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...Washington's too. An incident one evening revealed what Washington senses: that Hamilton Jordan has found his place. He was sitting in his office, as usual sans tie, his feet on a table. The phone rang. It was the President asking about someone he was considering for an ambassadorship. "He's a good man," said Jordan. "But his wife has a serious problem. I may be wrong. I'll check it. Yes, sir." He hung up. He had coolly warned the President of a difficulty. The tone of his voice had never changed. His feet were still...
Patricia Roberts Harris, LL.D., lawyer and former Ambassador to Luxembourg. The ninth black American appointed to an ambassadorship, you were the first woman of your race to hold this office...
Since assuming the ambassadorship to the United Nations, Moynihan has discarded the sophisticated--and more moderate--husk of his polemic, leaving the simplistic fruit intact. In an article in the March, 1975 Commentary Moynihan classed the underdeveloped nations as a true third force in world politics: They were democratic socialist, in line with a West European colonial experience. He described these nations as by and large anti-American and redistributionist (rather than production-oriented, since he says socialism cannot be productive. Here Moynihan forgets the Soviet Union, which is unusual if only because it seems to dominate all his other...
Kissinger denied he wanted to force Moynihan out. They were old friends, he insisted, and he had recommended Moynihan for the ambassadorship to India as well as the U.N. job. Moynihan's successor, said Kissinger, would continue the same policy of confronting America's critics, though in a more restrained way. "There are no two Pat Moynihans in America," Kissinger remarked with apparent relief. The U.N. job has been offered to William Scranton, former Republican Governor of Pennsylvania, though he turned it down once before. Cracked a top State Department aide: "We're not going to give...
Ford told Schlesinger that he wanted Rumsfeld to replace him but that Rumsfeld had not yet agreed. Schlesinger was offered the presidency of the Export-Import Bank and, alternatively, the ambassadorship to NATO. He turned down both and left after 30 minutes ?stunned. (Learning later that his job had been offered to others, NATO Ambassador David Bruce, 77, a distinguished career diplomat who has no plans to retire, was outraged...