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...brought in to improve coordination among Administration spokesmen. He will also continue to perform a delicate but important role-helping to sharpen the President's public statements. Ford, an uninspiring orator, has generally depended for his texts on his old friend and former congressional assistant, Robert Hartmann, Counsellor to the President and his chief speechwriter. Some critics have found Hartmann's drafts to be thin and full of platitudes. Gergen is expected to upgrade presidential pronouncements, though he will still not have direct authority over Hartmann...
Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev is a past master of give and take, Russian style. At one point during the most recent Strategic Arms Limitation Talks in Moscow, Brezhnev took a fancy to the expensive gold Omega wristwatch worn by State Department Counsellor Helmut Sonnenfeldt. Brezhnev asked for it, offering in exchange a cheap Russian pocket watch...
...reporter asked if Angola would also be discussed, Brezhnev replied with a shrug: "For me there is nothing to talk about on Angola. Angola isn't my country, after all." Kissinger interjected: "It will certainly be discussed." Said Brezhnev with a grin: "You discuss it with [State Department Counsellor Helmut] Sonnenfeldt...
...rumors messed up Ford's announcement plans. By Saturday night the inquiries were so persistent that Ford decided he must inform Schlesinger and Colby that they were through. "It was the humane thing to do," a top White House aide later explained. Presidential Counsellor John Marsh called Schlesinger to ask him to meet with Ford the next morning, without explaining why. He also left a similar message for Colby. Nov. 2. As Colby sat down with Ford promptly at 8 a.m., the President tried to be friendly. He conceded that he was moving abruptly in asking Colby to step down...
Relaxing aboard the Spirit of 76 one night in November 1970, President Richard Nixon turned to Donald Rumsfeld, a White House counsellor, and said: "Rummy, one day you're going to be making these decisions. " Rumsfeld began to demur. "No," insisted Nixon, "one day you're going to be President...