries, to academia, and-as "a high White House official"-to the press, he is vague and unpredictable-yet he is the single authoritative carrier of national policy besides the President himself...
...supporter of Nixon's foreign policy. Instead of merely holding the bureaucracy at comfortable arm's length, he has entangled it in a web of useless projects and studies, cleverly shifting an important locus of advisory power from the Cabinet departments to his own office. And as confidential advisor to the President, he never speaks for the record, cannot be made to testify before Congress, and is identified with Presidential policy only on a semipublic level. His activity is even less subject to domestic constraints than that of Nixon...
...from the encounter; no longer would he be a pushy young man with advice, and never again would he conduct his infighting with a campaign on the outside. Subsequently "saved" as a White House consultant by two close friends-Carl Kaysen and Arthur Schlesinger-he became a State Department advisor on Vietnam in 1965 and latter supervised secret talks with the North Vietnamese which ultimately led to the negotiations of 1968. "It was a good performance," one collegue said of his Vietnam consultations. "His ego was under control...
Research and Appeals-Letters from prisoners around the country come to HVD with fragmentary stories of what has happened to them and asking for help. A student writes up a report of what can be found out about the case and if sufficient merit is found, HVD's faculty advisor, Livingston Hall, Pound Professor of Law, contacts local counsel to whom the briefs and papers can be forwarded. When the research discloses no need to pursue the case, Hall writes the prisoner to inform him of HVD's decision...
...Professor Hall, HVD's advisor since its birth in 1949 (who will be leaving it at the end of this year), there is no paradox between HVD's activities and Harvard Law School's staid reputation as a training ground for future corporate lawyers. "Where do you think Ralph Nader went to school?" asked Hall...