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Part of the problem is that even the newly chastened Haig still has not turned his full attention to making policy. Moreover, for most of his career he has been a tireless executor of policy rather than a creator, and he still appears to prefer working twelve-hour days to delegating authority...
Haig's ability to define an effective policy for these tangled problems is untested. Though he has been involved in major national decisions for some 20 years, beginning as a Pentagon staffer in the Kennedy Administration, he has almost always been a No. 2 man, a brilliant executor of policy formulated by others rather than a setter of goals and priorities. He is pre-eminently a doer who has ascended to a post where he will also have to prove himself as a thinker...
...most experts see it, a successful Secretary of State must: >Win the confidence of his President. This seems obvious, but it is often overlooked, usually with unhappy results. A Secretary who cannot persuade his President to make him the chief recommender, articulator and executor of foreign policy will quickly be upstaged, most likely by the President's National Security Adviser. U.S. policy will seem-and too often be-confused, vacillating, subject to sudden flip-flops...
After her death, Mansfield's husband and executor, Critic John Middleton Murry, set out to canonize her as "the most wonderful writer and most beautiful spirit of our time." As Antony Alpers shows in this sturdy, sensible book, Murry's hagiography was as much a disservice as the excessive imitation, dismissal and neglect that later overtook...
...education' and not do anything about it. Bok didn't do that." The president's second annual report criticized the aimlessness of undergraduate education and, some say, provided the impetus for the Core Curriculum. "Bok wrote the will for General Education," says one Faculty member, "and Rosovsky was the executor." Others differ in their assessments, saying that Bok merely tagged along and lent support; they also criticize the president for his essentially conservative view of education...