Word: brokering
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...Washington on Sept. 2 from a vacation at his ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif. Said the President to National Security Adviser William Clark: "We have to guard against overreaction." Though Clark had been emerging as a hard-line architect of American foreign policy, he acted only as the "honest broker" in the meetings that shaped the U.S. response, collecting ideas and suggestions from various advisers and laying out choices for the President...
...line civil rights leaders are also skeptical about a Jackson candidacy. They tend to be more cautious than their gung-ho Chicago colleague, somewhat resentful of his self-promoting style, and above all unwilling to have him act as broker for them in the political arena. Both Benjamin Hooks of the N.A.A.C.P. and Lowery have expressed their reservations. Of the candidates who embrace the black leadership's "people's platform," Lowery says, he will urge support for the one "who has the best chance of helping my vote purchase a one-way ticket west for the present occupant...
...Richard Allen as National Security Adviser in January 1982, he continued to play mediator, coordinating advice from the State Department, the Pentagon, the CIA and his National Security Council staff. At first he was reticent about pushing his positions or even revealing them. He presented himself as "an honest broker of ideas" and, with gentle self-mockery, said he had learned "to recognize an issue when I see it." He would talk to reporters only off the record and "on background" and avoided lobbying on Capitol Hill. But as he has zealously pursued his mission of getting Reagan more directly...
...Soviets. We have no intention of acting as a bridge, so to speak, between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., nor do we have plans to serve as an honest broker between them. Based on the foundation of our membership in the West, and with Japan-U.S. relations as the cornerstone, we intend to maintain unity in the free world...
...relations with the Third World. If we can be an honest broker between north and south, then I think it is advisable...