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...views what happened to her as a shabby betrayal by people she considered friends within the Administration. Whether or not the slights she perceives were in fact intended, her experience provides a glimpse of the personal rivalries that have long undermined Ronald Reagan's policymaking apparatus and of the human toll such struggles exact...
...powerful is the National Security Adviser? It all depends on the officeholder and his President. Under President Nixon, Henry Kissinger built a powerful policymaking apparatus that eclipsed the State Department. When Kissinger became Secretary of State in 1973, he took power with him to Foggy Bottom: his hand-picked successor as National Security Adviser, retired Air Force Lieut. General Brent Scowcroft, was strictly a scrupulous administrator. During the Carter Administration, Zbigniew Brzezinski in his turn built a Kissinger-style policy machine that competed for influence with State...
...because he does not know the mathematics. Elsewhere, he bucks psychiatric doctrine and formulates a hands-off policy toward the unconscious: "It cannot be a bad thing to own one, but I would no more think of meddling with it than trying to exorcise my liver, an equally mysterious apparatus. Until we know a lot more, it would be wise, as we have learned from other fields in medicine, to let them be." Doubt, as the doctor gracefully demonstrates, is another way of knowing...
...time Wood won in the sliding rigger scull, the apparatus was on probation pending approval by international rowing associations, and was later outlawed...
...extent to which pieces are interrelated, how they affect a particular part, and what might be attractive. There is an argument that when you do that, the argument for indicative planning, that people do pay attention to those kinds of frameworks and follow them without the kind of apparatus that I deeply object...