Word: czar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leaning toward a kind of intelligence czar...
...Well, President Ford's executive order set up the Director of Central Intelligence as a kind of czar. There are several intelligence agencies, as you know, and I haven't decided whether to change the present arrangement...
Great Challenge. The job as energy czar will be Schlesinger's fifth Government post in a career that has been spent mostly as a specialist in defense economics. A lifelong Republican-but one who nonetheless considers himself an apolitical technocrat-he joined the Nixon Administration in 1969 and served as assistant budget director, AEC chairman, CIA director and, finally, Secretary of Defense. His trademarks were an ever-present pipe, an ever-flapping shirttail, a rumpled suit and a heavy-handed sarcasm that made him many enemies. Ford fired him last year, because of both his abrasiveness and his skepticism...
...creating a new Cabinet-level energy department. One possibility to head it: former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, a firm advocate of strong energy conservation measures. Schlesinger, who met with the President-elect in Plains, Ga., at week's end, is known to believe that the new energy "czar" ought to sit on the National Security Council...
...reputation was also undermined by Soviet geneticist Zhores Medvedev's samizdat (underground book) The Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko, which documented Lysenko's falsification of data and character assassination. Finally, when Khrushchev fell -in part because of his disastrous farm policies-so did Lysenko. The onetime czar of Soviet agriculture spent his declining years at a research station near Moscow, seldom doing anything more important than preaching to farmers the value of animal fertilizer...