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...Kissinger's peers, Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, National Security Advisor under President Carter, prepared for his job by writing his 1953 graduate School of Education thesis on "The Permanent Purge and Soviet Totalitarianism...
...duty, Poindexter, 49, sees his role in a limited way: as a staff officer, skillfully condensing the arguments of the quarreling Cabinet secretaries and their underlings, then presenting the various action options to the President. Unlike Henry Kissinger under Nixon and Ford and, to a slightly lesser degree, Zbigniew Brzezinski under Carter, Poindexter does not consider himself a virtual foreign-policy czar. He has neither the desire nor the personality to pressure other high officials into agreement. Instead, by avoiding the limelight, Poindexter believes he can effectively work out compromises among his large-ego clients...
...importance then, class members recall, were the ever-controversial parietal rules, the quality of an Elsie's roast beef sandwich, the high-stakes Crimson-Lampoon crew race, the tutelage of Eliot House Master John H. Finley '25, the heady classes of McGeorge Bundy, Henry A. Kissinger '50 and Zbigniew Brzezinski an embarrassing Harvard-Yale game, and the legendary Lamont Dupont...
...attitude dismayed much of the U.S. foreign policy establishment, moderates as well as hard-liners. Declared former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski: "This posture is disadvantageous and in bad taste. It is undesirable for us to be pleading for a summit with them." Privately, some of Reagan's senior advisers agreed. They suspected that Gorbachev's coyness about setting a firm date for a summit was a sign that he was setting up a snare instead...
...policy experts, and they accompanied him on a Western swing on Monday, grilling him with possible debate questions during a three-hour flight between St. Louis and San Francisco. The trio of wise men were two former Carter Administration officials?David Aaron, a deputy to National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Walter Slocombe, a onetime Defense Department official?and Barry Carter, who was an aide to Henry Kissinger on President Nixon's National Security Council...