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...another, more controversial, conclusion. Beschloss and Talbott portray Bush as an unreflective status quo conservative who found himself extremely uncomfortable with the revolution taking place in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. After a September 1989 meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, Bush told his National Security Adviser, Brent Scowcroft, "It's tempting to say, 'Wouldn't it be great if the Soviet empire broke up?' But that's not really practical or smart...
Before dawn on Inauguration Day, Brent Scowcroft, the outgoing National Security Adviser, strode up the stairs to Blair House to deliver his final briefing to the President-elect. It focused, naturally, on Iraq. At the Pentagon, General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made a similar presentation to incoming Secretary of Defense Les Aspin. The sessions amounted to a formal hand-off; what to do about Iraq is up to Clinton and the national-security team he is assembling...
These days, it is Brent Scowcroft, the outgoing National Security Adviser, who is frequently at the other end of the secure phone in Berger's shabby transition office, keeping the Clinton camp informed of what Bush is planning in Somalia, Yugoslavia and elsewhere. Berger gives Bush's foreign policy team credit "for working together about as well as it's been done," a virtue whose importance is reinforced by the memory of how Carter's presidency was undermined by the unceasing attacks on Vance by Carter's National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski. Berger's instinct, like Clinton...
...should not and cannot conduct foreign policy between now and Jan. 20. The 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...
...Colgate--Craig deBlois, Alan Brown, Clayton Fahey, Brent Wilde; Harvard--Chris Baird, Matt Malgrave, Ted Drury, Sean McCann, Ben Coughlin. A: Colgate--Dan Gardner (2), Andrew Dickson, Wilde, Bob Haddock, Earl Cronan, Bruce Gardiner; Harvard--Lou Body, Brian Farrell (2), Steve Flomenhoft (2), Tom Holmes, Baird, Perry Cohagen (2). S: Colgate--Shawn Murray 16; Harvard--Tripp Tracy...