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...Henry Kissinger, 79, accepted the White House call to head the panel. The former Secretary of State was Bush's first choice, with a strong push from Vice President Cheney. Sources tell TIME that others considered were Robert Gates, CIA director during the first Bush's Administration, and Leslie Gelb, president of the Council on Foreign Relations...
Former New York Times columnist Leslie Gelb recalls how, in the first years after the assassination, the Kennedy courtiers publicly stressed the President's resolve to fight the communists in Vietnam. "The books by Schlesinger and [Ted] Sorensen and the others," Gelb says, "all cited his interviews, right before the assassination, in which he said it was vitally important that we stay the course in Vietnam." By the late 1960s, however, the war had begun to look like a gross miscalculation--a threat to the Kennedy legacy. "They began to change what they were saying about Kennedy and Vietnam," Gelb...
...Clinton Doctrine is an expression, in policy and in bombs, of a post-cold war approach to the world perhaps best enunciated by Leslie Gelb, president of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 1994, Gelb wrote that America's "main strategic challenge" in the world was no longer dealing with Russia or China or Germany or trade or loose nukes. It was managing the "teacup wars" of the world, "wars of national debilitation, a steady run of uncivil civil wars sundering fragile but functioning nation-states...
Goldstein-Gelb says these three candidates arereasonably well-known among voters...
...Buonomo and Curtatone seem to have more of apresence, but Gay has more people making telephonecalls for her candidacy," Goldstein-Gelb says...