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After Reagan's election, Allen telephoned me. He expected to be Reagan's adviser for national security affairs???a job he had also expected to have under President Nixon in 1969, only to be beaten out by a more solemn man, Henry Kissinger. Allen said I was a candidate for a Cabinet post. The first position mentioned was that of Secretary of Defense. I pointed out that military men are prohibited for a ten-year period after leaving active duty from becoming Secretary of Defense. General of the Army George Marshall's appointment in 1950 required a special...
...White House with a clear-cut set of positions that in his mind (and the minds of many cowed opponents) had been ratified by his sweeping election victory. The agenda?cut social spending, slash taxes, start a big military buildup, voice a stern anti-Soviet line in foreign affairs???was set. The priorities were clear: get the budget and tax cuts through Congress before anything else...
Even so, Washington policymakers are encouraged by Mexico's more active role in foreign affairs???notably in López Portillo's expressed interest in working out bilateral aid programs with and for other democratic nations in Latin America. Says a State Department official...
...empted the pack by signing Jimi Hendrix before the festival. But the most enterprising of all was Columbia's Clive Davis, who in the wake of the festival signed Janis Joplin; Blood, Sweat and Tears; Santana; and Chicago. To their eventual sorrow, RCA and Capitol were still viewing such affairs???indeed, all of rock?as something of a passing...
After 1954, his interest in strategic studies became paramount. He published Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy, and Kissinger became a full member in that segment of the intellectual community?the new technocracy of academic experts in public affairs???that is now never far from Government...