Word: berger
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...year out of Harvard Law School in 1972, Sandy Berger was traveling with presidential candidate George McGovern as a speechwriter. When they landed in San Antonio for a rally, Berger caught a first glimpse of his future boss, bounding up the steps of the plane: a tall, striking young man, improbably clad in a Colonel Sanders white suit, who was serving as McGovern's Texas coordinator. Bill Clinton and Sandy Berger have been "real friends" ever since, says a senior Clinton aide. "You can see the affection when they're in the room together...
When Clinton weighed whether or not to run for President in 1988, Berger, then a Washington trade lawyer who had represented Toyota and foreign steel producers, as well as Poland's Solidarity trade union, was one of the confidants who journeyed to Little Rock to offer advice. He served as co- director of Clinton's foreign policy team during the '92 campaign and transition period, and will soon move into a White House office as Deputy ! National Security Adviser -- not bad for a man with only three years of experience in the art of conducting foreign policy...
National Security Adviser Tony Lake, 53, is a Mount Holyoke College professor who once worked in the Nixon National Security Council under Henry Kissinger. A conceptual thinker, Lake is expected to emerge as the architect of Clinton's foreign policy. Clinton named Washington lawyer Sandy Berger, another former Carter State Department official, to be Lake's deputy...
...world needs to have no ambiguity about who's President until then." Clinton and his team are regularly informed, but not consulted, by the White House on major decisions: a secure phone allows National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft to keep in contact with Clinton aides Sandy Berger and Nancy Soderberg. There are no complaints on either side about the one-way dialogue. "There's no reason why he should be in on day-to-day decisions," says another Clinton adviser. "So long as he can understand what the implications are for his own Administration, he has what he needs...
Leaders of Clinton's foreign policy team feel no lack of confidence or preparation. Every morning Clinton receives the same CIA briefing Bush does. Although the two Presidents have talked only once directly about Somalia, Scowcroft's calls to Berger are frequent. There is no give and take in these calls, no mutual formulation of policy, no horse trading. "It's a process of information exchange rather than consultation," says a Clinton official. Meanwhile, Little Rock has small groups at work in each of the national security departments, preparing memos and outlining issues. "They're talking to people and weighing...